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Search plus your world

Sherrilynne Starkie

Google is personalizing search results by including more Google+ profiles, business pages, posts, and Google+ and Picasa photos in a significant new initiative called Search plus Your World. Search plus your world can’t be good news for the other social networks such as Facebook and Twitter as it prioritizes G+ content.

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Did Google Just Kill Email?

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, from January 2012: "Google has the power (and ability) to make Google+ (and everything being shared within it) the underlying social platform within all of its many applications ( Android , Gmail , Google Docs , Picasa , Google Maps , Google News , YouTube , etc.). Everything is social. cloud computing. communications. early adopter.

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Klout Now Measures 10 Social Media Websites For Influence

Small Business Mavericks

I recently noticed that the service has added several other social media services to its metrics, which increases its value a hundred-fold (though I’d still say it’s overly weighted toward Twitter). Among the services that Klout now tracks are: Tumblr – A blogging platform somewhat like a cross between Twitter and Blogger.

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Why Google+ Is The Place To Be For Local Business

Small Business Mavericks

Using Google’s photo sharing service, Picasa, you can share your photos and have unlimited space to store them, increasing your ability to share through Google+. You can’t do that on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. You can easily share videos through Google+ with your YouTube account. Google+ is easy to use.

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Is Google+ About To Make Facebook Frown?

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The mistake would be to simply stack that dataset up against Facebook (or Twitter or LinkedIn ) to see how it compares in terms of growth, but that's really for the tech nerds to analyze. The site now has more than 62 million users, but that growth is accelerating. " The mistake. What does this mean for businesses? business book.

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Why Google Has the Hammer To Make Businesses Use Google Plus

Convince & Convert

My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential. No slaving over list creation (Twitter), or slogging through the mine field of clicks and sketchy instructions for creating your own groups (Facebook).

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Content Marketing is More Than Just Blogging

Firebelly

Find photos from Flickr or Picasa — be sure to use Creative Commons photos — or buy royalty-free stock photography, and put them in your blog posts for added impact. Also, share entire photo albums online via Twitter and Facebook. And not, say, photos of small animals pretending they’re people.

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