Facebook gets news feed patent

Facebook has been awarded a patent for something that may change the way many social media networks run. After filing a patent in August 2006, Mark Zuckerberg and friends have received the paperwork granting them the copyright for “dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network.” When Facebook first brought in its news feed, it was seen to be a worrying thing that would make it easier for users to ‘Facebook stalk’ pieces of their fancy

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Google leads mobile web in USA

Search seraph Google rules the mobile web in the United States, according to a new report from browser maker Opera Software.

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Search seraph Google rules the mobile web in the United States, according to a new report from browser maker Opera Software. The study found that Google searches accounted for over nine per cent of total online page views from mobile web users in the USA last month. Directnews.co.uk reports that Yahoo! placed second with a 4.3 per cent share of page views, while Microsoft’s search engine Bing surprisingly placed much lower, with only 0.03 per cent.

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Google leads mobile web in USA

Search seraph Google rules the mobile web in the United States, according to a new report from browser maker Opera Software. The study found that Google searches accounted for over nine per cent of total online page views from mobile web users in the USA last month. Directnews.co.uk reports that Yahoo! placed second with a 4.3 per cent share of page views, while Microsoft’s search engine Bing surprisingly placed much lower, with only 0.03 per cent.

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Google leads mobile web in USA

Search seraph Google rules the mobile web in the United States, according to a new report from browser maker Opera Software. The study found that Google searches accounted for over nine per cent of total online page views from mobile web users in the USA last month.

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Yahoo! deal with Twitter offers more than social search

Yahoo! has partnered with Twitter to integrate the popular microblogging service across the board into various aspects of its product range. This partnership takes a different direction to Google’s deal with Twitter and Microsoft’s incorporation of BingTweets , which saw both companies including real-time tweets in their search results last year. As well as incorporating a real-time Twitter feed into Yahoo! search results, the company’s deal takes things a great deal further, with the Telegraph observing that “Yahoo! has effectively made itself a Twitter client, as Yahoo! users will be able to tweet from multiple locations across Yahoo!’s products.” The search integration went live yesterday, but it has not yet been made clear how Yahoo! will proceed to incorporate tweets into its diverse portfolio of services - including Yahoo! Mail, its homepage and its content verticals such as Yahoo! Finance - but it is believed this may be achieved through widgets

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Yahoo! deal with Twitter offers more than social search

Yahoo! deal with Twitter offers more than social search

Yahoo! has partnered with Twitter to integrate the popular microblogging service across the board into various aspects of its product range. This partnership takes a different direction to Google’s deal with Twitter and Microsoft’s incorporation of BingTweets , which saw both companies including real-time tweets in their search results last year

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Google AdWords adds credit card to Comparison Ad test

Search giant Google continue its crusade to simplify search by adding credit card comparisons to its AdWords Comparison Ads in the UK. The Adwords Comparison Ads feature is designed to allow users to compare multiple relevant offers quickly and easily and was first rolled out for testing in the US in 2009

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Google AdWords adds credit card to Comparison Ad test

Search giant Google continue its crusade to simplify search by adding credit card comparisons to its AdWords Comparison Ads in the UK. The Adwords Comparison Ads feature is designed to allow users to compare multiple relevant offers quickly and easily and was first rolled out for testing in the US in 2009. The original test was for mortgage-related queries in the US, but now the Mountain View crew has announced the next stage of testing will cover credit card-related queries in the UK

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Government withdraws plans to cut off illegal file sharers

The British government has stated it will not cut off internet access from illegal file sharers, following a petition in response to its Digital Britain campaign launched in June. The Guardian reports that a petition on the Number 10 website urged Gordon Brown “to abandon Lord Mandelson’s plans to ban individuals from the internet based on their use of ‘peer to peer’ file sharing.” Although the original petition only attracted 550 signatures - just 50 more than is required for the proposal to be considered - the issue was apparently deemed a significant one for the government’s popularity, particularly as many users pointed out the contradictions to the government’s typical “three strikes” policy and aim to get all of Britain online. The government responded: “We will not terminate the accounts of infringers - it is very hard to see how this could be deemed proportionate except in the most extreme - and therefore probably criminal - cases

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