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Google beefs up local offering with Zagat purchase

Google’s made yet another addition to the ever-expanding Mountain View empire, this time in the form of Zagat, a heralded restaurant review service established over 20 years before Google became a household name. Marissa Mayer, vice president of local, maps and location services for the search seraph, announced the acquisition on the Official Google Blog today. “I’m thrilled that Google has acquired Zagat,” Mayer said. “Moving forward, Zagat will be a cornerstone of our local offering – delighting people with their impressive array of reviews, ratings and insights, while enabling people everywhere to find extraordinary (and ordinary) experiences around the corner and around the world.” Meanwhile, Zagat posted its enthusiasm directly to its front page. The “dynamic duo” hopes to “optimise the potential of the Zagat brand while offering new ways for consumers to express their opinions and make informed decisions.” Zagat began its history of collecting and publishing consumer reviews in 1979, which the company said has empowered consumers. In the digital age, the company started dedicated websites for US cities such as New York, LA and Chicago, but also international cities such as London and Paris. Google’s long been on the lookout for consumer reviews to add to its repertoire, as evidenced by its stunted takeover bid for Yelp at the tail-end of 2009. Such an acquisition in 2011 could potentially bulk up the firm’s new social service, Google+, for check-ins, recommendations and more – ramping up competition with arch-rival Facebook

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Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Baseball ’10 Deemed Official Online Fantasy Game for MLB.com

Yahoo! today announced a deal with Major League Baseball that makes Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Baseball ‘10 the official fantasy baseball game of MLB.com.

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Google Rolls Out “Starred Results”

Google is adding a new feature to its search results, reports PC World. As a new personalization feature, users now have the ability to give “stars” to certain search results in order to move them to the top of their personal results, along with syncing the results with a person’s Google Bookmarks and Google Toolbar. The feature is currently being rolled out and is expected to be available to all Google users within the next few days.

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Wolfram Alpha Launches New Updates

Nearly three weeks after the launch of the new computational search engine Wolfram Alpha, the company made live on Monday its first wave of updates as part of its “ongoing, long-term development process,” according to the official blog.

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Bing Boosts Microsoft’s Search Performance

Preliminary data from comScore has reinforced earlier findings that Bing is poised to grab a share of the search market from Yahoo and Google.

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Bing Jumps to Number Two Spot, Overtaking Yahoo

Within days of launching, Microsoft’s new search engine Bing managed to nab the number two spot in terms of market share, overtaking Yahoo in the United States and worldwide, according to data from StatCounter Global Stats.

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Dramatic Increase in Viewership at YouTube

U.S. internet users watched 16.8 billion online videos in April, accounting for an increase of 16% versus the previous month, according to data from the comScore Video Metrix service.

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Google Squared Goes Live

Google Squared, which Google announced in mid-May, is now available in Google Labs.

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Live Search Available For Firefox Users

On their official blog, Microsoft has announced that due to popular demand, they have integrated the Live Search add-on into Mozilla’s Firefox browser.

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WebmasterRadio.FM Streams SES NY Live

WebmasterRadio.FM, as the official radio networkm has covered Search Engine Strategies in New York, featuring live streaming of speeches, interviews with industry leaders, with reports from the Trade show floor.

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