iRazoo a Social Search Engine Launches

It’s better to recognize that there are yet some entrepreneurs who are trying away their luck on the monopolized hunt locomotive industry. Take the lawsuit of iRazoo, an original cultural hunt locomotive that was developed by four entrepreneurs from Houston.

Frustrated of the search results they go from the new serach engine giants, the four network entrepreneurs backed with engineering backgrounds developed their own cultural hunt engine-iRazoo, which is launching today.

iRazoo and so it claims is the “reality’s best people-powered, points driven, hunt locomotive. What sets it apart from new cultural hunt locomotive is that it gives users the chance to record and gain points everytime they take the iRazoo search engine.

The benefits of using this search engine:

• You get excellent search results (we aggregate all the data from the best search engines on the planet!)
• You get to help further refine our excellent search results for others as well as benefit from other’s refined search results
• You get points for each search you perform, each website you recommend/not recommend, and each referral you make
• Best of all, you get to exchange your points for fantastic prizes!

A call for all SketchUp fans...

It's my good joy to declare the launching of the Official Google SketchUp Blog. Fast-breaking word, tips and tricks, user stories and just the correct sum of agency intrigue wait anyone who pays us a visit. Also, sexy moustache contests.

For those of you who have no thought what SketchUp is, I'll begin at the beginning: The reality is three-dimensional. Designing a home, building a slice of furniture and navigating through a metropolis all affect three-dimensional decisions. SketchUp is 3D modeling software that anyone can take to construct models of whatever they like.

Check away the 3D Warehouse to view models from folk all over the reality, and move on the 3D Warehouse bed in Google Earth to research cities with practical 3D buildings made in SketchUp (Denver is especially amazing. If you like, you can download the available edition and begin building models yourself.

Latest Google Updates........Lots of Updates

Like any day ending in a year, there’s lot of things to tell about Google today.

Click to Call Croaks
Search Engine Journal reports that the Google Maps Click-to-Call characteristic has been discontinued (inciting indignation in the Google Maps Google Group. The characteristic premiered in November 2006, but was just “a long-running experimentation, and in the conclusion it was decided to cease it.”

Google seems to regard Google Voice Local Search (Goog411, launched in April) as the successor for Click-to-Call—but without the real clicking. So it’s just calling.

Google Analytics Adds New Features
Google Analytics added a second bout of original features on Friday—no large changes, but a few things that will have it easier to sail your analytics reports. In addition to a “go to:” corner to permit you to rise about rapidly in reports, enhancing segmentation and defaulting to nation instead of subcontinent in mapping overlay.

Google Adds Images to API
Google Blogoscoped reports today that Google has added image search results to their AJAX search API.

Google has acquired ImageAmerica

Google has announced the acquisition of Clayton, Missouri based ImageAmerica, a company that builds high-resolution cameras for the assemblage of aerial imaging.

ImageAmerica has previously provided images for Google Maps and Earth, including high-resolution dark and light-colored imaging of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.

Stephen Chau, Project Manager of Google Maps and Earth said in an assertion that Google was excited “about how ImageAmerica’s engineering will add to [Google’s] mapping services down the route.”

Google plans to launch Google Adsense for Games “Shortly".

Google’s Bernie Stolar and Greg Schaffer spoke at the Casual Connect game rule this week and shared details of Google’s plans to take AdWords to video games via “AdSense for Games. ”

Game publishers will be capable to take the Google system to place advertising in their games, and advertisers will be capable to make through the Google system to purchase ad place within games. Schaffer said it will begin with ads in Web-based games, with plans to go into PC and console games subsequently on.

Google will roll away both video and text-based ads, but there’s no timeframe for launching, new than “shortly".

Google Webmaster Central adds a new feature "Message Center"

Google Webmaster Central announced yesterday the addition of a message center to the Webmaster Console (Webmaster Tools>Dashboard).

What are they going to transmit with site owners about? In the instance on the blog post, they sent a content to a site proprietor about an infringement of the quality guidelines (specifically, concealed text on a site).

The Message Center is accessible in all the languages and countries that Webmaster Tools is accessible in (the blog post mentions “French, Italian, German, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-Traditional, Korean, Japanese, etc.”).

Print advertising is a new idea to catch local audiences

Even with the increase of online news sites, Americans yet read newspapers. Over the class of a normal week, almost 3 out of 4 adults (115 million) in the best 50 markets read a transcript of a regular or Sunday paper. That's why thousands of businesses take print advertising (Google Print Ads) every day to hit a local audience, and why Google have announced that Google have extending Google AdWords to newspapers for most U. S. advertisers. To learn more, visit the Google Print Ads™ place, or learn about it on the Inside AdWords blog.

Google's new feature in SERPs "Google Notebook"

It’s been nearly four months since Google let Google Notebook out of beta, but it was just today I noticed that they’ve integrated Google Notebook into search engine results pages.


Click on the “Note this” link and the text changes to read “Duly noted” (which I do think is just a little cute) and pops up a Google Notebook window.
In the Notebook window, you can add comments to your saved search results, create new notes and comment on them, and manage various notebooks.
We would think that creating different notebooks for different research subjects would be pretty handy. One note for improvement to make the Notebook window draggable. For the life of us, we can’t figure out how to move it anywhere but anchored to the lower right part of the screen.
The “Note this” option seems to appear only when you’re signed in to Google.

Answers.com Buys Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com for $100 Million

Answers. com has agreed to acquire Lexico Publishing Group, LLC, proprietor of Dictionary. com, Thesaurus. com and Reference. com, for $100 million in cash. The dealings is susceptible to financing and usual closure conditions and is scheduled to be completed by decline of this year.

Both companies are Google Advertising partners, with Google powering their sponsored hunt results. Answers. com does too do substance from Yahoo Answers via a distribution partnership.

MSN adCenter Upgrades with Negative Keyword on Campaign Level

MSN adCenter made some upgrades on Saturday which include the power to add negative keywords on the campaign level, which use to all of the distinct ad groups being operate in the effort. Prior to the upgrade, the unfavorable keyword alternative was simply being operate at the ad group degree.

Negative keywords are terms that will assist forbid adCenter ads from being displayed to customers who are improbable to snap them. For instance, if you are advertising bank ‘checks’ on MSN adCenter, but wear’t need ads to be served for folk doing ‘backdrop checks’, so adding backdrop as an unfavorable keyword should forbid this.

MSN adCenter lends some tips on setting up negative keywords in your campaign:

To add negative keywords at the campaign level for a new campaign:

1. Click the Campaigns tab.
2. Click Create campaign.
3. In the Name text box, type the name of the new campaign.
4. To add negative keywords to your campaign, first click Advanced options, and then in the text box, type the negative keywords (separated by commas).

You can also change the list of negative keywords for an existing campaign:

1. Click the Campaigns tab.
2. In the Campaign column, select the campaign you want to change settings for.
3. At the top of the page, next to Budget spent this month, click Edit.
4. On the Change campaign settings page, in the Add negative keywords text box, type new negative keywords (separated by commas).
5. Click Save.

To change the list of negative keywords for multiple campaigns all at once:

1. Click the Campaigns tab.
2. To change the settings for specific campaigns, select the check boxes next to those campaigns. If you don’t select specific campaigns, your changes are applied to all campaigns in the list.
3. Click Bulk edit.
4. In the Campaign setting list, select Negative keywords.
5. In the New value box, type new negative keywords (separated by commas).
6. Click Apply.

Adding negative keywords in bulk replaces existing negative keywords in the selected campaigns (or in all campaigns in the list if none are selected).