Remember Google losing its head of PR, Elliott Schrage, to Facebook back in May? Google has quietly found a replacement, that of Rachel Whetstone. She formerly headed corporate communications for Google in Europe. Google confirmed to us she was named to the post several weeks ago, though no announcement was made. But her replacement got [...]

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Google Maps (Earth) is far and away the company’s most successful product after search. It is now the second most popular mapping service online (Mapquest still leads) and the most popular mobile mapping tool (Mapquest Mobile is second), according to comScore.
Every few months, it seems, Google “tweaks” the service, adding new features here and there [...]

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It’s hard to believe but Digg’s latest feature, the recommendation engine is one that has been in the works for over two years. Before they developed images functionality, launched visualization tools, released Google, Netvibes, and Myspace widgets, developed Facebook functionality, rolled out dataportability enhancements, released updates to the comment system, updates to digg the candidates, [...]

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Today, Google has a special logo up for NASA’s birthday. Yesterday, Google had a logo up for the late Beatrix Potter’s birthday. NASA was established on July 29, 1958. Potter was born on July 28, 1866 and died on December 22, 1943.
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Organic optimization brings more than just results in the search engines.
This week’s infographic shows off the additional benefits and return on investment that comes along with properly optimizing a site and pursuing targeted keywords:
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