The search giant Google offers users various ways to search for media, such as video search, map search, and also their image search feature, which I will be elaborating on today.

Google Image Search is a great way to finding images pertaining to a specific subject or niche around the web and also recently updated their design and functionality to make search for images easier on the end user. The new features that Google has implemented into this feature are listed below.

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With the internet being such a vast resource of information and with so many people having unlimited access to it, privacy and securty are big topics when relating to searchable information around the web with questions like “Who will see this information?” and “How much information is too much?” Privacy plays a big part in SEO, especially with websites being categorized by “dofollow” and “nofollow” attributes and when some search engine crawler’s look for more information on a website more than others.

Google, the world’s largest and most widely used search engine, has various ways that you can search for information, such as: images, videos, and also by maps. Within Google’s Maps section, users can get an exact image of the place that they are looking for on the map by using Google Street View, and I have provided a video below about how Google acquires this information.

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Back in May, I published a blog post that announced a new SERP (Search Engine Ranking Page) design launched on the search-giant Google. The SERPs have been updated to help make your search engine experience more relevant to the data that you have are looking for.

Since the launch of the new SERPs to Google, the search giant has made it even easier for you to bring the most relevant information to your search results. For example, if you do a “how to” search, Google’s SERPs will display various ways of bringing the “how to” information in a way that’s best for you. For this example, I used the search query of “How to Tie a Tie” to best elaborate all of various tiers of the new SERPs.

When performing a “how to” search on Google, the SERPs will display the various media embedded in the results to help you get the most relevant information:

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The internet can be a great to place to share information, whether it is for academic or professional use. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) can help spread this information around the web, placing the information in different places and including it in different search engines so that people around the web can find it easier. Although, this can be good for some content and not others…in this case, articles.

As the idea of SEO started to develop where people saw the popularity of having their websites included in different link directories and search engines, the idea arose where people thought “Along with submitting websites to different directories to gain popularity, will article content work the same way?” With this in mind, article directories started to emerge, and various submission sites started to include them within their services.

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With Twitter being a great service to let your friends, family, and coworkers know what you are doing, and what is on your mind within 140 characters, it can also be used as a source of TMI (too much information). Some users tweet what is on their mind without sometimes realizing the consequences that they create, especially when geotagging.

Geotagging is the process where users tweet or publish that they are at a certain place or event at a given time, giving everyone public knowledge of their whereabouts. As all of us know, sometimes the internet is not a safe place as we try to make it, and this practice can be a great method for letting people know exactly where you are.

Recently, there have been two well-known services that have emerged on Twitter to help you geotag your happenings, such as: Foursquare and GoWalla.

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There are many applications out there that help you update your social networking statuses all in one place (such as TweetDeck, etc.), but there are some disadvantages to updating your Twitter and Facebook simultaneously so that they mirror one another.

This trend has become common lately, because both Facebook AND Twitter have easily accessible APIs that can be manipulated into programs and scripts to update statuses in more than one place.

I have provided three reasons below why you should NOT sync your statuses together:

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With Google being such a large company, search engine, and name, it was only a matter of time before other users around the internet started to create their own variations of them, not really in a competitive sense, but moreover to present Google’s content in ways that appeal to different people.

I have provided a list of three search engines below that display Google and its SERPs in other forms than the traditional look.

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  This search engine was created as an energy-saving site that presents Google’s search results in black, which helps save your monitor’s energy by making the majority your browser window dark and not using many colors to produce its results.

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If you have not been living under a rock, you will know that the large oil spill that is currently happening in the Gulf of Mexico is the most talked about topic, especially on the news and on Twitter as a trending topic. With this in mind, various internet technologies have emerged to calculate the size and a resolution.

Paul Rademacher, an Engineering Manager at Google, has created a way so that users can view the size and range of the current oil spill in relation to the area where they live. The tool was created with assistance of Google Maps and can be accessed as a part of Rademacher’s blog here.

I have provided some samples of this data below:

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