Google Makes Quickoffice Free To All Users, Gives Away Drive Storage

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Google announced on Thursday that it is making Quickoffice free for everyone. The product had been free for Google Apps for Business customers, but now it’s free for anybody with a Google account.
Google acquired the productivity software in June of 2012. Later that year, the company launched the Quickoffice iPad app. In April, they launched apps for Android and iPhone

Is Google Dumbing Down Search Results?

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There has been an interesting discussion about Google and search quality this week thanks to comments made by a Googler who suggested that a site with higher quality, better information is not always more useful.
Wait, what?
Hasn’t Google been pounding the message of “high quality content is how you rank well in Google” in everybody’s heads for years? Well, sometimes dumbed down is better.

A Decade Of Delicious Brings About A Dapper Design (With A Focus On UX)

 

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Started back in September 2003, social bookmarking site Delicious (previously known as del.icio.us) is celebrating their 10th birthday. Oh, and the present for this joyous occasion is being delivered to Delicious users. A new faster, easier to use service that bring the focus back to bookmarking has launched

Google Launches Hashtag

 

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The integration of Google+ across Google properties continues in a big way today with the launch of hashtag search.
Simply put, if you search Google for a hashtag, you might see Google+ posts using that hashtag to the right of the regular search results.

Study: 61 Percent Of Mobile Callers Ready To Convert

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As a marketer if you’re not making it easy for mobile users to call you, you’re losing business. A new survey of 3,000 US smartphone users, conducted by IPSOS on behalf of Google, underscores the critical role of calls in the mobile path to purchase.
Almost two-thirds (61 percent) of survey respondents said that “click to call is most important in the purchase phase of the shopping process.” And 70 percent of respondents said they had used the “call button” in Google search results.

Google Cranks Up ‘Not Provided’ Keywords, Says Ads Aren’t The Reason

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