Google realtime is marching forwards with its own home page and a raft of new tools to help users to refine their searches.
Some of the new Google realtime tools re:

* Geographic refinements, so you can find updates and news in a chosen region.

*Conversations view, which makes it easier to follow a realtime chat. There’s a new “full conversation” feature that allows you to browse the entire conversation in one view.

* A new “updates” content for Google Alerts means you can create a realtime alert specifically for keywords that appear in Twitter.

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Latest news from Google is that businesses can now respond to reviews posted on their Place Pages in Google Maps. This will be a big boost for companies trying to manage their reputation.

Engaging with the people and customers who have shared their thoughts or reviewed their business is a great way to get to “meet” customers and to find out more about their habits and views.

Even negative feedback can be good for business as it allows you to make positive changes to improve your service. A thoughtful response acknowledging a problem and offering a solution can turn an annoyed customer into a fan!

By responding to reviews and engaging with customers you will hopefully build stronger relationships with existing and potential clients.

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A new piece of research has revealed that Firefox is responsible for a large amount of Google’s share. The survey by Chitika shows there were more Firefox-based Google searches than total searches from Bing or Yahoo.

Looking at a sample of more than 14 million impressions across the Chitika advertising network, Firefox holds the key to 9.17% of the search market – more than any one company except Google itself.

The study revealed that:
•    Firefox drove 23% of all traffic to the network.
•    Of Firefox’s search traffic, 91.45% came from Google and 39.87% cane specifically from the Firefox start page.

Of course, this isn’t representative of the whole search market but it could have wider implications. Next year, Mozilla’s contract, which sets Google as the default browser in their Firefox browser, comes to an end. We think there will be a huge bidding war!

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Google has bought a huge new “real-world information database” that it plans to use to create a “smarter, more connected internet”. The search engine giant has acquired Metaweb Technologies, a five-year-old American company that maintains the massive open database.

Google reckons that the Metaweb database – nicknamed Freebase – is the route to improving searches on the internet.

Google is reported as saying: “Over time we’ve improved search by deepening our understanding of queries and web pages. The web isn’t merely words – it’s information about things in the real world, and understanding the relationships between real-world entities can help us deliver relevant information more quickly… Working [with Metaweb], we want to improve search and make the web richer and more meaningful for everyone.”

Freebase stores information on more than 11 million “things in the world”, including films, books, TV shows, celebrities, locations, and companies. The company was set up to help customers use this data to enhance the design of their websites.

Google has also reported that it will continue to maintain Freebase for public use.

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There seems to be no stopping Google as it bids to become an even greater king of the information superhighway. Now we’ve heard that Google has set their sights on creating a new Facebook in the shape of “Google Me”.

There hasn’t been an official announcement from Google yet, and this is still a working title, but the gossip in the social media networking world is that Google is not far away from launching something big. It’s believed that Google Me will combine the designs of Google Profiles and Buzz.

The rumour is thought to have started from a tweet by Digg co-founder Kevin Rose.

It’s a brave step, however, as Facebook is now such an established on-line social network and Google’s attempt to compete with Twitter, ie Buzz, didn’t work as well as they had hoped.

But Google does have a few advantages. Google Me will likely integrate a range of other Google tools, such as Gmail, Maps, Profiles, and could have the potential to be something rather special.

We’ll have to wait and see.

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Google seems happy to ignore latest figures that show a small dip in “paid clicks” in the second quarter of the year. Paid clicks fell by 3% compared to the first quarter.

But then any company will be confident if overall, year-on-year, they could report a 15% increase in paid clicks and net revenue of $5.09 billion.

The search engine giant, which employed more than 1,000 new staff in the second quarter claimed: “Solid growth in our core business and very strong growth in our emerging businesses drove 24% revenue growth year-over-year. . . .  We feel confident about our future, and plan to continue to invest aggressively in our core areas of strategic focus.”

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