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Google Adds “Near Me Now” to its Mobile Homepage

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Posted in Social Media by admin
January 7, 2010

Google has just added a useful button to its  mobile homepage – tagged “near me now”, this feature lets you search by using your location as the query.  Currently available for iPhone and Android phone users in the U.S., “Near me now” utilizes GPS for determining your whereabouts and then searches for results near your location. The new Google mobile homepage feature lets you easily search for popular categories of nearby places. Just by clicking or tapping on the “Near me now” link right on the Google mobile homepage, you will find categories of places. And if you want more you can just select the “browse more categories” link. You can also explore the whereabouts of specific locations including reviews or rants of other people about a specific restaurants and their menus and services. To use this feature, make sure that the location feature of your iPhone, Nexus One or other Android phones is activated. Then visit google.com your phone’s browser and you can easily spot the “Near me now” tab. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Adds “Near Me Now” to its Mobile

Tags:feature, google-adds, iphone, location, mobile, mobile-homepage, mobile-search, people, phone, search engine news, search-engine, seo, tools
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Google Adds Groups to Google Apps Premiere

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Posted in Business, Pay-Per-Click, Social Media by cgseo
December 9, 2009

Google has just launched Google Groups to Google Apps Premiere and Google Apps Education Edition.  This will give business enterprises which are using Google Apps for their company’s enterprise wide collaboration/communication system a facility for their employees to create Groups within departments or sub-units easily. Employees within a company can start creating their own mailing lists as well as use Google Groups facility for sharing documents, spreasheets, presentations, calendars, videos and other share links to useful sites without bugging their company’s technical support to create the facility for them. Members of Google Groups that will be created within departments can use Google Groups’ feature for selecting what format they would want to receive updates from other Groups members – that is either in their email inbox as a regular mail, in a digest format or they can choose to view the updates in the Groups forum view which shall reside within their company’s server.  They can also easily access their  Groups Archives. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Adds Groups to Google Apps

Tags:Business, education, google apps, google-adds, groups, lists-as-well, receive-updates, search engine news, search-engine, seo, tools
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