AOL's Switched: Your Online Reputation Is More Important Than You Think If you are a relatively good person and are finding it impossible to get a job — or a date — you may want to Google yourself. Approximately 70-percent of employers look up job applicants online. 50-percent admit information they have dug up on […]
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Google Earth goes to ancient Rome
This doesn’t have much to do with social media, but I just love Google Earth, and now Google has put ancient Rome online. That’s right. You can now walk the streets of ancient Rome and see the Colosseum in all its glory. Amazing. From the Wired blog: The Ancient Rome 3D feature was created in […]
Delver: A social search engine
The CEO of Delver discusses the new social search engine, which has some very interesting features you won’t find on other search engines, such as restaurant recommendations by your network of friends.
Track down anyone online, anywhere
Lifehacker: Track Down Anyone Online, Anywhere. A guide to locating people through search tools. In short: ZabaSearch – to find names, phone numbers, addresses. Pipl – to bring up information that Google might miss. Pipl indexes pages that the Googlebots have decided are not worth visiting. Wink – to search several social networking websites at […]
Top 5 search engine tips for bloggers
If your blog isn’t getting enough uptake with the major search engines, here are Top 5 SEO (search engine optimization) Tips for Bloggers, a bit rewritten and courtesy of Lockergnome: Keyword-focused content – Keep your content laser-focused on your keywords. While you can write about anything, you need to make sure that your article stays […]