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Google Highlights Searches For Black Friday Deals

Saturday, November 7, 2009 4:21 No Comments

With Thanksgiving just a few weeks’ away consumers are already starting to search for deals online.
Over the last seven days fifty percent of the top “Black Friday” related search terms include ads, sales and deals, according to Google Insights for Search.
The Google Retail Advertising Blog provides more details. “Interestingly, when we look at Black Friday [...]

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Google Checkout Gets a New Promotions Feature

Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:46 No Comments

Google has launched a new feature for Google Checkout, which allows merchants based in the US to create and run their own Checkout promotions at any time.
Users simply need to sign in to their Checkout merchant account, go to the “Tools” tab, and click the “Promotions” link to create a promotion. Google says the process [...]

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Google Reduces Restictions on Google Checkout

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 11:42 No Comments

Google has made a change to its content restrictions for Google Checkout. Google Checkout now allows the sale of real estate rentals, timeshares, and day sight-seeing tours.
“Google Checkout sellers of real estate rentals, timeshares, and day sight-seeing tours must have a valid public business URL,” says Sammer Abdul of Google Checkout Operations. “The sellers may, [...]

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Google Wants You to Be Able to Leave if You Want

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 11:39 No Comments

Data portability is an important issue for users and businesses alike. In this age of cloud computing, where so many web users have valuable data hosted by web services, we can sometimes find ourselves vulnerable to the will and occurrences of these services. Let’s say for example, Twitter is one of the key components to [...]

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