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Google Instant Knows What You Want
Google rolled out Google Instant, which completes what you're typing before you've typed it and "saves the average searcher two to five seconds per search" (via the Official Google Blog). Streaming search results change as you type. The Steve Rubel Stream says Google Instant will make SEO irrelevant: "Google Instant means no one will see the same web anymore, making optimizing it virtually impossible. Real-time feedback will change and personalize people's search behaviors." "Type 'god', and your instant search results won't be for religion. They'll be for GoDaddy -- unless you hit the enter key after typing 'god,'" notes Domain Name Wire. "My experiments with Instant Search indicate that the suggestions have a definite commercial bias," says Efficient Frontier Insights. "Branded words are preferred over generic terms despite Google's own Trends data showing much lower traffic on the branded words." Meanwhile...
Kanye West Twitter Fest
"Ever since Kanye West joined Twitter this summer, his tweets have been worth keeping an eye on," says Bri's Cheese & Sleaze. So what has Mr. West been up to? Well, over the weekend he finally got around to apologizing to Taylor Swift for interrupting her acceptance speech at the 2009 VMAs, "over the course of an hour and a half and 78 tweets" (via I Can Has Internets). "His running theme was self-awareness ('It is distasteful to cut people off as a general rule....What's the point of dressing tastefully if I'm going to act the complete opposite?') and retribution ('I've hurt, I've bled, I've learned. I only want to do good. I am passionate I am human I am real....I wish I could talk to every hater face to face and change there a opinion of me one conversation at a time')," sums up PopEater. "Obvs, the fact that the VMA's are coming up on Sunday the 12th means that he knows that we're wondering if he's going to go banana split up on stage again," says Etidbits.com. ...
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