If a recent article in the NY Times from the 10th, we found out that Google is again in hot water with it’s offices in Seol Korea.

We’ve put the article below, so you can see for your self what’s happening.

Here’s the article.

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Police in South Korea Raid Google’s Office
By CHOE SANG-HUN

SEOUL, South Korea — The South Korean police raided the offices of Google Korea on Tuesday as part of an investigation into whether the company had illegally collected and stored personal wireless data.

The search company is already facing lawsuits and investigations in several countries in connection with private wireless data collected for its Street View service. Street View, which was started in 2006, allows users to view panoramic street scenes on Google Maps and take virtual walks through cities.

From late last year until May, Google Korea dispatched cars topped with cameras to cruise around the country to photograph neighborhoods before the planned introduction of Street View.

The police suspect that those cars might have illegally captured and stored personal data from wireless networks while they were mapping streets, a statement by the Cyber Terror Response Center of the Korean National Police Agency said.

“We will investigate Google Korea officials and scrutinize the data we confiscated today” to see whether the company violated the country’s laws on communications and privacy, it said.

“We intend to find out what kinds of data they have collected and how much,” the response center said. “We will try to retrieve all the original data illegally collected and stored through domestic Wi-Fi networks from the Google headquarters.”

Google confirmed in an e-mailed statement to Reuters that the South Korean police visited the company’s office in conjunction with their investigation concerning data collection by Street View cars. The company said it would cooperate with the investigation.

Google said previously that the collection of personal data in other countries had been unintentional and that the company would cooperate with investigations. The company has faced tough competition in South Korea. One domestic search engine, Daum, already runs a popular service akin to Street View.

Google said Tuesday that it would introduce Street View in Germany before the end of the year, The Associated Press reported from Berlin.

The feature, Google said, would be available in the 20 largest German cities. According to the company, residents could ask to have photographs of their houses removed from the database starting next week — a move aimed at dispelling privacy fears.

What do you think should happen to Google?
Have a wonderful day.
Tim

Yes, Google gave searchers more options and ways to find what they are looking for. And this is good news for those of you who utilize these options in your marketing strategy.

However, what does it mean for us, and how will the new changes affect SEO?

Below is a video that kind of puts a little like on the new options and what you can do to target your audience more effectively.

These new search engine options can really boost your SEO efforts.

What it will come down is to evaluate all the different options for any given search (classic Google results, blogs, books, images, news, maps, videos, and updates from real-time search), choosing which ones you would like to rank for and focusing your efforts on those.

Talk about really targeting your audience. All I can say is WOW!

What are your comments? I’d love to hear them.

Have a wonderful day
Tim

Tim here with an update concerning Yahoo & Twitter. In a recent article from Response This Week Jacqueline mentioned that:

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – In the coming months, Yahoo! will be integrating micro-blog Twitter into nearly all of its products and pages, including Yahoo! Mail, Sports, News, Finance and Search, reports AdAge.com. This step is the latest in Yahoo!’s strategy to integrate the social networking site into its properties rather than compete with it, similar to the deal it made with Facebook in December, which allows users to update their status through Yahoo!.

What do you think this will do for your marketing efforts?
Your can read the rest of the brief article here.

I’d love to hear your comments.
Until next time have a wonderful day

In a recent article posted on Business Week, they state that Google’s at it again. Read the article below.

What’s you take on Google’s App and there approach to adding more features to it’s arsenal?
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Hey Guy’s and Gal’s,

In a recent article posted on the New York Times by Marshal Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb, he went into detail about the giants (Google & Microsoft) wanting to buy access to Twitter full array of messages and shared links.

But they are beginning to believe that Twitter may be less valuable than we might think, and that both of these mega giants in the industry have been talking with a variety of real-time web companies in readiness for the upcoming Real-Time Web Summit taking place this week. (Sorry Registration is now closed, but you can read up on it here.)

According to Google and Microsoft, they state:

First, there aren’t really that many links that get passed through Twitter. The service may be the most visible example of real-time communication but there’s a whole lot more going on around the web in real time outside of Twitter. Twitter may see between 3 and 5 million links shared through it each day. Those are heavily biased towards the relatively small number of active content creators on the site and much of it is spam or republished RSS feeds.

Marshal mentioned some other Real-Time Search companies that they have spoken with that far exceed Twitter’s search capabilities and we’ve listed them below for your future investigation.

1) OneRiot
2) Faroo
3) Wowd
4) AllVoices
5) Evri

Feel free to go ahead a read the article here. I’d love to hear your thoughts about the matter. (If you dare.)

Until next time, have a wonderful day