If you’re a business on Facebook, most likely your Facebook page ranks second after your website on search results.  Good for you for having a Facebook page in the first place!  It’s content that you can control and Facebook is a trusted name.

It’s time for businesses to embrace social media and social networks!

Last week Google announced a Google Labs experiment called Social Search.  Google’s Marisa Mayer explained how Social Search works last week at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco, “What we’ve done here is inserted, on the bottom of the page, content written by people in your social network.”  A search for the place to get the best burger, for example, could bring up your friends’ Yelp reviews for local restaurants.

Whatever industry you’re in, it’s time to invest in social media and research what networks and mobile applications are relevant to your industry.

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Your social media presence just became more important

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Looks like you’ll no longer need to visit search.twitter.com to search for twitter updates. Marissa Mayer from Google put it best, “the next time you search for something that can be aided by a real-time observation, say, snow conditions at your favorite ski resort, you’ll find tweets from other users who are there and sharing the latest and greatest information.”

If you can’t wait for this integration to happen, you can install a Greasemonkey script into Firefox in order to get twitter results on Google’s search page. I’ve been using it for awhile and it’s very handy!

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Twitter Reaches Deal with Google and Bing

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Announced yesterday, you can now keep track of what you need to do within Gmail. Sounds great, but Rob over at Regular Geek makes a few valid points on this new app and wonders why they didn’t just team up with a task management system like Remember the Milk.  Some of the most notable being:

• Gmail and Gtalk have had issues lately and this app is bound to have problems on its first release.
• Remember the Milk makes revenue from selling ‘pro’ subscriptions.

On top of that, Google has been laying off people lately.  I think the case can be made that they are spreading themselves too thin.

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Gmail launches tasks. Necessary?

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I was a little disappointed in the last favicon update that Google rolled out a few weeks back. Today I logged into Analytics and saw that Google had at least changed the favicon for Analytics. I like it much better than the generic lowercase G that they have used in the past. I like it, let us know what you think.

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Google Updates Analytics Favicon

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