The Google News Blog announced that the Spotlight section on Google News may contain stories that your Google + friends and Gmail contacts have +1'ed. If you are logged in while using Google News and your friends or contacts have used the Google +1 button to like the stories in your Spotlight section, that information will show up in the Spotlight section near the article. It will even let you click on the name of your friend/contact to see their social profile on Google. Google said: Starting today, the Spotlight section will sometimes include articles that your Gmail contacts and peop [...]

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China is being very defensive. Google's recent exposure of more attempted Gmail hacking, targeting US government officials and Chinese human-rights activists, has made the Chinese government embarrassed and angry. Suspected state-sponsored Gmail hacking is what initially caused Google to discontinue cooperating with China's internet censorship policies. Chinese: Google Is a "Political Tool" Last week's hacking incident  and Google's statements that indirectly point to the government as the source have the Chinese seeing red, so to speak. Claiming that China is being unfairly maligned, th [...]

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Did you ever wonder what your favorite SEO's Twitter timeline looked like? Well, if you did, you can now peak in on someone else's timeline. For example, check out what Danny's timeline looks like by going over here. As you can see, Twitter added the ability to see what the 1,801 people on Twitter that Danny follows are "tweeting right now." Not only that, Twitter added a neat "Shuffle" feature to randomly jump to other Twitter user's timelines by clicking on the top right shuffle icon on that page: Meanwhile, Google announced the people widget for Gmail yesterday. That featu [...]

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The signals used for Gmail's priority inbox will soon be employed to tailor advertising in the app to more match users' interests. The company says it will also be testing offers and coupons from local businesses in Gmail. The system will use Gmail user's habits -- whether they read messages quickly or mark them as unimportant, for example -- to determine whether the topics covered by the emails are of interest. For example, if a user opens every message related to cast-iron cookware, but sends to spam or deletes everything that references gardening supplies, they'll soon see more ads about [...]

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