Navigate around locations using Google landmarks feature

Google India launches landmarks a new feature that will enable driving directions for users of Google Maps. Google map users can now navigate around locations using landmarks feature on their desktops and mobile phones to locate petrol pumps, colleges and schools, bus and railway stations,local businesses and much more. India is the first country in the world to get this feature on Google Maps.

This will be an helpful feature for all Indians as they can easily locate the places they want to travel. Google India has collected good landmark data through Google Map Maker to which users have added "points of interest" information. Googles uses a navigation algorithm determines the data based on importance, and closeness to the turns the user is making and other available informations. Google users can also enrich the current Google landmarks data with additional resources using Google Map Maker.

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Mobile Search - The top 10 websites in India

According to Opera, Google.com and other services by Google are popular on the mobile web in India. In addition, a report from the company shows a 208.4% unique user growth in Opera Mini users in India compared to November 2008.

Opera Mini has already got more than 41.7 million users worldwide showing a 5.3 percent increase as compared to the previous month, according to the report. The number of page views in November also went up 9.5% and the data consumption increased about 8.3% compared to October.

1.Google.com

2.Orkut.com

3.Gmail.com

4.Facebook.com

5.Wikipedia.org

6.Songs.pk

7.Youtube.com

8.Yahoo.com

9. Wap.in

10. Zedge.net

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Latest SEO Industry News 2010

The latest SEO news for 2010 would be the inclusion of Real Time Search by all major search engines. Google has started their efforts to make the Internet much faster. Google plan to buy Yelp will make them popular in customer review as well as social front. Twitter has made their plans clear as they are going to introduce contribute feature for business profile. Many businesses are using twitter for customer support as well as branding. The year 2010 seems to be more promising one as compared to 2009. The big thing about 2010 would be that it will make clear if the social networking sites are going to lead the race or the search engines are going to push their position's further ahead. Microsoft tried to dominate in China by introducing a Microblogging service like Plurk but the service was soon brought down because many users started to share the service was exactly a copycat of Plurk. Plurk is still ahead of twitter in the Taiwan and plans to dominate in Asia. Twitter have got huge plans as they announced that they will support business profiles. Google has started to show status updates from Twitter, Facebook etc. The new real time wave will be in its peak in 2010. There are also a lot of SEO Contests to come in 2010. SEO contest are great way to develop your SEO Skills and SEO knowledge. I look forward to participate in a lot of SEO Contest especially the once from Promo Junkie Forum.

Online Community Manager - How to become a successful community manager ?

The hottest job in internet marketing is now community manager jobs. There had been lot of vacancies for community manager’s lately. Community manager is one among the highest paid which requires staying active and up to date on internet community discussion with lot of patience. The job requires you to be cool, quick responder, keep silence when needed and be a good listener.

The role of Community Manager in an organization is to

1. Listen what is being said/written : Listen what the customers as well as public is saying about your company as well as your products/services.
2. Respond to user comments:Quick response is needed when someone comes up with a negative comment onyour product/service.
3. Inform to the correct department: Inform the vital information you gather to the correct department that works on the matter.
4. Be silent when needed: Don’t over do things. If you find something that is out of your reach or a problem that you can’t sort out then just let the concerned department/professional know about it.
5. Keep listening: Keep on listening what other stays. You need to have the best eyes and quick response.

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