Visual currency converter - Google launches visual currency converter

Google recently launched a visual currency converter tool on homepage. The conversion tool helps you to convert a currency into any other currency format.

Below is the screenshot of Google's  recently launched a visual currency converter tool on homepage.

You can now convert currency from one country currency value to another from the Google.com homepage. The change is good for stock exchange people, financial researchers and business financial analysers.

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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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.

Latest SEO Industry News 2009

The major news in SEO world is that Yahoo has got Patent for Human Enhanced Search Engine. The latest social networking news is that Google launched Google wave. Google wave has already hit the Social world like a wave. Google also changed the criteria for Google Maps. The Google PR update happen on October 30, 2009. The PR update went as expected. Google meanwhile removed Page Rank from webmaster tools. Google thinks PR is major internal reference factor rather than a factor for webmasters. Google translator was another big revaluation. It was launched on the World Translation Day. Google has added a new feature Intelligence to Google Analytics which is still under the Beta version.World Translation Day. Google now shows relevant World Bank data which comes from the World Development Indicators. Bing has integrated Twitter Search and now Bing started providing Twitter updates in real time. Yahoo is expected to make a tie up with One Riot a Real Time Search Engine to provide real time search results. You can get the latest SEO news from my blog. I will try to update all the latest SEO news through my blog.

Google interest-based advertising launched

Google has launched its interest-based advertising beta version. This will help the publishers to choose whether to increase their brand awareness or to increase their ad responses. The success of a campaign will increase as well as it should increase the earnings as advertiser participation increases. This interest-based advertising is a big news for all. The beta version is expected to run till late 2009. I am planning to test out the Google interest-based advertising beta version. I am waiting for some reviews.