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Google’s +1 Button Comes To India

by Paul Joseph June 30, 2011 Featured

Just a day before Google+ , Google’s third or fourth attempt at social networking was publicly announced, the company made the +1 button available websites all over the world. Looking back at the +1 button announcement, it was the foundation stone of Google+ . +1′ing a search result or a website means recommending it to the people in your network. At first it was available only as an experimental feature in Google search, later it found a place on all search results on Google.com and a lot of websites as well. Eventually, it was rolled out globally which meant its arrival on Google.co.in and Indian sites. The Google India blog has a list of Indian websites that have implemented the +1 button. Websites like IBNLive , moneycontrol , Snapdeal , Games2Win figure in that list. Alok Kejriwal CEO and Co-Founder of Games2win.com on the +1 button told Google: “Online games are highly ’searched for’ by lots of consumers on search engines and we are delighted to have the +1 button implemented on our site. It immediately allows better content to bubble up and get noticed by friends on the Google network and hence provided a nice referral to click upon. Simply said & in our context, it adds a nice spin to socializing single player games!” Archit Sharma, VP – Product & Marketing, Jasper India (Snapdeal.com) said: “Continuing with our endeavor to serve users with more & more relevant deals, we are happy to incorporate Google +1 buttons. We are confident that this feature will bring us closer to our users, generate valuable feedback and help us improve our services further.” Till now +1 recommendations were mostly restricted to search results , but with Google plus , recommendations will have a place in people’s news feed or whatever fancy name Google chooses to give it. Google Plus has yet to hit the public, it is currently in an invite-only testing phase. Expect more of those “I want a Google Plus invite” tweets in your timeline. Deja vu ? Google hopes not. Looking For A Social Media Agency?? – Contact WATConsult – India’s Leading Social Media Agency Related Posts Google +1 Button For Websites Has Arrived Google +1 Button For Websites Coming Soon! Google +1 Embeddable Code Revealed; +Like Extension Released Google Rolling Out Social Search Globally Microsoft-Facebook Partnership Brings More Social Results To Bing

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Google, Yahoo, Facebook Mark World IPv6 Day

by Paul Joseph June 8, 2011 Featured

Many experts predict that internet is fast running out of addresses. Every device connected to internet has a unique address called its IP (Internet Protocol) address . The current standard for IP addresses is IPv4 . IPv4 has about 4.3 billion addresses . But, they will fall short of the growing need of web in few years’ time. To address this problem Internet Society in association with some of the major websites is marking 8th June as The World IPv6 Day . On this day more than 400 websites including Google , Yahoo , Facebook and Bing will enable IPv6 on their websites. We believe this is an important milestone, as IPv6 is the only long-term solution to IPv4 address exhaustion, and its deployment is crucial to the continued growth of the open Internet, Google said an official blog post . IPv6 will solve the problem of shortage of IP addresses. But, the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is not smooth. IPv4 and IPv6 networks are not compatible with each other. Also, internet service providers and websites will have to upgrade their hardware to support IPv6. IPv6 has been around since 1996, but still it’s a long way before it becomes universal. The aim of World IPv6 day is to create awareness and further the goal of universal deployment of IPv6. “The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies – to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out” , says Internet Society on its website. Looking For A Social Media Agency?? – Contact WATConsult – India’s Leading Social Media Agency Related Posts Google +1 Button For Websites Has Arrived Google Rolling Out Social Search Globally Microsoft-Facebook Partnership Brings More Social Results To Bing Google Improves Autocomplete, Which Combined With Instant Accelerates Search Microsoft Ventures Into Daily Deals With Bing Deals

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