Google Experimenting with Images in Search Results?
Is Google playing with a new search result display… and also testing image recognition?
Guest blogger Jenise Uehara Henrikson is in internet marketing, focusing on urban clothing and streetwear.
Update: This article is NOT about Google’s “universal search” which includes images, as well as news and video mixed in the site results. This post documents something new that Google Search appears to be testing only in smaller markets. What’s different about it? Read the (entire) post.
I was doing some research on google.se (Swedish localized Google) when I came across some interesting search results.
In case your Swedish is rusty :) “vigselringar” means “wedding rings”.

Digg Selling Links Off Digg.com?
Digg went down today for a little bit and when it came up I decided to poke around a bit to see if anything had changed.
That is when I noticed a new Digg Dialogg was coming up with Richard Branson.
What Does Google Think of Hiring a Social Media Consultant?
I am often asked by clients if Google would look negatively upon them using a social media consultant to get links for their websites and content.
I have always done my best to explain that social media does not actually get links in the same way as you would buy them, but rather it gets the right exposure to put your content in front of the largest body of link givers on the web. With that exposure and great linkable content, you actually get natural links to your content, which Google sees as legit and good.
Recently I came across an interview that Eric Enge did with Matt Cutts, that further clarified how Google feels about hiring a social media consultant to help get natural links for your site and content.
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Gmail Removes IMAP Services?
It is pretty early in the ordeal but about 10 minutes ago I began to get errors from my Outlook, which uses Google’s Gmail with the IMAP service.
It is now telling me “IMAP is not available for your account. (Failure)” and will no longer connect to Gmail.












