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Effective searching is a powerful skill. Think about how often you jump over to Google to look something up during your day. If you understand the nuances of a search engine, you have the ability to find what you’re looking for quickly, and potentially find information you may not have specifically thought about but adds value to your query.

Like most of us, I’ve been frustrated by unsuccessful searches; sometimes it’s just very challenging to find the right combination of keywords and phrases. Have you reviewed the tips provided by Google for doing better searches? I hadn’t. And when I started looking through Google’s search guide, I realized how much quicker I could conduct an effective search if I used the suggested techniques.

I’m sharing the top 10 tips I found most useful — some new and some just great reminders. Hopefully you’ll learn a few new nuggets to improve your own searches.

1. Keep it short: The fewer words you use, the more accurate your search will be. Every time you add a new word to the mix, you limit your results.

Read the other nine tips on sitepoint.com

Another win for Google, the city of Los Angeles has equipped it’s 34000 employees with Google Apps. The cloud bases system provided by Google has shown to be an effective and efficiency collaboration platform. The old system (Novell GroupWise system) had to be replaced by a more accurate system, and after evaluating 14 systems the city ended up with picking Google Apps. According to techcrunch.com ‘the deal, which includes servicing done in partnership with CSC, has a three-year base period and two one-year options.’

Discussions are going on about the importance of cloud computing, among others, as a result of the decision described above. At Urgency Flow there is no discussion, cloud computing will be the next big movement business wide. See our (Dutch) website www.officeflows.nl for more information, and feel free to contact us in case you have any questions.

Google continues to hit milestones with Google Apps – 2 million businesses and 20 million users in over 100 countries and 40 languages (up from1.75 million businesses in June). And they aren’t slowing down the advertising, either.

The Going Google campaign, first launched in August (and spoofed within a day) with billboards that changed messages daily, is expanding.

The target? Microsoft Office/Exchange/Sharepoint. The message? Give your employees shared documents, calendars, email, etc. without the hassles of managing email servers or rolling out software updates. Customers are pointed to google.com/gogoogle.

Tonight Google is announcing the expansion of the Going Google campaign into the U.K., France, Canada, Japan, Australia and Singapore (”train stations such as Paddington, La Défense and Shinagawa, and at airports in Singapore, Toronto, Dallas and beyond”). They’re also announcing new enterprise customers onica Minolta, Rentokil Initial and TOTO. Other recent customer wins include Recent wins include Motorola’s handset division (20K users), Konica Minolta (7K users), Rentokil Initial (business services company, 35K users), and MeadWestVaco (VA based global packaging company, 17K users).

They’ve also created a montage video of the campaign:

This article was originally posted on techcrunch.com and written by Michael Arrington

Five years ago, Internet traffic was, for the most part, managed by tier 1 providers like AT&T, Verizon, Level 3 Communications, and Global Crossing, all of which connected to thousands of tier 2 networks and regional providers. Today, that has changed. Now, instead of traffic being distributed among tens of thousands of networks, only 150 networks control some 50% of all online traffic. Among these new Internet superpowers, it’s no surprise to find Google listed. In fact, the search giant accounts for the largest source (6%) of all Internet traffic worldwide. Read more

This article was originally written by Sarah Perez on www.nytimes.com

Doing comparative business research, for example setting out the pharmaceutical market as in this video is made easy by Google. With just inserting some names Google generates comparable players on the market. Google is also able to include and display the latest news and financial situations. Quick access to real-time information. The advantage is saving time, the only sad thing is that hard to access information is not found.

If the part of Google Voice that most appeals to you is transcribed, web-accessible voicemail, you don’t need to transition to a new number. A single phone call and settings tweak can send all your unanswered calls to Google Voice. It’s not a new trick by anymeans, but… read more

This article was originally posted on lifehacker.com and is written by Kevin Purdy.