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Google on Thursday launched visually optimized search results for the iPhone and T-Mobile G1 Android devices. Whether users are using Google search through the search widget on the G1's home screen, the search box in the iPhone's Safari browser, or Google.com on either device, the search results are optimized for their particular device.

Users won't have to scroll back and forth or zoom in, and Google said the pages load more quickly.

Looking to save money on a pair of Manolo Blahnik shoes this holiday season? Try searching for Manolo Blahnicks.

A handful of new Web sites with names like Typo Bay and Typo Buddy are out to help shoppers save money by searching eBay for misspelled brand names. Such items often have fewer bidders because they do not appear in search results for people who spell the items correctly, and therefore they can be bought at a lower price.

While there is plenty of buzz around Google's new SearchWiki, another Google experiment is quietly disappearing: SearchMash. Once located at SearchMash.com, the service was Google's experimental search interface, a non-branded search engine that Google used to test new technology.

SearchMash let users search the Internet in different ways. Specifically, it let searchers reorder results and see the top three image results next to Web results. SearchMash also recognized classes of proper nouns and displayed refinements for them and adjusted for spelling mistakes.

Google has added SearchWiki tools that will enable Web surfers to create customized search results by adding, deleting, re-sorting or commenting on query results. The program's development team said SearchWiki is a good example of how search is becoming increasingly dynamic.

Yahoo has won another wireless carrier for its mobile Internet search tool. The company joined T-Mobile in announcing Thursday that oneSearch will be the search utility for T-Mobile's web2go service.

Yahoo said more than 70 mobile operators worldwide are now using its mobile search tool.

T-Mobile said oneSearch will provide web2go users a better Web-browsing experience "by making it easier to view and navigate the Web through a customizable home page," as well a simplified shopping and download experience.

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With an audience of over 130 for last week’s Bulldog Reporter Webinar on Twitter, we had some great questions.
Here are my answers to some of your most frequently asked questions on Twitter Strategy and Public Relations:
1. Who should use Twitter?
Anyone and everyone can use Twitter. That said, if using for business purposes, it should be clearly stated in your profile and the company you are representing should be reflected in your Twitter handle.

With an audience of over 130 for last week’s Bulldog Reporter Webinar on Twitter, we had some great questions.
Here are my answers to some of your most frequently asked questions on Twitter Strategy and Public Relations:
1. Who should use Twitter?
Anyone and everyone can use Twitter. That said, if using for business purposes, it should be clearly stated in your profile and the company you are representing should be reflected in your Twitter handle.

Google is pushing its voice-recognition technology to Apple's iPhone first, before devices running its own Android mobile platform.

The New York Times offered photographs of Google employees Vic Gundotra and Gummi Hafsteinsoon using an iPhone for a voice search. The free application was expected to be available on Apple's App Store on Friday. Google reportedly will soon offer the technology for other devices, presumably including the T-Mobile G1, which uses Android.

I knew I was on board with Josh Warner, the president of video syndication shop Feed Company, when he told a crowd at the WOMMA Summit that it’s time to kill the word “viral” as a prefix for “video.” My San Francisco teammates are probably tired of hearing me make the plea not to describe short videos as viral until online viewers have deemed them so. It’s a word that should be limited to describing branded entertainment after the fact, not in proposed scopes of work.

In another move to gain traction in the enterprise, Google on Thursday launched a new feature to help businesses that use its Site Search service instantly add and update Web pages.

Google Site Search serves all Web site content as search results with the aim of offering relevant and comprehensive coverage of a Web site. Google does this by creating special indexes that supplement pages already searched by Google.com.