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Important news for clients interested in organic search engine marketing as well as PayPerClick. Right now, Microsoft’s search engine Bing is beginning to power organic search results on Yahoo! Search in the United States and Canada.

When finished, Bing will be the engine behind more than five billion monthly user searches. This accounts for over thirty-one percent of the search engine market share in the US and almost nine percent in Canada. As a website owner you should be taking advantage of this huge amount of traffic by employing a consistent and professional search engine marketing strategy (SEO) to enhance your website’s visibility on the internet.

If you would like to learn more about the Yahoo and Bing search engine alliance nd how this affects your website’s search engine rankings, please contact the Net-Craft.com Internet Marketing team by clicking here.

Search Giant Google held an event today to highlight improved features in the Android mobile operating system. One of these features was the Chrome-to-Phone extension/application.

Chrome-to-Phone is a cool application that makes it possible for the user to send information from your browser directly to your mobile device / phone. It was created by a Google engineer with his 20 percent time (when employees are on the clock but encouraged to develop what they choose to).

A couple examples on how this mobile feature can be used is if you are viewing a webpage and would like to continue reading it on your phone, all you would have to do is click a button in Chrome. Another would be if you see a phone number on a web page that you need to call, you can send that to your phone and automatically launch the phone dialer, this would prevent typos and increase speed.

A demo is available below:

If you see a plus (+) sign next to or below an app in the iTunes App Store, it indicates that app is universal – designed to work natively on both the iPhone and iPad.

Typically these universal apps are provided by developers when the functionality is similar on both iPad and iPhone, but due to the iPad’s large screen a different interface is needed (to include sidebars, popovers, and wide views instead of deep levels).

It also means you only have to download and pay for the app one time.

Yes, you can run almost any iPhone app on the iPad if you’re okay with pixel doubling which creates boxing or pixilated graphics. However these universal apps ensure you get the best user interface – and user experience – possible on all current iOS devices.

If you have an iPhone or iPod touch and an iPad, and you see the + sign for a universal app, you’re good to go.

Net-Craft.com develops apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. If you are looking for an app developer and would like to speak with us about your app project, please contact us by clicking here.