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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/606874/internet_services) has announced the addition of the "Internet Services - Global Outlook" report to their offering.

The global outlook series on Internet Services provides a collection of statistical anecdotes, market briefs, and concise summaries of research findings. The report offers a rudimentary overview of the industry with an on-the-fly focus on broadband services, and details trends such as, increased broadband penetration and growth in e-Commerce applications and online advertising. Additionally, issues such as, impact of the ongoing recession, commercialization, threat to user choice and increased user monitoring are also covered.

The report identifies and discusses key regional markets, such as, the US, China, Japan, India, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Spain, the UK, China, India, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, and Brazil among others.

The reader stands to gain macro-level insights into recent industry developments such as service introductions, mergers & acquisitions and other noteworthy strategic corporate developments. Also included is an indexed, easy-to-refer, fact-finder directory listing the addresses, and contact details of 159 companies worldwide.

Key Topics Covered:

1. GLOBAL INDUSTRY OVERVIEW

2. MARKET TRENDS & ISSUES

3. INTERNET: A CLOSE-UP SHOT

4. SERVICE OVERVIEW

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Internet music service Rdio.com on Tuesday unveiled a redesign intended to make it "faster, simpler and more social" as it battles with rivals such as Pandora and Spotify.

Rdio also announced that its music catalogue has grown to more than 15 million songs.

Rdio was created by Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis and the subscription-based advertising-free service was opened to the public in August 2010.

"We've made Rdio bigger and better with new features that really make discovery fun," vice president of product Malthe Sigurdsson said in a release.

"This is more than just a redesign; the new Rdio transforms the boring, spreadsheet-like way of consuming digital music into something visual and dynamic."

Social features include being able to share music with friends by email or at social networks Facebook or Twitter.

The revamped service was rolled out on Tuesday in Australia, Canada, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, New Zealand and the United States.

Rdio charges $10 monthly for an "unlimited" subscription that lets music be streamed to someone's Internet-linked computers and mobile gadgets.

Rdio is vying for fans in a streaming music arena that has proven to be a tough place to make money.

That fact has not deterred competitors, with Europe-based Spotify bursting into the US market last year and Internet titan Google fine tuning its online music offerings.

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Today there are two live help events taking place, one on the paid search side and the other on the organic search side.

The Google AdWords team is hosting a webinar today at 3pm GMT (which is in about 2.5 hours from now). The AdWords webinar is on making mobile-friendly websites. You can still register for it by clicking here. It is a shame they aren't using Google+ Hangouts for it but I guess they can host more people this way.

The Google Webmaster team is hosting a Google Hangout today and tomorrow on Webmaster topics. The first one is today in about an hour and a half, at 2pm GMT. The second one is a week from tomorrow, March 21st, at 2pm GMT. No registration is required but you need to be one of the first ten. To get in, a few minutes prior to the start time, go to Pierre's Google+ page and watch it.

Forum discusion at Google+ and Google AdWords Help.

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Last night, Google announced a huge revamp to the Google Webmaster Tools crawl errors section. The main changes include new reports, changes to the levels of details, removing some errors, and the ability to mark something as fixed.

Overall, design-wise, it does look more appealing but from what I am reading in the forums, it seems the new reports and clean up seem to confuse more webmasters then help them. In addition, there is a language bug floating around on some people's accounts that isn't helping - Google is actively working on fixing that bug.

There are few people outside of Google that know Google Webmaster Tools as well as Vanessa Fox (she did work at Google and built the product while there) and she shared her disappointment with this "upgrade" at Search Engine Land. So definitely read her review.

Here are some of the new screens:

Site Wide Errors:

URL Specific Errors:

Report Filters:

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New Google Webmaster Tools Crawl Errors Confuses

Google has just revamped the crawl errors data available in webmaster tools. Crawl errors are issues Googlebot encountered while crawling your site, so useful stuff!

I originally started this article by writing that in most cases, these changes are for the better and in only a few (really maddening) cases, useful functionality has been removed. But now that Ive gone through the changes, I unfortunately need to revise my summary. This update is mostly about removing super useful data, masked by a few user interface changes. (And I hate to write that, because webmaster tools is near and dear to my heart.)

So whats changed?

Crawl errors have been organized into two categories: site errors and URL errors. Site errors are those which are likely site-wide, as opposed to URL-specific.

Site errors are categorized as:

URL errors are page-specific.

URL errors are categorized as:

Google now shows trends over the last 90 days for each error type. The daily count seems to be the aggregate count of how many URLs with that error type Google knows about, not the number crawled that particular day. As Google recrawls a URL and no longer gets the error, its removed from the list (and the count).

In addition, Google still lists the date Googlebot first encountered the error, but now when you click the URL to see the details, you can see the last time Googlebot tried to access the URL as well.

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Google Webmaster Tools Revamps Crawl Errors, But Is It For The Better?