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Nearby Stock Information As the Wall Street Journal tells us, for two years, Milo has tried to Put Store Stock Online. Thats not the dog, but the company, Milo.com, named after him.
Google Puts Bar Codes On Favorites These barcodes are not those Google was celebrating back in October. That marked the 57th anniversary of the first patent on the bar code. Its inventors were Norman Woodland and...
Recent Google Profiles Update Perhaps the previous post about Google Profiles was read in the right places. Things seem to be happening. That old Sergey Brin profile has...
Google Profiles Will Not Kill Facebook Recently, I suggested that Google might replace Facebook. I was talking about Google Profiles but I must apologize for my over-enthusiasm. As I begin poking around in the Google Profile world I find there are some very loose ends. To help you better understand my concerns, perhaps you would like to check out whether Google knows about you, or at least has a profile on you.
Local Search Information Google has announced that it will offer local search results for many items where it guesses you may want a local supplier. It clearly is responding to a real...
Google Local Search Missing Restaurants In Canada As previously mentioned, Google has announced that it will offer local search results for many items where it guesses you may want a local supplier.
Google Local Search Google tries to serve up for you the most relevant results from the keyword enquiry. In doing that, it probably looks at all the other searches for the...
Google and IRS It was Ben Franklin who said but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes. I was somewhat surprised at a recent...
Google FriendConnect Readers of any of the SMM blogs will notice at the foot of the right sidebar a new feature. It now has a Discussion Wall provided by Google Friend Connect.
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Deep Web - NOW Web The NOW Web is the cyberspace that contains all those packets of information or Instants that are moving around. Think of that Google Chat message...
Google and Disruptive Technology Google Next Victim Of Creative Destruction? is a paper by John Borthwick, a former top executive at AOL. He recounts how Clay Christensen, the inventor of the concept of Disruptive Technology, suggested to a senior group at AOL that they should be concerned about other disruptive influences that might well spell eventual disaster for AOL in the years to come.
Search is Google's Focus in 2009 Googles focus in 2009 will be search, is going out on a limb. It is tough to find anyone else who pins it down so precisely. Many seem to be following the traditional advice on forecasting. If you are making forecasts, make a lot of them. For example if you check The Big List of 2009 Marketing Predictions then you can find almost any forecast you want about Google.
Win-Lose with Google Search Suggest? Google Search Suggest is a new assist that many keyword searchers are now seeing when they do Google searches. If you have questions, then there...
Searching With Your Google Phone If it carries the Google label, then undoubtedly search will be involved. Marc Vanlerberghe, Googles Product Marketing Director,...
Yahoo Buzz Is Quite Delicious As Stephen Wilson tells us, Yahoo Buzz is now open to everyone. Yahoo Buzz is a way of telling the world about websites that have particularly delighted you and the Buzz Log gives added visibility to Whats hot on Yahoo! Buzz.
Search Engine Olympics - a Gold Medal for ?
Google Search Quality Lifts The Veil Udi Manber, VP Engineering, Search Quality, acknowledges in the Official Google Blog that Google Search Quality is overly secretive. Search Quality is the name of the team...
Does Google Need An Ethics Policy Like The New York Times? Google has a paid link dilemma, at least according to Patrick Altoft (tip of the hat to Lee Messenger). As he says: The reason Google doesnt like paid links is obvious and understandable from their point of view. Google quite simply doesnt want websites to be able to buy their way to the top of the search engine rankings.
Google Downgrades Dot-Coms Value
Will Google Find Waldo? Finding Waldo seems to be a hot item at the moment. The natural way to find anything now is to Google it. Thats the challenge that Melanie Cole, a Media Art student, has set Google Earth.
Google's New Privacy Policy Is Adsense-friendly Many people are rightly concerned about their privacy on the Internet. We all leave our virtual footprints wherever we go. Nevertheless we hope that those who have the ability to see...
Forget We Ever Mentioned A Supplemental Index ~ Google It shouldnt really happen to a nice company like Google. You try to do someone a favor and it blows up in your face. A few years back, they realized that it would be difficult to give a speedy response to a search query if they had a single database of all the web pages they were spidering. So they decided to put web pages that might come up more frequently in search queries in their regular database.
Human-Friendly Or Robot-Friendly? Many websites will find at least half of their traffic comes because someone has done a Google search. Sometimes its even higher than that. So if there is a conflict between what human beings prefer and what search engine robots prefer, which should you favour? This puzzle was graphically illustrated by two blog posts that appeared in the last 48 hours.
ASK TV Ads Grow Online Traffic There always seems to be something paradoxical about using offline media to bring more traffic to online websites. Yet, as the ASK blog tells us, they really can be very effective:
Is Google Now The Big Ugly? As any big corporation knows, some will automatically question their motives. Wal-Mart is perhaps the prime example of this. Even though a corporation...
Google Tries To Close Pandora's Box When Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page were working on Backrub, which became Google, almost 10 years ago, their PageRank concept seemed reasonable.
Google BlogSearch, The Neglected Orphan For another blog post I was writing, I checked out a possible title in Google BlogSearch as I often do. The proposed title was Microsoft Matches Google In Voice Mobile Search.
Microsoft Outdoes Google In Voice Mobile Search Although Google may have got more of the headlines this week for its mobile search with GOOG-411 coming out of the labs, if anything Microsoft has been doing more.
A Small Peephole On Google Supplemental Results At the end of July, Google announced that they would no longer identify Web pages in the Supplemental Index. Although such pages have reduced visibility in Googles keyword search results, Google felt that the Supplemental label was attracting undue attention.
Google Rankings Drive Sales - SEO Expectations Google Rankings Drive Sales. Thats what a caller told me this morning. Lets call him Chuck, from Massachusetts, to preserve his anonymity.
SEO - Selling Effectiveness Optimization Is Usability Part Of The New SEO? Thats a question being discussed in the Cre8asite Forums. It all stems from the launch of a new website, Sphinn, by Danny Sullivan.
Jason Calacanis And The No Free Lunch Theorem Jason Calacanis has recently launched Mahalo, which is a new search vehicle. It is based on human evaluation of websites and has been the subject of some criticism.
Google Is Going Green - Promise Google will achieve Carbon neutrality by end of 2007, according to the official Google blog. Urs Hoelzle, Senior Vice President, Operations for Google said that their plan is to...
Google's Search Share Keeps Growing comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, has just released its monthly qSearch analysis of activity across competitive search engines. Some of the details from the Press Release are shown below.
Google PageRank (Reputation & Relevance) Google PageRank is perhaps one of the most widely discussed phrases on the Internet. It's a complex concept and if you would like...
Make Your Website Robot-Friendly In November 2006, all the major search engines for once agreed on new Sitemap standards. Sitemaps.org set out the rules for sitemap files that all the major search engines would follow.
Supplemental Result in Google - Hell or Help Google Hell was an evocative term when Jim Boykin coined it in 2005 to describe the Google Supplemental Results Index.
Searching Online Newspaper Headlines Writing newspaper headlines is quite an art. At least that goes for the print versions of newspapers. As the reader holds the newspaper page and scans the headlines, what will pique the interest?
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