Thu 11 Feb 2010
Posted by Admin under Features: General, Google: Buzz, Google: Marketing, Latest Info, Top News
Want to follow Google cofounder Sergey Brin on Google’s new microblogging service, Google Buzz? Brin says he might join in the future.
During the Google Buzz launch event, Brin spoke of being a big fan, even using it to gather opinions internally at Google about a New York Times opinion piece he was writing about Google [...]
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Tue 9 Feb 2010
Posted by Admin under Features: General, Latest Info, Search & Society: General, Search Engines: Events Search Engines, Search Engines: Special Events
With the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada just days away, the engines are unveiling their special coverage sections and search features in anticipation of spiking user searches and social conversations about the winter games and Olympians.
Here’s a preview of the features from each, along with preliminary medals for search coverage. [...]
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Mon 1 Feb 2010
Posted by Admin under Features: General, Latest Info, Stats: History
This article is part of a series, a review of the 2000 decade and search developments. Below, major events from the year 2000 in consumer search. For the complete series, see the introduction, The Google Decade: Search In Review, 2000 To 2009.
Google Launches AdWords
To me, the big story of 2000 was Google’s launch of AdWords. [...]
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Mon 1 Feb 2010
Posted by Admin under Features: General, Latest Info, Stats: History, Top News
The 2000s were notable as the first full decade of consumer search. The first decade ever where you could try to sum up what happened in search, as a consumer product. And what happened, in a word, was Google.
In the 1990s, Google barely existed. If search were a religion, it was polytheistic. There were a [...]
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Sun 24 Jan 2010
Posted by Admin under Features: General, Google: SEO, How To: SEO, Latest Info, Microsoft: Bing SEO, Microsoft: Marketing, Top News
What do you get for Bill Gates, the richest person in the world? How about a little free SEO advice for his new blog? It could use some.
Bill, I went looking for your blog today on Google. Sorry, like many people, I have a habit of using that search engine first. What did I find [...]
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Fri 22 Jan 2010
Posted by Admin under Features: General, Google: Maps & Local, Latest Info, Microsoft: Bing Maps & Local, Search Engines: Disasters, Top News
Both Google Maps and Bing Maps offer ways to see the devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti. Below, a look at how to see before and after images, taken by satellite. Plus, several 360-degree ground level videos you can view.
360-Degree On-The-Ground Video
Immersive Media has released a number of 360-degree view videos of someone actually [...]
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Thu 14 Jan 2010
Posted by Admin under Features: General, Latest Info, Top News, twitter
Looking for old tweets? You won’t find any that are more than a week or so old on Twitter. Put the blame on all the massive number of new tweets coming in. The engines, they canna hold captain! Or that is, the search index behind Twitter Search can’t hold it all.
To see this in action, [...]
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Tue 5 Jan 2010
Posted by Admin under Features: General, Google: Mobile, Latest Info, Top News
It’s Nexus One day! At least, that’s what we’re all expecting from the “Android Press Gathering” event that Google is hosting today. I’m attending it and will be liveblogging all the news that comes out of it.
Not up to speed on the Nexus One? It’s the widely expected Google Phone, a phone [...]
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Tue 29 Dec 2009
Posted by Admin under Features: General, Google: Mobile, Latest Info, Top News
We just received a press invitation from Google to an “Android Press Gathering” for January 5. That coincides a report that T-Mobile is supposed to be selling the phone on January 5. So, the rumor of a new Google phone called “Nexus One” is moving closer to reality.
From the press email we received:
With the launch [...]
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Wed 23 Dec 2009
Posted by Admin under Features: General, Latest Info, Search Engines: Santa Tracker, Top News
Merry Christmas! Christmas Eve, that is, and you know what that means. Santa Claus is coming to town! How long until he arrives? Can you spot him in flight? Yes, Virginia. There is a Santa Claus, and he can be tracked. Below, a round-up of Santa trackers.
Most of the ones below come from NORAD, the [...]
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Mon 21 Dec 2009
Posted by Admin under Features: General, Google: AdSense, Google: Blogger, Latest Info
Color me tired. I got a report of a site that reprinted one of our articles without permission. Checking it out, I discovered that miserable combination of someone making money off content they don’t own, paying nothing to host that stolen content on Google’s Blogger service and earning off that content through Google’s AdSense ads. [...]
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Sat 5 Dec 2009
Posted by Admin under Features: General, Google: Critics, Latest Info, Search Features: General, Top News
Is Google part of a conspiracy to keep the general public from learning about the “Climategate” scandal? Believers continue to point at the odd comings-and-goings of Climategate as a search suggestion on Google as a sign that the search engine is trying to foist its own political views about global warming [...]
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Tue 1 Dec 2009
Posted by Admin under Features: General, Latest Info, Search Engines, Stats: Search Behavior, Top News
It should come as no surprise that the defining moment of (real-time in particular) search in 2009, came on June 25, the day on which Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, died. Overwhelmingly, the number of searches for information about MJ and the circumstances surrounding his death, both on the day of and in the [...]
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Tue 24 Nov 2009
Posted by Admin under Features: General, Google: News, How To: SEO, Latest Info, Top News
Forget PageRank, at least if you’re a news publisher looking to do well in Google News. Google’s news service doesn’t rely on the same algorithm used by “regular” Google, of which PageRank is a part of. Instead, Google News taps into its own unique ranking signals, which include user clicks, the [...]
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Thu 19 Nov 2009
Posted by Admin under Features: General, Google: General, Google: User Interface, Google: Web Search, Latest Info, Top News
Sometime later today, a small number of Google users will see a new look to Google’s Search Options feature. If all goes well, the cleaner display may be launched across Google after the New Year. And it’s all because Google’s vice president of search product and user experience Marissa Mayer doesn’t like [...]
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Wed 28 Oct 2009
Posted by Admin under Features: General, Google: Music, Latest Info
The expected Google Music Search has real, and our Google Music Search 2.0 Launches With Musical “OneBox” story provides the play-by-play of how it works. Be sure to read that! From me, the color commentary out of today’s launch event at Capitol Records in Hollywood. I’ll be live blogging the news.
We’re expecting some musical stars, [...]
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Tue 20 Oct 2009
Posted by Admin under Features: General, Latest Info, Legal: Crawling & Indexing, Legal: Privacy, Top News, twitter
Is Twitter allowing search engines access to protected tweets or not? Not, Twitter tells me, though the company probably needs to do a bit more to prevent this type of confusion in the future.
The LA Times reported yesterday about a “Twitter hole” that it believed allowed Google special access to protected [...]
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Wed 14 Oct 2009
Posted by Admin under Features: General, Latest Info, Microsoft: Bing SEO, SEO: Tagging, SEO: Titles & Descriptions, SEO: Writing & Body Copy, Top News, Yahoo: SEO
Oh, that this weren’t true. Last week, Yahoo made news by disclosing that it had quietly dropped support for the meta keywords tag. As a long time hater of that tag and the insane questions it has produced, I was thrilled! But today, I see conclusively that Yahoo still supports the tag.
The test was simple. [...]
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