Posts Tagged google: general
Written on June 29, 2010 by admin
Filed Under: Object, book
Let’s take “Google Me” seriously as a social networking site, successor to Orkut and overall Facebook challenger. As everyone by now knows Digg’s Kevin Rose started a wave of coverage when he asserted over the weekend, in a Twitter post now removed, that Google was working on a Facebook competitor.
Yesterday I asked Google for a [...]
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Will “Google Me” Be A Worthy Facebook Challenger Or Will It Be DOA?
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Written on June 25, 2010 by admin
Filed Under: Advertising, Object, book
The people running Facebook are an ambitious crew; they see Facebook as a successor to Google in many respects. In fact many of the executives used to work at Google, including CTO Bret Taylor, COO Sheryl Sandberg, Advertising VP David Fischer and Communications VP Elliot Schrage, among others.
However as a search property Facebook has, in [...]
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Facebook “Search War” With Google Mostly Sound And Fury
Written on June 25, 2010 by admin
Filed Under: Object, book, seo
Improving website performance is hard work, and SEO alone will not get the job done. The following analysis of human search behavior is the first step in developing a world-class website strategy. Top performing websites have most of these traits in common:
They understand in detail human search behavior.
They have strategically invested in information architecture.
They have [...]
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Giving Customers What They Want: A Search Behavior Analysis
Written on May 27, 2010 by admin
Filed Under: Object, book
Google continues to bump up against frustrated government regulators around the globe who are convinced that the company is doing sneaky things and willfully violating domestic privacy laws. Yesterday European privacy officials continued to express disapproval and assert that Google’s data retention policies violate its six month data retention rule.
Today the NY Times covers Google’s [...]
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Google To German Privacy Official: Turning Over Private WiFi Data To You Would Violate Your Own Law
Written on May 27, 2010 by admin
Filed Under: Object, book
Google made between 350 and 550 changes in its organic search algorithms in 2009. This is one of the reasons I recommend that site owners not get too fixated on specific ranking factors. If you tie construction of your site to any one perceived algorithm signal, you’re at the mercy of Google’s constant tweaks. These frequent [...]
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Google Confirms “Mayday” Update Impacts Long Tail Traffic
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Written on May 25, 2010 by admin
Filed Under: Object, book
Google has released a report that shows its economic contributions to local economies in the US. Timed to coincide with National Small Business Week this is something of a “charm offensive” and effort to burnish Google’s recently tarnished corporate image:
Google’s not just a search [...]
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Google “Economic Impact” Report Shows How Google Contributes To Local Economies
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Written on May 25, 2010 by admin
Filed Under: Object, book
Yahoo announced that it has acquired an Indonesian site called Koprol. Think of it as a kind of cross between Twitter and Foursquare, with more emphasis on the latter. (Yahoo had been rumored to be in talks to buy Foursquare. This move may reflect its inability to close that deal.) It touches local, mobile and [...]
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Yahoo Acquires The Foursquare-Like Koprol
Written on May 25, 2010 by admin
Filed Under: Object, book
Last month, Facebook dropped the news about their “Open Graph” or new Facebook Platform that brings content into Facebook – and of course expands Facebook’s web reach out to a more granular level. Since the announcement, there have been two questions asked quite frequently:
Should I put this on my website?
How do I put this on [...]
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How To Put The Facebook “Like” Button On A Site
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Written on May 12, 2010 by admin
Filed Under: Object, book
Last September Google launched “Internet Stats” in the UK. Now Google is “launching” it in the US or perhaps, more precisely, exposing it again.
The site aims to be a repository for data points, organized by broad categories, market sectors and verticals. Data come from various sources, but mostly trade groups and market research firms [...]
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Google Promoting “Internet Stats” Site
Written on March 23, 2010 by admin
Filed Under: Object, book
A federal appeals court ruling this week may open the door for judges to increase their use of search engines during court cases. Monday’s ruling authorized a judge’s use of Google to “confirm an intuition about a matter of common knowledge,” according to Reuters.
The case in question was a criminal matter in which the defendant [...]
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New Ruling May Mean More Googling In Court
