If you missed the email, Google Places is about to change. There are 4 bullet points that Google wants us to know about. Three of the points have to do with “Account Updates,” opting into “Newsletters” and “Market Research” which has to do with participating in surveys. To me, however, is the bullet point about [...]
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Who will blink first, Google or the Chinese government. Most likely it won’t be the Chinese government. Like a high stakes poker game, the Chinese are tightening their grip on censorship through the search engine. In turn, Google has alluded to perhaps pulling out of China altogether. Google is pushing for more openness and less [...]
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The Google I/O conference is quickly coming upon us and the take at eWeek is that the search giant will hit heavy upon the points of cloud, client and connectivity. This is so new of an outreach program to developers that it didn’t even have an official name last year. The cloud computing portion of [...]
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In March 2008, I had talked about the new Google phone based on the search giant’s Android software system. What was missing at that point was how Google intended to deliver the ads to their new cell phones. But, now the picture has become a bit clearer as Google has joined Clearwire and Sprint in [...]
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VisualRank image search was unveiled by Google in Beijing, China today. VisualRank is like PageRank for images in that it uses visual data in addition to text to rank images in the search results pages. Other companies have been trying to crack the visual search code for years with varying results. Typically, what image search [...]
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I ran across an article on the CNET News Blog about whether or not the Google duplicate content rankings drop (for lack of a better word) is actually a penalty or a filter. This got me to think about perspective. From the perspective of the search engines, it is a filter that lets the original [...]
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After a yearlong deal to acquire DoubleClick / Performics, yesterday Google has announced the selling of the Performics Search Marketing division. On the official Google Blog, DoubleClick Director Tom Phillips states a conflict of interest as a reason for the sale. According to Phillips, “Maintaining objectivity in both search and advertising is paramount to Google’s [...]
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Inside of Webmaster Tools, the Google Robots.txt Generator has been unveiled. The Robots.txt Generator will help webmasters travail the often misunderstood method of allowing or disallowing search engine robots from crawling files, folders and pages on a website. Inside of the tool, webmasters are offered the Action of allowing or blocking plus another pull-down menu [...]
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Several weeks ago the question of a new Google case sensitive search started appearing in a couple of message boards. I’ve noticed this phenomenon myself especially over the last two weeks when working on a particular customer’s website. This issue impacted communication with the customer. At first, I thought it was a matter of the [...]
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Rumors have been swirling about how the Google phone will take on Apple’s iPhone head to head, mano e mano. The first Google phone to take advantage of the world’s largest search engine’s Android software system will be a company called HTC (High Tech Computer). The HTC Google phone that has been named “Dream” will [...]
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