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Google Insights For Search, for advertisers and marketers

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Google launched a new product very useful for advertisers and marketers. It include a world heat map for the search volume and regional interest, the evolution for a specific search term and the top related and rising searches.
With Google Insights For Search, it is possible to compare search volume trends across multiple [...]

Cuil, the new search engine

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Anna Patterson, the ex Google employer and one with a very important contribution in the development of the main search engine, decided to start a new search engine, which would provide better and more attractive results. She left Google and now she works with other prominent ex-Google employees, like Russell Power, [...]

Google Knol, the paid Wikipedia

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Writers has now a good occasion to make profit. Google launched this week Google Knol, the user-generated encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia. And every author can earn money from his work, depending on the hits of his articles
Google official blog says that “Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people [...]

Google to buy Digg

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

It’s time for Digg. It has ad agreement with Microsoft, but Google want it. And not for ads, but for its concept and users.
Digg has very specific community of users/members, not invaded yet by commercial reasons. It is made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by [...]

Google Ranking explained

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Google PageRank is based primarely on the “votes” submitted by other web sites under the form of the links. It uses a complex algorithm to assign values, in order to measure the relative importance for every hyperlinked element.
An interesting article was posted on Google Blog by Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow [...]

Google Friend Connect, rejected

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Facebook doesn’t like Google Friend Connect, so it blocked this service from accessing Facebook members’ data.
Charlie Cheever says the Friend Connect violates Facebook’s terms of service because it “redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge“. So, “we’ve reached out to Google several times about this issue, [...]

Turn your site into a social network: Google Friend Connect

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Replacing the thousands of social networks with a single big social network? No, but a golden mine, maybe the best service of Google for me and my 287 web sites and tens of blogs, every one with its own users till now.
So, from now on any of us can have his own social [...]

Quality Score for keywords will depend on landing page load

Monday, May 12th, 2008

A new step for a better Google AdWords: the timing of landing page load time will be included as a factor in Quality Score.
Inside AdWords blog posted an article about an additional factor incorporated into Quality Score, the time it takes for a user to see the landing page after clicking [...]

Best paid keywords

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

A very interesting list of the highest paid keywords for the Google AdSense and other affiliate programs for publicists. Unfortunately, I cannot use it. Simple, because I do not fully trust it.
From far, the best paid keywords seems to be related on “mesothelioma”.
Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that is almost always caused [...]

New Google’s version of Android SDK m5-rc14

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Android SDK m5-rc14 is now available for download, with new and improved features:

New user interface
Layout animations
Geo-coding
New media codecs
Updated Eclipse plug-in

(Source: Android Developers Blog)

The developers say that they are still missing the change of the telephony package. “We still cannot detect the ingoing/outgoing call number or send DTMF tones [...]

Yahoo join the mobile market with oneConnect

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

If I’d had enough money I’d invest it right now in the mobile industry. It is a real explosion, many of the biggest Internet companies are interested now in this market.
Yahoo announced on Tuesday the launch of a new services called oneConnect that will aggregate mobile [...]

Xperia X1, a rival for iPhone

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Sony Ericcson decided to join forces with Microsoft in order to realize a smart phone powered by Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, Xperia X1.
Xperia X1 will have a 3 inch touch screen and will include a full QWERTY keyboard within a quality metal-finish body, with a stylus and a 3.2 megapixel [...]

Google wants to stop domain tasting/kiting

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

As of Feb. 11, Google will penalize domain tasting and kiting, by blocking Google AdSense for domain names, stopping all domain tasting in its tracks for domain names that are less then five days old.
According to Domain Tools, there are partners that Google had that generated as [...]

eBay auction business downgraded

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

In my opinion as an user eBay was losing its competitiveness due to its own rules. Too many rules, too restricting rules, a very complicated system for sellers, not a very good search system for buyers, and not a very good integration of all its parts. Now the new CEO, John [...]

Google, iPhone, and mobile market

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

It’s done! After iPhone was the most searched keyword in Google search for the last year 2007, now, the iPhone become the best user of the Google search engine. Never said in this blog so big words, but in my opinion this partnership is the beginning of a new revolution in Internet [...]

Google and Yahoo! top search keywords for 2007

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Big differences between the two statistics for top search keywords for the last year. It seems that Yahoo! search was used mainly for entertainment, while US people searched with Google for a more diversified terms, especially social networks.
As specified by MandarinMusing.com:
Google fastest rising U.S. search terms for 2007:

iPhone: a [...]

Google AdSense referrals changes

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

AdSense referrals will no longer be offering the $5 bonus or $2000 bonus, it will return to the original payout structure. European publishers could no longer promote this product. One reason can be for Google to cut down on signups from countries that AdSense doesn’t see as great performers, due [...]

To index or not to index the feeds

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Finally, Google decided on the indexing of the feeds. The policy is now to index the multimedia podcast feeds only, as no HTML page has the same content or they have more complete item descriptions than the associated HTML page.
There are two main reasons to exclude the common feeds from the [...]

Recognizing text in images, patent by Google

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Time for patents. After Microsoft with the “Wish list“, now it’s time for Google to have published its patent, “Recognizing text in images”. The patent was filed by Google with the World Intellectual Property Organization in June 2007 and published on Thursday.
The abstract of the patent describes it as “Methods, [...]

New Google tools for webmasters: Video Sitemaps

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Google Video team joined the Sitemaps to introduce Video Sitemaps, allowing an XML submission of video assets for your site. This new tool will ease your self-hosted videos to compete with the big sites, like YouTube, when someone use Google Video Search. Your video may also appear in other Google search [...]