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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Most good Google stories come with an element of mystery. This one is no different. Speaking at the Zeitgeist conference, Google CEO Eric Schmidt hinted to attendees that the company has big plans for using the social networking juggernaut to improve its search capabilities.
According to a New York Times report, Schmidt called social networking a “very [...]
Microsoft Live Launches Online Event Management Service
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Microsoft Live adds an event management service to its suite of free web services. Though Live Events is not new on the web anymore, the service might actually get some attention and interest and generate a significant amount of usage. The key to the new events management service is that it is integrated within the [...]
Paid Links Simply Aren’t Going Anywhere?
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007On every blog, discussion board and conference agenda there is a similar topic… Paid Links. Now, most of what I have written here on Search Engine Journal was done to provide support, to give advice or to serve as a guide. Today though I’m feeling feisty… and I just want to go off on a [...]
Google’s Global Reach is Ginormous
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007The latest research by comScore breaks out just how big search giant Google has become on a global basis, leaving would be competitors in the digital dust.
The results of the new search survey, released by tracking firm comScore this week, found that in August alone there were more than 61 billion individual searches worldwide.
The new [...]
The Other Half of the Search Equation
Sunday, October 14th, 2007A search company’s mandate is clear: help people find exactly what they’re looking for as quickly as possible. For well over a decade, search companies have taken the approach of focusing almost all of their efforts on making their engines smarter, with better indexes, better ranking and faster servers.
While these are all hugely important efforts, [...]
Watch YouTube Videos In Google Earth
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Google wants you to watch YouTube videos everywhere. Now you can watch geo-tagged videos inside Google Earth. Any video tagged with a latitude and longitude will show up when this new layer of Google Earth is turned on. So you can watch videos about the places you are exploring inside Google Earth.
It’s a good way [...]
Google Math: Buy $1,000 in Radio Ads, And We’ll Give You $2,000 Back
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Here’s a good brain teaser for those famous Google job interviews: If you pay me $1,000, and I give you $2,000 back, how much profit does that leave me?
Unfortunately, this is not a hypothetical question. It’s an actual promotion for Google’s radio ad network, known as Google Audio. That’s right, Google is offering $2,000 [...]
Does Google’s Equality Drive Extend To Old People?
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Google posted earlier today on its efforts towards building a workplace that provides equal treatment to all staff. Google noted that it has ranked highly on the U.S. Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index during a “time of rapid growth for our population of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees (whose group name is, naturally, [...]
Windows Live SkyDrive Doubles Storage to 1GB, Still Can’t Keep Up With Gmail
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Microsoft doubled the online storage consumers can get for free in Windows Live SkyDrive. It’s hard to get excited about that when Gmail is already giving me 2.9 GB of storage, with more on the way—4GB by the end of the month, and 6GB by early January, according to one [...]
Google’s Matt Cutts on Appropriate Use of NoFollow
Sunday, October 14th, 2007This week in the Google Webmaster Help Google Groups thread, Matt Cutts made a “Popular Pick” post on the Appropriate Use of the NoFollow attribute and how Google treats that tag, but does not get much into the heated debate of the moment, NoFollow and paid links.
Here are some highlights from Matt’s [...]