Google Reader & Offline News Reading
In the first week of June Google launched a program called "Google Gears" that expands the already impressive capabilities of Google Reader (Google’s free news reader) to allow offline viewing. Here is a quote from Google’s related blog posting:
SupplyFrame Gets $7 Million In Funding
SupplyFrame doesn’t try to fight with Google, Yahoo, and the rest; instead, it provides “search and interactive quoting tools for electronic components.” Yet there’s apparently big money in that aspect of the search business – SupplyFrame just received a fresh $7 million in funding.
AdWords Forces Common Denominator Keywords
Google AdWords Advertisers are a worried lot thanks to the way AdWords has an all-powerful way of handling keywords, a thread at Webmaster World reports.
Insight Into Google Via Press Release Analysis
Would it surprise you to know that Google has dedicated less and less attention to “search” over the years? Conversely, the company’s talking more about “revenue.” These, anyway, are the conclusions that one might draw using Philipp Lenssen’s Google Press Release Analyzer.
No Google Shirts Allowed At eBay Live
In a blog post on MyStoreSpace.com Alex E writes of a confrontation he allegedly had at an eBay Live closing party with eBay’s Chief Marketing Officer, Gary Briggs and some security folks over suspicions of his ties to Google.
Keyword Report: Indiana Has a Beach?
Searches for beach information have spiked, according to Yahoo, just in time for the start of summer. Searchers are even looking for beaches in Indiana.
Google Ranks Well Among Webware 100 Winners
The top 100 Webware sites have been announced, and Google’s name came up eleven times. From there, things began to resemble the search engine market: Yahoo was referenced on seven occasions, but Ask’s logo made just one appearance.
Sun Markets Blackbox Through YouTube
Sun Microsystems torture-tested its Project Blackbox portable datacenter by subjecting it to a simulated earthquake, and put the video up on YouTube to show how it fared.
BBC Faces Probable Loss To YouTube
Talk about new media versus old: a report from Hitwise indicates that YouTube may soon overtake the main BBC site in terms of UK visits.
Are Big Brands Stealing (Buying) the SERPS?
For a long time, search engine marketers wondered why the big brands were so slow to adopt, why they seemed to be ignoring Google. They may be wishing for the old days, when smaller players with smaller budgets had a better shot at the SERPs.