Google needs a Google contest page to track their list of contests both past and present all in one place. They use contests in different ways (to get work for free, to train future employees, and to expose more people to their products).
Google Maps Gets Into Books, Pictures, And Videos
The name of Google Maps is pretty self-defining. Google is the owner, and maps are those little help-you-find-your-way drawings. But now a new update is tossing books, pictures, and videos into the equation.
Google Develops Ad Review Center
The Google AdSense Blog reports: “In an effort to provide you with more transparency and control over the ads appearing on your pages, we’ve developed the Ad Review Center.
Google Analyzes New Webmaster Tools
Content analysis and Sitemap detail debuted as new features available on Google’s Webmaster Central.
Knol: Google Coins A New Word
Most of the techie blogosphere can tell you a knol is a unit of knowledge, now that Google has informed us it is so.
Google Releases Year-End Zeitgeist
Hang your head, America – Google’s 2007 Year-End Zeitgeist has arrived, and we’re a nation obsessed with small plush toys and undressed and/or smashed celebrities.
Google Throws More Support Behind Static
Google joined another wireless alliance this week, the Wireless Innovation Alliance, a coalition of technology companies and public interest groups devoted to opening up "white spaces" for broadband use.
Chris Sacca Quitting Google
Chris Sacca was no Vanessa Fox – do a search for him within Murdok, and you’ll find just five articles in which he’s mentioned. Sacca will mirror Fox in at least one way, however, as he’s leaving Google at the end of this month.
Did Google Use Poor Timing for Updates?
The Guardian newspaper have today written an article titled Is Google a Grinch or a good guy?, which asks many UK SEO’s (myself included) for their views on the recent Google paid link debate.
Paid Links and Google Kool Aid
Michael Gray doesn’t know who I am, I don’t expect him to. We sat next to each other one day at lunch during Pubcon, he is a polite, engaging guy, with obviously tons of knowledge in SEO/SEM field.