Lobbyists work on behalf of all sorts of nasty causes – some people might not approve of oil companies and tobacco corporations, for example. But lobbyists also work on behalf of charitable organizations and the like. And now one more lobbyist works for Google.
Google Reaches Into RSS & Social Network Ads
In 2005 JupiterResearch noted that less than 10 percent of RSS feeds had advertising in them, and no major advertisers were using feeds as part of their marketing strategies.
How the times have changed.
Google is acquiring Feedburner and sees it as a way for its base of hundreds of thousands of advertisers to reach some of the most active groups of Web users — social network members who use mini-applications called widgets or the growing audience surfing the Internet over mobile phones, executives said.
Google Invests In Israeli R&D Center
Google, as we know it, is pretty much an American corporation. You hear things from Google India, and some pieces of news will originate in Google Australia, but otherwise, it’s pretty quiet out there. Now things have picked up in one very calm corner of the world – Google is adding a second research and development center in Israel.
NYT Gets The Goods On Google
When SEOmoz’s Rand Fishkin calls something “quite possibly the best mainstream media article about Google, or modern search technology, in the last 5 years,” it’s pretty much our duty to cover it. When Rand Fishkin writes 800 words about said article, well . . . we know better than to condense and summarize.
Google Earth Explores The Ocean Deep
Privacy issues with Google’s new Street View may be grabbing headlines, but Google Earth has gone for some truly wet and wild stuff: a hydrographic survey of the seabed surrounding Great Britain.
Google Book Search Tool May Madden Microsoft
Everyone knows that Google and Microsoft are rivals, but the first area of competition that comes to mind does not involve books. Nonetheless, the two appear to be at it again, and it seems as if Google is readying a new tool for attack.
Google Peeping?
Yesterday’s post asking if Google’s new street views for Google Maps was an invasion of privacy, turns out to be just one of many around the web. In fact, The New York Times jumps on the story and looks at whether Google is indeed invading our privacy.
Google Earth Gets Audio Layer
Google Earth has always been about visuals – interesting sights, but pretty much no sounds. That recently changed with the introduction of a new layer from Wild Sanctuary. The layer features “the sounds of nature” recorded at all sorts of places and times of day and night.
Baidu-Google Rivalry Continues
Baidu has a huge share of the Chinese search market. Google does not. And as if that wasn’t bad enough (from the American company’s perspective), people are once again noticing that Baidu has made fun of its Mountain View-based competitor.
Speedgeeking Spins Off Google Maps Mashups
“Speedgeeking” is an odd term – it apparently relates to speed dating – and yet, when a bunch of Googlers engaged in this activity, the end result was a number of interesting Google Maps mashups.