Now that we’re over last year’s holiday marketing trickeryCyber Monday my big toe!it’s time to accept what the marketing gods have lain before us, and make the most of it. Google is leading the charge this year, aggressively pushing its new Google Checkout product with Cyber Monday special promotions.
Google Launches AdWords Diagnostic Tool
As a search marketer, if you’ve had situations where an expected AdWords ad didn’t appear and you’ve racked your brain wondering why, Google has heard your frustration and delivered a tool for you to investigate such events. Called the Ads Diagnostic Tool, the tool was designed to help members troubleshoot and investigate ad (under)performance. The […]
New Features Added To Google Page Creator
Google’s Justin Rosenstein just announced some nifty new upgrades to Google Page Creator – the “so easy, even a caveman can do it” web design tool.
Google AdSense Gets Ad Placements
A new feature is coming to AdSense, and it’s called “ad placements.” Only a handful of advertisers have been allowed to take a look at the service – it appears to be in a beta testing phase – but the potential market seems excited.
Google Adds 3 New Features to Page Creator
Google has added 3 new features to their Google Page Creator. They are image editing, multiple sites and pages for mobile. The image-editing feature allows users to customize their photos.
ComScore: Google Leads Again In Search
The numbers reported for US search engine market share remained mostly unchanged from September to October 2006, with Americans doing 6.8 billion searches during the month.
Google Has Long Road To Hoe To Pass Yahoo
As GOOG climbs above $500 per share, as predicted to happen about this time last year before the great January plunge, questions as to just how high Google can get, in terms of stock, search share, and visits, get more intense. Last week, a Citigroup analyst predicted Google would overtake Yahoo in visits by the end of 2007. Hitwise disagrees.
Google To Be Number One In 2007
Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney says that, based on Comscore Data, Google will be the number one trafficked website by late next year. Comscore’s top 4 currently (September numbers) stand at:
Google’s Weight Gain/Loss Tracker
There’s a useful li’l weight tracker you can add to your Google personalized homepage, created by Brian W. Fitzpatrick, a Google software engineer. Brian calls the Gadget the Google 15, after the weight geeks usually gain after starting their Google jobs and being introduced to all the free food.
Google News Struggles In Scandinavia
Media groups in Norway and Denmark have begun, like several others before them, to protest Google News’s practices. The Norwegian association objects to the reproduction of certain images and photographs, while the Danish faction is asking Google to make separate arrangements with each publisher.