Selling a massive piece of machinery should be as much a part of search marketing as selling a consumer good like the iPhone.
Adult Themed Rooms Pop Up In Google’s Lively
The graphics in Google’s 3D chat world Lively shine, but behind the scenes the Lively team also seems busy squashing minor and major early-release bugs. And since some days, Lively got its first social phenomenon, too: the almost meme-like creation of cyber sex rooms. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, or is there?
Google Talks Ranking Factors
Google search engine ranking team Google Fellow Amit Singhal published a blog post “Introduction to Google Ranking” at the official Google blog. While not going into the specific nuts-and-bolts factors influencing SERPs (or search engine results pages), Amit outlined a number of broad principles to keep in mind when optimizing your web pages.
Google, Facebook Release iPhone Applications
Whether you love the device or hate it, stories about the iPhone are going to be hard to escape for a few weeks. Google and Facebook appear to fall into that first category, and have added to the hubbub by releasing iPhone-specific applications.
No Manual Intervention On Rankings, Says Google
The search advertising company doesn’t go in and tweak the results that come up for queries, except for the times that it does.
No Alarms And No Surprises: Google’s All About Search
Last week, a Hitwise analysis of Yahoo’s properties showed that search wasn’t the company’s most popular service, and also that it depended a lot on Google for traffic. A new look at Google’s properties shows that search makes up the Mountain View giant’s backbone, and that as time goes by, the industry leader is increasingly self-sufficient.
Google Does A Little Privacy Razzle Dazzle
The Center for Democracy & Technology’s analysis of behavioral ad targeting done at the ISP level, which claims such targeting "may run afoul of federal and state wiretap laws," comes at a pretty convenient moment for Google. Both the search ad company and the CDT are testifying in front of the Senate Commerce Committee this morning for a hearing about behavioral targeting and privacy.
Google Launches Lively Virtual Rooms
A few days ago, Marissa Mayer wrote a blog post about Google’s homepage, and an obsession with simplicity and clean design became almost painfully clear. Now, her company’s launching a sort of fragmented virtual world in which users can choose cats as avatars and hug each other underneath dinosaur skeletons.
Bebo Scores Former Google Exec
AOL’s Bebo seems to be growing a little stronger in terms of personnel; although it’s not stealing directly from a certain search giant, the social network’s newest hire acted as an exec at Dailymotion, and some time before that, Google.
Google Says Bell Canada Is Breaking The Law
Google says Bell Canada is violating Canadian telecommunications law by slowing Internet traffic and is requesting the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) take action against the company."Bell claims its throttling of peer-to-peer applications is a reasonable form of network management. Google respectfully disagrees. Network management does not include Canadian carriers’ blocking or degrading lawful applications that consumers wish to use," Google said in a statement to the CRTC.