Posted by Danny Dover Google Inc. is first and foremost a data company. In the past, it competed on a level playing field by manipulating publicly available data better than its competition. By doing this, it had unprecedented success.
Enter Web 2.0. Hard drives, processors, bandwidth and even workers are now all relatively inexpensive. This has caused the barriers to entry in the search field to drastically lower. As Google’s competition has started to catch up (MSN Image Search) and new competitors are arising , (Cuill) the search engine is looking for some kind of advantage. Since everyone has reasonably equal access to the internet’s content, leaders have been striving to gain access to private data. The most cost effective way of doing this for the engines is by collecting data from the users that already use their services. Google has been increasingly serving its users by using their personal data to manipulate public data in individualized...
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Google Inc. has patched Chrome to prevent attackers from stealing files from PCs running the open-source browser.
The update, however, has not been pushed out to most users thus far.
Google quashed the bug in a developer-only version of Chrome that has not been sent to all users through way of the browser’s update mechanism. Chrome users, however, can reset the browser to receive all updates, including the developer editions, by the Channel Chooser plug-in.
Chrome 0.4.154.18, ... more
CBC.ca Google adding voice search to iPhone CBC.ca, Canada - 1 hour ago Google's voice search on the iPhone may be revolutionary, artificial intelligence experts say. (Ed Ou/Associated Press) Google Inc. is adding ... iPhone : Has Google lost its voice search? CNNMoney.com iPhone Gets Voice-Powered Search From Google InformationWeek Google to iPhone Users: ... InternetNews.com Computerworld - ZDNet all 217 news articles ... more
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Carriers Urged to Team with Google for Telecom - PC World
Carriers Urged to Team with Google for Telecom
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Now, one industry analyst is suggesting the nation’s telecom carriers would benefit from showing some love toward Google Inc. instead of fighting over ... ... more
We all rely heavily on Google and its cloud of services to always be available when we need it. The reality is that it can, and has, gone down. [...]... more
Today Google announced that it is providing "limited access to an API for an OpenID identity provider that is based on the user experience research of the OpenID community. Websites can now allow Google Account users to login to their website by using the OpenID protocol." Encouraging stuff.... more
Google bomb (googlebomb or linkbomb) is a name of a process of manipulating search engine results through “bombing” Google search engine with links with certain anchor text to one website within short period of time. As Google uses anchor text to determine the relevancy for keyword or key phrase, a website may rank higher for the keywords in the anchor text if there are many links with the same anchor text on many different websites.
A google bomb is created if many websites link ... more
Posted by Jane Copland I remember the first time I heard about someone ending a relationship via email. It was a long time ago (like, in the nineties ) and possibly in the days before I had an email account of my own. Everyone was shocked at how someone could bring themselves to do something like that online. Now, such a break-up would constitute a gross lack of inventiveness.
Why not edit a Wikipedia entry instead ? This extreme example of immaturity and horrendous reputation ... more
Posted by randfish At last week’s SMX West conference, Yahoo! released their Open Search Platform , sharing a glimpse at how vertical and site/subject specific content might make it’s way into the Yahoo! SERPs. It’s a bit of a tough concept to explain, but it makes much more sense once you see it visually.
For example, here’s what Yahoo!’s search result for the NY Times page on Hillary Clinton looks like right now:
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Posted by great scott! Welcome back. I trust you all enjoyed yesterday’s SMX Whiteboard Monday with Will Critchlow ? Well, here’s round two of our Week o’ Whiteboard Interviews from SMX, featuring none other than ShoeMoney himself, Jeremy Schoemaker.
Shoe is a true internet marketing superstar if ever there was one. He’s also a great guy and a horrible influence in the wee hours after any conference. He was kind enough to join Rand for a few minutes to di... more
Posted by rebecca Every time Rand receives a marketing book, he puts in on my desk. I don’t know if it’s a gesture of "Here, you read stuff..." or if it’s a more direct "Read this or you’re fired" (which is clearly how Rand operates, for those of you who know him well), but I’ve got a stack of books at home that are one giant "Read these" list. During my flights to and from San Jose last week, I started reading Web Design f... more
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