Google’s Sergey Brin Writes About His Relief Mission Visit To Haiti
Jan 21, 2010 at 4:20pm ET by Matt McGee
Google co-founder Sergey Brin is back from a relief mission to Haiti and has written his impressions of the situation there. He writes about the relief effort (and even shares some suggestions for things that could be done differently) and the scene in Port-au-Prince, but says the people of Haiti are "the real heroes."
Despite tremendous challenge and suffering, they still show an incredible strength of spirit and resilience to the harshest of conditions. Seeing the people firsthand left me with a vastly different impression than I had going in based on news reports. Instead of roving gangs o [...]
Filed in: Google: Employees, Google: General, Google: Other
Google’s New Years Countdown Via I’m Feeling Lucky
Dec 14, 2009 at 9:22am ET by Barry Schwartz
Google has a fun little search easter egg for the new year. If you go to Google, make sure the search box is empty and click on the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button, you will see large numbers counting down under the search box. It is a countdown to new years, which is 1521557 seconds or about 17 days away.
Here is a video I posted of the countdown:
Other blogs like Google Blogoscoped covered this as well. [...]
Filed in: Google: Other, Google: Parodies
Is Google (Voice) A Telecom Carrier?
Sep 22, 2009 at 9:20am ET by Greg Sterling
This is the question that the US FCC will need to answer according to an article in the Wall Street Journal, which describes how the agency is grappling with new phone services such as Google Voice. Strictly speaking Google probably shouldn't be considered a carrier because you can't use it to make calls in the absence of another service; it's really a "call management" and voice mail platform. However, you can use the Google Voice number as your primary telephone "identity," something that was previously in the exclusive realm of telecom carriers.
Google Talk in one sense more like a carri [...]
Filed in: Google: Legal, Google: Mobile, Google: Other
Google Sets & Squared: Powerful Keyword Research Tools
Jul 16, 2009 at 12:38pm ET by Tony Soric
One of the toughest challenges facing pay-per-click marketers is keyword expansion. Marketers need to be adept at selecting keywords that will not only drive traffic, but more importantly, will drive conversions in a cost-effective manner. As competition intensifies, identifying unique, high quality keywords becomes increasingly important-and difficult. While basic keyword research remains important, search marketers need to look to other tools to gain an edge.
Basic keyword research
Keyword research generally begins with one of the popular keyword-research tools. These include-but are [...]
Filed in: Google: Other, How To: PPC, Search Marketing: Search Term Research
Google OS Reactions: The Positive, Negative & The Paranoid
Jul 8, 2009 at 7:12pm ET by Greg Sterling
Late yesterday Google announced (or finally admitted) that it had developed an operating system, called Chrome OS, not to be confused, exactly, with the related Chrome browser. Everyone and their grandmother seems to have an opinion about it. Here's a sampling of the reaction, positive, negative and in-between:
The fans, boosters and generally positive takes:
TechCrunch, BetaNews, Computerworld, Mashable, BuzzMachine, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, ArsTechnica, Google Watch, MediaMemo, Linux-Watch.com, Google Operating System, The Register, TheNextWeb.com, Black Web 2.0, BloggingStocks, Gadge [...]
Filed in: Features: General, Google: Chrome, Google: Content Central, Google: Other, Google: Partnerships, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: General, Top News
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