Q&A With Avinash Kaushik, Google Analytics Evangelist & Customer Insight Guru
Nov 20, 2009 at 5:56pm ET by Daniel Waisberg
Avinash Kaushik is Google’s well-known and widely respected analytics guru. In this wide-ranging interview, he talks about his passion for metrics, why they’re critical for success, and how search marketers can use analytics to take their campaigns to the next level.
Filed in: Google: Analytics, Google: Employees, How To: Analytics, Top News
Hulk Hogan Visits Google Kirkland
Nov 9, 2009 at 9:43am ET by Barry Schwartz
Justin Uberti, Google's tech lead who I believe leads the Google Talk team, posted on his blog that Hulk Hogan visited Google's Kirkland office. Hogan made his visit on Tuesday, November 3rd, as a signing event for his new book, My Life Outside the Ring.
Here is a picture from Justin:
I too grew up during the "Hulk-O-Mania" period, so it is cool to see him at Google. Also, big happy 35th birthday Justin! [...]
Filed in: Google: Employees, Google: General, Google: Offices
Video Of Google’s Sergey Brin At Web 2.0
Oct 26, 2009 at 9:31am ET by Barry Schwartz
Google's co-founder, Sergey Brin, made a surprise visit at the Web 2.0 Summit last week. The video of his 18 minute interview with John Battelle is now available on YouTube. Here it is:
In summary, he talked about his thoughts on Twitter's deal, Google's Social Search, also a little bit about Bing and even Yahoo giving up on search. He actually touches on about a couple dozen topics within this short interview.
Here are some quotes from Brin's talk that I thought I pull out:
Battelle asked Brin, what do you make of Bing? Brin said, "Ummm…" Then Battelle asked, are you a Bin [...]
Filed in: Google: Business Issues, Google: Employees, Top News
Google’s Matt Cutts, Cuts His Hair
Oct 21, 2009 at 6:15pm ET by Barry Schwartz
Matt Cutts, known as Google's search spam tsar, recently had a hair cut. Many people from the search industry noticed Matt's new hair cut at recent search conferences. In short, Matt lost a bet about a release date of one of Google's products and as a consequence, had to shave the hair off his head.
Brian White, from the team Matt works on at Google, tweeted a link to a video of the actual hair cut. Yes, they made a pretty fun video showing off the hair cut process for all SEOs and search folks to enjoy in the industry. Here is the video:
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Filed in: Google: Employees, SEM Industry: Community, SEM Industry: General
Google Execs Among The Very Richest
Oct 1, 2009 at 9:19am ET by Greg Sterling
Forbes has published its annual list of who has the most money in America and Google's co-founders and CEO Eric Schmidt are among the very richest of the lot. At the top is perpetual leader Bill Gates. Among the top 100 roughly 10 percent made their money from tech or the Internet. However four of the top 11 (Google's co-founders are tied at 10/11) are tech entrepreneurs. Here's the top 25:
Eric Schmidt shows up at number 40.
If you're feeling envy, remember what your grandmother said, "Money can buy a lot of things but it can't buy you love or happiness." Then there's "if you've got [...]
Filed in: Google: Employees
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