Google’s Home Page Promotes Motorola / Verizon Droid Phone
Nov 6, 2009 at 2:21pm ET by Matt McGee
Google really wants you to buy a Motorola Droid, the hot new phone that just hit stores today. In fact, Google is so enamored that it's advertising the Droid on its homepage: "The Droid is on sale now. Learn more."
Clicking the "learn more" link leads to this "mobile partners" page that touts the Google search capabilities available on the Droid.
The two links in the upper right -- the "Get" button and the "Learn more" text link below it -- point to verizonwireless.com and droiddoes.com, respectively.
It's hard to make the case that this isn't an ad on Google's home page, and [...]
Filed in: Google: Marketing, Google: Mobile, Google: Partnerships, Top News
Bing… In… Space! (& Google, Too)
Oct 13, 2009 at 12:54pm ET by Barry Schwartz
A reader pointed us to the Delta 2 rocket launch where Microsoft was a co-sponsor. If you look closely, you can see the Bing logo on the rocket ship.
While Bing's logo went into space, Google today announced a partnership with DigitalGlobe to launch a satellite into space to provide "high-quality imagery in Google Earth & Google Maps."
What about Yahoo? Well, they did bury a Time Capsule in earth in October 2006 which wont be opened until March 2, 2020. Not exactly space, but still feels a bit futuristic. [...]
Filed in: Google: Earth, Google: Maps & Local, Google: Marketing, Microsoft: Bing Maps & Local, Microsoft: Marketing
Google Launches “Google Internet Stats”
Sep 10, 2009 at 9:40am ET by Barry Schwartz
It appears Google has pulled together a bunch of statistics throughout the web and created a small landing page named Google Internet Stats on the Google UK front. The page explains that this service "brings together the latest industry facts and insights together in one place." Google collected this data from many third party vendors, on a wide range of topics. In fact, you can submit your data using this form.
Here is a picture of the mobile technology internet stats from this tool:
The categories of statistics include:
- Consumer Trends
-- Community
-- Entertainment
-- Infor [...]
Filed in: Google: Marketing, Google: Trends, Stats: General, Top News
Obama Praises Twitter, Google & Facebook — But Not Microsoft’s Xbox
Sep 8, 2009 at 2:30pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Does today's speech from President Barack Obama to school children across the United States need any more controversy? Having listened to it, I personally can't see many parents objecting. But I could see one tech company not happy: Microsoft. Competitors like Google got called out as "good" things to aspire to while a Microsoft's Xbox was something he suggested should be turned off.
From his prepared remarks, which should be pretty close to the exact speech he delivered: Microsoft gets the bad news early:
I’ve talked about your parents’ responsibility for making sure you stay on track [...]
Filed in: Facebook, Features: Analysis, Google: Marketing, Microsoft: Marketing, Search & Society: General, Twitter
Google Pitches Benefits, Ease Of Using Google Maps
Aug 10, 2009 at 4:48pm ET by Matt McGee
Google's outreach last week was all about Street View. This week it appears to be Google Maps' turn in the spotlight, thanks to a new page that touts the benefits of using Google Maps on your web site, and shows the various ways to do it.
The mini-site offers step-by-step instructions with two options -- "Quick" for us common folk, or "Advanced" for programmers and developers. The instructions aren't new -- Google's offered embeddable link code for some time now and an API for more advanced developers.
What's interesting is Google's continued campaign to pitch its products to end users. [...]
Filed in: Google: Maps & Local, Google: Marketing
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