It has been a long couple months for the search marketing community between the Penguin update, a Panda refresh, the link notifications and the parked domain bug - you guys need a laugh. Sam Applegate put together a hysterical parody video of Matt Cutts talking about how to achieve number one ranking in Google. The video takes dozens of the videos Matt put together from the YouTube channel and mashes them into a video I think you all will appreciate. Here is the video: [...]

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It was right about this time last year when we gave Google the winner's trophy for a series of gags that put all others to shame. We could do the same again right now, because Google has tried to top itself with another round of April Fool's Day jokes that pretty well span the globe of Google's international properties. Below is a recap of Google's (and a few others) pranks, and we'll do our best to update this as the day goes along. Google Racing: Self-Driving Cars Hit NASCAR The main joke at the moment is Google's "announcement" of a partnership with NASCAR called Google Racing, which b [...]

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A new Dilbert cartoon makes fun of the Google employee 20% time to work on whatever they want. As many of you know, Google has a policy to let their engineers spend 20% of their time work on anything they want. Products like AdSense came from it. But is the 20% time really all that great? The Dilbert cartoon pokes fun that although Googlers do have 20% time, they also on average work 60-plus hours per week. This is not the first time Google was featured in Dilbert, here are some of the other times: Dilbert Cartoon: Caught For Paid Links On Google Dilbert Cartoon Says "No" To [...]

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The web is buzzing about how you can use Google Translate to make a neat beatbox. This came via Reddit and all you need to do is go to Google Translate, set the settings to translate from German and to German. Then copy and paste the following text and hit "listen." pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch Here is a video demo of the beatbox in action: eekosystem noted that HackerNews documented a rudiment/instrument notation guide for Google Translate. Here it is: zk = suspended cymbal bschk = snare pv = brush bk = bass tk = flam1 [...]

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Last night, The Colbert Report featured Stephen Colbert interviewing Google's CEO Eric Schmidt. Colbert got in some expected digs (four years to decide they didn't like Chinese laws?), jokingly asks when the computer algorithm will take over and touches on some serious issues, such as how much Google remembers. Schmidt, I'd say, held his own pretty well and dodges a question on whether there's anything about him that he wouldn't want found on Google. A transcript of the interview is below, with the video of the exchange after that. Colbert: My guest tonight is the CEO of Google. At [...]

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Deadline New York reports Google might make it to the movie screen. Deadline said Groundswell Productions and producer John Morris are attempting to acquire movie rights to the book "Googled: The End of the World As We Know it." The film will be about Google's co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, rise to riches and fame. London's Groundswell Productions said: It's about these two young guys who created a company that changed the world, and how the world in turn changed them. The heart of the movie is their wonderful edict, don't be evil. At a certain point in the evolution of a c [...]

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Google Analytics announced a new and powerful feature today, leveraging the company's investment in the recently released Google Intelligence analysis and alert system.  The new function is called "Please God, tell me what to do" (PGTMWTD), and allows users single-click access to a report showing web site owners exactly what to do on their web site to double their revenue. PGTMWTD also releases another groundbreaking feature in Google's paid analytics software, Urchin.  In this paid version, you can click each tactic to see wireframes and comps of completed pages, showing you exactly how [...]

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Here is a short but very well-done video on how much Google knows about us, possibly implying that Google owns their users. Clearly, this topic is not new, but the video was really well done. The video is from the show "Hungry Beast" that airs in Australia on the ABC, 9PM Wednesdays. For more information on the show, see abc.net.au/hungrybeast. Hat tip to Digital Inspiration and Andrew Vande Moere. [...]

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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. [...]

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Monday's can be rough for many people, so I thought I share with you a funny video named "Googling with Bing." It basically is a Bing commercial, but they replace the word "search" with "Google." See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Hat tip to TechCrunch for spotting this. [...]

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I thought I share with you a video from Appappeal.com, named "Just Google." The song was created by Lex Friedman and Seth Brown. Here is the video/song: [...]

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Valleywag reported that the driver of a Google StreetView car was captured on Flickr being ticketed by a police officer. The picture was taken in San Francisco by Damian Spain. I just can't stop laughing about the "privacy" violation here. StreetView has come under fire for capturing images that some feel invade privacy. Heck, there's even an image on Google StreetView of someone getting a traffic ticket. Now someone captures a StreetView car getting ticketed. Wouldn't it be even funnier if a different StreetView car captured this and placed it on Google Maps? [...]

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Nathan Weinberg reports Google has made it big in fashion, by being the centerfold of the Marie Claire magazine. The 12 page piece was named Fashion for Work at the Google Headquarters and highlighted model Britni Standwood throughout the Googleplex. You can scan these pictures of Standwood on Google's roof, in a Google sleep pod, on a Google scooter, in the Google swimming pool, and more over here. Plus there is a piece on The Women of Google, featuring: Megan Smith, vice president of new business development Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Google's vice president of Asia-Pacific & Latin Americ [...]

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Saptarshi Roy Chaudhury wrote about a design in Satya Paul's latest collection named "Oogle sari." As you can see above, it looks like a sari made up of the Google web search results. I don't know much about clothing design, but when Google makes it to a designer's line, I think maybe we have become too obsessed with Google! If you look closely at the design, the URL in the browser address field is http://shop.satyapaul.com, for the Satya Paul online store. I went over to try and find the Oogle Sari for sale, but I couldn't find it listed. I tried a few site-specific searches [...]

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Miami woman sues missing husband for share of lottery win from the AP reports a husband was keeping a huge secret from his wife. The secret? He won $19 million in the Florida lottery jackpot! Donna Campbell is now suing her husband for half of his winnings, which turned out to be $600,000 after he had to split his winning with the group he bought the ticket with, who opted for the lump-sum payment of $10.2 million. Donna Campbell became suspicious when her husband was insistent on keeping the television off at all times. Reportedly, her husband was an avid TV viewer. But when she receive [...]

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Via John Battelle, Bumbling Bigg City burglars got $12K from the Colorado Springs Gazette covers how two burglars turned to Google to crack a safe. After breaking into a Colorado Springs amusement center, the burglars spent over an hour working the safe. Finally, they used a computer in the next room and searched for "how to open a safe" and "how to crack a safe" on Google Success! They opened the safe and stole $12,000. So far, they haven't been caught. [...]

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I love search engines. I love comedy movies. So let's have fun putting the two together. Which search engines are most like some famous movie fraternities? Yes, there is an Animal House of search! Google: Lambda Lambda Lambda (Revenge Of The Nerds) As I pondered how to match search engines to movie fraternities, this one was easy. How could Google not be like the nerds that joined Lambda Lambda Lambda in Revenge Of The Nerds. Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin literally shopped their technology around to all the other search engines back in the late 90s, only to get rejected. So th [...]

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YouTube has a clip from the popular TV cartoon The Simpsons showing Marge "googling" herself: Here's the clip itself: "629,000 results. Wow, and all this time I thought 'googling' yourself meant the other thing," exclaims Marge. She then appears to click into Google Maps to see her house, where husband Homer is sunbathing naked on a hammock in their backyard. The clip apparently comes from the most recent episode to air in the US, called "Marge Gamer." More about that episode here and here. Hat tip to Valleywag. [...]

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Now posted on the Google Blog, news of the new Google TiSP service offering free wireless to homes via their, ahem, plumbing systems. Sir Thomas Crapper would be proud. See discussion at Techmeme. Google's latest feature will better connect you with previous Google products that have been rolled out on the first of April: Google Romance in 2006, Google Gulp drinks in 2005, Gmail in 2004 (hey, that was real!) and PigeonRank in 2002. What happened in 2003? Google was very serious in 2003 and unable to release any new products. TechCrunch (soon to merge with F*kedCompany), also notes that [...]

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The Dark SEO Team has had a bit of a beef with Google's Matt Cutts from back in 2005 over URL hijacking. Looks like they've pulled a prank on him today. Matt's blog is down, hacked -- and archives wiped out as well. Matt has posted previously to this about the site being slow (post gone, but you can see his Twitter comment here) and heading offline through Monday, so you might be seeing the screen above for awhile. FYI, be sure to check out CuttsCon, that I posted about earlier. [...]

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