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
Google & Twitter Have A Deal, Too
Oct 21, 2009 at 5:29pm ET by Matt McGee
Following hot on the heels of the Bing / Twitter partnership announced earlier today, Google has now also announced that it, too, has struck a deal with Twitter to include real-time tweets in Google's search results.
"We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months. That way, the next time you search for something that can be aided by a real-time observation, say, snow conditions at your favorite ski resort, [...]
Filed in: Google: Partnerships, Google: Web Search, Twitter
Rumor: Here Comes GTunes, Google Music Service
Oct 21, 2009 at 11:30am ET by Greg Sterling
Google is reportedly about to launch a new music service in partnership with LaLa and iLike (MySpace).
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Update, October 28, 2009: This is now live. See our story, Google Music Search 2.0 Launches With Musical “OneBox” for more.
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According to TechCrunch, users will access the Google music service through search:
Users will be able to stream songs directly from Google via partners iLike and LaLa. Additional information around the music query will be provided to users as well (presumably any relevant results from YouTube as well as information already available in Google’s e [...]
Filed in: Google: Mobile, Google: Music, Google: Partnerships, Top News
Google And Verizon Announce Sweeping Mobile Deal For Android
Oct 6, 2009 at 9:33am ET by Greg Sterling
Google and Verizon have announced a sweeping deal to cooperate around the development of services and devices that use the Android mobile OS (maybe Chrome too) on the Verizon network. What this actually turns out to mean in practice remains to be seen -- sweeping and "groundbreaking" deals with limited outcomes have been announced before -- but it certainly means that in the US Verizon will be selling Android handsets. What's striking about this announcement is that Google and Verizon at one time were trading relatively bitter accusations about the openness of mobile networks in the US, and Go [...]
Filed in: Features: Analysis, Google: Mobile, Google: Partnerships
Report: eBay Drops Yahoo Search Ads For Google
Sep 17, 2009 at 9:45am ET by Barry Schwartz
The Rimm-Kaufman Group reports eBay has quietly dropped Yahoo in place of Google to power the paid search ads on eBay.
Mark explained that over the past several months, eBay has been testing Google ads on about 1% of the ads shown on eBay. On August 26th, he said, eBay "flipped the switch" and began showing Google ads as the bulk of the ads displayed on eBay. About 90% of the ads are now Google powered, whereas the remainder are now Yahoo.
I have not seen this reported elsewhere, and to many, this may come as a surprise. Why? Well, eBay and Google have an interesting relationship [...]
Filed in: Google: AdWords, Google: Partnerships
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