Topic: Mediaweek

The Google Beat: Google Starts Vlogging About Hot Search Topics

Google has launched a new videoblog series that will highlight “some of the hottest searches” on Google’s U.S. search engine. It’s called The Google Beat, and the first weekly video was published this morning. Here’s how Google explains it: Using data from Google Trends, Google Insights for Search and some additional tools, the Google Beat […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 8, 2010

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 3 Ways To Use Google’s Search Results For Keyword Research Years ago, on a planet far far away, people used to optimize for keyword density. But as relevancy algorithms have improved […]

Google’s Hiring Again

Google to Go on Hiring Spree from MediaWeek reports Google is looking to hire an additional 500 sales people in the near future, as well as bulk up their engineering team and finance, product management and human resources departments. 2009 and parts of 2008, were touch times for most companies, including Google. Google laid off […]

Coke Opens CC Metro, A Virtual Island In Virtual World There.com

Beverage maker and uber-brand Coke has had a few false starts in “social media.” Not long ago it ended “The Coke Show,” a video-centric platform that was intended to engage consumers and support user-generated content. Most recently, the company opted out of Facebook’s Beacon program amid the controversy surrounding involuntary tracking of user behavior on […]