Published On: Sep 8, 2010 2:33 pm
With Google’s announcement today that they are implementing Instant Search on their desktop search, we have to wonder how this new feature will effect all of our hard earned SEO efforts. Google Instant Search now shows results as you type your search query. It is a great new feature and should save all of us… read more
Published On: Sep 6, 2010 4:55 pm
Last Friday, Google announced, on the Webmaster Central Blog, that they have a new way of alerting webmasters about specific messages concerning their websites. What were formally called “sitenotice messages” are now referred to as alerts and will be prominently featured in the message center in your webmaster tools. Not using webmaster tools? Well head… read more
Published On: Aug 5, 2010 10:13 pm
It’s about time and really a necessity for any type of 3rd party review service to allow for the business to respond to a review. Without a response the business is vulnerable to attack and does not have recourse. This could happen for any type of reason but sometimes it is just an unhappy customer… read more
Published On: May 26, 2010 12:13 pm
Back in April, Google announced that it had changed the name of the Google Local Business Center to Google Places. They also announced a good deal of new features that businesses should be aware of. These include: service areas, advertising with tags, customized QR codes, business photo shoots, and more favorite places. New features that… read more
Published On: Jan 18, 2010 12:23 pm
Late last year, Google announced that it was sending traditional brick and mortar businesses bar code decals to put on their windows, with these QR barcodes (a two-dimensional barcode that represents the URL of the company’s local listing) people can scan them outside with their phones and bring up business listings with all kinds of… read more
Published On: Dec 11, 2009 1:04 pm
Last week, Google announced Personalized Search for everyone. Personalized search has been previously available, but only to individuals signed in with a Google account. They are now making it available to anyone via an anonymous cookie. Privacy concerns aside, is this really necessary for relevance? Or is this just another way of aggregating data and… read more
Published On: Nov 3, 2009 4:19 pm
While the 6 million dollar man may have been “Better, stronger, faster“, Google Analytics appears to have gotten “Better, stronger, smarter.” Back on October 20th Google released a blog post notifying the world of their enterprise class improvements to the excellent Google Analytics software that has become the standard web analytics tool (at least in… read more
Published On: Sep 24, 2009 3:13 pm
Back in at the beginning of 2009 Google launched the beta of Google Sync. Google sync allowed Google users to synchronize their Gmail contacts and Google Calendar events to their iPhones or Windows Mobile devices (Android natively syncs data). Syncing mail was not included but that was until now. Google now has push email for… read more
Published On: Jun 24, 2009 10:26 am
Flash has been around for years. At the beginning it was an easy way to add animation to your web pages. As the technology evolved, the functionality of Flash became much greater to allow for full programming and applications to be created using Flash and not just simple tweens and morphing text. But indexing the… read more
Published On: Apr 30, 2009 12:59 am
Could google have discovered swine flu in Mexico before the outbreak started to spread? Possibly. The Data is there, they may just need to be looking in the right place. Check out their Flu Trends Tracking for the United States. And the experimental tracking for Mexico. You can easily see the local search trends here… read more
Published On: Apr 27, 2009 12:56 am
The recent outbreak of swine flu has kept the US Center for Disease Control on their toes posting updates to twitter. Even Google is helping out with tracking the spread of the flu. Sites like http://www.healthmap.org can track health concerns throughout the world and pinpoint geographical locations of events using google maps API. However, a… read more
Published On: Jan 23, 2009 11:32 am
With all of the economic doom and gloom going on these days, its good to know that one form of advertising is still working… Online! Google recent 4th Quarter results were a glimmer of hope for online marketers that there is still business to be had online. Actually online appears to be the place to… read more