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Google Timeline Video

Last week I read someone’s amazement at how Google offhandedly launches new products and services that another company would make the key initiative for the year and Google seems to do it every few weeks. Here’s a video from Google UK of the company’s history and products from Stanford in 1995 to today and all [...]

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Addictomatic For Quick Social Media Searches

Addictomatic is a nice little tool that I found out about the other day.  It’s a social media search aggregator that produces a custom webpage of the results and is great for a quick review of mentions of a term that you input across a variety of social media site.   For example, I did a [...]

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Google Street View Trike

Evidently the thin streets of some European cities caused some trouble for a car mounted with the Google Street View rig, so those ingenious guys at Google came up with the human-powered tricycle above.  This idea is great, but what I love even more is the face on the rider that says “I really expected [...]

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Credit Score Analogy For Search Rank

I was listening to an NPR story on credit the other day and was struck by the similarity between credit score and search rank.  Here’ s an edited transcript of one section of the story: Texas-based flight attendant Lilli Durbin used to have six credit cards, which is fairly typical for this country. She couldn’t [...]

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Marketing Bytes

I’ve fallen a bit off the blogging wagon in the last few weeks because of travel for work, a new agency of record agreement and a lot of deliverables, not to mention trying to spend some family time. As a result there is a bunch of news that I’ve thought about over the last few [...]

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Online Activity for 2007

Enjoy the following links to data for online activity in 2007. comScore 2007 U.S. Internet Year in Review Surprise surprise, Facebook was the fastest gaining social media site, politics had the biggest gain as a category and Google had the greatest number of searches. Google Zeitgeist What were we searching for on Google last year? [...]

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Savvy Searchers Raise Average Google Search Query To 4 Words

Either OneStat had their data wrong in November, Google is way ahead of other search engines in terms of the number of words in their average query or folks got a lot savvier about search queries very quickly because beu blog got a look at a Google presentation claiming that the average search query is [...]

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Del.icio.us News

Two bits of news about Del.icio.us from TechCruch in the last few days. First is that Del.icio.us results are being tested on Yahoo! SERPs. To which I’ve got to wonder what took so long. And the second is that Del.icio.us 2.0 may be launching this week. At least one team is doing ok at Yahoo!. [...]

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Google Talk Auto Translation

Dang! I’m bowled over by this little Christmas present from Google. Google Talk now includes automatic translation into 23 languages. Sending a message to [from language]2[to language]@bot.talk.google.com will return translation or perform automatic translation if included in a group chat. Maybe it’s just the spirit of the times and hoping for peace on earth, but [...]

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Google Alerts

Google alerts are a handy way of keeping tabs on what’s going on and being said online for people, companies, brands and ideas that you are interested in. Through Google Alerts you can have emails sent to any email address that you would like whenever a specific keyword phrase is found in new results online. [...]

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