MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- Do a Google search for your favorite (embattled) celebrity or hot news story and the results will likely include Web sites, articles, recent blog posts and FriendFeed and Twitter updates.
The search giant recently rolled out what it calls "real-time search" to deliver the [...]
The Guardian commissioned me to write a piece on Google founder Larry Page and Sergey Brin as icons of the decade. My kicker:
To understand the power of Brin’s and Page’s focus, go to Google’s home page now and type “weather in Ed” and stop there. Google will not [...]
The official Google Blog has a long, long Bill Clintonesque essay on the “meaning of open” that goes on and on with nuggets like this:
“The topic of open seems to be coming up a lot lately at Google. I’ve been in meetings where we’re discussing a product and someone [...]
Much to my chagrin, I've been noticing Examiner.com versions of stories we're covering show up prominently in Google search results while our original journalism on knoxnews or govolsxtra is buried.It used to be easy to find an official Twitter account. You'd go to Google, type in the name of the company or celebrity or product and the official (or squatted) Twitter account using that proper noun came out on top. Not any more.
As of this writing if you Google [...]
Here's the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week's edition, I look at Google's various moves into consumer electronics. Rumors abound about a Google phone, code-named Nexus One, that could be out as early as the first week of January. And Google also might be coming out [...]
On the latest This Week in Google, we talked about many of Google’s product announcements and enhancements and though none on its own was earthshattering, as we added them up, I started to see synchronicity approaching — all the moreso last night when TechCrunch reported that Google’s negotiating to [...]
TechCrunch reports that Google is in negotiations to buy Yelp. Makes perfect sense. Google is ready to make an assault on local with its Place Pages and QR codes on local establishments and augmented maps and directions and mobile…. This turf was newspapers’ and phone companies’ to lose and [...]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- YouTube recently added automatic captioning to its videos, in a move that has far-reaching implications for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, international users, and publishers who seek increase search optimization.
I traveled down to Google's headquarters yesterday to meet with Ken Harrenstien, a software engineer at' [...]
Wild, remember when I said Facebook should buy Yelp? I was hoping that Facebook would make a real search play and provide some competition for Google. Looks like my dream didn’t come true and Mike Arrington over at TechCrunch is reporting that [...]
The Telegraph, Independent and Daily Express are among 55 publications who have joined Google's Fast Flip experiment, reported the Guardian. Fast Flip displays news stories from different partner publications via screenshots of the articles, which the user [...] Google Fast Flip is adding articles from another two dozen publishers representing “more than 50 newspapers, magazines, web outlets, news wires and TV and radio broadcasters. Some of the new sources include Tribune Co. newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, McClatchy Company newspapers such [...]
Everyone knows Kindle is a closed development platform (IE, there's not an app environment that lets developers make the Kindle platform better). Today I saw the news that Google has doubled the number of publishing partners [...]
I came across this really clever use of twitter this morning as London got it's first snow flurries of the season. #uksnow Map 2.0 monitors twitter for mentions of snowfall, then plots the snow on a google map. To make best use of it, you need to use a' [...]
The writing is on the wall. Small business marketing is moving away from focusing on SEO. Why do I say that? Because, well, Google and Bing are changing the rules so often and are getting so good at figuring out the real businesses that deserve to be on pages. [...]
I wrote my first book after seeing Google Zeitgeist eight years ago. Maybe Twitter's first ever "Trends" will push me to get off the damn couch and finish my second.
Nah. After reviewing them, it's clear that Twitter's first trends release is, well, a bit predictable. [...]
Since then, it has been used to map [...]
