Groupon’s Google Deal Rejection signifies a change of play
Just last week Google looked certain to buy Groupon in a deal which made sense. What no accounted for, of course, was Groupon saying ‘no’ to $6 billion. So far, the week began with a deal which looks set to fall through because the Groupon board cannot decide.
Facebook ‘Like’ worm inevitable result of popularity of social networking site
As sure as night follows day so do Javascript exploits and malicious worms follow popular applications on websites. Facebook has become the world’s favourite hanging out place with over 500 million users worldwide and a raft of new Facebook applications which work to allow you to take your social habits with you.
Google instant’s ‘censored’ list of terms
When you are the world’s most popular search engine, fielding over a billion search queries a day censorship of any kind, however well-intentioned is most likely to land you in hot water. Google Instant is changing the way we use Google search and Google have placed some restrictions on what it can show in order to ‘protect the innocent’.
Basically it has altered the algorithm so that if certain words are input, even if they are immensely popular the results stop appearing for them and you then have to manually click yes, you want to go on and see them. Not much of a restriction in terms of safeguarding anything and you must wonder why it’s there at all if all it takes is a single click to make it go away. For example type in “bisexual” or “lesbian” in the Google search query field and Google Instant stops working.
Google Instant and the changing face of SEO
Over the past year Google has, quietly, rolled out over 350 changes to its search algorithm, each of which has made it more responsive, faster and capable of delivering more and more relevant results. As autumn rolled in, in the northern hemisphere, Google made a seemingly tiny change which, however, is going to have a whole lot of ramifications in terms of SEO.
First, let’s look at the change. Google has for some time now been getting into the real-time search game with Twitter results coming up in a real-time window within Google search results. The latest change called Google Instant you can see what it’s all about in the video below:
Social Networking as part of a Government’s plan on getting out of the global financial crisis
Markov Chains, Google search and the sum of all our knowledge
Andrey Markov was a 19th century Russian mathematician who excelled at predictive probability mathematics (called stochastic processes) and whose work on a mathematical process now known as Markov Chains has become the foundation upon which many aspects of the Google algorithm rest.
Personalized search is beginning to creep in plus the changing way of how content is really found
The web is a place where grown men break down and cry and kids fresh out of school walk away owning banks and flying in Leer jets. This ability to upset the status quo and present the new and fresh to the masses has created an impetus which still drives our economy.
The entire point of the web has been about personalization from the very beginning. The moment, back in ’95 those strident handshake modem tones were struck and we saw our first website we were hooked on the fact that now we could do just about anything in the small hours of the morning in our PJs.
Twitter’s transformation changes the online social marketing game
What your business can learn from the demise of Google Wave
Because we are used to thinking that Google is so big that everything which it does is bound to be supported by an unbelievably big number which will be its budget and the sort of marketing brains which dwarf the wattage output of super novas except that you’d be right only on the latter. Like any large company Google adopts the approach that each project needs to work on a shoestring budget and fight hard for its existence backed, mostly, by the glamour of the Google brand and the brilliance of its people.
What is Web 2.5 and how is it going to affect your SEO efforts?
If you are new to the concept of Web 2.0 then Web 2.5 is going to seem like a step too far so there is a need here to recap, briefly and explain just what is going on. When the term Web 2.0 came on the scene as a marketing ploy which was too good a soundbite not to use, at a Web Summit conference in 2005, there was no agreement on what it meant or if there was, even, a Web 1.0 concept.