This morning I noticed Google have started to try and make sense of the disorganised world of Facebook brand pages. If you punch a brand name, like say, Nike, and accompany it with Facebook, you should find something like this appears.
Google officially announced http://adwords.blogspot.com/2011/11/get-closer-to-your-customers-with.html business profile pages on their nascent social network Google+ last night.
With 40m profiles so far, Google+ has potential – although there is healthy debate about who is actually using it outside of the digital, technology and broadcasting industries. Debate aside, we’ve dived straight in and set up a page for a UK business. Here’s our initial tips and feedback after a few hours using the platform:
After three days living without Google I’ve had a flavour of what a world where Google never existed would be like. On day two I tweeted: “Google Search is like fingers; you can get along without them, but everything is more difficult”. Something I’ve depended on and taken for granted has suddenly disappeared, and everything was just a bit more difficult and at times, damn frustrating.
So if Google had never existed, which companies would have prospered?
Yahoo! may have been overtaken by Google and Bing, but with the promised enhancements to its search being launched today the portal is saying it’s still in the race.
Google of course dominates the US market, with 65% of search volume, while Bing inched ahead of Yahoo! last month for the first time, putting them both on around 13% each. By improving the aesthetics and functionality of search and offering more relevant entertainment and news content alongside, Yahoo! hopes to recapture some of its market share. Read More
Have you ever wondered, you know just for a second or two, just how Google works, how the software behind its search technology that conducts hundreds of simultaneous calculations that require only a fraction of a second? Well wonder no more more. Some algorithmic bright spark created this Google (graphic). Enjoy. Read More
A few weeks ago a rare event happened: Google stopped working. For thousands of UK searchers, the search engine and many related websites went down for a few hours. This prompted me to wonder what a world without Google would be like – so I’m going to find out. So from Thursday, I’m going Google-free.
I’ll be blogging my experiences here, and commenting on Twitter with the tag #lifewithnogoogle.
So Yahoo! is almost worthless? One idea already suggested today is a merger with AOL. But there could be another option – taking the business private.
For the record, Yahoo! is not a bad company, in fact it is very good, comfortably generating billions of dollars in revenue. However it is not as good as Google in harnessing search and making money from it.
In an interview with The Telegraph Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Foursquare, has revealed that the location-based social service is in talks with the major search engines, hoping to strike a deal which will use Foursquare’s check-in information to enrich local search results.
Baidu is the biggest search engine in China
After the dramatic twists and turns of the past few months, the Chinese government have decided to hand Google back its internet content provider (ICP) licence. In return, Google have promised to abide to China’s censorship regulations, and to stop automatically redirecting from Google.ch to Google.com.hk (where the censorship laws don’t apply) as they have been doing since March this year. Read More
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