With the Google-Twitter search deal done, we are now seeing the Tweets show up in the Google search results. Pretty awesome. Is twitter going to trump Wikipedia in the search results? It will be interesting to see how tweets will change the tone and quality of the search results.
Google Maps Has lined up pretty good partnerships in the Geolocation ecosystem . It syncs with several GPS models like Garmin, Telenav and Tom Tom. Even better, if you have a BMW or a Merc it syncs with their in-built GPS – which is pretty impressive.
This is big news – Murdoch is making noises about preventing Google from crawling News corp sites. Jason Calacanis seems to have smelled this strategy ahead of time. Some interesting stuff going on here (http://bit.ly/2nOzNo). This could mean good news for Bing and an inflection point for Google’s domination in search. Content sites may be able to [...]
Google has announced changes to its ad scoring algorithm. The changes are two fold: Until now, the algo assigned a higher rating to ads that have higher Click Through Rate (CTR), independent of ad position. This decoupling meant that higher position ads got higher ratings, since they were more “visible” to users and hence got [...]
Linkedin today announced that they are allowing users to add applications to their profiles. This is a move a-la facebook and Orkut. I would expect a significant increase in traffic (Page views) for Linkedin with users now logging in to see the new blog post or slide presentations of their friends. Linkedin has the following [...]
The Adwords editor is one of the most useful Ad applications that Google has come up with in recent days. From a search advertiser’s stand point, it gives a great deal of flexibility in making large scale changes relatively quickly. The tool is specially useful when dealing with complex accounts where keyword characteristics tend to [...]
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