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Google and Intergalatic Law

July 14, 2010 Browsers

What happens when you open Google in a non-standard browser like Opera Mini? You get the following snippet.
Sorry, but this browser does not support web word-processing.
Please see our system requirements page for a list of supported browsers.
If you are working to fix problems with a specific browser and would like to bypass this check, just [...]

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[Humor] Sponsored Conversations

May 19, 2010 Advertising

What do you get when you combine speech recognition, contextual advertising, text-to-speech software, and a disruptive business model? A phone that’s free as long as you are willing to listen to advertising.

New Google Phone Service Whispers Targeted Ads Directly Into Users’ Ears
Don’t laugh, the idea has been kicked around before. But why stop there? You could [...]

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Fun with Google Text-to-Speech

December 15, 2009 Google

Fooling around with Google Translate and their 100 character Text-to-Speech engine I strung together a few lines from Eric Schmidt’s editorial in The Wall Street Journal.

Image by TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ via Flickr

Click on the following links in order.

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Fun with Google Social Search

October 27, 2009 Google

Google Social Search is now available in Google Labs. Danny Sullivan has the most in-depth coverage out there but it’s worth turning on yourself because you’re going to be the best judge of how well this feature performs for you.
Be sure to dig deeper than the default two results Google throws timidly down at the [...]

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Traffic Sources and Attention

April 21, 2009 Advertising

There’s been good debate around how the source of traffic to sites is changing, shifting from the search engines to social sites such as Facebook and Twitter. I confirmed that I too am seeing a greater percentage of traffic come in via links shared on social sites and shared a colleague’s theory about what this [...]

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AdSense, Self-Optimized

March 11, 2009 Advertising

It’s obvious when you think about it. Instead of spending your energy throwing up hundreds of ads that dance around the edges in the hopes that one will magically trigger a random click of interest, why not ask your readers, “What do you want to see?”
Google announced a new program which changes the way they [...]

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Facebook, Twitter send more traffic than Google

March 6, 2009 Advertising

Liz Gannes posted that Perez Hilton is now seeing more traffic coming in via Facebook than Google.

My colleague Udo Szabo at Nokia HQ in Finland has a theory that I call the Unified Theory of Interweb Economics. The theory goes something like this:

Advertising is a function of your traffic volume, the more traffic that comes [...]

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Google Reader Power Readers – unlocked

September 25, 2008 Google

Browsing my feeds this morning I saw an ad for Google’s Power Readers feature appended on the bottom of a TechCrunch post. The ad pointed to the Google Power Reader page, an editorially crafted bundle of feeds made up of linkblog posts, generated by celebrities hand-picked and using Google Reader. This is the first time [...]

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Taking your finger off the button

September 9, 2008 Current Events

Shares of United Airlines dropped 75% yesterday because of a poorly designed template. The Google News blog has all the gory details including screenshots of the Florida Sun-Sentinal site which included links to a old story, UAL files for Bankrupcy, in its automated “Most Viewed” sidebar widget.
The Google News robot crawled that link and because [...]

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Google’s Flash-Eating Spider

July 1, 2008 Google

This announcement is definitely cool and will open up whole new areas of the web to search. But truthfully I just wanted to post this because it lends itself to a great headline.
From the FAQ posted on the Google Webmaster Blog:
Q: What content can Google better index from these Flash files?
All of the text that [...]

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