Here’s how last Thursday started for me (via Twitter):PeterHimler Gmail is like so misbehaving right now!11:05 AM May 14th from Power TwitterPeterHimler I’m wondering today what’s worse: a cyber-terrorist attack or a Google tool fail?11:26 AM May 14th from Power Twitter This was the paralysis that I (and millions of others) felt when Google’s productivity…… Continue reading Caught with My Head in the Cloud
Category: Google
Apple Inc: No Comment
I went to sleep last night with TechCrunch reporting that Google was in late-stage talks to acquire Twitter. I woke up this morning with TechCrunch reporting that Apple is in late-stage talks to acquire Twitter.Co-founder Evan Williams reportedly rebuffed Google’s overtures. TC has a “normally reliable” source who says that Apple expects to announce the…… Continue reading Apple Inc: No Comment
Search Engine Reputation Management
I constantly implore my boys to take their online profiles very seriously. A month doesn’t pass without my asking them to expunge from their Facebook pages any obscene wall posts and photos in which their “friends” tagged them in some state of unseemly debauchery, e.g., beer pong games or dubious attire.Fortunately, compared to others in…… Continue reading Search Engine Reputation Management
The Juiced Up News Release
This week one of my clients issued a news release on one of the big paid wire services. The Google News Alert showed immediate and impressive results: Dow Jones Marketwatch, Yahoo Finance, and dozens of others including, for whatever reason, Earth Times. Yet, when searching for the story on the Marketwatch site, nothing popped. Huh?…… Continue reading The Juiced Up News Release
The Journalist’s Tableau
John Batelle may not agree, but Danny Sullivan certainly will remember: Google once had a competitor in search.Cambridge, MA-based search engine Northern Light, a client back in the day, happened to produce more relevant results than the fledgling Google (though admittedly not as fast).We were so confident in the engine’s abilities that we prodded our…… Continue reading The Journalist’s Tableau
But is It Optimized for Search?
As Yahoo! threw out its last lifeline to prevent it from falling into the arms of the boys from Redmond, Google was there to save the struggling online enterprise. Few at the time thought, or rather played up, how much turbulence such a Google-Yahoo ad partnership would generate from the regulatory authorities both here and…… Continue reading But is It Optimized for Search?
Spider from Mars
Remember the uproar over Beacon, Facebook’s effort to make money by selling to marketing partners the online purchasing habits of its user community ?Well, today we learn that Google, which purportedly rejects being “evil,” has introduced a search-within-a search function that lives and profits off of the websites onto which it leaches. And it’s not…… Continue reading Spider from Mars
SXSWi ’08
No. I’m not attending the conference referenced in this post’s title. But a team from MB’s FishBowl NY is, and their reports seem to justify the expense of sending them.First, they salaciously recount the awkward on-stage interview between Sarah Lacy, a former Business Week reporter, and the dedicated, self-effacing (and too youthful–>) Mark Zuckerberg who…… Continue reading SXSWi ’08
Special News Delivery
Few will argue with the wrenching transformation of news delivery and consumption in the digital age. A front page “Business” section story in today’s New York Times dissects how some newspapers are faring. (Hint: not good.)I thought I’d share a few noteworthy items on the subject that crossed my desktop in recent days:Google Local News…… Continue reading Special News Delivery
ZR1: Green for Green
Love that post from Gawker’s Jalponik in which the venerable Motor Trend is outed for allegedly gaming Google’s organic results. Here’s how it went down.The first 2009 600-hp ZR1 Corvette sold at auction over the weekend, and a search on Google for “ZR1 road test” had Motor Trend in the poll position atop the results…… Continue reading ZR1: Green for Green