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Rely heavily on Google Analytics? You won’t like this.

March 18, 2010
Google to offer opt-out to Analytics

Google Analytics might be one of the best things that Google Robin Hooded to website owners large and small. The analytics package provides incredible functionality and does so for not a dime.  That combination of functionality and free have lead to massive market share for Analytics.  One estimate last year put Google Analytics at a [...]

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Marketers and Developers: There’s (finally) a Google Analytics API

April 22, 2009
Google Analtyics API

At long last, an API for Google Analytics. It’s going to be great to see what developers and marketers team up to do now that Analytics data can be accessed without hacking.

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Google outs self for pay-per-post scheming

February 25, 2009
Google Japan outed by Google HQ

Google has made no secret about its feelings towards paid link building, openly attacking the practice and going so far as to set up mechanisms to allow individuals to ‘out’ those using the tactic. Apparently Google’s Japan didn’t get the memo.

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Study: Professional marketers missing the basics

February 20, 2009
Marketing basics missed

Not only is professional marketer apathy for performance measurement (analytics) en vogue, how a website fits into the marketing mix is askew.

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Google Local map markers gone wild

February 18, 2009
Goolge Map Markers

Google recently changed how many markers it displays on Google Maps for local search results. It’s a good change for the end user.

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Google Earth underwater

February 2, 2009

Google Earth 5.0 introduces several new features and updates including incorporation of the ocean floor and historical (satellite) imagery views.

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Google Chrome announcement [video]

September 3, 2008

Google’s Chrome browser was made publicly available yesterday. The video within this post is from the official announcement of Chrome at Google HQ.

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Google announces Chrome browser

September 1, 2008

Today Google announced that they’re releasing an open-source web browser. Called Chrome, the browser will be launched in beta format (what else would we expect from Google) tomorrow. Why is Google creating their own web browser? In the blog posting their reason is that they “believe [they] can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.”

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All the top marketing stories (Alltop)

August 22, 2008

By visiting a single category on Alltop you can cover top stories from a collection of hand-picked blogs as opposed to hunting-and-pecking from multiple feeds in a feed reader.

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TooBadFor.Me

July 17, 2008

Prior to writing my last post, I didn’t realize that I also had actually not purchased the .me domains I thought I had from GoDaddy.

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