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Search Engines

Google Suggest on… Google Buzz

June 18, 2010

Just for fun, let’s see what Google Suggest recommends when someone is searching Google about… Google Buzz:

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Local business? Heard of Google’s Tags?

June 15, 2010

Google Tags - Ads for Local Business Places Listings

Previously only in select cities, Google is now making Tags available nationwide. Haven’t heard of Tags? Don’t sweat it, not many people have. Let’s start at the beginning. Who are Tags intended for? Google tags are for businesses which have a listing in Google Places (formerly the Google Local Business Center). Google Places listings are [...]

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PPC Online Marketing for Small Businesses

June 15, 2010

Search engines are an incredible resource for generating interest in any business. Unfortunately, for many businesses, making the investment in search engine optimization to gain high visibility on search engines like Google is a difficult decision. One great way to test the waters online for small businesses is to turn to paid advertising, commonly referred [...]

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Google Local options for service area based businesses

April 5, 2010

Run a local business which doesn’t have a physical location but services a specific area? Is your service area so specific that defining it is more applicable than simply providing the address of your main office? Google’s Local Business Center wasn’t a friendly place in the past for those situations, at least until recently. A [...]

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

March 18, 2010

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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Augmented reality, live video overlay from Photosynth creator

February 17, 2010

This is a great video from TED2010 that shows off the latest Microsoft has to offer on the mapping front including live video being overlaid at the street-view level in Bing Maps. Blaise Aguera y Arcas, who brought us Seadragon/Photosynth, lead the team that made this a reality. The whole video is worth a watch, [...]

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Google puts some more social in its search

February 1, 2010

Last week I did an internal presentation at Terralever talking about how search engines like Google and social networking sites alike were likely both attacking the idea of extending their understanding of both information and the social graph. Today I tripped over an example of Google Social Search and recollected on the presentation. In broad [...]

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