Google's Founder Wearing Google Glasses

Thomas Hawk, an outstanding photographer, was at the Dinner in the Dark benefit for the Foundation Fighting Blindness where Sergey Brin was supporting his wife. Google's Sergey Brin was wearing a pair of the Google Glasses that probably were just for show and did not work at all. Thomas posted the picture on his Google+ page. I cropped it a bit to just show Sergey wearing the glases, sorry Robert Scoble. This post is part...

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Google Webmaster Tools Search Queries Still Has Three Day Delay

If you go to Google Webmaster Tools and check out the search queries report, you might think that Google was able to show almost real time data in terms of search queries done related to your web site. Google has changed the date range bar at the top right to be the current date. But if you look closely, you will notice that the charted data is still with a three or so day delay from the current date. Here is a picture showing the date range...

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Google's New Ad Format: Consumer Surveys?

Yesterday Google launched a new program called Google Consumer Surveys - it is basically taking an expensive thing to do, market research surveys, and making it fast and cheap. Will it last - I am not sure, but it does look exciting at this point. How it works is simple. Business and organizations looking to get market research data go to this service, create a micro-survey and decide who they want it to go to, how many...

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Google: Want More Organic Traffic? Buy Search Ads

My title is a bit extreme in summarizing the research study Google published namedImpact Of Ranking Of Organic Search Results On The Incrementality Of Search Ads. In short, Google is saying that having search ads do help with incremental impressions and clicks on your organic search results. Google said, "on average, 50% of the ad clicks that occur with a top rank organic result are incremental." They also noticed in this study that...

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Google Analytics New Social Reports With $$$

A week ago Google announced on the Google Analytics blog a new set of reports named Social reports that enables webmasters and marketers bridge the gap between social media and how those convert to your business metrics, such as conversions, revenues and more. Google said the goal of these reports are three fold: Identify the full value of traffic coming from social sites and measure how they lead to direct conversions or assist...

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Google: New Top Level Domains (TLD) Will Not Help Rankings

Yesterday Google's Matt Cutts went out of his way todebunk a story in Marketing Magazine named New top-level domains to trump .com in Google search results. Adrian Kinderis CEO of ARI Registry Services made the claim as follows: Will a new TLD web address automatically be favoured by Google over a .com equivalent? Quite simply, yes it will. Wow! How can people spread such misinformation (I better be careful, I am sure I said things that weren't true as well). But seriously, this? I am glad Matt Cutts called him out. Matt...

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Google Webmaster Tools +1 Metrics Maintenance

Googler, Jonathan Simon announced in the Google Webmaster Help forums that the +1 metrics section in Google Webmaster Tools may have issues over the next several days. He said Google is working on "housekeeping" tasks for that section of Google Webmaster Tools, which implies to me that Google is doing some sort of upgrade in that area. Jonathan said: Over the next few days we're doing some housekeeping in the +1 Metrics...

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Google Shutting Down AdSense For Domains

The Google direct AdSense For Domains program is being shut down by Google. The last day is April 18, 2012. This is not effecting the whole program, but specifically the "direct AdSense for Domains" program. Google posted this news on this page and people have started to notice the news. Here is the timeline: February 22: AdSense publishers can no longer start using the Hosted domains product. March 21: You will no longer be able to create new hosted domains. April 18: Hosted domains will become inactive and it will...

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A Fake Google Store

We know Google has a Google Store in at their headquarters in the GooglePlex. We know they are thinking of adding one also to their Dublin office. But a random Google store somewhere in the Middle East? This Google Store seems to not just sell Google Lava Lamps but instead, they sell fruits and vegetables. I found this picture on ffffound.com. I am not sure exactly where in the world it was taken but it seems like somewhere in the middle...

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Google Updates Average Position In Webmaster Tools & Analytics

As I reported last night at Search Engine Land, Google haschanged their definition for the "average position" as used in Google Webmaster Tool's search query reports and Google Analytics SEO reports. Google is now using the top positions and averaging those, as opposed to using all the positions and averaging them. Google explains it best with this: Let's say Nick searched for [bacon] and URLs from your site appeared in positions...

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Yahoo's Co-Founder, Jerry Yang, Resigns

Yesterday, I was shocked to learn that Yahoo's co-founder, Jerry Yang has resigned from Yahoo effective immediately. Yang told the Yahoo board: My time at Yahoo!, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life. However, the time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo! As I leave the company I co-founded nearly 17 years ago, I am enthusiastic about the appointment of Scott Thompson as Chief Executive Officer and his ability, along with the entire...

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