A recent comment on another news story complained that some of what we talk about here, while related to the companies running the search engines, has more to do with tech gadgets and other side-properties of these groups. Well, Romanz, this one’s for you. The world of mobile advertising is blossoming with each passing year, …
New age technology, with all its “instant sending” features, is filled to brimming with horror stories about miss-sent emails, pictures, and Facebook comments. Having a message wind up in the wrong place can easily toy with your reputation, hurt your career, or even destroy your marriage if you’re not careful, at least if the stories …
Although text message marketing isn’t my specialty, I’ve been hearing some impressive results. I had an opportunity to interview with Justin Rockwell of OIR Interactive and Text-Board.com, so I thought I’d get the low down on what kind of results you can get, how to get those results, and how you can combine social media …
Google tries to be a lot of different things to a lot of different people, and if history is any indication, they won’t simply stop when they’ve reached the borders of their current service descriptions. They’ve done their best to move from being “a search engine” to just about every other net-service — so, what’s …
It’s no secret that Google is excited about Hotpot, the new website property that has replaced “Places” and (maybe, just maybe) seeks to dethrone sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor. In approaching this new market, Google has two key advantages: 1) An existing database of information and feedback on the locations it’s detailing, and 2) Its …
A decade back, everyone wanted a website in order to get a leg up on the rest in their industry. But with limited bandwidth, dial-up connections and hefty budgets required for web solutions, this presence was the privilege of a few companies and individuals. Of course having a website was not enough in of itself; …
Google is good at unleashing products quickly when it wants to, and it has certainly tried to focus more and more on a global market, but even with those precedents their recent announcement is impressive. In a display of surprising speed, Google has created versions of Instant Mobile for all twenty-eight languages spoken in countries …
Google’s mobile blog posted yesterday that it has launched four new languages in Voice Search. Czech, Polish, Russian and Turkish are the newest additions to the Google Voice Search family. Users need only change their language preferences on their smart phone devices and if you don’t already have Voice Search installed, you can download it …
In an interview with SeekingAlpha.com Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt and VP Jonathan Rosenberg discuss many topics including the company’s third quarter earnings. The company announced them for the first time ever (and believed to be the last time). Among the the subjects that were touched on briefly was the matter of Google Instant coming to …
In the wake of Yahoo’s announcement that they would be releasing new search enhancement features in the coming weeks, today and yesterday they announced on their blog they expanded on two of the enhanced featured. First up is web search for mobile phones. Honing in on the most pertinent information for mobile web users, i.e. …
