By Erik Qualman | December 8, 2010
TechCrunch was able to get their hands on a confidential screenshot from Google’s headquarters on Google +1 [see below]:
Reported image of Google +1 (formerly Google Me)
Notice “Confidential” at the top and the share buttons
Toolbar would exist at top of Google properties
Key part is “loops” = “groups in Google ter…
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Posted in Google, Social Media | Tagged Google +1, Groupon Buyout, Groupon Google Bid |
By Erik Qualman | November 26, 2010
If you plan to do any holiday travel this season, it will be a bit more enjoyable as Google is providing free Internet on available flights. For social media addicts this is wonderful news!
Google Chrome has teamed up with AirTran Airways, Delta, and Virgin America to offer free Gogo Inflight Wi-Fi on every domestic flight from November 20, 2010 through Jan…
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Posted in Google | Tagged Free Airplane Internet, Free Airplane WiFi, Google Free WiFi, Google Holiday Internet |
By Erik Qualman | 1199 days ago
Google's Super Bowl Ad works with and without sound - how may other advertisers can claim this?
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Posted in Google | Tagged Google Parisian Ad, Google Super Bowl Ad |
By Erik Qualman | 1329 days ago
With recent social launches like Google Wave, Google Sidewiki and Google SearchWiki is Google becomine a social media company?
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Posted in Google, Social Media | Tagged Google Hot Trends, Google SearchWiki, Google Sidewiki, Google Social, Google Wave, Search Wiki |
By Erik Qualman | 1389 days ago
I've long professed that search and social are going to merge and that those big Google dollars will be up for play. An interesting wrinkle has occurred with Bing and now the Microsoft & Yahoo deal.
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Posted in Facebook, Google, Search Engine, Social Media, Twitter, Yahoo | Tagged Microsoft and Yahoo Merger, MSFT/Yahoo Deal, Yahoo and MSFT Deal, Yahoo and MSFT Search Deal |
By Erik Qualman | 1462 days ago
Adam Lambert was expected by everyone to win the latest American Idol, but a major upset occurred when Kris Allen took the grand prize. Way back during the Democratic Presidential Race I wrote a column on Search Engine Watch "Can Google Predict the Next President?" discussing how search and other online data can be used to predict items like Presidential Elections, Influenza Outbreak, etc. While I still hold this to be true, Mark Walsh's article "Search Wrong On Idol" does a good job of pointing out that at least in this instance it wasn't the most accurate prediction model.
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Posted in General Web, Google, Web Analytics | Tagged Adam Lambert, American Idol, American Idol Predictions Wrong, Kris Allen, Kris Allen Defeats Adam Lambert |
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