We started a new category last week, the “Bad Link Requests“. We are putting the strange or just simply bad requests we get online to give an insight in how stupid some of them are. Last week’s Google removal request was a hit. This week we look at how spammers are asking for link requests..
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Upload your own weird, funny or interesting request you received and have it featured in this category!
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It is 2011 so we shouldn’t be looking back, but we are. And we are also looking back at 2010 when it comes to Social Media. Because after all, 2010 was the year of social media. Right? This infographic says it was. Take a look yourself! (more…)
Linkresearchtools updated their link alerts. See a preview of their changes here.
So Google did decide to make a follow up on their Nexus One phone. This week Google presented the Google Nexus S, manufactured by Samsung, with the new Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” operating system. Mobile is as important as ever for Google. That clearly shows. But the phone business itself doesn’t seem to be something which Google is really very interested in being in. However, that what’s ON the phone is where Google’s focus lies.
It is therefore interesting to see what Google does when it comes to mobile search, Android and mobile applications. One of them being for example Google Maps on Android. Today and yesterday the D Mobile conference takes place in San Francisco. There Android chief Andy Rubin gave a sneak peak of the new Maps application. And guess what: Google is going 3D. (more…)
Today Google announced that it has opened its very own bookstore. Not one where you can get a cup of coffee, sit down and read through paper books, but an online bookstore. No, not like Amazon either. You can’t get books delivered to your house. It’s a store for e-books. And we are not just talking scanned books by Google here.
With over 3 million titles in store and with 4,000 publishers as partners Google has really made an effort here. Amongst the partners there are major industry names like Simon & Schuster and Penguin and the Oxford University Press and Reed Elsevier. (more…)
Back in the days when Google Analytics wasn’t as powerful as it is now and when there were great alternatives on the market there was one tool which rocked them all: Indextools. Indextools was run by Dennis Mortensen, a webanalytics expert from Denmark. He made the tool big.
Right at the time that Indextools was becoming a serious alternative to Google Analytics Mortensen decided it was time for a drastic change: Indextools was sold to Yahoo. Mortensen went along with Indextools to Yahoo.
At first the excitement was big. Yahoo could really be a good place for Indextools and if “Microhoo” would come through two great tools (Indextools and Gatineau) would be joining forces and would be the biggest best tool out there. (more…)
We can go on and on about Streetview and Google issues so it seems. We reported last week Google got a slap on the wrist in the UK and this morning that it might be in trouble over data gathering in the US. Meanwhile the next issue pops up in Germany. There many houses are blurred because of privacy regulations. But it turns out that if you are using an iPad or iPhone the blurring isn’t going too well.
PC World tells us some properties to be visible rather than blurred in a preview of the service launched last week. (more…)
State of Search has rapidly become one of the most read blogs about search engine marketing in the industry. With many high quality writers we always try to deliver high quality content to our readers.
As you may know we only started in February, but we have already managed to get the attention of all the influential websites and people in the industry. The website has built up a solid audience of readers who often return to the website. Plus we get a great amount of traffic from search engines. Visitors come from all over the world to read about what is going on in Search and Social.
In the recent months we have also extensively expanded our event-coverage. Our special event pages are a source for everybody at a conference but also for those at home who want to know what is going on at the conference. But we also extended by bringing you news, a newsletter, a radioshow and a Facebook page with extra content. In the future we will continue this kind of coverage and even extend it. (more…)
When Google accidentally grabbed personal data like e-mails, passwords and other wifi information they most certainly were not thinking of the consequences. Last week Google got a slap on the wrist in the UK when the Information Commissioner’s Office said Google had “committed a “significant breach” of the UK’s Data Protection Act”. Google there got away with just the slap, they weren’t fined or punished in any other way.
The victory of the Republicans in the US elections last week however might be the setup for something bigger for Google.
U.S. Representative Joe Barton, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, in a tv- interview last week said there was a big chance chief executives from companies such as Google and Facebook could be called before the Commerce Committee. (more…)
Just last week we told you that Google might face charges in the UK for taking e-mails, e-mail passwords, addresses and other data when collecting Streetview data in the UK. After Google admitted that it had taken that data The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said they would now re-investigate after previous investigations had finished already.
The UK information commissioner, Christopher Graham, now confirms Google committed a “significant breach” of the UK’s Data Protection Act. He however does not feel that Google needs to pay a fine. Google however has been ordered to delete the data it collected and sign an undertaking that it won’t happen again. Plus they want Google to further train their employees. (more…)
As you might know every Tuesday State of Search broadcasts their very own radioshow on Webmasterradio. Every week Bas and Roy discuss the latest on what is going on in the world of search and social.
Tonight the show airs again. BUT tonight the show is not on the air at the regular hour. Usually you can listen live at 8pm every Tuesday CET, which is 7 in the UK, and in the US it’s at 2pm on the East Coast and 11am on the West Coast. But because somebody decided that the US and Europe would not change their daylight savings time at the same time, the show this week is ONE HOUR EARLIER IN EUROPE.
The show now airs 7PM CET / 6PM UK. So when you are still in the office at 6, be sure to tune in and listen to the show!
On the show today we have Nichola Stott, one of our bloggers, on as a guest. With Nichola we discuss the different events which went on last week, working for Liverpool FC and off course we talk about the changes Google made to Places. Follow the discussion on that topic here.
Speaking of the radioshow, you can listen back all the past episodes on our special radio page here on State of Search, but you can now also listen to them through Facebook! We updated our Facebook page and added the shows there.
It is becoming some sort of a running gag. Eric Schmidt showing up in tv shows, at conferences or at press conferences and then trying to be funny. And unfortunately for him, a lot of the times the jokes are misunderstood. And for a reason.
Though Mr Schmidt I think “in real life” most probably is a funny guy and his jokes might do very well in a bar or at a birthday party, I do think that the CEO of Google should choose his jokes more carefully when he is making a public appearance. His timing sometimes just seems to be wrong. Even though personally I like it, I’m not so sure it’s the best way to go for Google. Last Friday “he did it again”. In an interview at CNN he said about those not liking Streetview “You can move…”. See the interview here: (more…)
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