Posts About ‘News’

Bryan Eisenberg Launches The Online Marketer’s Toolbox: Tools, Tools, Tools!

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Like tools? Well, you are in for a treat! Today Marketing Optimization expert and well known speaker Bryan Eisenberg launches a website which will full fill many people’s needs and dreams. For the past few years Eisenberg, aka @thegrok, has been ‘collecting’ tools and writing about them. He has now put all these tools on one website: websitetestingtools.com.

The website gives us insight in many tools, currently already 150. And counting, because Bryan wants to keep extending the website with tools he finds on the web and uses. (more…)

Eric Schmidt at Google Hearings: Close to Monopoly, but we’ve not Cooked Anything

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Is Google a monopoly? And is Google deliberately pushing down competitors in their own search results? These are the main questions a US Senate subcommittee is trying to get answered in a special Google hearing this week.

With a market share of over 65 percent in the US and close or even over 90 percent in many European countries and with the enormous amount of acquisitions Google is doing these days this is not such a strange question to be asking. The hearing was triggered by complaints from Google competitors like Yelp.

One of the people being heard is Eric Schmidt. Now we all know he likes to throw around some quotes we all find either amusing or interesting. And at the hearing we were not disappointed. Schmidt claimed that Google had learned from mistakes that Microsoft made in the past, he also almost said that Google indeed was a monopoly (isn’t that like close to a confession?) but did not “cook anything” and while he was at it he kind of explained how Google tests algorithm changes. (more…)

Finally Google+ Has Search (and more)

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When Google last week opened up its API’s I predicted that pretty soon we would also be seeing a search within Google+. Something which has strangely been missing from the start. If it wasn’t going to be Google itself, with the API surely a developer would come up with the search functionality pretty soon, after all we saw the same happening with the share functionality on Google Plus.

But this time Google didn’t let the developers beat them. The search box on top of Google Plus, which used to only search for people now searches through Google+. (more…)

Facebook Getting into the Data: Read, Listened, Watched, And Want Buttons

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This week Facebook has its famous F8 Conference. And the expectations are high as they always are. This year they might even be a bit higher. There are rumors that Facebook will be announcing quite some changes.

Next to a possible redesign and social music services, Facebook might be launching some new buttons: “Read”, “Listened”, “Watched” and “Want”. The buttons will be similar to the well known like button. (more…)

Google Starts Opening up Google Plus API

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Many people have been complaining about the speed in which Google Plus is developing itself. No search, not many new features and most of all: no API. Maybe that will now change rapidly, as Google starting today is launching the first of the Google API’s.

With this move Google hopes to get developers to develop for Google+. Without a doubt we will now soon see applications which can search through Google+ and existing applications like Twitter clients can now start to incorporate Google Plus into their tools. (more…)

Is Google Testing Dropping the Icons?

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Some people, including myself, have seen another change to the Google Search Result Pages. Not a big one though, and it is not clear yet whether or not this is a test or permanent.

Google seems to have dropped the icons next to the links on the left side in the sidebar.  (more…)

Bing calls Google Names but does Gain Some Market Share

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Bing and Google will probably never be best friends. The two biggest ‘official’ search engines got into a fight several months ago when Bing allegedly copied Google’s search results. Ever since the tension between the two has been there. Google will probably remain the biggest for a while, but Bing is closing in on Google according to the latest numbers.

It is not those numbers however but a Bing “Easter Egg” which got the most attention this weekend. A Googler noted that Bing had been hiding some interesting results which seemed to be a ‘pinch’ towards Google on specific searches.

Software engineer Andy Arnt found two results which seemed to have a negative message to Google inside the search results. A search for “more evil than satan himself” returned the results “10^100“, while “Hiybbprqag” gave back “hiybbprqag (orcish) = whiner (common)“. (more…)

Yandex rolls out Infinite Scrolling

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We know Google has been testing infinite scrolling for a while, and we expect Google to come out with some sort of infinite scrolling functionality soon. But the Americans in this case have been beaten by the Russians.

Yandex just announced that they are rolling out infinite scrolling on their search result pages. If you click on the “10 more results” button (either in Russian or the English version) you will get 10 more results below the ten you just saw, keeping the first ten in place and the search box on top. (more…)

Google Now Showing Special Snippets for List Pages

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I have had several people asking about a new way of snippets they were seeing in Google result pages. Some thought this was some sort of testing by Google. It is not, it is a new feature which was rolled out last week: snippets for list pages.

When pages consists mostly out of lists Google has found a way to show (part) of these lists in the snippet. This means that if you have a list on your page, that list might just be part of the snippets. Opportunity knocking! (more…)

Want to Work At Google? Hack Them and Leak!

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An interesting (possible) job-hiring by Google became clear yesterday. It seems as if Google is about to hire Florian Rohrweck, an Austrian blogger and developer. On his blog he mentions he is about to sign a contract with the search giant.

So why is this special? Because Rohrweck got his job by digging into Google+ source code and revealing Google+ features, even some which have not been launched yet. Google figured the best way to shut him up was hiring him. (more…)

Social search comes to Yandex: buys online newspaper generator The Tweeted Times

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Russian search engine Yandex is slowly taking steps towards a bigger reach, inside and especially outside of Russia. After going public in May and changes to their search tools this is the first time Yandex moves towards social: they bought online newspaper generator The Tweeted Times.

The Tweeted Times is, like paper.li, a service which generates a ‘newspaper’ of items which were shared by your social connections, in this case people you follow on Twitter. The move seems strange but has everything to do with getting social search into Yandex. (more…)

You Can Now Ignore People in Google Plus (Without Them Knowing)

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Google believes Google Plus should be a reflection of the real world. And in the real world there are people in your environment which you may not want to see or hear all the time. So you ignore them.

Google today launched a new feature on Google Plus which does just that: ignore people. You won’t hear them, you won’t see them. But they will be there. It is a ‘light’ version of blocking.

Where blocking limits the way people interact with you, “Ignore” means people will still see your updates, can comment on your posts and is still ‘in the loop’ so to speak. (more…)

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