Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Expanded ‘Search Options’ now available on Google

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Google is creating more developments on its ‘Search Options’ to give its users the best service ever. It will not definitely stop there as the competition gets tougher and tougher. Google will continue to give us services that will certainly give us the advantage of using their platform.

With Google Operating System, it has now two new search options – web search using custom date ranges and the advanced image searches all on the left side navigation.

On July 31, 2009, Google announced these two features on Google Images.

This is really the good effect of being in the competition. Best services await its users! For now, Google users will surely enjoy their new service!

Google and Facebook tie up for Android FB app

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Though Google and Facebook are competing against internet domination, both signed contracts for their partnership on mobile application.

Facebook, the leading social networking site in the world, is currently available in mobile applications thru iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Palm devices. With the release of Google’s Android mobile operating system and Facebook’s more than 50 million subscribers using mobile devices, there’s really a need to tie up to bring both services available to their consumers.

The Facebook Android application will also be available on forthcoming Android-powered phones from T-mobile and Sony Ericsson. The said application is more limited with its iPhone counterpart but will still have all the same services users can get from Facebook. According to reports, Facebook features such as ability to RSVP to events, creating photo albums and redesigning home page screen will be available on this new mobile partnership.

Google’s Protection against Reader’s Privacy

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

In today’s digital world where everything has its own digital counterpart, it is important that new security rights are being implemented. It is important that as the time passes, there’s also a continuous developments on these rights.

Since more and more people are enjoying reading digitalized books, digital rights group Center for Democracy and Technology joined other groups to push Google on its commitments to build concrete privacy protections for its book programs.

Other groups including Electronic Frontier Foundation are also urging Google to do the necessary actions on their digitalized books. They are also concern with how the people would react on privacy issues where readers should still know that the traditional rights for books are also implemented with the digitalized ones.
Google, on its statement, says that the issues on these policies are premature knowing that they haven’t launched their product.

Google Adwords to add Location Extensions

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

On its recent announcement, Google Adwords said that they will be allowing advertisers to add full addresses through local extensions on their search ads. On this way, advertisers can create new local ads from their existing text ads.

This new service is a good deal since advertisers will no longer need to have local business ads as a different ad unit – a service that is beneficial to the advertisers’ side.

This new service is not yet available for all, though. This will slowly be available in the upcoming weeks. Also, this will be available, on your choice, in the future. You just have to log on to the AdWords, then to the campaign side. Click on Settings. On Audience>Locations section, select ‘Show relevant addresses with your ads.’ To make this possible, a Google Local Business Listing is required.

The Moon is now available on Google Earth!

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

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Now, Google Earth is not only available for searching Earth lands. After the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11th mission in the moon on July 20, Google Earth makes it available for the users to explore and search the moon!

The Google LatLong Blog has all details on the moon and made some features for the Google Moon.

Also, Google, though late, produced its Google Doodle on that special day though Bing, YouTube and other sites got their own logos on an earlier time.

Google Earth is truly making the Earth, and now the moon, a smaller and nearer place to visit anytime, anywhere.

Twitter vs Google Analytics: The battle for online traffic

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

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In terms of driving traffic to your site, we all know that Google Analytics provides an incredible number of traffic visitors to our sites. We use this as a parameter in getting more visitors by posting related articles that get indexed easily by various search engines.

Though the popularity of Twitter as a social networking tool has also proved to be a good way of promoting our sites and entries, never did it top Google Analytics in terms of traffic. We always rely to Google Analytics with its data of daily traffic list.

But according to some tests, Twitter is far more reliable when it comes to driving more traffic to a certain site. In these tests conducted by researchers and other search engine experts, they all found out that Google Analytics failed in some aspects when it comes to documenting the traffic. It undercounts searches coming from Twitter. Reasons include, according to the tests and was confirmed by Google, that some searches through mobile devices are not detected and was therefore left uncounted for the traffic. This is so because when somebody uses Twitter to visit your site, sometimes, it causes issues with the tracking on Google. More so, the test resulted that Google Analytics failed to count as much 500% of traffic from Twitter. With this percentage, you’ll surely believe that Twitter is a helpful device for promoting your site and driving traffic!

Welcome to Conversationalize

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Welcome to the opening of my website, Conversationalize. This site will bring you the latest buzz on the social media and search. It is called as such for I will be delving deep into the most-talked about issues while striking conversation or buzz. I hope you find this website useful in taking a look at news and trends in search and social media.

What sites will I focus on?

Here are the websites that will be regularly discussed in this website.

  • Google
  • Yahoo
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Digg
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • MySpace

What can you expect from this website?

Here is what will make this website different from the others.

  • A different perspective on matters already discussed on the internet
  • A frank and straightforward approach to issues

With that, I hope you will find Conversationalize a daily reading habit to keep up with social media.