Week in Review
News Roundup: Google Opens Up, Twitter Clams Up, MySpace Cleans Out
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Written By Noah Mallin | April 22, 2009 | Share This
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Quite a lot of news has been generated in the last day, so here’s our take on a few of the stories that caught our attention.
Google Gives the Gift of Data
While folks were oooing and aaahing over Google’s attempts to build a profile database the real news to come out of the Googleplex was their release of their Analytics API. This allows marketers and techie wrenchheads to get their elbows dirty with sweet, sweet, Google analytics data in ways that were difficult to do until now. Look for more cool custom third party analytics applications soon.
Search News: Weekend Roundup Edition
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Written By Noah Mallin | February 23, 2009 | Share This
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While you were anxiously awaiting the Academy Awards Sunday night to see if you won your office Oscar pool (Jochen Alexander Freydank!!!! Who would have known? ) the world continued to turn and news was duly generated. Here’s some of the news from the search and social media world you may have missed over the weekend.
Q. Are We Not Men? A. We Are Bebo
AOL continues to work overtime at leveraging their properties while trying to shake off their rep as the go-to place for the blue-haired, dentured set. Their latest move is to kick their social medium platform Bebo in the pants by fusing it with their popular AIM instant messaging community to create a FriendFeed/ Twitter competitor. They will support and stream updates from Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and Delicious, even for friends who don’t have a Bebo profile. The race to dominate what AOL calls “lifestreaming” continues. The audience for this right now is relatively small and fractured but with the muscle of AIM that could change.
Search News Roundup: C’Mon Fella! Gently Coaxing this Week’s Search Engine and Social Media News Out of its Shell
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Written By Noah Mallin | October 17, 2008 | Share This
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We have been blissfully oblivious to other blogs’ coverage of the Presidential election and Search. Ours is best so why bother really? How do we know ours is best? We have avoided the Wrath of McCain. We know that his campaign only levels charges with the utmost of evidence so that’s us off the hook. Unless his minion is lumping us in with those other guys - which would be wrong.
In other news…
Weekly Search Roundup: Scraping the Newsworthy Scum Off The Surface of the Cesspool That We Call The Internet
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Written By Noah Mallin | October 10, 2008 | Share This
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The negative campaigning continues. John McCain this week suggested that Obama was some kind of crypto-socialist terrorist Muslim while Obama pointed out that McCain is, well, John McCain. Surprisingly though the harshest attack came from atop the mighty Googleplex as CEO Eric Shmidt called the Internet a “cesspool.” At press time the Internet had responded with the charge that Schmidt was once seen in an elevator with Bill Ayers. In all fairness Schmidt made his observation to a group of publishers to whom he also explained,”We don’t actually want you to be successful…” at getting good search engine rankings. Okkkaaaay then. This of course was followed by an obtuse non-explanation of Google’s quality score rankings.
Weekly Search Roundup: Putting Lipstick on This Week’s Search News
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Written By Noah Mallin | September 12, 2008 | Share This
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This week left me more confused than ever over what animal it’s OK to apply lipstick to: It’s OK for pitbulls but for pigs it’s a no-no? Has PETA weighed in on this? What I do know is that it’s always OK to apply lipstick to Cure frontman Robert Smith and that Conquistadors run a little small. Here’s the rest of the news that failed to make Page One of our SERP’s.
AOL – You’ve Got Olds
Saul Hansell at the New York Times asks some great questions, and this week he asked just who in the heck still uses AOL anyway and why. Sure enough the answers come in. While ease of use still seems to be a factor, Hansell doubts there is much growth left in the old thing and I concur.
Weekly Search Roundup: Moose Hunting, Bear Skinning, Hockey Mom-ing Edition
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Written By Noah Mallin | September 5, 2008 | Share This
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It’s now autumn in New York which aside from being an atrocious Richard Gere/Winona Ryder flick also means its 90 degrees for some reason. Drill baby drill! The shortened week means a shortened round-up but don’t worry – it’s all good.
First let’s get the rest of our Chrome biz out of the way:
Google: “OK, We Don’t Own You”
Google went a mite overboard perhaps with their initial Chrome browser terms of service agreement. Lines like, “By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services…” led to the usual outbreak of Google paranoia. Google responded quickly by having Matt Cutts post several times on his blog (kidding, kind of) and changing the terms of service to something more browser appropriate.
Weekly Search Roundup: We Text You with This Week’s Search VIP Choices…Before The Convention
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Written By Noah Mallin | August 22, 2008 | Share This
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Another week went by with the world on edge – what will SearchViews pick as their weekly roundup articles? By extension, what will be the search industry chatter in the boardrooms, bedrooms and emergency rooms across the nation? Well, wait no more – daddy’s got your fix of the sweet stuff right here – to the ticker!
Gates – He’s Pulling One Last Job and This Time it’s Personal
So you thought that ex-Microsoft Chieftain Bill Gates had retired to jet around the world with Warren Buffett and Bono helping the needy like a filthy rich version of the Superfriends? Turns out that he’s had his own secret lab deep inside Microsoft and he’s working on search. You’ve gone and pissed off the wrong company, Google!
Weekly Search Roundup: This Week’s Search Stories Slapped on Their Sunburned Shoulders for Your Amusement
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Written By Noah Mallin | August 15, 2008 | Share This
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Olympics fever continued to lay much of the nation low as the dog days of Summer stagger through mid-August. Will tomorrow’s children ask about 9-year old Chinese girls competing in gymnastics, or Russian tanks rolling into Georgia, or that election stuff with that old guy and that celebrity guy when they look back at this week in their history Kindles? I think it’s more likely they’ll want to know where Grandma was when Gmail and Netflix were down. To the ticker!
Ad Planner Favors Google? Gambling in Casablanca? Shocked I tell you…
John Battelle decided to see what would happen when he replaced users regular coffee with Folger’s. Oh I’m sorry, I mean Comscore’s monetized reporting with Google’s Ad Planner free product. The result? Ad Planner had a tendency to favor sites that served Google AdSense. Hard to believe…
Weekly Search Roundup: This Week’s Search News Fully Vetted for Counter Governmental Rhetoric – Now Go Watch The Olympics
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Written By Noah Mallin | August 8, 2008 | Share This
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The glorious Olympics games are here! Everybody enjoy the sweet-smelling fog that has enveloped Beijing – it is all natural and not in any way related to industrial activity. Kindly remove the insulting facemask and enjoy the following news. Or else.
Girls Gone Wild Yahoo Style
Forrest Gump once mused that “Life is like a box of chocolates – you never know what you’re gonna get…” Less nauseating but still chocolate boxey, automated tagging within articles can produce a similar “Surprise! You just bit into coconut!” effect. Automated tagging is when you drag your mouse over a word in an article online and it opens a box (not of chocolates) that directs you to more information on that topic – often sponsored. This is all well and good until the phrase is “underage girls.”
Weekly Search Roundup: Scrabulous Lazarus, a Cuil Reception, Yahoo Not Dead Yet and More!
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Written By Noah Mallin | August 1, 2008 | Share This
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Once again we provide you with all the little weekly tidbits that are talked about at our summer search industry cocktail parties, golf outings, and yachting regattas. If one feels that they want to repeat these morsels amongst one’s co-workers, superiors or (heaven forbid) inferiors, then we understand of course. One must do what one must do dahling. Just leave my name out of it.