Gmail - Right Now

“We’re experiencing technical difficulties that may prevent your chats from being sent.”
This message appears all too frequently.

Goolge Maps Now Enables Local Coupons

This has the potential to be extremely useful to small businesses and disruptive to existing coupon outfits.

Today’s Events in the News - Al-Qaida

Having lock de-icer in my in my bag in August suddenly makes me feel so unpatriotic.
On another note on airplane/airport terrorism and terrorist attacks, does it bother anyone else that they tighten security after the arrests and never before?  Yes, some might argue the tip off factor, but couldn’t you do this quietly as a [...]

Google Video Migrates to the Google Home Page

In this post on July 20th, I predicted that Google Video would appear on the homepage soon. However, I guessed wrong on it replacing Images. At first, I’m surprised that Froggle was what was removed. After thinking about it more I shouldn’t be, Google Checkout migrates to the back end of process what Froggle did upfront. If [...]

SES Day 1 - Social Search - Up Close With Yahoo!

Tim Mayer opens the session - reviews items from previous session.
Yumio – Yahoo Answers!
Quantifying human knowledge. Yahoo! Answers is a collective site. Better knowledge through people. Y! answers compliments web search, giving results that a user may not think about. Provide content and material that. Culture of sharing. People like to share. Remote connectivity. Impressive [...]

SES Day 1 - Social Search Overview

Chris Sherman made introduction speech I cant stress enough that he did a really *amazing* job of planning the session and laying out the issues. Major props.
Social Search goes back to the first days of the Internet.
W3.org – first directory.
Directories were the first forms of social media. Spammers destroyed the first directories with spam.
Future – [...]

SES Day 1 - Social Search : Up Close With Google

I never did catch the speakers name….sorry!
Google Co-op – Subscribe links. This is new types of content and new types of information.
Building socialized search. Example of subscribed links flight stats: Instyle Magazine, Search Engine Watch and Digg are good examples.
You have control over how they work.
Fresh content is important.
Target precisely so the experience is better.
Make [...]

Biscoff - Offline Marketing Driving Online Sales

That second U.S. Air flight had Biscoff cookies distributed. This tasty treat was joined with an incentive to visit them on the web. When you search for cookies in Google - there are no Biscoff ads. There is one for branding when you search on Biscoff.
The more I learn about online marketing the more I [...]

US Air / America West

I had a great experience with them today overall. Flights were on time, people were friendly, etc. The flight from Phoenix to San Jose is especially beautiful in terms of scenery.
The only thing I didn’t like was the boarding procedure. It’s very unnatural with the window, middle, then aisle. Many people ignored it and the [...]

Introducing nextgoogleceo.com 3.0

Lately, Google has been showing that is it participating in customer listening. This is good! I hope it continues.
Since I’ve started studying search engine marketing these past full months full time, I’ve been applying to Google - even with employee referrals of former co-workers and people I’ve met at Search Engine Strategies, etc. with out [...]

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