"What is the Cost of Doing Nothing"
Talk about a creepy portrayal of Eric Schmidt, this video creeped me out. This video was played 36 per day on the Jumbotron in Times Square
Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit advocacy group with a special fondness for attacking Google, has posted a cartoon on YouTube that depicts Eric Schmidt exploiting children.
New Facebook update has arrived with Facebook Places and several new features and fixes.
Use Places on your iPhone
Over at Reddit, people who work at Google are invited to tell what it’s really like there. Knowing that some replies posted in such threads may be fake, here are three comments, from the negative to the positive. http://bit.ly/cxVHa9
GoogleEmployee22k
Google is a great place to work. These are the things I like about my job:
1) Everyone is super smart
2) 18 different cafes
3) Free Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
4) The food is gourmet quality (e.g. omelet bar, chefs that make custom sandwiches for you, sashimi, free drinks 24/7, free snacks of all sorts 24/7.
5) The 7 person conference bicycles
6) Every Friday, Larry, Sergei, or Eric takes questions from us (in person), and we get free beer (e.g. Downtown Brown)
7) Gyms all over
Free Laundry done for us
9) Discounted massages
10) Refrigerators with assorted Odwallas in every building
11) Free bicycles that we can just get on and ride to different buildings
12) Always pickup soccer games, or basketball games going on
13) Amazing free automated massage chairs in every building
14) Lap pool, volleyball court, tennis court, basketball court, etc.
15) You can bring your dog with you to the office every day (1 out of 4 employees always has their dog with them)
16) Free shuttle to and from work everyday. (The shuttle has wi-fi). It even goes to SF.
The very best part about working for Google is that the campus has a very collegiate feel. There is no dressing up, ever (you will get strange looks if you do), everyone is amazingly smart and nice, we dedicate 20% of our time to whatever project we want, and the food is the best I’ve ever had. It’s all self sustainable. It’s like a glorious hippie engineering commune.
Hey Youtubers get your camera & be a part of the world’s largest user-generated feature film. On July 24, 2010 Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald with the YouTube Community will create a documentary for the Sundance Film Festival January 2011. One World, 24 Hours, 6 Billion Perspectives. This will be an Historic Global Experiment. Document your day and submit it to be a part of Life in a Day 2010.
Experian® Hitwise® announced today that Google accounted for 72.17 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending May 29, 2010 while Bing sees continued growth to verticals.
| Percentage of U.S. searches among leading search engine providers | |||
| Domain | April 2010 | May 2010 | Month-over-month percentage change |
| www.google.com | 71.40% | 72.17% | 1% |
| search.yahoo.com | 14.96% | 14.43% | -3% |
| www.bing.com* | 9.43% | 9.23% | -2% |
| www.ask.com | 2.18% | 2.14% | -2% |
| Note: Data is based on four-week rolling periods (ending May 1, 2010, and May 29, 2010) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. Figures are for Web searches only. *This includes executed searches on Bing.com but does not include searches on Club.Live.com. |
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| Source: Experian Hitwise | |||
Among the top three search engines, Google delivered the most visits to the four categories below year over year. Google’s percentage of upstream traffic grew for the Automotive, Shopping and Travel categories. Yahoo! Search saw gains in the Automotive and Shopping categories. Bing saw triple-digit growth in two categories – Health and Shopping – including a 107 percent increase in the Health category.
Shift to two- and three-word queries
Shorter search queries – those averaging one to four words long – were flat from April 2010 to May 2010. Two-word searches comprised the majority of searches, amounting to 23.34 percent of all queries, and increased 1 percent in May 2010. Three-word searches also increased 1 percent. Longer search queries, averaging searches of five to more than eight words in length, declined 2 percent between April 2010 and May 2010.
| Percentage of U.S. clicks by number of keywords | |||
| Subject | April 2010 | May 2010 | Month-over-month percentage change |
| One word | 22.77% | 22.46% | -1% |
| Two words | 23.06% | 23.34% | 1% |
| Three words | 20.31% | 20.51% | 1% |
| Four words | 14.23% | 14.24% | 0% |
| Five words | 8.55% | 8.53% | 0% |
| Six words | 4.71% | 4.66% | -1% |
| Seven words | 2.60% | 2.56% | -2% |
| Eight or more words | 3.78% | 3.70% | -2% |
| Note: Data is based on four-week rolling periods (ending May 1, 2010, and May 29, 2010) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. | |||
| Source: Experian Hitwise | |||
Google confirms Mayday, what is Mayday? At the Toronto SES 2010 maile Ohye said Mayday is like doing laundry a few pieces at a time rather than the whole load. What does that mean? sites that were spam or low quailty sites will be filterd out to have higher quality sites rank better and give the user a better search experience on Google.Filtering sites one at a time will keep the Google index 50% fresher.
As webmaster we need to provide better content for the user and won’t have to worry about these types of updates from Google.
Have a look at the new iPhone 4G, leaded photo’s and video from a Vietnamese site. Looks square and more durable from the older 3G model. Expected to come out for release in June 2010 or July 2010.
Yahoo and it’s You Campaign. they take a sharp bite at Google’s home page. According to Yahoo Google is just a box on a page.
Yahoo’s CEO, Carol Bartz, told the BBC that “Google is going to have a problem because Google is only known for their search…they’ve got to find other things to do.”
Google has made an update and refreshed the SERP’s, with this update you can perform faster and more relevant search.
It has a dynamic left navigation, This highlights the most relevant search and refines your search to better search for images or even blog posts. You can also search by time line.
Going back to Vegas for a conference and next week and considering buying the new Apple iPad. Looking at some reviews but not sure what the consensus is. Or is the iPad just another gadget that is nice to have?
Advertisers are already taking advantage of the media that is available on the iPad. Here is a quick look from ClickZ
Well by the end of next week I’ll post my review of the iPad.
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