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Google Product Page displaying Untitled in Google SERP

2012-01-31T21:21:00.001-08:00

Recently i've noticed Google Product Page is displaying "Untitled" in Google SERP has No title tag. When i enter search term "google adword keyword tool" in google search engine i've noticed that adwords tool page title tag displays "Untitled" in Google SERP. Even major search engine Google has this problem. What about other sites??? :)

Google Killed Some of its Products

2011-11-28T20:54:00.001-08:00

Google announced more "spring cleaning" where they are killing off more of the products.

Most of you know they killed off Google Search Timeline a couple weeks ago, but now they told the world.

Others going away include:

Google Bookmarks Lists
Google Friend Connect
Google Gears
Google Wave
Knol
Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal

For more details see the Google blog for dates and such.

Google Freshness Update

2011-11-28T20:27:00.000-08:00

Google Freshness Update

Last week Google released yet another algorithm update, and although it wasn’t Panda 2.6 or Panda 2.5.2, it has affected up to 35% of searches. The newly-named ‘freshness update’ is built on the Caffeine update that was launched last year, allowing Google to provide the very latest content.

Google’s Amit Singhal states that

“Given the incredibly fast pace at which information moves in today’s world, the most recent information can be from the last week, day or even minute, and depending on the search terms, the algorithm needs to be able to figure out if a result from a week ago about a TV show is recent, or if a result from a week ago about breaking news is too old.”

This seems to be a very timely release, especially in the UK, with lots of hot topics currently trending on the web and on social media, including Frankie Cocozza being kicked off the X Factor, the England poppy fiasco and Carlos Tevez leaving Manchester. With all these topics trending across the web, the freshness update has provided us with the very latest information on the subject from the last day, hour or even minute. There has been a lot of information around about the freshness update and here is Google’s official announcement.

So we know that the algorithm will do the following:

Shows the lasted information on hot topics, trending stories and breaking news.
Provides the latest information on regular and upcoming events including concerts, Olympics, General Elections, etc.
Identify the very latest information on product releases, product reviews and information.

To determine how various websites were affected, Searchmetrics performed its analysis using its own SEO database, which ranks sites using its “SEO Visibility” metric. This metric is based on the search volume of a keyword, the type of search (informational, navigational or transactional) and the rank of the URL in question.

In the initial list of winners and losers (see below), Searchmetrics provides the previous SEO Visibility for the sites as of October 30th and the current rank as of November 6th. The percent change is also indicated on the far right, while the type of site is on the far left.

Winners

Losers

Google Plus Badge on your website

2011-11-16T07:46:00.000-08:00

Google Plus Badge on Your Website

The Google+ badge helps you grow your audience on Google+ and show more recommendations in Google search by letting people add you to their circles and +1 your page, all without leaving your site.

Today, the badge is available to Google+ platform preview group. To get the badge, sign up for the group and then visit the configuration tool and choose the badge size that’s best for your site. If you’re in the group, you may also begin to encounter the badge as you browse around the web.

By using the Google+ badge to connect your website to your Google+ page, you:

Make it easy for your audience to subscribe to your posts and endorse and share your site.
Get more personal recommendations around the web, by connecting +1’s for your website with +1’s on your Google+ page.
Qualify for Google+ Direct Connect, which lets people type +your_site_name on Google search and automatically start following your page.

Understand the basics for better website performance

2011-11-11T00:25:00.000-08:00

In today’s world, a website is considered as a powerful and ultimate sales tool that opens your business into the world. A website increases your market presence acting as an effective PR tool. Nowadays websites are designed with multi purpose in mind like high rich user experience, ecommerce functionality, easy navigation and various factors. To achieve public awareness and high return on investments, just setting up a website is not enough. You will need to frame certain website goals in terms of its performance that will transform your website into very good sales tool.

Different factors that affect your website performance:

Website Content – Quality Content
Attractive Design of the Website
Website Speed
Browser Compatibility
Regular website updates
SEO, External and Internal Linking and many other related factors.

For retailers, who want to make business out of their website should develop their website as a sales and marketing tool. It needs to make the visitors buy your product, to make people to remember your website and come back again, to provide valuable information that will convince your customers and business partners. To learn about your website functioning, monitor its performance regularly. For retailers it doesn’t matter how many visitors make their way into your website, what matters is how many visitors make a purchase.

Here is a important stats that might benefits the retailers. According to Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide, web sales grew 31.3 percent in 2010 to $1.89 billion and accounted for 25 percent of the company's total sales. Brick-and-mortar shopping experience for the Web says that retailers are doing a better job of delivering a high-quality user experience. There has been shakeup in website speed category and rankings in terms of reliability when compared to last year. This shows that how important Google values user experience in website.

Retailers should compare their website with a normal store. People walk into a store, ask questions, enquire about various products and eventually end up buying them only when they are convinced. Similarly people come to know about your product through various online resources, seek reviews about your product, if they are convinced about your product they end up buying it.

There are various online advertising possibilities available some free, some paid. Choose whatever works well for you. Don’t just blindly put a bulk of money on Google Adwords or any PPC Campaigns. Do a little research about the conversion rates they provide before investing in them.

Don’t start an advertising campaign if your website is not designed as a marketing or sales tool. For example your website should have a good logo, list the awards your business has got, list the benefits your product or service brings, show people why they need to buy your product, provide a demo or a free trial and don't forget about the customer support.

More than everything discussed above, your website should look like a professional one with quality content. No customer will buy a product from an improper website that looks sluggish. Also provide an easy navigation to product pages so that users can find your products in one or two clicks.

Also optimize all your web pages with proper title tags, description and keywords to gain SEO benefits. It is very important that your website does not have any dead links and images. Finally always be prepared to make changes if you don't get the expected results in certain period of time.

Search Engine Robots Txt Files

2011-11-10T21:18:00.000-08:00

Google Robots Txt File

Url: https://www.google.com/robots.txt

Disallow: /search
Disallow: /groups
Disallow: /images
Disallow: /catalogs
Allow: /catalogs/about
Disallow: /catalogues
Disallow: /news
Allow: /news/directory
Disallow: /nwshp
Disallow: /setnewsprefs?
Disallow: /index.html?
Disallow: /?
Disallow: /addurl/image?
Disallow: /pagead/
Disallow: /relpage/
Disallow: /relcontent
Disallow: /imgres
Disallow: /imglanding
Disallow: /sbd
Disallow: /keyword/
Disallow: /u/
Disallow: /univ/
Disallow: /cobrand
Disallow: /custom
Disallow: /advanced_group_search
Disallow: /googlesite
Disallow: /preferences
Disallow: /setprefs
Disallow: /swr
Disallow: /url
Disallow: /default
Disallow: /m?
Disallow: /m/?
Disallow: /m/blogs?
Disallow: /m/directions?
Disallow: /m/ig
Disallow: /m/images?
Disallow: /m/imgres?
Disallow: /m/local?
Disallow: /m/movies?
Disallow: /m/news?
Disallow: /m/news/i?
Disallow: /m/place?
Disallow: /m/products?
Disallow: /m/products/
Disallow: /m/setnewsprefs?
Disallow: /m/search?
Disallow: /m/swmloptin?
Disallow: /m/trends
Disallow: /m/video?
Disallow: /wml?
Disallow: /wml/?
Disallow: /wml/search?
Disallow: /xhtml?
Disallow: /xhtml/?
Disallow: /xhtml/search?
Disallow: /xml?
Disallow: /imode?
Disallow: /imode/?
Disallow: /imode/search?
Disallow: /jsky?
Disallow: /jsky/?
Disallow: /jsky/search?
Disallow: /pda?
Disallow: /pda/?
Disallow: /pda/search?
Disallow: /sprint_xhtml
Disallow: /sprint_wml
Disallow: /pqa
Disallow: /palm
Disallow: /gwt/
Disallow: /purchases
Disallow: /hws
Disallow: /bsd?
Disallow: /linux?
Disallow: /mac?
Disallow: /microsoft?
Disallow: /unclesam?
Disallow: /answers/search?q=
Disallow: /local?
Disallow: /local_url
Disallow: /shihui?
Disallow: /shihui/
Disallow: /froogle?
Disallow: /products?
Disallow: /products/
Disallow: /froogle_
Disallow: /product_
Disallow: /products_
Disallow: /products;
Disallow: /print
Disallow: /books/
Disallow: /bkshp?*q=*
Disallow: /books?*q=*
Disallow: /books?*output=*
Disallow: /books?*pg=*
Disallow: /books?*jtp=*
Disallow: /books?*jscmd=*
Disallow: /books?*buy=*
Disallow: /books?*zoom=*
Allow: /books?*q=related:*
Allow: /books?*q=editions:*
Allow: /books?*q=subject:*
Allow: /books/about
Allow: /booksrightsholders
Allow: /books?*zoom=1*
Allow: /books?*zoom=5*
Disallow: /ebooks/
Disallow: /ebooks?*q=*
Disallow: /ebooks?*output=*
Disallow: /ebooks?*pg=*
Disallow: /ebooks?*jscmd=*
Disallow: /ebooks?*buy=*
Disallow: /ebooks?*zoom=*
Allow: /ebooks?*q=related:*
Allow: /ebooks?*q=editions:*
Allow: /ebooks?*q=subject:*
Allow: /ebooks?*zoom=1*
Allow: /ebooks?*zoom=5*
Disallow: /patents?
Allow: /patents?id=
Allow: /patents?vid=
Disallow: /scholar
Disallow: /citations?
Allow: /citations?user=
Allow: /citations?view_op=new_profile
Disallow: /complete
Disallow: /s?
Disallow: /sponsoredlinks
Disallow: /videosearch?
Disallow: /videopreview?
Disallow: /videoprograminfo?
Disallow: /maps?
Disallow: /mapstt?
Disallow: /mapslt?
Disallow: /maps/stk/
Disallow: /maps/br?
Disallow: /mapabcpoi?
Disallow: /maphp?
Disallow: /mapprint?
Disallow: /maps/api/js/StaticMapService.GetMapImage?
Disallow: /maps/api/staticmap?
Disallow: /mld?
Disallow: /staticmap?
Disallow: /places/
Allow: /places/$
Disallow: /maps/place
Disallow: /help/maps/streetview/partners/welcome/
Disallow: /lochp?
Disallow: /center
Disallow: /ie?
Disallow: /sms/demo?
Disallow: /katrina?
Disallow: /blogsearch?
Disallow: /blogsearch/
Disallow: /blogsearch_feeds
Disallow: /advanced_blog_search
Disallow: /reader/
Allow: /reader/play
Disallow: /uds/
Disallow: /chart?
Disallow: /transit?
Disallow: /mbd?
Disallow: /extern_js/
Disallow: /calendar/feeds/
Disallow: /calendar/ical/
Disallow: /cl2/feeds/
Disallow: /cl2/ical/
Disallow: /coop/directory
Disallow: /coop/manage
Disallow: /trends?
Disallow: /trends/music?
Disallow: /trends/hottrends?
Disallow: /trends/viz?
Disallow: /notebook/search?
Disallow: /musica
Disallow: /musicad
Disallow: /musicas
Disallow: /musicl
Disallow: /musics
Disallow: /musicsearch
Disallow: /musicsp
Disallow: /musiclp
Disallow: /browsersync
Disallow: /call
Disallow: /archivesearch?
Disallow: /archivesearch/url
Disallow: /archivesearch/advanced_search
Disallow: /base/reportbadoffer
Disallow: /urchin_test/
Disallow: /movies?
Disallow: /codesearch?
Disallow: /codesearch/feeds/search?
Disallow: /wapsearch?
Disallow: /safebrowsing
Allow: /safebrowsing/diagnostic
Allow: /safebrowsing/report_badware/
Allow: /safebrowsing/report_error/
Allow: /safebrowsing/report_phish/
Disallow: /reviews/search?
Disallow: /orkut/albums
Allow: /jsapi
Disallow: /views?
Disallow: /c/
Disallow: /cbk
Allow: /cbk?output=tile&cb_client=maps_sv
Disallow: /recharge/dashboard/car
Disallow: /recharge/dashboard/static/
Disallow: /translate_a/
Disallow: /translate_c
Disallow: /translate_f
Disallow: /translate_static/
Disallow: /translate_suggestion
Disallow: /profiles/me
Allow: /profiles
Disallow: /s2/profiles/me
Allow: /s2/profiles
Allow: /s2/photos
Allow: /s2/static
Disallow: /s2
Disallow: /transconsole/portal/
Disallow: /gcc/
Disallow: /aclk
Disallow: /cse?
Disallow: /cse/home
Disallow: /cse/panel
Disallow: /cse/manage
Disallow: /tbproxy/
Disallow: /imesync/
Disallow: /shenghuo/search?
Disallow: /support/forum/search?
Disallow: /reviews/polls/
Disallow: /hosted/images/
Disallow: /ppob/?
Disallow: /ppob?
Disallow: /ig/add?
Disallow: /adwordsresellers
Disallow: /accounts/o8
Allow: /accounts/o8/id
Disallow: /topicsearch?q=
Disallow: /xfx7/
Disallow: /squared/api
Disallow: /squared/search
Disallow: /squared/table
Disallow: /toolkit/
Allow: /toolkit/*.html
Disallow: /globalmarketfinder/
Allow: /globalmarketfinder/*.html
Disallow: /qnasearch?
Disallow: /app/updates
Disallow: /sidewiki/entry/
Disallow: /quality_form?
Disallow: /labs/popgadget/search
Disallow: /buzz/post
Disallow: /compressiontest/
Disallow: /analytics/reporting/
Disallow: /analytics/admin/
Disallow: /analytics/web/
Disallow: /analytics/feeds/
Disallow: /analytics/settings/
Disallow: /alerts/
Disallow: /ads/preferences/
Allow: /ads/preferences/html/
Allow: /ads/preferences/plugin
Disallow: /phone/compare/?
Allow: /alerts/manage
Disallow: /travel/clk
Disallow: /commercesearch/services/search/
Sitemap: http://www.gstatic.com/s2/sitemaps/profiles-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://www.google.com/hostednews/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: http://www.google.com/ventures/sitemap_ventures.xml
Sitemap: http://www.google.com/sitemaps_webmasters.xml
Sitemap: http://www.gstatic.com/trends/websites/sitemaps/sitemapindex.xml
Sitemap: http://www.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sitemaps/sitemap_index.xml

Yahoo Robots Txt File

Url: http://www.yahoo.com/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /p/
Disallow: /r/
Disallow: /*?

Bing Robots Txt File

Url: http://www.bing.com/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /bmi/
Disallow: /BVFrame.aspx
Disallow: /BVSandbox.aspx
Disallow: /cashback/admin
Disallow: /cashback/go
Disallow: /challenge
Disallow: /community/forums/tags
Disallow: /community/login.aspx?
Disallow: /fd/
Disallow: /history
Disallow: /images/search?
Disallow: /images?
Disallow: /kids/
Disallow: /maps/clicks.ashx?
Disallow: /math/
Allow: /news/search?*p1=%5bNewsVertical+Category%3d*%5d
Disallow: /news/search?
Disallow: /nutrition/
Disallow: /previewx
Disallow: /products/?q
Disallow: /products/accelerator
Disallow: /products/search?q
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /Proxy.ashx
Disallow: /results
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /Search
Disallow: /settings
Disallow: /shopping/*/c/*?q
Disallow: /shopping/*/search
Disallow: /shopping/accelerator
Disallow: /shopping/cashback/go
Disallow: /shopping/cashback/search?q
Disallow: /shopping/sa/
Disallow: /shopping/search?
Disallow: /shopping/twitter
Disallow: /social/search?
Disallow: /spbasic
Disallow: /spresults
Disallow: /static/
Disallow: /travel/css
Disallow: /travel/flight/flightSearch
Disallow: /travel/flight/flightSearchAction
Disallow: /travel/hotel/hotelMiniSearchRequest
Disallow: /travel/hotel/hotelSearch
Disallow: /travel/scripts
Disallow: /travel/secure
Disallow: /twitter/search?
Disallow: /videos/search?
Disallow: /videos?
Disallow: /w3c/
Disallow: /xrank/search?

Sitemap: http://sitemap.video.msn.com/sitemap/sitemap-en-us-index.xml
Sitemap: http://www.bing.com/browse/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://www.bing.com/celebrities/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://www.bing.com/finance/sitemapIndex.xml
Sitemap: http://www.bing.com/ges/2/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://www.bing.com/movies/search/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://www.bing.com/music/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: http://www.bing.com/news/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://www.bing.com/onlinegames/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://www.bing.com/recipe/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://www.bing.com/shopping/static/sitemapindex.xml
Sitemap: http://www.bing.com/travel/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://www.bing.com/travel/sitemap/sitemapDestinations
Sitemap: http://www.bing.com/tv/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://www.bing.com/videogames/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://www.bing.com/weather/sitemap.xml

Google Plus Releases Two New Sharing Options

2011-10-10T21:33:00.000-07:00

A new unleash of sharing choices is currently out there on Google+. +Ebby Amirebrahimi simply announced that this unleash was created attainable as a result of it had been a preferred demand by Google+ users.

The favorite feature of Google+ is that the availability to make circles as a result of it helps up management who we have a tendency to share our posts with. Today’s unleash currently takes privacy even more by permitting you to at least one of my favorite components concerning Google+ is how circles facilitate me management who I share things with. And if i need to travel a step more, to try and do things like disable comments, or lock my post to form positive nobody reshares it.

5 Things Google Plus Can Do to Outbox Facebook

2011-09-25T00:57:00.000-07:00

It's been a desirable year within the social networking area, as heavyweight champion Facebook fends off some solid blows from muscley contender Google plus. but over the past week, it has been nearly all Facebook - with the discharge of the Subscriber button and vastly improved lists (akin to Google plus "circles"). This week, or maybe I ought to say spherical, is additionally shaping up to be a giant one for Facebook. Its annual developer conference F8 is on this Thursday in San Francisco. in step with uber-blogger Robert Scoble, "Facebook has one among its biggest releases ever returning in the week." ReadWriteWeb are going to be at F8 to hide no matter massive punches Facebook delivers.

Meanwhile the Google plus team has been fairly quiet lately, apart from the announcement of a (limited) API last week. Here are 5 things we tend to want Google plus would do, each to boost its still nascent product and to form Facebook stagger to a small degree against the ropes!

1. Automate creation and maintenance of Circles.

This has been my most wanted drawback with Google plus thus far: the massive quantity of effort it takes up front to form circles of individuals (a.k.a. friends lists) and then the continued problem of maintaining them.

Facebook showed the means forward for Google plus, by launching improved - and semi-automated - friends lists last week. Facebook currently automatically creates lists primarily based on your location, workplace and one or two a lot of bits of knowledge from your profile. It's still comparatively easy and not perfectly implemented. however it is a damn sight higher than ranging from scratch, that Google plus causes you to do.

2. Add a special search box for Google plus.

While any public content on Google plus may be searched using normal Google search, any non-public post or knowledge regarding Circles is hidden from Google.com. The Google plus team is aware of this can be one thing their users wish, thus it's possible they are acting on an inside Google plus search as we tend to speak. it'll be a good addition when it finally happens, as a result of neither Facebook or Twitter will an honest job archiving and surfacing previous posts.

Twitter contains a notoriously short memory, whereas Facebook has (up until now) been happy to form its users 'live within the moment.' a good Google plus search can build Facebook reassess that, as a result of suddenly Google plus would become quite a memory bank for its users. The success of Evernote - a note-taking app that markets itself as an "online brain" - is an indicator that social networks would like a extended memory.

3. Open up the API!

The Google+ API is restricted to public knowledge, thus external developers will not be ready to faucet into non-public knowledge or info regarding Circles. it is a no-brainer to eventually open it up and also the Google plus team has stated this may happen. provided that the complete Facebook platform is based on third party developers accessing non-public info regarding users, this cannot return soon enough for Google plus if it desires to rapidly build its platform.

(If you are not certain what I mean by third party apps accessing your non-public Facebook knowledge, simply recall what percentage times you have clicked "yes" to an online app that requests to be ready to write to your Facebook wall and seemingly do something it else it pleases along with your knowledge.)

Update: Google engineer can Norris questioned the higher than statement, in Google plus of course: "remind me once more why it's in users' best interest to rush out and enable that on Google+." My response: it's in users' interest as a result of they will get a large amount of nice third party apps that do wonderful things with their knowledge. (and yes I admit it is a double-edged sword)

4. Hurry up with pages for brands.

It's common data that Google plus is functioning on implementing pages for brands, which is able to be kind of like Facebook Pages. i might prefer to see these pages be far more simply surfaced and arranged in Google plus than they're with Facebook. I usually realize myself 'liking' a complete page on Facebook, then never beholding it once more as a result of it's hidden away. Why cannot I place my favorite complete pages in my main Facebook menu? Why cannot I add it immediately to an inventory once I 'like' it (instead of getting to manually attend the list and place the new Page into it, that is time consuming).

Google plus has the chance to form far more user friendly complete pages, which is able to solely profit each users and types.

5. Realize how to entice my family and non-geeky friends onto Google and.

This may be the foremost necessary challenge that Google plus faces if it's actually reaching to challenge Facebook. whereas Google plus contains a fervent base of early adopter users, it hasn't managed to draw in mainstream folks nevertheless. i do not have any statistical proof of that, however you merely got to cross-check who you are interacting with on Google plus. on behalf of me it's all trade folks, that makes for a good social network if you would like to debate work matters. that is why Robert Scoble loves Google plus such a lot.

So far just one of my relations is using Google plus - my iPad 2-toting brother. And he is using it mainly to form humorous references regarding the shortage of individuals he is aware of on Google plus. In distinction, all of my immediate family and an honest portion of my nuclear family uses Facebook. Sure, it took years for all to arrive there. however the purpose is, Google plus has to eventually realize how to entice them onto its service. or even the very fact that Google plus are going to be such an intricate a part of the longer term Google product line (search, e-commerce and thus on) is what is going on to eventually get my family and others using and.

Those are five things i might like to see from Google plus, as soon as doable. i have not even mentioned the massive grievance from recent weeks: Google plus does not permit folks to pick out user names that are not their real names. This has been a controversial issue and it too has to be resolved.

What else does one suppose Google plus ought to do so as to stay the pressure on Facebook? And by the means, this 'battle' is nice news for us customers - because it forces each corporations to offer us what we're clamoring for. and that we will not mind if a little of bigco blood gets spilled within the method.

Google Improves iOS App for Google Plus

2011-09-25T00:27:00.000-07:00

Google is on a roll, not sitting idly by while Facebook has its moment in the media spotlight. After opening its Google+ social network to the public — gaining an additional 10 million users in its first two days — now the search giant follows Tuesday’s Android update of Google+ with a similar refresh to its iOS version, now available free on the App Store [iTunes link].

What’s new? Like its Android cousin, the iOS version of the Google+ mobile app now supports Hangouts, letting groups communicate with each other using front-facing cameras on the iPhone 4 and iPod touch. In addition to Hangouts, the app offers better control of its various notifications, and a renamed Messenger (formerly Huddle) that now lets users attach photos to chat threads.

Other niceties include the ability to +1 in comments, improved +mention support, a map view in Profile for places you’ve lived, and various reliability improvements. Macstories‘ Federico Viticci had a chance to try out the new features in Hangouts — take a look at his experience here.

Facebook Vs Toilets

2011-09-12T22:14:00.000-07:00

A study from the London Science Museum shows that Brits would have real bother living while not Facebook. In fact, they'd rather live while not flushing bathrooms, central heating, air-con, pain killers, vacuum cleaners, and shoes.

The study was conducted as the way to prove how necessary clean drinking water is. whereas drinking water did rank third, the LSM did not prove quite the purpose they were going for.

For one, the amount 2 item – right below sunshine – was a web association. and also the manner folks used that net association most looks to be Facebooking. Facebook came in fifth, simply in need of fridges.

Google created it to the list likewise, ranking at variety twenty two, simply on top of "a car" and right below "fresh fruit." Twitter additionally created it on at the terribly bottom of the list, behind the Xbox.

Other notable tech things on the list included mobile phones, that ranked tenth, on top of laundry machines and showers (people would apparently well be connected than clean); flat screen TVs, that ranked thirty first, right on top of "wedding ring" (which might justify the high divorce rate); and laptops, that because the variety twenty six item managed to outrank chocolate.

Here's the full list:

Sunshine
Internet connection
Clean drinking water
Fridge
Facebook
NHS
Cooker
Email
Flushing toilet
Mobile phone / smartphone
Tea and Coffee
Washing machine
Shower
Central heating
Painkillers
Fresh vegetables
Vacuum Cleaner
Kettle
Sofa
Shoes
Fresh fruit
Google
Car
Hair straighteners
Public transport
Laptop
Chocolate
DVD Player
Wristwatch
Make-up
Flat screen TV
Wedding ring
Tumble dryer
Bottled water
Ebay
Bicycle
Ipod
Air conditioning
Disposable nappies
Light bulbs
Spell-check
Sat Nav
Push-up bra
Nintendo Wii
iPad
Gym Membership
Season ticket to your football club
Freezer
Xbox
Twitter

Google+ is the Best Place for SEO

2011-09-12T02:26:00.000-07:00

Google+ is the best place for SEO

Robert Scoble told me this big secret: Google+ is the best place for SEO, here is the reason:

Because, let’s be honest, Google has one huge stick: search. If you would like your words, images, or videos to be out there in Google search you would like to place them within the places which will be rewarded best by Google.

That place is Google+.

And that’s the rationale why Robert Scoble need everyone leaves Google+

So, if everybody left Google+ that will leave the simplest SEO technology out there to simply, well, him. which suggests his videos, blogs, and photos would seem higher on search than yours.

Which means his world-domination media plans would work.

Google Plus Photo Importer on the Apple App Store

2011-09-11T20:05:00.000-07:00

Google Plus Photo Importer enables you to Import a hundred photos in but a second, straight to your Google+ profile from Facebook, Instagram, Flickr and Photobucket.

Built on cloud to cloud technology, Google Plus Photo Importer permits you to bring your on-line photos along from varied social networks, and it’s blazing fast!

Here’s what you get…

Access your Facebook, Flickr, Instagram and Photobucket photo albums.
Copy 100 photos in less than a minute.
Built on Cloud to Cloud technology: Easily import dozens of photos in seconds.
Does not affect bandwidth or data usage “Cloud based transfers”.
Select multiple or all photos in your albums – transfer with a single tap.
Imports your photo’s Metadata – Titles, Descriptions.
Save a lot of time and hassle.

Google Plus is riding the high wave of social networking with over twenty five million users, but most of your photos are still scattered across the online. Bring all along into your new Google Plus profile with Google Plus Photo Importer by Dropico Mobile.

Google Offers Free Calls Home From Gmail for American Troops

2011-08-31T23:52:00.000-07:00

Google is aware of how valuable our service men and ladies are, and the way onerous it's to be off from home on long tours of duty. the corporate is giving back where it will, by providing free calls at intervals Gmail to the states for individuals with a sound .mil email address. it'd not seem to be a lot of, however you'd perceive when obtaining your 1st cellular phone bill with roaming charges from the jap mountains of Afghanistan. to require advantage all you have got to try and do is add your military address to your Google account and click on a link within the verification email and you are smart to travel.

There are two easy steps to enable free calling from Gmail (detailed instructions):

Add your valid .mil email address to your Google Account
Click on the Call phone link at the top of the Gmail chat roster and install the voice and video Gmail plugin if you haven’t already.

And don’t forget that for friends and family at home in the U.S., calling troops abroad is as little as $.02/minute.

Similar to free calling within the U.S., free calling to the U.S. for sehttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifrvice members will be available for at least the rest of 2011.

Google recognize and appreciate the sacrifices U.S. troops make when they serve abroad, and we’re proud to help make it a little bit easier for them to stay connected and hear a familiar voice.

Source: Free calls home from Gmail for all U.S. service members

The 50 Best Websites of 2011

2011-08-31T09:34:00.000-07:00

The 50 Best Websites of 2011 Full List

Music & Video

8tracks
HBO GO
Howcast
My Damn Channel
Turntable.fm

Family & Kids

CafeMom
Dear Photograph
Poptropica
Proust
Wonderopolis

Sports

Bleacher Report
Grantland
Jayski's Silly Season Site
Onion Sports Network
SB Nation

News & Info

Big Think
GetHuman
Instapaper
ScienceDaily
Techmeme

Financial & Productivity

DuckDuckGo
Evernote
Join.me
Kickstarter
LearnVest

Shopping & Travel

Airbnb
Gogobot
Hipmunk
Polyvore
Retrevo

Health & Fitness

CalorieKing
HealthGrades
MapMyRun
Summer Tomato
Zen Habits

Social Media

Google+
Klout
Pinterest
Quora
Storify

Games

The Escapist
Giant Bomb
OnLive
Touch Arcade
Retrocade

Education

Freerice
Khan Academy
Open Yale Courses
Smarthistory
Starfall

Gmail Wll Soon Be Displaying Recent Google+ Posts

2011-08-27T22:05:00.000-07:00

Google+ is beginning to create little appearances on different Google services. Googler Mark Striebeck has announced that Gmail can soon be displaying recent Google+ posts from those you are in email conversations with.

The New Gmail Feature

While users haven't however reported seeing the Google+ post widget in Gmail, Striebeck has announced that the interior Google version of Gmail (an setting known as "Unicorn") is currently showing the expanded widget. He provided this screenshot:

These recent Google+ posts are integrated with the "People" widget that was introduced in could. That widget normally shows basic data of these you are in a very Gmail conversation with. Previously, this was restricted to a outline of recently exchanged messages, shared calendar things and docs, recent Buzz posts, and also the choice to begin a Gmail chat with or create a decision to the user. The re-creation looks to switch the thrill post phase with a Google+.

Google+ Spreading Across the Google Frontier

Striebeck calls this "a 1st, small step"; it's doubtless we'll see far more integration between Gmail and Google+ within the future. Additionally, we're beginning to see alittle Google+ presence on different platforms, as well as the YouTube sharing button and Google Profiles.

Google is assured enough in its social web site that, simply 2 months once its initial launch, the platform is being integrated publicly. However, that confidence alone isn't enough to administer a lot of reassurance to those who've paid shut attention to Google's social history. After all, Buzz received similar attention within the weeks once its unleash, however has since been nearly entirely abandoned by each Google and users.

Facebook Launched Similar Features of Google+?

2011-08-26T07:16:00.000-07:00

Facebook has launched a group of latest privacy choices that provide users larger management over tags and post visibility. The new controls appear to be an endeavor to match the foremost praised options of Google+.

Facebook's New options

Facebook's post saying the changes outlines plenty of extras, however they will be summed up as follows:

Users can currently be given the chance to review and approve tags before those tags are created public or the images/posts themselves seem on their user profile.
Users will currently alter the privacy settings of any given post even when the post has been revealed.
It's currently doable to tag users who you are not friends with; those users can then be able to approve or deny those tags. you'll additionally add geo-location tags to any post.
many privacy controls, together with sharing settings and also the choice to "view profile as," are moved to a lot of visible locations.

Facebook additionally specified that the sharing menu "will be expanding over time to incorporate smaller teams of individuals you'll need to share with, like co-workers, Friend Lists you have created, and teams you are a member of."

Matching Google+

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Unsurprisingly, several of those options were seen as makes an attempt to mimic Google+. Bradley Horowitz, Google Product VP for and, was interviewed constant day these options were initially released. Horowitz referred to as the new settings "familiar," however additionally stated that those at Google were excited to envision Facebook creating decisions that benefited users.

Google+ was noted by comScore because the fastest growing web site of all time, thus it isn't onerous to envision Facebook's motivation for matching distinctive options of their new competitor.

In addition to the announced changes that are thus like Google+ Circles, Facebook recently announced a Skype partnership for video chatting (similar to Google+ Hangouts) and also the acquisition of a mobile group-messaging service (similar to Google+ Huddle).

You Know what is Cool? A Trillion Pageviews

Despite the introduction of and, Facebook continues to be faring well, having lost no notable chunk of its user-base since Plus's late-June unharness. Facebook additionally saw 162 million U.S. visits in July compared to a hundred and sixty million in June and 157 million in might. Meanwhile, all Google properties combined reached 182 million U.S. visits in July.

Meanwhile, Facebook hit one trillion pageviews in June and 870 million distinctive guests, in step with information from Google's DoubleClick ad network. That works out to one,150 pageviews per visitor (a pageview includes actions together with visiting profiles, each photo clicked on, games, etc.). coming back in second was YouTube, with 790 million uniques and a hundred billion page views.

SEO Technology Company Adds Google +1 Tracking to SEO Platform

2011-08-17T00:21:00.000-07:00

Conductor, an SEO technology and intelligence company, has added Google +1 social analytics tracking to its suite. The inclusion of Google +1 tracking reflects a high demand from webmasters for Google's new social platform and its connected tools.

Conductor's Social Analytics

The newly updated version of Conductor's social tracking (Conductor Searchlight) includes Facebook likes, shares, and clicks; Twitter mentions; LinkedIn shares; and Google +1s. Users may make the most of the platform to look at the social success of competitors.

"Social media promoting has become one in every of the foremost talked concerning sides of natural search promoting, with many business studies citing correlation between social indicators and prime rankings," stated Seth Besmertnik, CEO of Conductor. The inclusion of +1 is efficacious in understanding each the potential organic search ranking impact of +1s and a booming interest within the new platform.

It's expected that Google +1 are going to be integrated into different social tracking platforms, whereas each Conductor and different similar firms are continuing to delve deeper into tracking each social feedback and its correlation to organic ranking.

The Growing Demand for Google +1

Search Engine Watch talked with Rob Rozicki, Director of Product promoting at Conductor, to examine what insights the company's early-stage tracking might lend to the present state of Google plus and therefore the +1 button. in keeping with Rozicki, social is obtaining significantly a lot of attention currently than it did a year or 2 ago.

"In all of our discussions with customers, social could be a topic," he said. "Most CMOs and most search engine marketers bring it up as a part of interest."

Webmasters are among the primary to actually get into Google +1; the button itself gained major popularity right out of the gate. in keeping with HubSpot, there is sensible reason for webmasters to follow this trend: sites with the +1 button received over 3 times the maximum amount exposure on the Google and network.

It's a bet on a current horse when it involves Google's social baby. However, since Google Plus has already set the world's record for being the fastest growing web site, it isn't a nasty bet.

"It's positively the first days" for Google +1, Rozicki said. "We're not seeing the volumes of +1s that we tend to are in Facebook Likes or Twitter shares." However, "there's enough buzz and Google has enough clout that we're assured that [...] we're planning to see several a lot of Google +1 likes within the future."

The doubtless barrier, in keeping with Rozicki, boils right down to the age of the button.

"People are not understanding +1 simply nevertheless," he said. However, as individuals begin to trust the button and see what they will get out of it, the worth for users is probably going to select up. Webmasters are currently making an attempt to organize for what several read as an inevitable boom within the popularity of the Google +1 button and therefore the young social network it's hooked up to.

Google +1 and social activity is additionally trackable with new reports in Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics

Source: SEO Technology Company Adds Google +1 Tracking to SEO Platform

Google Social Networking Google Plus Launches Gaming Channel

2011-08-13T20:42:00.000-07:00

Google Plus Launches Gaming Channel

Ever since the launch of Google Plus, the search giant has been trying to convince the world that Facebook is old news. One of the ways it's attempting to do this? By showing off how it's able to do all the things Facebook was able to do, albeit with a cleaner, more minimalist interface. With the rise of "Farmville," gaming has become a big part of Facebook, and, starting today, it's now a big part of Google Plus. Gaming, I mean...not "Farmville." Yet.

Google Plus Games is a free service available to anyone with a Google Plus account. At present, there are 16 games, many of which have already made a splash on Facebook. Familiar titles like "Bejeweled Blitz" and "Zynga Poker" are joined by the Google Plus-compatible versions of "Angry Birds" and "Diamond Dash."

As with Facebook, users need to grant games access to their profiles before playing them. This usually amounts to giving those games access to friends lists, but automatic updates on profile pages can be deactivated if you'd rather not constantly bug your friends with the success of your digital moon base.

"Angry Birds" takes social a step further, introducing a new series of levels called Teamwork. Having more friends playing "Angry Birds" through Google Plus will allow you to unlock more levels. The game also tracks the total number of stars your friends have earned, as a means of unlocking even more content.

It'll be interesting to see just how far Google is going to go with its gaming initiatives. Right now it seems like it's more following the pack than blazing its own trail, but that could change drastically as Google Plus Games matures.

Randi Zuckerberg Leaves Facebook for RToZ Media

2011-08-04T02:45:00.000-07:00

Facebook Director of Marketing Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of founder Mark Zuckerberg, has decided to leave Facebook to start her own company.

Randi Zuckerberg Social Media Firm Name As RtoZMedia and website address is http://www.rtozmedia.com/. Follow her @ http://twitter.com/#!/R2ZMedia

Randi Said, “My goal is to launch my own innovative programming and work with media companies to develop their programming in new and more social ways,” Zuckerberg wrote. “In attacking this challenge, Facebook will clearly be a central element in all of my projects. I plan to demonstrate that anyone can do groundbreaking media work on the platform.”

Zuckerberg’s first child was born several months ago, and she has been on maternity leave from Facebook. While we can imagine that starting your own company while raising a young infant is quite a juggling act in itself, we’re sure the pace will be somewhat easier on the family’s schedule.

Here is the letter and also a video I did with her last year when Zuckerberg was covering the Golden Globes in Beverly Hills for Facebook early last year.

8/3/11

Dear Sheryl and Elliot:

I've decided my time at Facebook is coming to a close.

When I think about the projects I'm most proud of during my six years at the company, they all have one thing in common –they revolve around the intersection of traditional media & social technology:

• the ABC News/Facebook Presidential Primary Debate in 2008 (first network televised debate to include social media)
• the CNN/Facebook Inauguration Partnership in 2009 (fueled a multi-billion dollar industry
around live streaming)
• The ABC/Facebook Live Election Night Coverage in 2010 (received an Emmy Nomination)
• The Davos/Facebook partnership which made The World Economic Forum accessible to millions of people
• The launch of Facebook Live, culminating less than a year later in a Town Hall with President Obama in 2011.

I have spent my years at Facebook pouring my heart and soul into innovating and pushing the media industry forward by introducing new concepts around live, social, participatory viewing that the media industry has since adopted. We have made incredible progress, but there is still much to be done and other ways I can affect change. Now is the perfect time for me to move outside of Facebook to build a company focused on the exciting trends underway in the media industry.

I'm proud of what I've done here and the people I have had the chance to work with. But I know I'll be able to do just as much or more for Facebook once I'm on the outside. My goal is to launch my own innovative programming and work with media companies to develop their programming in new, and more social ways. In attacking this challenge, Facebook will clearly be a central element in all of my projects. I plan to demonstrate that ANYONE can do groundbreaking media work on the platform. And to the extent it makes sense for you, I'd be happy to advise Facebook on media projects, “Facebook Live” or other initiatives if it is desired.

As I end this chapter of my career, know that I leave with a deep love for Facebook and I value the experiences I have had here immensely. Be assured I will continue to be a strong, vocal evangelist for the most incredible social platform ever created. I am thankful for the strong mentorship, guidance, and support, which is empowering me to follow my dreams and show that you don’t have to be an engineer to be a hacker.

Thanks for everything. If you need to reach me email at my new company is best, Randi@RtoZMedia.com.

Randi

Source: Randi Zuckerberg Leaves Facebook to Start New Social Media Firm

How to Delete Google+ or Google Plus Account Without Deleting Gmail Account?

2011-08-01T23:18:00.000-07:00

Google Plus or Google+ is that the latest social network from Google when Buzz. Orkut is additionally owned by Google however due to diminishing popularity of Orkut worldwide compared to Facebook, Google has stated one thing terribly new and radical referred to as the Google Plus. however if you don’t wish to use the Google+ anymore otherwise you wish to urge rid of your Google+ account and need to get rid of your Google+ Account we'll share a guide with you here. Most users are worried if they delete the Google plus account they'll accidentally delete their Google account, Google Reader, Gmail and alternative Google accounts furthermore. Well it's going to happen if you mistakenly delete your complete Google account. to stop this error, we'll guide you thru a secure procedure which is able to permit you to delete solely Google+ account while not deleting alternative Google accounts related to your Google or Gmail id.

How To take away Google+ and Account while not Deleting Gmail Account

There is a secure method of deleting Google Plus account that deletes solely the Google+ and not alternative Google services. Follow this tutorial fastidiously step by step:

Step 1: Click on Settings icon on the top right of the Google Plus screen when you are logged in and click on “Google+ Settings”

Step 2: Click on the Account Overview Link in the left pane and the click on the link towards the bottom of this page which says “Delete profile and social features – Delete Profile and associated social features”

Step 3: On next scree, select the option which says “Delete Google+ Content” [IMPORTANT]. Then click the check box at the bottom of the page which says “I understand that deleting the service can’t be undone and data I delete can’t be restored.”. Then click the button which says “Remove Selected Services”. This is it.

Google’s Plus Account Deletion Threats

2011-08-01T22:59:00.000-07:00

The release of Google+ meant of ton of things, however among them was a willingness on Google’s half to push users out into public. Most notably, Google has told users that their profile will either be public or deleted. Google is currently poised to wipe out the remaining non-public profiles.

Google’s Plus Deletion Threats

Not long once Google+ was initially released, Google set that there wasn’t abundant of a purpose in non-public profiles. That included Google profiles that were imported over and retained their previous privacy settings. Since Google+ is supposed to assist folks connect, the flexibility to seek out folks was vital.

Users who log into a personal profile can currently be given the choice to either delete the profile or build it public. However, creating the profile public solely needs that you just share your name. Everything else are often kept sealed. And, despite its threats, Google hasn’t nevertheless booted any non-public profiles.

Facebook Fighting With Google: Facebook Launches "Facebook for Business" Portal

2011-07-30T21:10:00.000-07:00

Facebook Launches "Facebook for Business" Portal

The latest cat-and-mouse battle between Facebook and Google is being fought within the business world – specifically, the planet of business because it seems on every company's social network. And Facebook's newest salvo, a guide to "Facebook for Business," could be a direct thumb of the nose against its scrambling competitor.

The company unveiled Facebook for Business earlier on, however do not be alarmed by the title – it isn't a replacement feature or page setup on the location for businesses. Rather, Facebook for Business could be a tiny portal that Facebook created to indicate corporations how they'll maximize their social presence on the location.

"Businesses will find out how to search out new customers before they look for them using Facebook's targeted Ads, and produce customers from the online into their stores. and that we wish to inspire tiny businesses by seeing how different businesses have found success on Facebook by sharing their stories," said a Facebook spokesman in an emailed interview with InformationWeek.

The five-page guide covers everything from a general overview of the link between businesses and Facebook pages to categorical, step-by-step directions for serving to neophyte corporations navigate the planet of Facebook (and its several features) for the primary time. It's quick, powerful, and simple to digest for businesses that simply want a fast hit of data so as to begin using the service.

And the creation of Facebook for Business is undoubtedly tied (or a minimum of, timed well) against the recent struggles of Facebook's new competitor, Google Plus. With businesses snapping at the door to hitch the service, Google Plus' inability to address the demand – and, indeed, doing a lot of to stop it by banning most branded pages from its network – has become a growing criticism of the upstart social network.

"The platform at the instant isn't engineered for the business use case, and that we wish to assist you build long-term relationships together with your customers. Doing it right is definitely worth the wait. we'll still disable business profiles using regular profiles. we tend to advocate you discover a true one that is willing to represent your organization on Google+ employing a real profile as him-or-herself," said Google product manager Christian Oestlien during a post on Google and.

Oestlien will note, however, that Google's attending to have its full-featured business profiles up and running at intervals a couple of months. however with Google failing to appreciate the massive company potential of its social service upon its unharness, Facebook seems over happy to choose up the items throughout Google's downtime.

How to Add a Google +1 Button to Your Site?

2011-07-29T02:05:00.000-07:00

Google +1 Button to Your Site

Google +1 button preview

Adding a Google +1 button on your page is a simple matter of copying and pasting snippets of code into two places on your webpage.

You can go to a Google Webmaster Central page on Google.com that will generate for you the code snippet that would enable you to add the Google +1 button on your web page.

There you can select from four different sizes of the button. The standard size is 38 x 24 pixels. But if your page has a lack of space, you can generate a smaller Medium button that is only 32 x 20 pixels wide, or the smallest Small button that is 24 x 15 pixels wide.

By default, the button will include the display of the “click count” which will require more space than the mentioned dimensions. However for each of these three sizes, you can go into the advanced options and uncheck the “include count” checkbox so as to not take up extra space by not displaying the click count. Or perhaps you simply don’t want people to see displayed on your page how many times your button +1 button was clicked. (The largest Tall size button will always include the click count.)

After you have made your selections, you will see that Google has provided you two lines of code to be placed into different places on your webpage. This code will be the same code even for different pages on your site — provided that you are not using the advanced options of “URL to +1″ or “JS callback function” (which typically you do not need to).

Google Plus Should Provide Four Important Things

2011-07-28T19:13:00.000-07:00

Saturday’s Google+ user account deletion purge plunged the new social network into a crisis of user trust. The community needs it fastened.

Saturday’s deletion of multiple Google+ user accounts spanned from well-known tech figures to standard netizens. it had been ostensibly over Google Plus’ enforcement of using so-called “real names.”

Google+ remained silent, and combined with contradictory actions over the weekend it’s currently a trust trainwreck, a growing PR shadow and a textbook-case community management nightmare.

Other social networks are currently most likely laughing into their morning occasional, whereas Google+ users are most definitely each furious and frightened.

Google+ isn't warning users before deleting user accounts, and a few folks have reported being locked out of all Google services, together with docs and Gmail.

Google+ has told some users they'll currently solely use the names on their government ID’s for his or her and profiles. Currently the policy asks that your show name is what your “friends, family, and coworkers” decision you. Requiring ID appears to contradict the stated policy.

Some users were able to notice favor with Google staff off of Google+ and have their accounts restored. Privileged Plussers like celebrity Arianna Huffington got the immediate and private restoration of her account by a Google+ Community Manager whereas others were told to hunt facilitate in forums or submit letter of invitation for review.

By Sunday, entire posts on Google+ became dedicated to documenting double-standards users witnessed.

Ex-Google staff were deleted. Writers, musicians, programmers and a lot of were deleted. And if you elected to edit your name you required to be terribly, terribly careful to not raise suspicion otherwise you were flagged for deletion in addition.

Sunday evening, folks began tweeting that they were voluntarily deleting their Google+ profiles as a pre-emptive, “no thank you” live.

Robert Scoble remarked, “Google is digging a deep hole here, not due to the principles, however due to how they're implementing them.”

But it's the concept of forcing users into identifying their legal names to the general public as a demand to use the social network that has folks angrier at Google than I expected.

Google+ user Todd Vierling revealed that programmer “+antimatter fifteen” who created many extensions for Chrome and ChromeOS together with “Cloud Save” and “CrOS Save” and “Surplus” for Google+ had his Google+ account suspended for - yes - employing a pseudonym “to shield his personal identity and safety.”

Google+ has left users thus within the dark that individuals are going out of their thanks to produce solutions for Google Plus’ drawback. Some are brazenly calling for Google+ leadership to be accountable and restore accounts.

Google Suspends Million of Google Plus Accounts?

2011-07-25T23:50:00.000-07:00

A hanging variety of Google+ accounts are deleted within the last twenty four hours because the new social network struggles with its community standards policy around real names - alienating and horrifying the individuals it aims to serve.

Removed however restored through influence is Limor Fried - AKA girl Ada / Adafruit Industries: She was recently featured on the quilt of WIRED Magazine.

Google suspended Limor Fried “Ladyada” Google+ profile, no show-and-tell tonight… http://adafru.it/b16793

Her account has simply currently been mysteriously restored, though solely when a groundswell of complaints. Suffice it to mention, the remainder of the deleted accounts won't have such well-placed benefits.

Many have currently been purged and not restored.

The message I received this morning from the supply in my previous Google+ article summarized it,

Google+ suspended my acct “After reviewing your profile, we tend to determined the name you provided violates our Community Standards.”

After consequent few messages repeating an equivalent issue, it absolutely was clear that the dam had burst and Google+ is on an account suspension rampage.

Just Like Facebook’s Real Name Hypocrisy

Ex-Google employee Kirrily “Skud” Robert. Irony? the previous Google employee that originally applauded Google Plus’ statements concerning real names had their account suspended. Kirrily “Skud” Robert writes in I’ve Been Suspended From Google+:

So today, I got off a plane this afternoon to seek out a pile of tweets, emails, and blog comments asking whether or not it absolutely was true that my Google+ account had been suspended. after I managed to induce some wifi and check, it turned out that it had been.

They are asking the ex-employee for ID verification. Kirrily “Skud” Robert continues,

It then asks me for my name (uh, don’t you recognize that already?), email (ditto), link to my profile (ditto), and asks me to supply documentation. I will either offer them a scan of my photo ID (obscuring “personal information”, no matter that means), or links to places on the net that demonstrate that this is often my name.

They recommend using Facebook (the web site that enables Google founder Sergey Brin to travel beneath a pseudonym, and whose own founder contains a page for his dog) as proof. I actually have one thing higher, though, as a result of I expected this to happen and that i had already collated my proof. I linked to that page and submitted the shape.

It raised a chilling spectre within the background concerning what happens, exactly, when Google suspends your account.

Bill Noble writes,

To be clear, the stories we’re hearing to this point are of individuals being suddenly frozen out of EVERYTHING, all their information and resources, not only 1 or a couple of Google functions. Given who we tend to early adopters are, even a couple of a lot of days of this unreasonable behavior might abort the complete G+ effort.

Others are indicating uneven application of punitive measures:

When my account was suspended it absolutely was solely my profile. I might still get to Documents, Calendar and Gmail. My G+ Stream was still updating, I simply couldn’t post to it.

Madge Weinstein simply tweeted,

simply happened to me- however they not solely suspended gplus, however rather all google services incl gmail! The notice simply said i violated TOS- nothing specific.

Multiple Account Sign-In Breakdown?

It is not an easy matter of employing a “real name” - the maximum amount of a problematic gray space as that's. Another person cited in my Google+ article has currently had their account deleted for the straightforward reason that they were using Gmail and Google+ with multiple account sign-in:

this is often tremendously disappointing for a range of reasons, not least that the multiple linked login functionality created G+ near to good for what i want. i used to be an enormous proponent of and inspired several friends to come back over here.

Oh, and for clarity: there was nothing like objectionable content within the suspended account. I merely have details of my life that i might prefer to place in my PROFILE that I don't care to share with all my contacts. Details that reach beyond Google’s privacy controls for Profiles.

Meanwhile, this chilling post is creating the rounds on tech messageboards today:

Dear Google, i might prefer to bring to your attention a couple of things before I disconnect permanently from all of your services.

On July fifteen 2011 you turned off my entire Google account. You had completely no reason to try to to this, despite your automated message telling me your system “perceived a violation.” I didn't violate any Terms of Service, either Google’s or account specific ToS, and your refusal to supply me with any proof otherwise makes me completely sure of this. and that i would really like to bring to your attention what quantity harm your carelessness has done.

My Google account was tied to almost each product Google has developed, which means that I lost everything in those accounts likewise. i used to be additionally within the method of consolidating everything into my one Google account. (…)

To say that this issue is deeply regarding is an irony to anyone and everybody that has their businesses and private lives tied to Google services and have an interest in collaborating in Google+ - even Limor Fried was collaborating as herself.

A.V. Flox, occasional contributor to the LA Weekly, LA Times’ BrandX, Village Voice Media and section editor at BlogHer has simply had her account suspended likewise.

Well known nerdcore rapper Doctor widespread lost his account nowadays - like girl Ada, he’s additionally a temperament in tech circles, and a Laughing Squid contributor. He tweeted,

It seems my Google+ profile has been suspended as a result of it lists my name as Doctor widespread rather than Brian Roberts. Totally lamehole.

Would they are doing an equivalent to girl Gaga? Currently there are multiple girl Gaga accounts.

Personally, I doubt it.

Kirrily “Skud” Robert is currently compiling a database of these who have had their accounts deleted over alleged name violations. If you've got had your account deleted you'll be able to contribute info at the Suspended Google+ Accounts page.

Source: Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers

Facebook Dis-Allow Google Crawler

2011-07-25T23:10:00.001-07:00

Google Search Engine Spider Google Bot

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /ac.php
Disallow: /ae.php
Disallow: /album.php
Disallow: /ap.php
Disallow: /feeds/
Disallow: /l.php
Disallow: /o.php
Disallow: /p.php
Disallow: /photo.php
Disallow: /photo_comments.php
Disallow: /photo_search.php
Disallow: /photos.php

Also Facebook Not allowing some search engine spiders to crawl their datas,

Baidu Search Engine Cralwer Baiduspider

User-agent: baiduspider
Disallow: /ac.php
Disallow: /ae.php
Disallow: /album.php
Disallow: /ap.php
Disallow: /feeds/
Disallow: /l.php
Disallow: /o.php
Disallow: /p.php
Disallow: /photo.php
Disallow: /photo_comments.php
Disallow: /photo_search.php
Disallow: /photos.php

Bing Search Engine Cralwer MSNBOT

User-agent: msnbot
Disallow: /ac.php
Disallow: /ae.php
Disallow: /album.php
Disallow: /ap.php
Disallow: /feeds/
Disallow: /l.php
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Customize Your Google Plus Profile

2011-07-24T23:22:00.000-07:00

Customize Google Plus Profile

Chrome: The browser extension Google+ final adds a notification counter with dropdown, fastened floating navigation, and an optional side-by-side stream read at the side of different tweaks.

The extension's current full list of options include:

The notification counter is useful when not at a Google web site. you'll click on it to look at your notifications similar to you'll on a Google web site.
Fixed floating navigation for the highest and left bars means you will have access to your icons, streams, and sparks despite how way down you scroll.
Ultra-compact navigation puts all of your navigation choices within the menu bar. this can be meant to be used on larger widescreen displays.
Optionally scale back image sizes in your stream.
Optional side-by-side read of your stream.

Google+ final may be a free browser extension within the Chrome internet Store.

People Spend Moretime on Google Plus Rather Than Facebook

2011-07-24T23:05:00.000-07:00

If Google thought that by launching the Google Plus it's going to be able to keep the users slightly longer on its network, they were right. Users have started spending longer on Google than they were doing a month ago and this makes the Google gamble of getting into social networking right a minimum of for the time being.

It was but a month when Google introduced its social networking platform. at intervals but four weeks time Google Plus has added over twenty million users on its social networking platform and also the pace could become additional frantic when the invite becomes a factor of past.

Meanwhile it looks that individuals have started spending longer on Google Plus. this is often showing on the general time that the individuals are spending on Google Plus.

Notwithstanding the actual fact that Google Plus users build a mere minuscule 2 % share of overall one billion users of the search big, the users have started staying for longer than they used to try and do until the last month.

Alexa that ranks websites says that individuals pay fourteen.5 minutes on Google compared to thirteen. 8 minutes they used to pay until last month when there was no Google Plus.

I am certain that Google Plus when created public like Facebook can prompt users to pay much more time on it and it'll leave Facebook so much behind.

Privacy Settings of Google Plus

2011-07-21T23:15:00.000-07:00

If you've got recently received a request to affix Google's new social networking web site, Google+, you will need to require a glance at your privacy settings and build some changes.

Parts of your Google+ account are searchable on the net. to check what others, who don't seem to be a part of your “circles” can see after they head to your account, initial click on the circle that appears sort of a gear next to your image within the higher right corner, then choose “Google+ settings.” this can bring you to the Google+ settings page.

Now click on “Profile and Privacy” within the left column. those that already use Google services, like Gmail, Google Profiles, or Blogger might have some data automatically downloaded into Google+ after they register. So, elements of your profile might already be stuffed in for you.

To see how your profile appearance to others, click “Edit visibility on profile” within the middle of the page. Now, you'll see your profile.

To see how your profile appearance to anyone else on the net, click within the “View profile as...” box on the proper aspect of the screen, then choose “Anyone on the net.” this can be how your profile would look to anyone else on the net. you'll conjointly enter the name of an individual from one in all your circles to check what your profile feels like to them.

You can click on any a part of the profile, like “Employment” and “Education” to feature or delete data.

To make data viewable to solely those in your circles, choose the drop down menu right higher than the “Save” button. you'll let “Your circles,” “Extended circles,” “Only you,” or “Anyone on the web” read it. The default is “Anyone on the net.”

You will even customise it so solely sure circles can read sure data by choosing “Custom.” If you simply need to let your family and friends read your home phone range, for example, you'd choose “Home,” then choose “Custom” from the “Your circles” drop down menu. Click on the “x” next to “Your circles” to delete it. Click on “+Add additional people” and choose “Family,” click on “+Add additional people” once more and choose “Friends.”

When you share data, like links or photos, in Google+, you decide on the extent of privacy once you share it (one of the massive benefits Google+ has over Facebook). The default setting are no matter it absolutely was the last time you shared one thing. you'll continuously get rid of a default circle once you share by clicking on the “x” within the circle, and you'll add circles by clicking on “+Add additional folks.” additionally to your circles, you'll prefer to share with everybody on the net by choosing “Public,” or those that are within the circles of these who are in your circles by choosing “Extended circles."

Google Playing With PageRank Algorithm

2011-07-21T03:58:00.000-07:00

Google Playing With PageRank Algorithm

Google has once again updated the Toolbar PageRank. The previous update took place only 3 weeks ago, on 27th June 2011. It seems this is more of a corrective update. As we posted earlier the last update got some freaky results with Google.com dropping to PR 9. Its back to PR 10 again and so are many other sites including Twitter, which lost it PR due to wrong settings in robots.txt.

Here is a video from Matt Cutts on Why aren't the Google Toolbar PageRank values updated more often?

Is Google Plus Pushed Back Facebook & Twitter Usage to Decline?

2011-07-21T03:27:00.000-07:00

The most enthusiastic and prolific Google Plus user on the RWW team is our Lead Writer and VP Content Dev, Marshall Kirkpatrick. I thought it would be interesting to look at Marshall's Twitter stats, to see if he has decreased his usage of Twitter.

Google Plus launched on 28 June and Marshall was immediately hooked. Since that time there has been a noticeable dip in Marshall's Twitter activity - although he still does over 20 tweets a day fairly regularly (note: the May figures are low because he was in Brazil at that time). Here is his TwitterCounter chart for the past few months:

Marshall himself feels like he has been publishing to Twitter less, "because I get so much more conversation on Plus." This is a common theme that I've been hearing too, that the discussions on Google Plus are lively and interesting.

However, Marshall also noted that he still watches Twitter "as closely as ever," citing the ecosystem of apps set up for listening - such as TweetDeck.

The decrease in Twitter activity is more pronounced in another early Google Plus convert, Digg founder and geek rock star Kevin Rose (who provoked a debate when he re-directed his personal website to his Google Plus profile). The below chart from TwitterCounter shows a marked decrease in Kevin's tweeting since Google Plus launched.

Has Your Twitter or Facebook Usage Declined?

Should Twitter and Facebook be worried about the decline in their services amongst avid Google Plus users? Of course they should. They will point out that these are early adopters and that Google Plus hasn't proven itself in a mainstream setting yet. But the early adopters are often an indicator of mainstream success (not always - it remains to be seen whether Foursquare ever takes off outside of the young and geeky crowd).

This was an unscientific and somewhat biased survey, so let us know in the comments whether you use Google Plus; and if so whether your Twitter or Facebook usage has declined as a result.

Source: Is Google Plus Pushed Back Facebook & Twitter Usage to Decline?

Google Plus users update: 33% Female Users

2011-07-20T18:56:00.000-07:00

Google Plus Project News

Good news Google fans, (and boys within Google Plus). Search engine giant’s and subdomain currently catering a lot of feminine net users.

Google Plus residents reaches eighteen million, per latest stat presented by Paul Allen, the “unofficial Google Plus statistician” and founding father of Ancestry.com. Allen is saying that the population of Google Plus is currently concerning a pair of.3% of the full population of Facebook — therefore yeah, it’s like China versus Singapore, however the expansion of Google Plus is undeniably spectacular, knowing that even LinkedIn founder isn’t happy to welcome a replacement competitor that would kill his business.

Google Plus can possibly get a lot of members by the tip of on, knowing that the official iPhone app is currently obtainable. and the way will Google use iPhone to grow? Well, current members of Google Plus might strive their best to convince family and friends to hitch Google Plus too, and simply by sending an invitation via e-mail, multiplication can occur.

One of the most important options of the Google Plus for iPhone (and Android) that would attract a lot of members is that the Huddle or instant messaging service embedded within the native app. Apparently, Google Plus members will IM one another cross-platform using Android or iPhone to speak — this might conjointly replace the old-school text messaging service, and even RIM’s fashionable BBM.

Anyway, Paul Allen of Ancestry.com is additionally predicting that Google Plus population were possibly male dominating, however girls quickly catching up, contrary to previous reports posted by “flawed” (as Allen known as it) Social Statistics information. Allen told his Google Plus that as of June fifteenth, Google Plus users contains sixty six.4% Male and thirty three.6% Female. It ought to be noted that Allen is that the initial public figure to predict the primary 2 weeks population of Google Plus (which is 10M), that Google CEO Larry Page has confirmed throughout his last quarterly earnings decision.

Google Minus Overview

2011-07-17T22:14:00.000-07:00

Google launched Google+ (their long-awaited social network) on Tuesday and, whereas everybody else appears to be asking "Will it kill Facebook?", it got me pondering a general positive trend in social media.

Part of the Google Plus project is that the +1 button for websites and pages that is billed as kind of like Facebook's 'Like' and 'Recommend' choices. Hitting the button on a selected page can, in Google's own words, say "this is pretty cool" or "you ought to check this out".

Notable by its absence is that the counterbalancing choice -- Google are giving us Google Plus -- what of Google Minus?

It's a similar question that that has been asked on Facebook for years -- "Where's the 'dislike' button?" there is even a three million robust Facebook page dedicated to that terribly question.

Looking at different well used social networking services you will see the same story. Twitter has favourites, Tumblr has liking -- heck, even thuscially influenced reality tv shows like X issue are created so viewer vote for the individuals they need to succeed instead of those they need to be eliminated.

The negative choice appears to be changing into outdated. Older social recommendation sites like Digg and StumbleUpon still have their own versions of negative feedback however in each cases they don't seem to be as outstanding because the positive. StumbleUpon's thumbs down could be a physically smaller button on the toolbar and is missing the text that goes with the thumbs up. Digg really got rid of their 'bury' operate for a jiffy as a result of abuses however then reinstated it. At this moment is sits a distance far from the positive choice and is much less outstanding.

So what is this positivity trend about?

I think it is the results of 2 main things:

One is that the net, for all its glory, could be a place where anonymity typically breeds negativity. It's all too simple to kind out a spiteful comment as a result of you'll nearly never see or have to be compelled to handle the results of that remark. The human association that stops lots of callous real-world spite is missing.

Looking at the comments on sites may be quite the education (depending on the extent of moderation) with commenters additional possible to be moved to comment negatively than absolutely.

Even when the comments are additional balanced, the negative is usually additional extreme and additional personal. Comments regarding the writer's personal look, concerns them to be fired or to urge a correct job kind a distinction with the positive that tend towards the so much less emotionally charged "I enjoyed the article" model.

Bearing this in mind, why introduce a button to fan the flames? Why would Facebook introduce a mechanism to enable bullying? Why would a news website introduce a technique of undermining its staff? Why would a blogging platform build during a casual smackdown option? the purpose is to encourage communication -- what higher thanks to ruin that than to admit via the interface that its users' content may be worthless?

The second is that the number of content on-line is increasing at some astronomical rate.

Anyone with a stable association will produce one thing on the net. and that they do -- as evidenced by the proliferation of blogs, personal websites, home businesses, Twitter accounts and thus on.

But not most are a genius and not every bit of content created by an excellent content creator are going to be a sparkling tour de force.

What this suggests is that the {good|the nice} and therefore the good and therefore the fascinating are floating regarding within the swirling morass of content that Google is making an attempt to organise and create searchable. after you begin thinking in terms of Google Plus in terms of search, a and while not a Minus starts to form additional sense. Google has determined that the content we wish to ascertain is that the stuff that's relevant, well written and fascinating to others -- i.e. what we have a tendency to expect from the things on the primary page of Google search results.

What solely giving a positive choice will is tacitly acknowledge the actual fact that the net contains lots of middling content and then raise its users to elevate the nice from the remainder.

Google Co-Founder Larry Page Call For New Business Venture by Google Plus

2011-07-15T02:29:00.000-07:00

Google to ask businesses within new social networking website. Plus, Google profit increase announced by new CEO.

An obvious stronger quarter for Google and its merchandise is coming back. Google profits rose the maximum amount as thirteen %.

Google CEO Larry Page delivered a awfully excellent news yesterday, particularly if you’re a Google investor, or simply an addict of Google.

According to Page, his company posted a 12 months surge in profit, beating analysts expectations and growing considerations regarding Google’s rising expenses associated with new merchandise and services launched.

The recent Mountain read, California-based company conjointly claims that their new investments in Android mobile operating system and even the Chrome browser that features the net Store and different developments ought to generate new business opportunities for them, other than search and ads delivered in it. Page said, “Our rising high usage merchandise will generate huge new businesses for Google within the long haul, similar to search. and that we have plenty of expertise monetizing successful merchandise over time.”

Google’s Larry Page conjointly talked regarding Google plus, the new social networking website launched 2 weeks ago that might challenge the market leader Facebook. consistent with Google CEO, Google Plus is currently the house of over ten million users worldwide, he added, “not surprisingly (Google+) has been o.k. received, as a result of in real life, we have a tendency to share various things with completely different folks.” Page is talking regarding the circles feature of Google Plus that lets users to cluster friends and contacts in circles.

Aside from the social networking website Google Plus, Page conjointly added that the Google Plus One button could be a standard sharing button on the web, and a complete of two.3 billion Google Plus One activities are being recorded per day. Page conjointly shared his note in his Google Plus account.

Google Plus is predicted to ask businesses, firms and types within the next coming back weeks. Google’s Christian Oestlien posted in his Google Plus account that the registration page for Google Plus for Business was updated, and interested parties ought to re-apply till July fifteen to induce an invitation to check the Google Plus for businesses and types.

Google at 92%; Facebook at 54% Industry Share in UK

2011-07-15T02:08:00.000-07:00

Google and Facebook are dominant players in their respective fields, however that supremacy is a lot of notable in specific areas. A recent Hitwise report showed Google at ninety two p.c of search share and Facebook at fifty four p.c of social share within the UK.

The Search & Social Leaders and Their Competition

Even quite its U.S. counterpart, Google UK has taken a vast lead. The Experian Hitwise report released this month place Google UK at ninety two.02 p.c of search share for the country. This figure represents a pointy increase from last month, when Google held ninety.53 p.c search share, and a rise from June of last year, when Google held ninety one.82 percent.

Obviously, there is very little area left for competitors in search. Yahoo and Microsoft sites, when combined, represent five.84 p.c of search share. Take note: Google is clearly siphoning traffic from these sites. June saw a one.49 p.c decrease from could, and a 0.21 p.c decrease from June 2010.

Facebook, meanwhile, holds 53.72 p.c of social share within the UK. The second most well-liked social web site, YouTube, is at 20.76 percent, however has grown quite the other social service within the UK for four consecutive months. Nevertheless, that share growth is not steamrolling: last month saw zero.24 p.c growth for YouTube. Twitter, meanwhile, holds solely three.22 p.c of social share within the UK.

The Changing internet

While the study offers a transparent image of who the winners and losers of the united kingdom internet race are, there is additionally a lot of broad perspective to be garnered from the report. for instance, whereas search traffic once created up approximately forty p.c of all traffic referrals, they currently compose solely thirty four.29 percent. Social networking, meanwhile, has climbed steadily and currently rests at twelve.54 p.c of all web site referrals.

As Hitwise's James Murray reminds us, "This isn't to mention that search is on the decline – aloof from it. As web usage continues to grow, a lot of searches are being conducted on-line each single day."

The reason for the declining numbers for search are merely that the web has grown as a full. this type of synergistic growth appears clearly smart for every web-associated business, whereas the monopolistic growth of firms at intervals those industries results in much more ambiguous conclusions regarding economic and innovative health.

Source: Google at 92%; Facebook at 54% Industry Share in UK

7 Extra Stuffs of Google Plus Project

2011-07-15T01:33:00.000-07:00

I am writing this column in India, where i'm on a operating vacation which has giving talks regarding social and digital media in varied cities.

The Indian media scene is fascinating, with newspapers thriving (a town like Mumbai has over ten English dailies, as well as six business dailies) and all-news networks growing (more than fifty, as well as a minimum of 5 business channels). i'd share some lessons for the US media in a very future column.

But today, i would like to revisit Google Plus and, the new social network that has been obtaining lots of attention since its launch one or two of weeks ago. when writing regarding its begin, I had planned to attend a month or therefore to touch upon it more, however am back as a result of the number of buzz (an unfortunate reference to the failed Google Buzz, I know) and fuss individuals are creating regarding it.

In my 1st column, Eight fast Thoughts on Google Plus and, I wrote regarding a number of the options price noting, as well as Circles (the ability to label your connections and share content with specific cohorts of folks) and Hangouts (group video chatting). These options are being mentioned widely, and in some circles (sorry, another Google pun), there’s abundant hype regarding how they'll modification our digital lives.

Here’s my list of what I’ve noticed within the past 2 weeks (though traveling through India means that not having the ability to use it the maximum amount as I should/would have liked to — build no mistake, Google Plus takes work!).

It’s easier to induce a Google Plus invite. I wrote “My suggestion to Google would be to open it up as quick because it probably will (how regarding letting every user invite a hundred individuals they understand, like in Gmail's early days) in order that it will make the most the interest and curiosity.” And that’s precisely what’s happened (not as a result of my suggestion, of course). There are positively individuals you recognize, or those who understand individuals you recognize, who have and accounts and that they will invite you via email to affix. If you're totally stuck, be happy to tweet at me (@sree) or post on my Facebook Page wall along with your email address and that i can send you and invite in a very few days.

Google Plus encompasses a higher shot at success than several expected. due to Google’s past social failures (Orkut, Buzz, Wave), it’s a pleasing surprise to ascertain the principally positive reaction that it’s had to date. It’s clear that Google encompasses a rather more careful, thoughtful and relevant approach this point around.

Investors appear to love Google Plus.
Writing in TechCrunch, Eric Shonfeld says $20 billion was added to Google’s market cap within the 1st days when it launched the new service, as investors assume this is often some way for Google to catch up with Facebook: what proportion is social price to Google? Investors added $20 billion to Google’s market cap the primary week when the launch of Google+ on June twenty eight. A Morgan Stanley downgrade on Friday, brought the whole all the way down to $15.8 billion as a result of doubts whether or not Google can indeed be able to make the most new product like Google+. however somewhere in between there, provide or take some billion, is what proportion a lot of the market thinks Google is price than before the launch of Google+.” many observers have dismissed this analysis and also the impact of Google Plus, however I do believe that Wall Street reacts completely to huge firms attempting to stay up with younger, hotter rivals.

Techies love Google Plus.
OK, build that the majority techies. My Google plus account is stuffed with gushing comments from tech consultants and early adopters. several praise its simple use and the way it makes it simple to share content across several teams of individuals. Others praise its interface and style. Others appears to be happy simply to own some place new to share their ideas. Mashable encompasses a sensible spherical from how ten standard Google plus users having been saying regarding the service.

Facebook is listening to Google Plus. Mark Zuckerberg (whose profile merely says, “I build things”) encompasses a Google plus account - and has the foremost followers to date. It is sensible that Facebook’s creator is sorting out the competition (read the response Mashable’s Ben Parr got from Zuckerberg regarding Google Plus). As Facebook preps for its IPO, it must show investors that it’s getting to keep innovating and not go the manner of MySpace, that once dominated social networking. whereas i feel a number of the present chatter regarding Facebook fatigue has some truth to it, i feel the thought that Facebook (and it’s newly announced variety of 750 million active users) is in hassle is exaggerated. it'll adopt a number of the simplest options of Google plus and introduce alternative options within the months ahead. The recent launch of Facebook video chat via Skype shows that cluster video chatting, like Google’s Hangout, might not be too distant.

Celebrities aren’t taking up Google Plus.
Yet. not like the highest a hundred list of Twitter, that is dominated by the likes of girl Gaga, Justin Bieber, Barack Obama, Britney Spears and Kim Kardashian (that’s the highest 5, in order), high|the highest} a hundred list of Google plus users isn’t stuffed with entertainers nonetheless (the top 5 are Zuckerberg; Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin; and Vic Gundotra, who runs Google Plus). That’s as a result of it’s simply obtaining started. Once enough of their fans are on the service and also the celebrities make out that it’s another great way to induce attention, you would possibly see them arrive in hordes. however Rocky Agrawal, writing in TechCrunch, thinks and may not be what some celebrities, strapped for time, want: “The current Google+ interface would be less appealing to celebrities, as a result of the interface is meant to ask conversation and engagement.”

Bottomline, it’s still too early to predict how successful Google Plus are going to be. 2 weeks is nothing within the lifetime of a social network, and creating predictions - glowing or otherwise - is foolish.

Source: 7 Additional Thoughts on Google Plus

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Gifted Home To His Lady Love

2011-07-15T00:28:00.000-07:00

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg and his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, have just moved into this newly renovated home in the College Terrace neighborhood of Palo Alto. According to internet listings, the rental property has about 3,800 square feet of living space with 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. The new home is located only blocks away from the modest home they had previously been renting but has a beefed up security system and more privacy features..Zuckerberg co-founded the social networking site, Facebook, with fellow classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while attending Harvard. At the age of 26, Zuckerberg is already worth an estimated $7 billion due to his 24% share of Facebook. Zuckerberg is currently CEO & President of Facebook, which has its headquarters nearby, only a short walk away from the house.

Google Vs Facebook Headquarters

2011-07-13T10:59:00.001-07:00

Facebook Headquarters

Facebook, Inc. may be a company that operates and privately owns social networking web site, Facebook. Users will add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends regarding themselves. Additionally, users will be a part of networks organized by town, workplace, school, and region. The website’s name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the beginning of the educational year by university administrations with the intention of serving to students to induce to grasp one another higher.

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook along with his school roommates and fellow laptop science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes whereas he was a student at Harvard University. The website’s membership was initially restricted to Harvard students, however was expanded to different schools within the Boston space, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded more to incorporate any university student, then highschool students, and, finally, to anyone aged thirteen and over. the web site currently has over five hundred million active users worldwide.

Google Headquarters

Google Inc. is an yank public corporation specializing in web search. It conjointly generates profits from advertising bought on its equally free-to-user e-mail, on-line mapping, workplace productivity, social networking and video-sharing services. Advert-free versions are offered via paid subscription. Google has a lot of recently developed an open supply net browser and a movable operating system. Its headquarters, typically named because the Googleplex, is found in Mountain read, California. As of March thirty one, 2009 the corporate had nineteen,786 full-time staff. It runs thousands of servers across the globe, processing variant search requests on a daily basis and concerning one petabyte of user-generated knowledge every hour.

Google Plus Cheat Sheet

2011-07-13T00:26:00.000-07:00

Google Plus Cheat Sheet

Is Google Plus Over Publicity?

2011-07-13T00:15:00.000-07:00

We all grasp that Google was making an attempt to induce a pie within the on-line social world since ages currently. It started off with Orkut that is (was) fashionable in India and Brazil however didn’t extremely come out within the u. s.. Following that the massive G tried absorbing twitter with Buzz and conjointly tried with one thing as totally different as Google Wave. All those services we tend tore hyped after they started however currently we all grasp, what’s on and what’s off.

Google recently introduced +1, that was a solution to Facebook’s terribly own Like button. And to second that, Google is out with a completely recent social network known as Google +. initiating of the stables of Google, the full net world was shocked and awed learning concerning this service. everybody on the web was abuzz requesting invitations to the service. Google finally had to prevent onboarding new users till they were certain to handle the high volume. however i'm therefore terribly uninterested in individuals claiming Google’s victory over Facebook and Twitter. and that i am uninterested in seeing Google + connected feeds cluttering my Twitter timeline and Facebook wall. This post is for all who suppose that this can be the top of Facebook and Twitter. This post is for all who suppose that what the massive G will is correct and every one others can fail at its mercy.

Google + is meant by someone who was a part of a flagship product team at Apple, the long-lasting Macintosh. This created enough hype among the geeks within the silicon valley to unofficially brag concerning it. More so, this got some terribly biased reviews concerning the look of Google + and links were already floating on the web praising the look of Google +. If I or for that matter anyone should see the look of Google+ and compare it with Facebook, there are hardly any variations. Feeds named as Stream is strictly within the same place as in Facebook. Lists referred to as Circles are beneath the profile image, almost like Facebook. Friend lists to talk, Notifications to the choices menu beside every post; are all terribly terribly almost like what Facebook already has. the sole sensible to check issue is that the Circles page which, I think, is that the solely page that appearance recent and designed ground up. However, I strictly doubt the usability. Its sensible that it permits me to try and do a multi choose however its painful to pull and drop into one in all the 30+ circles I even have already named. If you would like to possess a feel of the complexity and poor usability do this UI designed by some Facebook engineers for Facebook at http://www.circlehack.com/. I seriously doubt that the Apple designer is given complete freedom to try and do this on his own and it appears we've got a identical to Facebook out of the Google factory.

Talking concerning the options of Google +, the advertised ones were, Circles, Sparks, Huddle and Hangouts. Circles helps you to produce circles among your friends, acquaintances, work friends etc. therefore everyone on your network will belong to at least one or multiple circles. this permits you to share stuff and limit that to a specific cluster of individuals or let it open for public viewing. individuals have currently began to brag concerning this and are praising Google for understanding privacy and security that they believe Facebook never did. this can be totally untrue. Facebook encompasses a feature known as as lists that will this since ages. you'll be able to produce an inventory rather like a circle in G+ and add individuals to it. for each post you'll be able to outline whom you would like to share with and therefore the post gets restricted to solely those individuals. I even have been using this feature since two years currently and have a lot of an 30+ lists on my Facebook. Moreover, i feel Facebook is a lot of configurable that permits to line a default share setting for every post. This assures me that though I post via a text message, the post can solely be shared to my default sharing cluster, which is, friends minus acquaintances minus psycho bosses at work. Google + can’t.

Google+ Sparks could be a feature that permits you to follow a subject and obtain feeds and news associated with it in your stream. this may be for any generic term sort of a town name as in ny, Mumbai or it may be one thing terribly specific like Cooking Vegan Food. I notably don't notice this feature terribly helpful. I added “Mumbai” to my sparks and that i haven't seen an update since three days. Having said that, quite five hundredth of the stories beneath a precise spark are stories i'm least fascinated by. I don't care what the Brides of Mumbai are sporting this season. Google reader will an excellent job on behalf of me here, I subscribe to content that i'm solely fascinated by and that i will keep track of what I even have browse and what i would like to browse. Why would anyone need to browse news stories, sports updates, entertainment gossips etc that are totally unrelated to the chums on a social network. i might otherwise be interested to browse a story concerning Roger Federer that my friend simply shared, who is also a giant fan of Roger Federer like me. Facebook’s universal Like & Share buttons do that job fine. Google invaded here too and introduced +1, that is nothing however a Like button for Google, that helps you sensitize your search results or Google + streams with what your friend simply +1’d. This but created plenty of Buzz within the begin however wasn't fitting too well in Google’s product offerings and therefore Google + was subsequent step to resurrect the dying +1 button. Sparks notably fails to grasp what makes conversations and rather than making an attempt to form conversations from pushing junk stories, it moves users removed from this feature to a a lot of targeted atmosphere like Google Reader or Facebook Pages and Likes.

Google +, being a region of Google family, had to possess an Android application. The market app of Google + options a capability to form alittle messaging cluster among friends. it's known as Huddle. this permits a bunch of friends to message to and fro like cluster Chat on Gtalk or Yahoo Messenger. As per me, this but isn't therefore ground breaking. Facebook messages do constant terribly efficiently for on the go and short lived conversations. For even a lot of targeted and long run cluster conversations, Facebook teams will this in an excellent a lot of sophistic fashion. enhancements within the mobile app and therefore the recent HTML5 primarily based mobile app Facebook is functioning on (Project Spartan) can build Facebook abundant stronger during this space.

The next feature is termed Hangouts. this can be the one and solely feature of Google + that I feel is good to possess and innovative. However, at now the usage and adoption is sort of questionable. individuals are using skype video calling since ages currently. conjointly Gtalk consumer for Gmail will this. Hangouts helps you are doing this however it permits multiple friends to hitch in and have a bunch video chat. i might term this feature as cool, however I even have hardly seen individuals doing this for currently and lets hope things needless to say can amendment in future. Skype has this feature for a paid account and as per sources they don’t have several users doing this. I but feel that folks meeting typically don't like better to video chat. individuals meeting typically are people who live and work nearby. individuals not living near one another and hardly meet are those who may use this feature. For this, Hangout would be a perfect place. I even have a circle on Google + where I even have added my faculty room-mates. To say, the room-mates are within the west coast people, east coast people, three cities of Mumbai and middle east. therefore if i'm to begin an Hangout, it might sensitize to respective time zones and that i am pretty certain that there wouldn't be 100% participation due to the time distinction. Plus, it should therefore happen that one in all my friends is together with his girlfriend and doesn't really need to induce onto a ad-hoc video chat Hangout simply created. i could be sounding naive here however am certain most of you guys can suppose twice or perhaps a lot of before beginning an unpredictable cluster video chat as advertised by Google +. Facebook anyways have its own answer to the present by teaming with Skype. Microsoft’s (invested heavily in Facebook) acquisition of Skype confirmed that this was returning sooner or later. It still doesn't enable cluster video chats because it remains one in all the paid options of Skype however anyways brings 2 legends into a pleasant amalgamation for very good video calling expertise.

All the higher than discussions build me feel that Facebook is extremely well positioned as compared to Google + and it might not be even remotely simple for Google to upseat or perhaps shake Facebook off its throne.

Another story that says that Google + can kill Twitter is additionally terribly dumb. Twitter could be a social network of another kind. Its an area where individuals share things while not restrictions. a hundred and forty character limit, assumed as a caveat, could be a robust feature that makes Twitter extremely usable. the majority simply don’t perceive the distinction between a Blog and a Micro-Blog. This was the most reason for the initial adoption rate of Twitter however things are changing currently as a lot of and a lot of individuals perceive Micro-blogging. News channels to on-line communities to NGO’s to everyone seems to be using Twitter to create conversations keeping them terribly straight and sharp. something quite a hundred and forty characters would build the posts uninteresting and tiresome to browse and answer. This takes me to a different feature of Google + which individuals are bragging concerning, Google + permitting individuals to be followed rather than adding one as a follower. this can be said to be terribly helpful for celebs, bands, brands etc.This brings Facebook and Twitter at one place, right? Wrong! i'm on Facebook to share with friends and see what friends are sharing. i'm on Twitter to check what @JasonCalacanis should say and what my favorite CEO is upto lately, however I don’t need an over load of their lives. These two are separate things and anyone making an attempt to try and do one thing that the opposite is doing, they'd find yourself being identical twins. Facebook and Twitter being the pioneering fathers, Google + feels like a Bastard here.

Wrapping it up, i feel if Google had set out with Google + back in 2008-09 they still stood an opportunity to dominate however they're too late for currently. i feel they were waiting to find out a lot of from Facebook instead of learning the social world. like Google ventures like Wave that is dead & Buzz that is on its path to the grave, i feel the +1 button and Google + soon would die or atleast would simply survive as a clone while not replacing or perhaps affecting Facebook or Twitter. I build this purview primarily based on what I see straight away & {this will|this will|this could|this may} but amendment if somebody just like the creater of Gmail can take over Google + to create it totally different and innovative. I’m extremely unhappy that my once upon a time favorite net company, Google, is being too naive. Hope to check some real innovation initiating of the labs of Google.

Benefits of Google Plus(+) Project

2011-07-12T22:26:00.000-07:00

Benefits of Google Plus(+) Project

The Google and project has been operational for some weeks and appears to be catching on “like wildfire.” Yesterday, Paul Allen estimated four.5 million users. Today, Clint Boulton of eWeek said it passed the ten million mark! It remains to be seen if Google can surpass Facebook in social networking, however at its current adoption rate, Google and may finally be the move that breaks the Facebook juggernaut. Google contains a sensible probability to induce ahead since it’s been around since 1998 and everyone from your children to your grandparents use it a day.

The Google and project is in an exceedingly restricted field trial at the instant. Google says it's testing with atiny low range of individuals, however it won’t be long before Google+ is prepared for all. you'll leave your email address and Google can allow you to apprehend when they’re able to invite a lot of folks to use it.

What is Google and all regarding? Since social networking is all about sharing, Google needs to create it simple for folks to try to to plenty a lot of sharing. thus they’ve been acting on adding some social networking choices to Google, hoping to create connecting with folks on the online alittle bit a lot of like connecting in real life. Here’s what Google has up to now, and that they promise there’s a lot of to return.

Google Plus(+) Project Circles

: everybody shares various things with totally different people; it may well be photos, stories, recommendations, etc. Google thinks sharing these items together with your circle of friends shouldn’t be a problem, and they’re doing their half to create it easier. Circles makes it simple to place your friends from the gym or curves in one circle, your folks in another circle, and other people from work in yet one more. you'll prepare your circles constant method you have got totally different teams of friends and family in real life.

Google Plus(+) Project Sparks

: keep in mind the nice previous days when folks would cut articles out of the paper and send them to friends and family? Google thinks that was a pleasant plan so that they created Sparks to appear for videos and articles it thinks you’ll like. once you have free time, you'll watch, browse and share with friends and family.

Google Plus(+) Project Hangouts

: Running into friends when you’re out is usually fun and exciting. With Hangouts, will celebrate also once you have these unplanned, virtual meet-ups on the online. you'll let your buddies apprehend you’re hanging out and see who drops by for a face-to-face-to-face chat.

Google Plus(+) Project Instant Upload

: This one is for mobile users. we have a tendency to all agree taking photos is fun. and sharing them on-line is even a lot of fun. however obtaining photos off your phone (or digital camera) and on to the online isn't plenty of fun, right? That’s why Google created Instant Upload − thus from currently on, your photos upload themselves.

Google Plus(+) Project Huddle

: this is often conjointly for mobile users. Texting is nice, however not when you’re making an attempt to induce six totally different folks to come to a decision where to travel for lunch, right? Huddle takes care of it for you by turning all those totally different conversations into one easy cluster chat, thus everybody gets on constant page long before you get sore thumbs.

So these are the new social services coming back to Google: Circles, Sparks, Hangouts, Instant Upload and Huddle. Sounds exciting, right? simply suppose what you’re missing if you weren’t invited to undertake it. Google and is simply in our own way of networking with friends and business associates while not abundant effort. you'll share and socialize, and Google makes it simple as pie.

Will Google and have abuses? Not if Google will facilitate it; Google doesn't permit Google + profiles with pretend names. If you produce a Google+ account underneath a pretend name, your profile is suspended. This thread within the Gmail facilitate forums tells you ways to resolve the matter if you are doing get suspended.

In closing, there are several edges of the Google + project for people and businesses. move to the signup page to be notified when Google and becomes on the market for you.

Yahoo Site Explorer Gets Expire By 2011

2011-07-11T06:07:00.000-07:00

Yahoo Site Explorer Gets Expire By 2011

Yahoo! has announced they are going to pull the plug on one of our favorite SEO tools, Yahoo Site Explorer by the end of this year. The tool saw the light of the day on September 29, 2005.

Yahoo!'s announced plans to shut down Yahoo! Site Explorer and redirect webmasters to Bing's SEO tools "later this year".

According to SearchEngineLand.com, the move comes as part of the Bing-hoo! partnership that's seen Microsoft's Bing search engine pair with Yahoo! to twice-shake Google's search stranglehold.

Yahoo! also confirmed the transition of its much-loved SEO tool to Microsoft's search platform in an official Yahoo! Search blog post.

Officials blogged that algorithmic search results for US, Canada, Australia, Brazil and Mexico had already been successfully transferred to Bing, with the remaining world markets to follow later this year.

The firm said there was little value in keeping Site Explorer running, given that Bing's Webmaster Centre will provide analytics for both Bing and Yahoo! search.

Microsoft, for its share, recently added detailed traffic statistics and a new inbound links feature to its webmaster tools in preparation for the merger.

Meanwhile, Yahoo! advised webmasters to start using Bing's Webmaster Centre while also continuing to use Site Explorer until its final shut down.

Hermant Minocha, Yahoo! Site Explorer Product Manager, blogged: "In a large part of the world, we have not yet transitioned to Microsoft search platform.

"Hence, it is important that Yahoo! continues to receive your site/sitemap submissions so that search results from Yahoo! are fresh and relevant for markets that have not switched over.

"In order to continue to receive relevant organic traffic from Yahoo! search results, we encourage you to continue using Site Explorer as you have in the past until we fully switch over to Microsoft search platform for organic results.

Minocha added that the closure should have benefits for Bing-hoo!-using webmasters, as they'll no longer have to optimise separately for Bing and Yahoo!

"We anticipate that later this year, Yahoo!'s organic results will be powered by Microsoft's search platform in all parts of the world. After that point, any optimization that you do on [the] Bing Webmaster Center tool will be reflected in Yahoo! organic search results," Minocha said.

Google Plus(+) Quick Review

2011-07-11T01:48:00.000-07:00

So you may have browse my colleagues’ post on his 1st impressions, this can be my any impressions and is by a protracted manner not complete. thus here it goes!

Google and may be a fusion between twitter and Facebook, with none of the options of every missing. really the circles enable you to follow your interests or celebrities, or individuals in your field, in my case Ryan Block and Josh Topolsky.
Circles create it several times easier to manage your privacy. as an example if I went on an evening out and added some footage of my drunken self, I might hide this from my colleagues; family and followers; solely showing my closest friends!
Furthermore Google+’s video chat is much superior to that of the rushed Facebook Chat.
The interface is way additional stunning, along side that of the app (which is awesome!)
The notifications are far better, along side the comment system within the notifications bar.
Sharing photos is way easier… Tagging on G+ is superior to Facebook’s tagging.

Google vs. Facebook: Collections of Funny Images

2011-07-10T11:01:00.000-07:00

Google vs. Facebook: Collections of Funny Images

Google introduced the new social networking feature, Google + which might currently be accessed via invite solely. at intervals twenty four hours of it’s launch, Google had to stop working the invite feature attributable to the insane demand of G+ invitations. However, it absolutely was reported that Google and was open to public for a minute , however at intervals number of hours it absolutely was closed down once more.

Although there are many of us who are craving and still making an attempt their luck to check in or get a Google and invite, many others who are already on Google+ are mocking at Facebook by making some funny pictures and sharing them across their Stream.

In this post, we've complied a listing of funny and very amusing Google+ vs Facebook pictures. Most of those pictures were shared by Google and fans who suppose that Google Plus’ elegant style and options is far higher than Facebook’s UI and options and its value moving to Google+ from Facebook.

Hitler Loves of Google Plus

2011-07-10T06:13:00.000-07:00

Hitler Loves of Google Plus

New Threat From Facebook to Google: Facebook Video Chat

2011-07-08T01:55:00.000-07:00

Facebook introduced video calling, cluster chat and a brand new style on Wednesday throughout the social network's much-heralded "awesome" announcement.

Wearing his signature gray t-shirt and blue jeans, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the options at a press conference in Palo Alto, Calif.

Facebook Video Calling was developed with Skype, the world's largest web phone company.

Users with a netcam on their laptop can have to be compelled to install a special plug-in before they'll create calls using Facebook from within their web browser.

Callers are ready to see and listen to the recipient, and vice-versa.

With the cluster chat feature, users will speak with many different Facebook friends at identical time using solely text.

"We suppose this can be getting to be one thing that is very valuable," Zuckerberg said. "A heap of individuals have asked for it."

In Canada, the new options can solely be rolled out to atiny low proportion of users initially, a Facebook spokesperson told CTV.ca.

Group video calling isn't nevertheless supported and it absolutely was not clear how the feature would be accessible to mobile users. Zuckerberg said the new tools "are largely net options."

The design changes are aimed to create it easier for users to visualize a listing of friends they'll chat with, whereas taking advantage of widescreen laptop displays.

Wednesday's announcement from Facebook comes virtually every week when Google launched its latest social network, Google+.

Google+ is accessible on an invite-only basis, however the corporate is keen to induce a grip within the social networking sector.

The new service has been received with largely positive reviews, earning praise for its Circles and Hangouts options.

Circles lets users simply drag-and-drop contacts into groupings with customizable security and privacy settings.

Hangouts, meanwhile, lets users chat and collaborate in realtime using webcams. Users may additionally collectively watch videos on YouTube.

Source: New Threat From Facebook to Google: Facebook Video Chat

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Gets More LIKES from Google Plus Followers

2011-07-08T00:24:00.000-07:00

Ever since Google+ launched, there has been one user that has had considerably additional followers than anybody else. Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg tops the list; he even has additional followers than Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, in keeping with SocialStatistics.

It should be somewhat embarrassing to Google that none of its workers are followed quite Zuckerberg. Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, the website’s creator, explained the curiosity to TechCrunch: “He has the foremost friends within the world, they created a movie regarding him, and he's additional handsome than the Larry and Sergey.”

The list, which might show a most of a hundred users per apge, is currently choked with technology workers and bloggers, that shows that Google+ has however to be picked up by the final public. Once it will, I’m certain the likes of Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, and Ashton Kutcher can prime the list.

SocialStatistics continues to be in early alpha, therefore not all of the accounts are parsed into the system simply however, in keeping with succeeding internet, that Veldhuijzen van Zanten writes for. If you would like to hurry up the method, head over to Google+ and notice your distinctive identifier in your profile URL. Then return to SocialStatistics and paste it at very cheap of the page.

Google Works on Gooogle+ Across Its Services

2011-07-07T23:58:00.000-07:00

Google and, the US search giant’s latest plan to war Facebook in social networking, is ready to become a basic a part of the company’s strategy across search, maps and on-line video, in keeping with Google’s chairman.

“The whole company is ramping up on prime of it,” Eric Schmidt, government chairman, told reporters at the Allen & Co media conference in Sun Valley.

Mr Schmidt said and can bring a brand new level of personalisation to the company’s various internet offerings, operating across Google product. “The assumption is that everything can move over to using the and infrastructure over time,” Mr Schmidt said.

Product enhancements in core search, core YouTube, and maps ought to facilitate drive adoption. “We’re making an attempt to use the identity infrastructure to form the Google product extremely fascinating,” he said.

Mr Schmidt said it had been too early to debate usage statistics for and, however that “all the signs are terribly positive” and therefore the biggest downside was that many folks were sad as a result of they don’t have their invites. Google has restricted the quantity of individuals using and therefore it will calculate bugs.

“There are one or two of privacy bugs, that were fastened inside many days,” he said, however added that early privacy issues were to be expected.

But and isn't a Facebook knock-off, Mr Schmidt said. “If you browse the reviews, folks appear to grasp that it’s somewhat completely different from Facebook,” he said. “We have a somewhat completely different read of privacy. The privacy defaults are completely different, the means we tend to handle it's completely different.”

He said that Circles, a feature on and that lets users choose discreet teams of individuals to share data with, would become a vital a part of Google’s different product, like Gmail and Buzz. “All the product within the company can evolve the Circles operate,” he said.

Mr Schmidt additionally said he believed that Google and may become one in all the most identity systems for the online, allowing a larger degree of customisation across numerous services. “There are multiple sources of identity and there'll be multiple sources of social networks,” he said.

“The issue on the web ... could be a lack of identity,” he said. “And if you had a robust and clear identity there’s lots of stuff you may do, once more with people’s permission.”

Google has been talking with Facebook for a minimum of 2 years concerning sharing information and contacts, Mr Schmidt said. “We would like to have deeper integration with Twitter and Facebook,” he said. But so far, “we haven’t been ready to agree.”

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg With His Chinese Girlfriend Priscilla Chan Mark

2011-07-06T22:55:00.000-07:00

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg With His Chinese Girlfriend Priscilla Chan Mark

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Google vs Facebook: Google is the King

2011-07-06T22:26:00.000-07:00

Google vs Facebook

No match between Google and Facebook, Google is the king.
Google has a huge advantage in the social search war against Facebook.
Google is ranked #1 in the world according to all traffic rankings. The site has been online for at least thirteen years.
Google market cap is $167.90 billion.
Google revenue for 2008 was 21,796 Million, for 2009 23,651 million, 2010 29,321 and Q1 2001 was 8,575.
Google has 25,000 employees .
Google hiring rose more than 4,500 full-timers in 2010, Google is adding more than 6,200 new workers in 2011 this will be the biggest hiring year in company history.
According to Albanian Minerals President and CEO Sahit Muja "There is not match between Google and Facebook by any means. Google is the king"
Albanian Minerals is investing In Google with huge confidence in the worlds most respected company.
Google has an advantage in the social versus search war by being the owner of the largest, and most profitable, social networks ever – YouTube.
The majority of video shared on Facebook comes from YouTube, and the flow of traffic from Google and YouTube to Facebook is only matched by the flow of traffic from Facebook to Google and YouTube.
In-fact – Facebook and YouTube seem to exist in a symbiotic relationship.
These two Titans of the Internet are almost completely reliant on each other.
Facebook derives so much of its traffic and shared content from YouTube, whilst YouTube relies on so much traffic driven from Facebook.
In many ways Google is well ahead of Facebook in the sense that Google have really the best search in the planet earth.
Google have about 800 million of users each month and they have a huge social network and the largest video-sharing site online in YouTube.
Facebook has a second rate search engine.

Source: Google vs Facebook

Will Google+ Affect SEO for Your Website?

2011-07-06T22:03:00.000-07:00

Google's new social networking website, Google+, launched to abundant fanfare last week. The new service, currently in invite-only stage, has created a buzz with its novel sharing and cluster video chat options.

The social network is Google's conceive to amendment the quasi-monopoly Facebook has enjoyed within the social media area for the past 5 years. however Google+ will have far-reaching implications for search. And whereas a number of the main points of how Google + can ultimately have an effect on search stay unclear, here are the key areas to look at below.

Search Results

Google suspended its Realtime Search on July four. The search feature, that displayed Twitter feeds in real time, was turned off by Google as a result of its contract with Twitter had expired. it's clear but, that the contract wasn't renewed as a result of Google plans on together with their own Google+ live feed into their searches, instead of Twitter's. thus whereas the main points stay murky, you must anticipate some iteration of Google +'s live feed displayed alongside search ends up in the close to future.

Brand pages

Google has said that their social network isn't able to support whole pages or profiles nevertheless. Obviously, if it needs an opportunity to compete with the likes of Facebook, the corporate can need to provide brands a compelling profile or page to speak with their followers. What quite platform Google+ intends to supply brands is nevertheless to seen.

URLs

Unlike Facebook, you cannot nevertheless claim your URL at intervals Google+. this could be connected to the very fact that the corporate hasn't rolled out whole pages nevertheless, however either means, you'll need to attend till you'll be able to begin printing your Google+ URL on your business cards.

Sparks Rankings

Sparks is Google+'s personalised content aggregator. Users will decide themes (such as cooking or cycle-cross, for example), and have content streamed to their profiles.

The SEO community is abuzz making an attempt to decipher how, exactly, one would increase their probabilities of obtaining their content into Sparks. Some have speculated that the method is such as of age prime of Google News pages. Barry Schwartz of seroundtable.com posted a reply from a Google exec saying that Sparks is "still pretty much in flux and being more expanded and tuned." thus, the SEO community continues to attend.

Posts

Google indexes public posts from Google+, maknig them accessible in search results, each after you are logged in and logged out of Google+. personal posts don't currently show up in Google search. Google+ conjointly indexes all comments created on public posts, which can undeniably hold substantial SEO weight.

Overall, Google+ contains a ton of sharing to try to to concerning how, exactly, it intends to rank content.

If there's one main takeaway of the implications Google+ has on SEO but, it's that real users, not keyword-and-link-seeking robots, can increasingly rank and share content. A recent study highlighted the very fact that Facebook usage is truly usurping time spent on the search-based net. while not a doubt, Google+, with its built-in content aggregators through Sparks, can take us one step more to understanding the web not as targeted around content, however around relationships.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Hottest User On Google Plus

2011-07-05T10:07:00.000-07:00

Last week, I noticed that Mark Zuckerberg scored an early invite to affix Google and — however that he doesn’t essentially look happy regarding it. He encompasses a rather somber profile photo. The post picked up steam and launched several alternative news stories, in nice half as a result of it fed into the narrative of Google and being a possible “Facebook killer.”

Zuckerberg himself was nonchalant, telling Robert Scoble via text, “Why are folks therefore shocked that I’d have a Google account?” actually, there’s very little reason to not use a competitor’s product (even if there's some precedent within the Google v. Facebook history book) — knowing how a competitor’s product works and what its best options are offers up competitive benefits.

Regardless, Zuck should actually have issues regarding losing Facebook users to Google’s new social networking tool. There are some huge pluses to Google +, as well as the chance to, in Ezra Klein’s words, “build your social network with years of Facebook expertise in mind.” That’s why I’m not shocked to examine Facebook profile photos just like the one at right pop up round the website. When Google and exits the “invitation only” stage, several a lot of users are signing up for accounts. It doesn’t essentially mean they’ll shut their Facebook accounts, however it should mean they pay less time there.

As much as that will be eating at Zuckerberg, there’s a trifle of reports these days to assuage his ego (if it’s hurting). because of all the news stories regarding his Google and profile, he’s currently the foremost followed user on the positioning, in keeping with Google+ Statistics. As of the writing of this post, 29,543 folks had added Zuck to their circles. Runners-up within the “most followed category” are Google executives Larry Page, Vic Gundotra and Sergey Brin, none of whom have nevertheless topped 20K.

Google statistics conjointly proves Quentin Hardy’s suspicion that and could be a sausage-fest. solely 100% of the site’s users are feminine, whereas half a mile are male, and a pair of are “other.” on condition that initial invitations were distributed primarily to those in tech circles, the gender disparity isn’t vastly stunning.

That two hundredth of the tech circle identifies as “other” could be a lil’ stunning.

Beware of Google Plus Spammers

2011-07-05T00:30:00.000-07:00

An e-mail claiming to be an invitation to the search giant's abundant ballyhooed answer to Facebook was creating the rounds on Monday. But, turns out, it's only one additional thanks to obtain illicit Viagra on the web.

Google+ was unveiled last week, however thus far invites to do out the new social-networking service have principally simply been sent to bloggers, journalists and others within the technology world. Google opened a short window last week for members to ask others, however is otherwise keeping Plus's doors locked for currently.

The result (and raise your hand if you think that this is often an accident) has been innumerable jealous of us reading others bring up Google+ and desperate to get in on the action themselves.

"The spammers aren't any doubt hoping that the e-mail are going to be too onerous to resist for several folks wanting to see Google's new social network," net security firm Sophos wrote on their Naked Security blog, "although simply what number users are going to be tempted to shop for medicine on-line could be a mystery."

The e-mail feels like those sent when a follower adds you to a "circle" on Google+ before you've got joined the positioning. however rather than resulting in Google+, the links within the e-mail manufacture a comprehensible chance to shop for Cialis, Viagra, Propecia and alternative pharmaceutical very little helpers.

The links don't appaear to upload viruses or alternative malware.

The Google+ effort is not the solely careful-where-you-click issue Sophos is currently monitoring.

A new spherical of naughty-looking links are doping up on Facebook underneath titles like "[Video] this is often what Happend to his Ex GirlFriend!" Clicking the usually anatomically expressive link in your newsfeed ends up in a page asking you to verify that you are older than eighteen.

Click "yes" on this page and you've got joined the party, sharing an equivalent link in your news feed.

Sophos says that if you've got clicked it, certify to instantly take away the link from your feed, then check your profile to visualize if you've got "liked" something you do not truly like.

Sophos consultant Graham Cluley adds this sage advice:

"Can I respectfully counsel that if you retain falling for scams like this, you are attempting and acquire your kicks elsewhere on the internet?" he wrote. "There's many photos and videos of naked girls out on the net that you'll be able to peruse at your leisure, while not the danger of flooding the newsfeeds of your Facebook friends."

Google Social Network - Google+

2011-07-04T10:05:00.000-07:00

What is +1?

Google introduced the +1 button on organic and paid listings in restricted unleash earlier this year. And this month, it rolled out the +1 button for websites. This button permits individuals to advocate PPC ads, organic listings and websites – the most recent try by Google to form the most important search engine additional social. just like Bing’s integration of Facebook Likes, +1 permits you, when signed in to your Google account, to ascertain when your friends and colleagues have suggested a selected web site.

A few stats from Google -

90% of shoppers on-line trust recommendations from individuals they apprehend.

71% say reviews from relations or friends influence purchase selections.

The PPC Details from Google

All ads are going to be obtaining these buttons
There’s no approach for advertisers to show them off
Clicks on the +1 button next to ads don't count as a paid ad click
Advertisers are going to be ready to see stats concerning that ads have gotten the foremost +1s – this could be accessible soon on the scale tab within the AdWords UI, once ads have accrued +1s.

Impact on PPC

Google has designed the +1s in order that they add up across channels. So, if your friend +1’s a web site, you +1 their organic listing and your brother +1’s one among their PPC ads, all 3 +1s are going to be listed on the organic listing, with one caveat – Daniel said that +1s are going to be related to the organic listing or ad’s final landing URL, therefore if you're using a similar landing URL across multiple channels, you'll be able to accrue +1’s faster – which means all the +1’s that happen, either on the page, the ad or the organic listing, would be aggregated. If you're not using a similar pages, the numbers won't combination. this might be a haul for advertisers that use multiple promoting landers for his or her PPC ads, since over and over this may not be a similar page as a site’s organic listing. Adding the +1 button to any or all promoting landing pages and together with the rel=canonical code to roll up your +1s to the page you wish to rank organically for that individual term or bucket of keywords can facilitate solve this downside.

Impact on Quality Score

Daniel conjointly mentioned that +1s won't have an effect on Quality Score directly at this time, though different speakers mentioned the likelihood is that +1s might increase an ad’s CTR, which, in turn, will increase QS.

From the Google AdWords blog: “The approach we have a tendency to calculate Quality Score isn’t changing (though +1s are going to be one among several signals we have a tendency to use to calculate organic search ranking).”

Impact on Advertisers

“The +1 button can facilitate your fans unfold their support of your business and its offerings to folks that apprehend and trust them.”

If, of course, +1 adoption will increase, the +1 recommendation might become a valuable barometer of an advertiser’s quality and recognition. Advertisers are currently adding the +1 button to their web site, hoping to tip the balance in their favor. though the first purpose of +1s is to point out that of your friends and family have suggested a web site, Google has indicated that sometimes they'll conjointly show the complete variety of +1s a billboard or web site has received. My guess is we'll begin to ascertain additional of those overall +1 numbers as additional websites add the +1 button.

All of this, of course, suggests that nothing if nobody decides to use +1. like different Google ventures into the Social house, there's invariably the chance that, returning into the sport therefore late, they can’t compete with the history and recognition of the established Social Networking sites. We’ll simply have to be compelled to wait and see.

Top 10 Google+ Tips to Improve Your Google Plus Experience

2011-07-04T09:29:00.000-07:00

Here are some helpful Google+ Tips shared by Matt Cutts and users who responded on his post at Google+. of these tips are handy and allow you to expertise the particular power of Google+ (PLUS). Check them below:

1. Click on Profile photos to rotate through them.

2. Click ‘j‘ to navigate right down to subsequent item or ‘k‘ to navigate up when checking the stream using keyboard.

3. to feature formatting to your text, use the straightforward trick below.

(*)bold(*): Add * before and once the message.
(_)italics(_): Add p.c before and once the message.
(-)strike-through(-): Add - before and once the message.

For example: *Hello* _everyone_ -Mayur- can seem as shown below:

4. Click on “Limited” next to the timestamp to seek out out the particular list of persons with whom you're sharing a specific post.

5. Add a + or @ signal to say somebody specifically in an exceedingly post.

6. Click on the Timestamp to urge the permalink (web URL) of any post.

7. Share your post with Public or Circle/Circles solely. you'll be able to even share a post with a personal by typing their name or email address. a awfully helpful one!

8. What’s additional, you'll be able to even edit the photos uploaded by you. It’s straightforward and flawless.

Then improve your not therefore sensible photos by adding some good effects to them in an exceedingly click.

9. not like Gmail, you'll be able to Resize the Chat Box in Google+. To do so, simply drag the box by its corner or sides.

10. If you’re aggravated with some post that's obtaining innumerable comments and so irritating you with notifications. simply Mute the post. you'll be able to even Block somebody and may Report Abuse against him.

Google Plus(+) Vs Facebook Like

2011-07-03T00:15:00.000-07:00

Facebook Like vs. Google +1

Google’s new +1 feature was one in all SMX Advanced Seattle most partaking sessions and, as a speaker, I even have received a good kind of feedback and queries. It appears this feature has fomented a good deal of speculation and inquiry. Here could be a bit a lot of food for thought.

Facebook Like vs. Google +1: What Are the most Differences?

As Google product manager Daniel Dulitz mentioned, Google +1 is an annotation system that reinforces the interactions between organic and paid results, web pages, and your Google contacts.

That being said, your Google contacts aren't essentially your friends… and, you wish to own a Google account to completely utilize the +1 feature. As a result, Google +1 acts as a collective rating system serving to results be a lot of trustworthy, however not adding the social infrastructure.

While Google’s +1 feature will draw upon a user specific network, it doesn't have identical social connotations of Facebook’s network. The +1 feature will perform as a validity making mechanism however doesn't contribute to identical social infrastructure that accompanies Facebook.

The Facebook Like is completely different in apply on many levels. Any web site that's liked on a Bing search result's propagated into Facebook and vice versa. this suggests that one thing liked in Facebook are shown on Bing despite any user interaction with the search platform.

This gives Bing/Facebook 2 avenues within which likes are often accrued further as 2 ways that to look at the data. Additionally, Bing’s system is already aware of a year’s price knowledge|of knowledge} stemming from Facebook Like data giving Bing/Facebook a major hop over Google.

Bing conjointly brings forth standard pages based mostly on international anonymous Facebook Like knowledge – which means that some anonymous Likes show albeit searchers aren't connected to Facebook, and makes it easier to travel to Facebook when seeing a look result to own a “conversation” this search question.

Note that you just would like a Facebook account to be ready to see of these interactions; however in contrast to Google +1, you'll produce a Facebook account using any quite email address.

Impact On Organic & Paid Search Rankings

Google +1 will influence search results, Google has said. it should conjointly indirectly have an effect on CTR, as it’s designed to draw users in and encourage clicking.

In paid search, Google +1 can impact a minimum of 3 Quality Score ranking factors over time: historical CTR, the standard of a landing page and account history.

As Bing Sr. product manager Duane Forrester explained at the Yahoo! Search and Bing client forum, the Facebook Like button doesn't alter search results either, a minimum of not usually. However, it will alter personalised results.

What will This Mean For Search Marketers?

Bing’s market share might grow because of Facebook integration into the Bing search results as a result of the Like button for websites has been on the market for quite a year, whereas the +1 button for websites was released simply a few of weeks ago. this could facilitate Bing leverage the Facebook Like button because the Like button is already implemented across the net.

The actually personalised means Bing is commencing to leverage Facebook knowledge is promising from a look expertise perspective. It might build several searchers – particularly those with an intense Facebook activity – switch from Google to Bing.

For these 2 reasons and since it’s early days and it’s all regarding speculation right away, i might not be shocked if Bing gained some market share because of this integration with Facebook, particularly if the Bing search engine becomes an even bigger a part of the Facebook user interface.

Social Search could be a SEM Game Changer

Google collects (by far) the foremost search queries, IP addresses, internet history, and so on. Theoretically, Google ought to be ready to confirm each user profile based mostly on search queries and internet history. These queries somehow specific interest, intentions, age, gender, and plenty of different attributes and probably build sense if they're well categorized.

If Google succeeds to convert of these queries to an audience-based database, and then leverage this for advertising functions, Google might supply some ultra-targeted choices while not an actual social network behind it.

On the opposite hand, since Facebook doesn't directly collect queries (yet), however rather user profiles, Bing then must build the link between user profiles and search queries to serve the correct ads, that appears to be a lot of correct and targeted.

While thusme internet users may notice personalised results invasive (like those ads associated with the content of your personal emails in Gmail) there's little question search marketers already are wanting forward to targeting searchers not solely {based|based mostly|primarily based mostly} on geo/language/device (that is so 2010) however conjointly based on a lot of granular demographic targeting settings, like gender, age, marital standing, etc.. further as interest.

Google Launches Google+ To Battle Facebook

2011-07-02T23:33:00.000-07:00

Google Launches Google+ To Battle Facebook

Google has finally unveiled Google+, the company’s high secret social layer that turns all of the search engine into one big social network.

Google+, that begins rolling out a awfully restricted field take a look at on Tuesday, is that the fruits of a year-long project led by Vic Gundotra, Google’s senior vice chairman of social. The project, that has been delayed many times, constitutes Google’s answer to Facebook.

The search giant’s new social project are omnipresent on its product, because of a whole redesign of the navigation bar. The acquainted grey strip at the highest of each Google page can flip black, and are available with many new choices for accessing your Google+ profile, viewing notifications and instantly sharing content. The notification system is comparable to how Facebook handles notifications, complete with a red range that will increase with every extra notice.

At its core, Google+ could be a social network. the primary factor users are introduced to is that the Stream. It’s very like the Facebook News Feed, permitting users to share photos, videos, links or their location with friends.

Google freely admitted to me throughout our conversation that its previous try at social, Google Buzz, failed to live up to expectations. Bradley Horowitz, Google’s vice chairman of product, says that a part of the matter was that Buzz was simply “tacked on” as a link on uncountable Gmail accounts, one thing that Google won’t be repeating. Horowitz conjointly says that, in contrast to the excitement rollout, Google+ could be a project which will roll out in stages.

In many ways, it reminds us of Gmail’s rollout. invitations to Google’s email service were thus asked for at one purpose that individuals were selling them for $50 or a lot of on eBay. whereas that kind of fervor might not hit Google+, we tend to expect the unreal scarcity can drive up interest whereas giving Google time to figure out the kinks.

No matter what Google says, Google+ is that the company’s response to the increase of Facebook. the 2 firms are in heated competition for talent, page views and customers. whereas Google controls the search market and encompasses a sturdy presence on mobile with Android, it hasn’t been able to crack the social nut. Its most successful social product, YouTube, had to be acquired, ahttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifnd it still ranks collectively of the foremost expensive acquisitions within the company’s history.

Has Google finally nailed social with Google+? We’re attending to publish a lot of of our thoughts on Google’s new social network within the next few hours, however we are going to say this: Google not gets a free pass in social. It should prove that it will draw users and keep them engaged during a means that doesn’t replicate Facebook or Twitter’s functionality. solely time can tell if Google has finally found its magical arrow.