Google Inc. isn’t asking for a share of the payments revenue generated with its new mobile wallet. Nevertheless, partnering with the search engine juggernaut could be a trade-off for banks. Google plans to make money through an associated service in which merchants pay to display coupons on the phone screen. Banks may be leaving money on the table if they …
Google Executive Chairman Schmidt Says He ‘Screwed Up’ in Social Media
Google Inc. (GOOG) Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said he “screwed up” in the area of social networking when he was chief executive officer of the world’s largest Web- search provider. “I clearly knew I had to do something and I failed to do it,” Schmidt said yesterday of his efforts to help the company excel in social media. “The CEO …
Google to Charge for Directions Location Extension
I suppose I need to take my hat off to Google once again. Don’t get me wrong, I love capitalism, but Google has got the market cornered in so many ways. We, as people, love things for free. Once something has been given away for so long that it becomes a part of our daily life and then a small …
Google Steals Yahoo!’s Display Revenue Crown
As their display prophets foresaw, it came to be that Google ruled all online advertising. While it’s not surprising to hear Google dominated search revenue (a 59.6% share in 1Q11, a tad bit above 59.1% in 4Q10), the latest stats from market researcher IDC also show that Google passed Yahoo! in display revenue during the first quarter of 2011. It’s …
Who Will Win the Facebook and Google War? A Social Media Smackdown.
Ali-Frazier. Yankees-Red Sox. Celtics-Lakers. The sports world has often seen knock-down, drag-out battles between titans. But seldom do massive companies zero in on each other. In the latest salvo of an increasingly nasty war, Facebook hired public relations firm, Burson-Marsteller to try to covertly get journalists and bloggers to write negative articles about Google’s privacy practices relating to its new …
Search Engine Rankings – April 2011
comScore recently released April 2011search engine rankings report. This report shows overall market share / usage of the top search engines. Here is the recap in order of usage: Google search market share fell to 65.4 percent, a loss of .3 percent in March. Yahoo grew to 15.9 percent, a gain of .2 percent. Bing grew to 14.1 percent, a …
Facebook Becomes Top Choice for Social Sign-In (like i need to say that)
For the first time, Facebook overtook Google as the most popular network ID used to sign in to websites to share content It was only a matter of time before it happened. Facebook out performed Google in total usage about a year ago, now with sign-ins. How much longer before Facebook overtakes the #1 internet property? In Q1 2011, Facebook …
Google’s Panda update has changed SEO again
Searchengine land posted a great article for all you SEO peeps. I hear this question, in various forms, quite often these days: “What’s up with Google now, post-Panda/Farmer/whaddayacallit? What am I supposed to be doing for SEO?” (Usually accompanied with a deep sigh, aggressive hand gestures, and/or grimacing.) It All Started With Caffeine “Caffeine lets us index web pages on …
Online search records spark privacy concerns
Yahoo says it will now keep data for 18 months, matching Google. Yahoo plans to extend the amount of time it retains records on what its users search for online, less than two and a half years after breaking from the other big Internet search engines and promising to delete such data promptly. The new policy brings the company in …
Pushing Your Business With Google Adwords
This is a good article about knowing the benefits of PPC advertising with Adwords. If you have chosen to do your own campaign, this might be something helpful. If you have tried to run your own campaign with minimal results…Call ME. I can show you like business that I run, and we can use it as a yard stick for …