Google Plus 1 : Another attempt at G doing social

+1 coming to search results, but why in the results? Shouldn’t they just offer a similar facebook “like” button to add to your page? I would first need to see the page/website before I would even consider saying “Hey, I think this is cool and has value!”

They don’t have that button yet, but we all know that is the next logical step to make this addition to Google’s venture into social a more viable. Okay, here is the video followed by Google’s take on what they are offering up:

Sometimes it’s easier to find exactly what you’re looking for when someone you know already found it. Get recommendations for the things that interest you, right when you want them, in your search results.

The next time you’re trying to remember that bed and breakfast your buddy was raving about, or find a great charity to support, a +1 could help you out. Just make sure you’re signed in to your Google Account.

Show +1’s

In order to +1 things, you first need a public Google profile. This helps people see who recommended that tasty recipe or great campsite. When you create a profile, it’s visible to anyone and connections with your email address can easily find it.

Your +1’s are stored in a new tab on your Google profile. You can show your +1’s tab to the world, or keep it private and just use it to personally manage the ever-expanding record of things you love around the web.

Gmail Motion! Use your body to email!

This just might be the next big thing to have happened in tech for the home users since Android/iphone stuff.
you have to watch it to understand what is coming at us in your digital future…WOW!  just….
WOW

and now I see its only a April Fools Joke!

They had me going…oooooooh.feel burned!

Google to Take on Groupon

Many people know about Groupon….but did you know Google has tried to buy Groupon?

Groupon did NOT sell. Even if it was 6 BILLION dollars.

Google said, oh well so much for the easy way to get into this market space.

The Hard way, sort of, is to build and market their own deals website/network.

Enter Google OFFERS….surely to be tied into their maps and places.

Here come the competition Groupon and Living Social.

Read up on what is coming to an internet connection near you.

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How Google Determines Crawl Budget

It’s all about PageRank.

Google sets crawl budget based primarily on your site’s authority. That means PageRank of individual pages. Sites with a higher average PR across their pages will see a larger crawl budget; Google will crawl more URLs on these sites.

<–Nerd alert!–>

Read the full article HERE

My brief synapses

The basic thing to remember is that the higher your page rank is the longer googlebot will stay in your site and crawl and index your pages.
There are a few other nice nuggets of search info in this article too.

Beastly Android will batter Apple’s iOS beauty

Open…and Shut Apple can still claim top spot in terms of US market share, according to recent data from Nielsen, but its lead is rapidly vanishing in Android’s wake.

This means that developers increasingly are going to need to choose the platform they should develop for first, and the answer seems increasingly to be Google’s open web.

FULL ARTICLE HERE

My Brief Comment:
I am happy that Android is Open Source. Apple has held the mobile phone “coolness” for too long, keeping their code locked up.
I am a Droid owner and happy to hear that Apple and it properiety ways are starting to see the bright lights coming down.

Google’s New Adsense

Get ready Online Publishers! Google is shaking things up again.
 

GoogleIf your engaged using Adsense you now have a new opportunity to get better stats and details about what, where, who is clicking.

Here is what Google says:

  • More Insight:Actionable data helps you better understand your performance and make more informed business decisions. Learn more »
  • More Control:Easier to use, richer controls help you protect your brand – all in one place. Learn more »
  • Greater Efficiency:Redesigned interface helps you find what you're looking for and complete tasks quickly and easily. Learn more »

Ok that the basics of it, oh  it's still in beta, so possible not everyone will get this offer.
Click here to start using/upgrade.
 

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Video Tour of New interface

Import Your Old Hotmail Messages into Gmail

As many of you know I am gmail advocate.
So if you find yourself wanting more that what Hotmail has to offer, or you are already using other google applications and you have been looking for a way to make the transition I found this great blog posting on how to do just that.
Right Here
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Android spanks Apple’s iOS 4 in JavaScript race

The JavaScript engine in Google’s Android 2.2 running on a Nexus One phone soundly spanks Apple’s iOS 4 incarnation running on an iPhone 4.

When running the industry-standard SunSpider benchmark (which you can run here), Android 2.2 was nearly twice as fast as Apple’s offering.

And learn more About Mozilla’s FireFox 4….not as fast as Chrome 5 or Safari 5, but the addons are so popular that speed isn’t everything.

Read Full Story Here

Google can kill or install apps on citizen Androids

Google has the power to not only remove applications from users’ Android phones, but remotely install them as well.

Last week, Google told the world it had exercised its Android “Remote Application Removal Feature,” reaching out over the airwaves and lifting two applications from citizen handsets, and as pointed out by the man who built this pair of vanished applications – security researcher Jon Oberheide – the company can use the same persistent handset connection to install applications as well.

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Google Reveals Adsense Revenue Share….finally.

Today, in the spirit of greater transparency with AdSense publishers, we’re sharing the revenue shares for our two main AdSense products — AdSense for content and AdSense for search.

As you may already know, AdSense is comprised of several products. The most popular are AdSense for content, which allows publishers to generate revenue from ads placed alongside web content, and AdSense for search, which allows publishers to place a custom Google search engine on their site and generate revenue from ads shown next to search results. Since AdSense for content and AdSense for search offer publishers different services, the revenue shared with publishers differs for each of these products.

AdSense for content publishers, who make up the vast majority of our AdSense publishers, earn a 68% revenue share worldwide. This means we pay 68% of the revenue that we collect from advertisers for AdSense for content ads that appear on your sites. The remaining portion that we keep reflects Google’s costs for our continued investment in AdSense — including the development of new technologies, products and features that help maximize the earnings you generate from these ads. It also reflects the costs we incur in building products and features that enable our AdWords advertisers to serve ads on our AdSense partner sites. Since launching AdSense for content in 2003, this revenue share has never changed.

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