All Entries Tagged With: "goog"

Second Life, Google Lively, Facebook, MySpace Google Trends – Who is most popular?

I was already in Google trends so decided to run the New Google Lively vs. Second Life than vs. Facebook and MySpace. The search requests for Second Life are definitely dropping and you can see an immediate spike when Google announced Lively on July 9, 2008. I prefer Second Life over Lively but curious about [...]

Google Toolbar Page Rank Revision Coming

Was just reading Matt Cutt’s blog concerning the page rank feature on the Google Toolbar. Page rank isn’t what it used to be these days for obvious reasons but wanted you to be aware of the change:
Hey folks, I wanted to let you know that new toolbar PageRank values should become visible over the next [...]

Google Lively – Second Life Replacement or Strategy to Advertise Virtual Ads in a Real World?

I have been learning Second Life and so was very interested to check out the new Lively.com virtual world that launched from Google (beta mode). Normally, my first impression of Google jumping into an area is that it will be amazing and blow me away. In this case I really didn’t feel the “wow factor” [...]

Google adds privacy link to home page!

Interesting that for so many years we were always told by Google that we had to have a privacy policy link on web sites, landing pages, etc. and now Google has finally added one themselves. An excellent article in NY Times you can also read Google’s Privacy Policy

The word “privacy” now appears on Google’s home [...]

Google defies gravity $449 to $525 – stock up 17% after hours on earnings

Google posted a better than expected quarterly profit, and stock rose in after hours trading. This is great news as all the doom and gloom surrounding the U.S. economy isn’t translating into an overall slowdown in internet advertising. Shares surged 17-18% to top $525 after hours and should be an interesting day in the markets [...]