Upload Files To Google Drive? Good, Google Can Use Them Now
Google announced the launch of Google Drive yesterday - a DropBox competitor.Basically, Google is giving you 5GB of free storage with the ability to buy more storage, to store your files up in Google's cloud. But it seems like unlike with DropBox where you own the files you have on their cloud, with Google, Google can use the files you upload to their cloud.Here is a video demo of the service:Google's... April 25th, 2012 by admin
Google’s Cutts Speaks In Korea On "Search Inside"
Google's Matt Cutts shared on Google+ that he spoke in Korea back in January on search topics. The talk is about 45 minutes long, where he talks about the evolution of search, search as it is now, SEO tips and then the open web as it related to Korea.Here is the video followed by the transcript:Transcript:0:00 0:07[APPLAUSE] 0:08Good morning. 0:10It's very good to see everybody today. 0:14I'm... April 19th, 2012 by admin
Google’s Sergey Brin & Israel’s Shimon Peres At Google
Israeli President Shimon Peres stopped by Google yesterday, as part of his Silicon Valley trip. He was given a tour by Google co-founder, Sergey Brin, who is a born Jewish Russian. Shimrit Ben-Yair, a product manager on the Google+ team posted the picture here on her Google+ page and wrote:I had the great honor of meeting Israeli President Shimon Peres yesterday! He visited Google and saw some cool... March 9th, 2012 by admin
Google On Pace To Hit Over 4 Million Messages To Webmasters This Year
I reported last night at Search Engine Land that Google Sent Over 700,000 Messages Via Webmaster Tools In Past Two Months. At SMX West during the Ask The Search Engines, which I did not live blog, Tiffany Oberoi from Google shared a slide that showed in the past two months Google has sent over 700,000 messages via Google Webmaster Tools message center to individual webmasters. Prior to that, they sent... March 6th, 2012 by admin
OMG: Google’s Privacy Policy Went Live
As many of you know, Google updated their privacy policy officially yesterday. They announced it a several weeks ago and it scared people but Google didn't care obviously because the privacy policy officially web live yesterday.Truth is, the average user really doesn't care. It is the media, government and privacy folks who are making all the noise.In any event, Google held strong, like they normally... March 2nd, 2012 by admin
Google’s Personal Guide to the Internet
Kelly from Google posted in a Google Web Search Help thread a new guide from Google named Your personal guide to the Internet.You are basically taken through a couple steps of questions and then based on how you answer those questions, Google will provide links to various resources they already have in order to help you learn the internet.The guides include topics for beginners such as:I find it difficult... March 1st, 2012 by admin
Scroogle Shuts Down For Good
Scroogle, the search engine that scrapped Google's search results for almost a decade, has finally been shut down by its owner, Daniel Brandt.The reason is closed was because someone attacked it with a DDOS attack. Although Daniel Brandt also blames Google, despite Google continuing to allow the search engine to illegal scrape its search results for almost a decade. Daniel Brandt is known as one... February 23rd, 2012 by admin
Google Public DNS Is The Largest Public DNS Service
Google announced that the public DNS service they launched in December 2009 is now the largest public DNS service out there.Google said, "We're the largest public DNS service in the world, handling an average of more than 70 billion requests a day."So I guess webmasters had a reason to be wary. Those using Google Public DNS no longer have to use Chrome or Google Search or surf sites with AdSense or... February 15th, 2012 by admin
Google Webmaster Outreach 2011
Kaspar Szymanski, a Googler responsible for webmaster outreach and a downright awesome guy, posted on Google+ some of the highlights for his team in 2011. He wrote he wanted to share his personal thoughts on the top outreach accomplishments for Google in 2011.Let me sum them up for you:Authorship markup option is one of his favorites. Surprisingly he mentions Panda, but he does so for good reason,... February 14th, 2012 by admin
Google Screenwise: Get Paid To Use The Internet With One Catch…
Google has "quietly" launched a new project called Google Screenwise, which is part of the Google Knowledge Networks program.Google will pay you $25 for them to track your every move online. And you thought Google was tracking your every move on the internet already. But no, they want more.Ars Technica reports that part of this program is not just installing a browser plugin but also installing a... February 9th, 2012 by admin
Top Contributors Hosting Google+ Hangout
Moritz Tolxdorff announced on Google+ that the top contributors in the forums are hosting a Google+ hangout to answer questions on Google+.He said, "we are going to host the first TC Help Desk hangout this week." They hope to continue to do this hangout weekly. He added that they are volunteers not being paid by Google.These Hangouts will be exclusively for those who have questions about Google+... February 3rd, 2012 by admin
New iGoogle Layout Live For Some
Back in September, Google began testing a new iGoogle design and now it seems more are seeing that test.A Google Web Search Help thread has one person stating he sees the new design. Even the Google Operating System posted about it with detailed screen shots of how it looks. Here is one of the many screen shots:As you can see, the new iGoogle is less colorful, and more the new bland white dull feeling... January 23rd, 2012 by admin
Googlers Working On New Years
I was working and I am sure many of you were, but most likely, we own our business. Googler who work for 'the man' are also known to work on major holidays, like New Years and like we covered, Christmas.This year, I spotted several Googlers posting in the Google help forums. But I wanted to highlight three who posted in the Google Webmaster Help forums.Albert C. posted several times over the New... January 2nd, 2012 by admin
YouTube Let’s It Snow Too
A week ago, we reported how if you search on Google for let it snow, the Google search results page will actually snow.But did you know the same thing happens on YouTube?Try searching YouTube for [let it snow] and you will be granted snow flakes.Not only that, if you want to add snow flakes to your videos, all you need to do is click on the snow flake next to the resolution picker on the bottom right... December 23rd, 2011 by admin
Google’s Christmas Decorations
Christmas is around the corner and Google has just put up their Christmas decorations for the special day. Do a search for [christmas] or [merry christmas] and other flavors of that and you will see the Christmas decorations along the top of the page.Google launched the Hanukkah decorations a couple days ago, as Hanukkah started last night.Google does this every year, but normally the decorations... December 21st, 2011 by admin
