Posts Tagged ‘Google’

At a recent Socialize event in Toronto, a few panelists pointed out that people may be looking at Google+ the wrong way.  While most are trying to categorize it as a social network, the speaker felt that Google+ couldn’t miss because it was just a way of strengthening social SEO, and as the years pass, [...]

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Google+ is still virgin territory for  games and other social applications. At the Inside Social Apps 2012 conference this week, Inside Network’s Justin Smith sat down with Google+ director of engineering David Glazer to talk about what developers can expect from the platform.

After a prolonged district court case ordered Google to take down images that may be offensive to Muslims, Google has agreed to do just that, and has began to censor its search results to remove offensive images.   Facebook and Yahoo, also named in the case, are sticking to their guns and saying that they can’t [...]

Jon Stewart – host of The Daily Show, a comedy show lampooning the latest in political developments – poked fun at Obama’s latest Google+ Hangout and wondering what exactly Obama was thinking when he accepted a woman’s resume live on the Hangout.  Jon Stewart referred to Google+ as the ‘What the F— is that thing [...]

If you read the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times or USA Today in the next three days, you might spot an ad from Microsoft that criticizes Google’s privacy policies and social search feature, Google plus Your World. In short, Microsoft is banking on your irritation with Google to get you to switch to [...]

President Obama completed his first live Google Hangout on Monday, and the results were pretty good.  Google has put up the video, and you can see that whether you agree with the answers or not, the overall effect of having Americans from all over the country asking live questions to the President is a very [...]

Google+ is opening up its network to allow teenagers to use social networks.  In a post on the Google+ blog, Google VP Bradley Horowitz explains the ways that teenagers can protect themselves using the various services on G+.

At today’s Socialize conference here at the beautiful St. Andrew’s Club onthe 27th floor of the Sun Life Financial Tower there was a great session discussing Google+ and its role within the greater Google suite.  The most interesting idea was that Google+ shouldn’t be looked at as a social network, but rather a social layer [...]

Google plus Your World has the tech community up in arms about the impact of integrating Google+ into its search engine on the user experience. Yesterday I opened an email from Google that read, “We’re getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one that’s a lot shorter and [...]

AJ Kohn over at Blind Five Year Old has put together what must be the most rigorous, complete Google+ SEO guide around, and it’s going viral like gangbusters.  It looks at the various angles of how Google+ is impacting search, and then follows it with a best practices section which explains how to leverage this [...]