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Tag Archives: Google
Xoopit for Gmail is Closing, But Why?
Just got an announcement from Xoopit that they are shutting down Xoopit for Gmail in order to focus on improving Yahoo mail and My Pictures. This comes as a surprise to me and does not smell like a business decision … Continue reading
Google Suggest’s Hidden Feature – Spell Checker
A few months ago Google officially released Google Suggest to be a primary feature on Google’s home page. In a blog post that announced this, the product managers in charge of the feature explained the different improvements including personalized suggestions, … Continue reading
Posted in Search, Tips, User Experience
Tagged Ask, Bing, Google, Google Suggest, Search Queries, Yahoo Search
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Seen In The Wild – Google Ads for Advertisers
In the last year I have seen several house ads running on the AdSense network, promoting different Google services such as Chrome, Picasa and Google Analytics. But today while reading TechCrunch, I saw for the first time an ad targeted … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Search
Tagged Advertising, Bing, Google, Google Analytics, Google Chrome, Microsoft, Picasa
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Why Twitter Should Not Sell Itself To Google
Despite what a few bloggers have posted lately, despite the fact Google wants to buy Twitter very much, despite Twitter’s speculated price tag, I am calling the Twitter executive team not to sell itself to Google’s. If Twitter will be … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media, Twitter
Tagged Blogger, Democracy, Freedom of speech, Gmail, Google, Twitter
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Know Where Your Ads Show Up
Earlier today, while reading Google’s response to the Gmail outage, a little “Sign up for Gmail” text link had caught my eye. I know it is an editorially selected link rather than a target ad, but it reminded me those … Continue reading
AutoParenth – Microsoft Excel’s Most Desired Function
I was using Microsoft Excel the other day and had that Eureka moment. I typed in a simple formula that had a closing parenthesis but forgot to put an opening parenthesis. An error message popped up and I realized that … Continue reading
Posted in Usability, User Experience
Tagged Apple, Excel, Google, Microsoft, Office, Usability, User Experience
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Is Google running a campaign on Jailbroken iPhones?
Interesting. Google is running a campaign on iPhones via AdMob to promote the google voice search app. I saw it on QuickGold which is an app (great one – the Quicksilver version for iPhone) that can be installed only on … Continue reading
Google Easter Egg: Search Results Page Holiday Decoration
I just came across these holiday icons that appear on SERP pages for holiday related terms. I wonder if that’s a way for Google to boost holiday sales grabbing people’s attention and pointing them to the sponsored results rail on … Continue reading
Posted in Marketing, Search, events
Tagged Easter Egg, Google, Holiday Decoration, SERP
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Best Israeli High-Tech Companies Survey
Globes.co.il published the results of a survey that was done by the Israeli research firm BDI-COFACE to rate the best Israeli high-tech companies to work for in 2008. BDI’s results were somewhat surprising (Intel first, Google ‘only’ second) so Globes … Continue reading
Posted in Misc, Technology
Tagged "Best Companies To Work For", Amdocs, CheckPoint, Comverse, Globes.co.il, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Nice, SAP, Survey
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Meydad.com releases May 2008 Search Engine Ranking
ComScore reported yesterday that Google increased their US search market share to 61.8%. Yahoo is at 20.6% and Microsoft only at 8.5%. I took a screenshot of my Google Analytics account and compared the results to ComScore’s report. During the … Continue reading
Posted in Search
Tagged "search engine ranking", "search engine ranks", "search engine", ComScore, Google, Microsoft, Search, Yahoo
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