Excellent collection of graphical illustrations of Google's growth to "world domination", courtesy of Inspired Magazine.
Google This – 13 Years of World Domination Visualized
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How The Mainstream Media Stole Our News Story Without Credit
Danny Sullivan:
On Friday, I broke a tasty story about a woman suing Google, claiming bad directions caused her to get hit by a vehicle. Today, I discover our story is everywhere, often with no attribution. Come along and watch how the mainstream media, which often claims bloggers rip it off, does a little stealing of its own.
Google nails Express sites over paid links
Malcolm Coles:
Google says it has "taken action" and no longer trusts links from a major UK newspaper group – apparently referring to the Daily Express website.
In April, an Express Group email was made public offering links in online "SEO editorials" from £1,000 – with the aim of improving search engine rankings.
Such paid links are against Google's "terms of service" – and the Express (and OK) site initially suffered a page rank penalty in Google's toolbar (ie not much of a punishment at all).
But Google has now gone further, according to an interview with Google's search quality team at Digital Inspiration.
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The only incident I know of recently in the UK is the Express case – so Matt Cutts appears to be saying the Express site (and presumably OK site) are no longer trusted.
Whatever your views on outing SEO tactics, this would be a fairly severe penalty for not using nofollow on paid links if carried forward.
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Google Font Directory
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Can't wait for widespread use of new HTML5 font feature, and now Google is doing its bit to simplify embedding of fonts:
"The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and served by Google servers.
View font details to get the code needed to embed the font on your web site."
General Election 2010 – Google
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UK Election search trends from Google.
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Google Wave Finds Purpose as Live Blogging Platform – Read Write Web
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Frederic Lardinois:
"At first glance, this looks like a minor update, but for the first time, you can now easily embed waves on your own site. Google notes that you could use Wave for real-time RSVPs with the Yes/No/Maybe gadget and to publish documentation via embedded waves. For us, however, the real potential here is live blogging with Wave.
The interesting thing about using Wave as a live blogging platform, of course, is that readers can see what a blogger is writing in real time. Live blogging doesn't get more real time than that.
Wave allows users to easily style text and embed images and videos. Adding additional writers to a wave is also as easy as adding another contact to the wave."
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Bringing Living Stories to WordPress – Google News Blog
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Eric Zhang, Software Engineer at Google:
"We first showcased Living Stories in December through a two-month-long experiment with the New York Times and Washington Post. We got great feedback from both readers and publishers. Our next step was to open-source the Living Stories format, allowing publishers to build on it using Google’s AppEngine infrastructure. We then released a version of the code that runs independent of our infrastructure. Since then, a number of publications have shared their ideas for ways we can offer additional tools to help them create Living Stories.
The WordPress plugin is a direct result of those conversations. We hope the plug-and-play solution will make it easy for you to get a Living Story up and running in almost no time at all."
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Google’s Cohen: Make Sure User Experience Comes First, Not Search Engine Visibility – Poynter Online
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Google’s Cohen: Make Sure User Experience Comes First, Not Search Engine Visibility – Poynter Online
Charles Yoo writing at Poynter Online:
"Google News chief Josh Cohen says a key to success in online publishing is this: Focus on "creating a more engaging experience for the users so that they spend a longer period of time per visit."
But, if Google cares so much about journalism, why not tweak PageRank and give more weight to news sites? (AP, which has been negotiating its contract with Google, reportedly wants its content ranked higher.)
"One person's branded or 'high quality' information isn't necessarily going to align with another's. So having some human come in and say, 'Well, this is good journalism and that is bad journalism' isn't consistent with our approach of trying to show unbiased results," said Cohen, product manager for Google News, in a phone interview."
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Google’s Schmidt: ‘We Have A Business Model Problem, Not A News Problem’ – paidContent @ ASNE
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Google’s Schmidt: ‘We Have A Business Model Problem, Not A News Problem’ – paidContent @ ASNE
Eric Schmidt on future of news at ASNE:
"“When I go to a news site, I want that news site to know more about me, what I care about. I don’t want to be treated as a stranger.” To avoid what we used to call “daily me” where all you see is what you want and ask for, though, in Schmidt’s ideal news world, the site offers him options he might not like. “I want you to challenge me. Here’s something new; here’s something you didn’t know; here’s an opposing view.” Two thirds will ignore the option; he wants to reach the third that won’t. This has particular resonance if you think about the way Google has been using actions to predict behavior or to deliver information with Google Buzz, ad targeting in GMail and other areas."
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Google Launches a New Way to Read the News
Jennifer Van Grove on Google’s new Fast Flip way of viewing online news:
On first look, Fast Flip feels like a bit flop. While certainly unique, it’s likely to appeal to a very small segment of online news consumers. Sure, the online news reading experience could be improved, but Fast Flip is more of a tangential approach than it is a step in a revolutionary direction.
Google Launches a New Way to Read the News
Great technology, but why for online news? Seems a more obvious solution for viewing print news…
Update: If it stored the full webpage of individual news items it would of course be a fantastic historical archive, with a better viewing experience than the Wayback Machine. Don’t think that is the intention though.