Matt Bailey giving MarketingTalk at Google
Next month, I will be traveling to the Googleplex to be a presenter for their “MarketingTalks@Google” series. This is an awesome invitation, spawned from the “Analytics According to Captain Kirk” segment in my analytics training and presentations. I’ve known the staff at Google Analytics since their Urchin days, so it’s always nice to see their success and adoption into Google. I’ll be in San Jose for Search Engine Strategies that week, presenting at two sessions; Analytics 2.0 with Analytics heavyweights Jim Sterne, Erik Peterson, and Marshall Sponder, and then a fun panel on IT for Marketers, where we de-mystify the dark secrets of IT web-speak language for…
Asking for Innovation?
As a search engine addict, and a search engine marketer, I’ve been fascinated with the evolution of the search engine ever since I started marketing online, well over a decade ago. One search engine always attracts my attention, especially over the past two years, with great innovation and features. And no, it isn’t Google. It’s Ask.com. Multimedia is Content Ask got people talking early last year with its breakthrough 3-D interface. I was able to enjoy this interface to the fullest a few weeks ago when my child was doing a school report on Glenn Miller. From the Ask search results, we were able to listen to his recordings,…
Oops! A few weeks ago a friend of mine told me about an “incident” that happened with his kids and a well-known search engine. The “incident” was brought about by his kids innocently typing words into the search engine, they were young enough that he didn’t think that they would use a search engine, but they did. I found this out a few years ago; my daughter found the website dolphin.com and was asking questions about it. I asked her how she found it and she said that she typed it into the search engine. She was four. Enter the parental responsibility mode. I am constantly on a quest to…
While people seem to enjoy the Google cartoons on holidays and other anniversaries, it looks like the Valentines Day logo hurried through with a little error.
See something a little odd? No, not the chocolate.
Spell out the word Google – yes, the “l” is missing.
I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions . . .
Courtesy of marketingshift.com
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Meanwhile, over at Ask.com,
They are there for me. I love that.
They also offer this little sweetness to the Ask.com blog subscribers:
Love,
–The Ask.com Team
Now, isn’t that sweet?
Microsoft unleashes Ms.Dewey
Via Kim Kraus’ increasingly unhealthy obsession with MS Dewey. (really Kim, I am starting to become concerned) Kim blogged yesterday about Microsoft’s new search engine MsDewey. My first thought was “interesting.” Ask finally dropped the butler, Jeeves, in order to change their image, and Microsoft has unveiled a sort of Jeeves 2.0. I will say that I found it to be patently irritating. Sure, Ms Dewey is attractive and gets your attention right away. Of course, I don’t go to search engines to be entertained. I go to find stuff called “information.” So, anything that gets in the way of that process irritates me. It’s obvious that this was…
Google buys YouTube, the popular video sharing site, for a paltry $1.65 billion. This surprised many industry watchers as Google has typically bought start-ups before they became popular. YouTube has far surpassed expectations of popularity, which is also why the deal seems so large for Google. Buying YouTube will also bring with it a few interesting problems. The first of which is to figure out how to monetize YouTube in ways other than ad revenue. The video site has grown significantly since is debut last year, largely by word of mouth, but did not have a monetization strategy. The second issue will be potential copyright lawsuits. Many videos on YouTube can…
A new service is available from Google Talk, and it blows my chances completing a Google-free week. Well, technically, I still haven’t done any Google searches though, so maybe I can still make it. A few weeks ago, Google gave Google talk users the option of displaying “What’s Playing” as their personal message. This week, Google rolls out Music Trends, a window into the world of what people are listening. This seems to be an interesting experiment in some form of social networking. While Yahoo Music allows you to see other user’s recommendations, this seems to mainly be a top 30 list for what’s playing in any respective…
Internet Marketing: An Hour a Day
Written by Matt Bailey, President of SiteLogic. Matt presents the start-to-finish guide for marketing online, answering many questions that most businesses don't know to ask!
