Google is acquiring Deep Mind for reportedly $400 million although some are reporting it may have been as high as $500 million. Deep Mind is involved in the field of artificial intelligence. The news came out on a Sunday and many publications are covering the story. Recode.net posted that, DeepMind has only a landing page for a website where it describes its business as building learning … [Read more...]
Google Rolls Out a Few New Features
Here are a few new features Google is rolling out. Stan Schroeder at Mashable covered that now there is a new feature to Google search that will provide more info. You can now find out more about every search result by clicking on the page name next to the actual link. This apparently only works for sites that are very well known and will not be there for just any website. Matt McGee … [Read more...]
Google Unveiled Smart Contact Lens, we look at who owns the best domain names
A week ago Google introduced their smart contact lens project. Google wrote on its blog in a post which has over 5800 comments: We’re now testing a smart contact lens that’s built to measure glucose levels in tears using a tiny wireless chip and miniaturized glucose sensor that are embedded between two layers of soft contact lens material. We’re testing prototypes that can generate a reading … [Read more...]
Why Google Wants to Give You 101 Alternatives to .Com
Leo Mirani is on a roll he wrote an excellent piece yesterday on the new gtlds with co author David Yanofsky He is out today with a piece entitled, "Why Google wants to give you 101 alternatives to .com" Mike has spoken in the past that Google is a big wildcard with regards to what extensions they end up with and how they distribute them. Google giving away domains for free could be something … [Read more...]
Building Your Business on Google +
If you have been looking to improve you Google + account and use it for your business. I know a lot of people don't love Google + but there are some who have been looking to get more active. Google + has made it available now to get custom urls instread of that ugly long string of numbers. You can see how to do that here. Plus Your Business is a site that is providing free training courses … [Read more...]
Harvard Business School Study: Display Ads Drive Search Clicks After Two Weeks
Greg Sterling wrote an article on Search Engine Land today that related to a study showing display ads drive search clicks with a delayed effect. The study was conducted by Harvard and Ozyegin University researchers. Ozyegin is located in Turkey. From the article: The conclusions and insights are useful, however, and can be boiled down to the following: Display advertising does indeed … [Read more...]
Did Expedia Get Caught Trying to Buy Its Way To The Top of Google ?
Search Engine Land wrote a piece yesterday on the travel website Expedia losing 25 % of their search visibility in Google. The possible reason is for unnatural links. From the article: Expedia.com’s Google Traffic Decline: Patrick Altoft noticed a drop in Expedia’s traffic today and posted about it on Twitter. If you look at their decline today, it looks like Google has penalized Expedia in … [Read more...]