Category: Google

Google Reveals A Bunch Of New Products And Updates At Their I/O Developers Conference

Google held their annual I/O Developers Conference today where a bunch of new products and features have been announced by Google. Google CEO Larry Page has been unwell lately (losing this voice) and it did look a little uncomfortable for him – but he did take the stage to give his overall thoughts about the technology [...]

Psy’s New Single ‘Gentleman’ Reaches 100 Million Views In 4 Days

Siobhan Chapman on April 17, 2013 | Comments (0)

Psy’s new single ‘Gentleman’ has reached 50 million views in 4 days. As promised in December last year, Korean Pop icon Psy has released his latest soon-to-be hit single, Gentleman which has already accumulated over 50 million Youtube views in 2 days. The song debuted live on Youtube on April 13th, hitting the 10 million [...]

Is This How Guys Will Use Google Glasses?

David Cowling on March 13, 2013 | Comments (2)

Google Glasses looks to be a new tech fad – but will it help pick up women? This video shows a ‘real life’ example of how these glasses can lead to success with the opposite sex. This seems incredibly accurate..

Google Creates Google+ Sign-In To Compete With Facebook Connect

David Cowling on February 28, 2013 | Comments (0)

Google is creating their own ‘Sign in with Google+’ button to compete with Facebook Connect, which is deeply integrated across tens of millions of websites around the world. Google Plus actually launched almost one and a half years ago – so I’m a little surprised to see it has taken them this long to create [...]

Gangnam Style Becomes First Video to Reach One Billion Views on Youtube

Siobhan Chapman on December 27, 2012 | Comments (0)

Rolling Stone’s “Seoul Brother Number 1″, South Korean Pop artist, Psy and his official Gangnam Style video have reached over 1 billion views on Youtube, becoming the first clip to break into a recorded ten digit viewing. The film clip became almost an immediate worldwide phenomenon, rocketing Psy into his international career since its release [...]

Why Would A Google Executive Say Something This Low About Facebook?

David Cowling on December 5, 2012 | Comments (0)

A. Because they are burning with Jealousy Here is the quote from Google VP, Bradley Horowitz: “We don’t have to make next week’s payroll based on jamming ads with users in an inappropriate way.” Bradley is commenting on how Facebook displays their ads to their users. I found this astounding to hear – considering: 1. Google’s whole business is [...]

Google PageRank Update – 8 November 2012

David Cowling on November 8, 2012 | Comments (10)

It seems Google has updated their Toolbar PageRank indicator today, 8th November 2012. I am pretty happy. SocialMediaNews.com.au has gone from PR4 to PR5 Allinstagram.com has gone from PR0 to PR4 – big jump Most of my other smaller sites have remained the same. I have noticed many other publishers in Australia (somewhat similar to [...]

Google Launches Disavow Links Tool

David Cowling on October 17, 2012 | Comments (1)

In the world of SEO, a lot of it comes down to having a large number of quality links pointing to your site. We are also starting to see social signals influence search rankings but mostly it is your backlink profile. Over the recent Panda and Penguin updates, Google has started to penalise websites with [...]

Google Plus Reaches 400 Million Users

David Cowling on September 18, 2012 | Comments (1)

Vic Gundotra, Senior vice president of engineering at Google has just announced via his Google+ page that their social network now has 400 million registered users all around the world. This is both mobile users and those visiting plus.google.com. Gundotra also went on to say that G+ has 100 million monthly active users. Google has just [...]