Category: Google
Google +, a mistress or my 2nd wife
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It is only natural that Google would want a piece of Zuckerberg’s multi-billion dollar pie, but to me, I see Google’s new social media product as being a bit of a homewrecker. As a lowly user, without the vested financial interest of those such as Microsoft or Google, Google+ just seems to me like a [...]
Most Popular person on Google + Social Network?
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You may think it would be Google executives Larry Page or Sergey Brin. but nope, incorrect. The most popular person on the Google + Social Network is Mark Zuckerberg. You can check out this profile at the below link and his ‘follow/friend’ count is dwarfing anyone else on the network – https://plus.google.com/104560124403688998123/posts There are several [...]
Google+ V Facebook
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Google’s new social networking product, Google+ has been released in ‘limited’ beta mode where only a handful of people (ie prob a couple hundreds of thousands of people) got an invite. I did put my email in the signup area but didn’t get an invite. Google’s Vice President of Social, Vic Gundotra has come out [...]
Social Media Marketing tips for YouTube
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Whilst not many businesses and online brands are not using LinkedIn as part of their social media marketing campaigns, there are many businesses who are leveraging traffic and exposure from this social video website. Check out these following tips to see if using YouTube in your social marketing can benefit your business. Social Media Marketing [...]
Google +1 Button rolled out to Google Australia
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Hi All – just a quick note to let you know Google has rolled out the Google +1 button to their Australian search engine. The Google +1 button will now show for all users who are logged into their Google Account and running a search on google.com.au Why not go and run a search for [...]
Mobile Browser Market Share Australia – July 2011
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I was having a look today at the mobile browser market shares in Australia over the past month (June-July 2011). This is basically showing the popularity of the mobile phones most used for mobile internet surfing. We wrote about Mobile Browser Market shares for Australia in May if you want to check previous figures. The [...]
Google launches Google+ Social Network
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Google has launched a new social network/ social media site called Google + https://plus.google.com The product is in Beta mode and only available for selected people with an Invite from Google. The tool is to rival other social media sites, mainly Facebook. The product has a couple different features: Circles Circles allow you to share [...]
Google +1 launches in Australia
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Google +1 has now been launched to some Google account users in Australia, with complete rollout due by the end of the week. The Google +1 button could be considered, in my opinion a ‘Social search recommendation engine‘, as the button allows user to ‘vote’ for a particular piece of content/brand/identity in Google Search results, [...]
Google PageRank Update today 27 June
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It looks at though, today 26 / 27 June, Google PageRank has been updated on a number of websites around the world, when viewing the Google PageRank Toolbar. I checked my site yesterday, and was only PR2, and today PR3. So I’m happy with that. Many webmasters these-days try to predict when the next update [...]
7 Tips for Making a New Blog
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If you are looking at starting a new blog, sometimes it can seem like a daunting task – where do you start? We have compiled a simple but effective list in getting your blog off the ground with the basic foundations set. Do the extra work upfront and I think your new blog will have [...]
Google Mobile Search localising with Google Places
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Google has rolled out some updates to its Mobile Search platform in Australia, now taking advantage of localising user content and prominent positioning of Google Places. Australia, USA and many countries now have an updated Google Mobile site with simple navigation for accessing Google Places. Look at the below screenshot on Google.com.au showing my location [...]
Google launches Plus 1 (+1) Social Sharing Button
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Google has now launched their Plus One (+1) Social Sharing Button, and they say this is a way for users to rate a piece of web content as ‘cool’. This will enable users with a Google Account to +1 websites and content they like, which is then broadcasted to their Google Contacts and other people [...]
Mobile Search Market Share Statistics, April 2011 – Australia
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Today let’s have a look at the Mobile Search Market share amongst the leading Search Engines being used in Australia. The 3 main search engines used in Australia are (obviously): – Google – Bing – Yahoo Here is a graph showing the current market shares: As you can see Google has over 99% of the [...]
Search Engine Market Share Statistics, April 2011 – Australia
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We have had a look at the Search Engine Market shares in Australia for April 2011. The main players in the Search space in Australia are: – Google – Bing – Yahoo As I’m sure you already knew! What is interesting though is Google’s penetration into the market still remains far far ahead of any [...]
Internet/ Web Browser Statistics – Australia, April 2011
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Let’s have a look at the current Internet Browser Market Shares in Australia. The 5 main Internet/ Web Browsers being used in Australia are: – Internet Explorer – Mozilla Firefox – Google Chrome – Apple Safari – Opera These days all 5 of these browsers are heavily developing their products to take advantage of the [...]
Bing & Yahoo USA Search Market Share Growing, Australia Next?
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According to new stats released by Experian Hitwise – Bing and Yahoo have increased their share of the United States Search Market during March. According to the figures Bing had 14.32% of the US Search Market, Yahoo had 15.69% (which is now powered by Bing however in Australia Yahoo Search has not switched over to [...]
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