It has been noticed that Google seems to be experimenting with Google Adsense interactive Twitter advertising. These adsense units are rich media ads, that just happen to push Tweets as part of the ad. So far it has been noticed that these types of ads are only related to the Windows 7 twitter accounts.
What do you think of this advertising idea? Will it push more people to follow you on Twitter?
There have been a lot of reports that the Android platform now has over 250,000 apps. I find this a little hard to believe when the Apple App Store only has around 350,000 apps. I know the Android platform has been gaining a lot of adoption recently, but has it really grown this much?
Last month, Google former CEO Eric Schmidt (now chairman) at the Mobile World Congress revealed to the world that the Android Market had surpassed 150,000 apps as of February.
Thus, in a little over 30 days have they really added 100,000 apps!
Google has announced that Google Voice has been integrated with Sprint. Sprint customers can use their existing Sprint mobile number as their Google Voice number and have it ring multiple other phones simultaneously.
Customers can now answers Sprint phone call on their office, home or even through Gmail via Google Voice. Calls from Gmail and text messages sent from google.com/voice will also display your Sprint number.
To learn more, watch the video below and visit google.com/voice/sprint.
It seems as though Google has simplified the Google Chrome logo yesterday. Goodbye 3D and now we have a sexy flat logo.
The new logo has been appearing in a number of areas, but there is still no official word from Google (unlike Google).
The new logo was added just before Google Chrome adds a lot of great new features. Its rumoured that Google Chrome will be adding the ability to select multiple tabs, which is handy for managing the tab chaos some of us suffer, and abbreviated tab titles to better distinguish similar pages.
What do you think of the new Google Chrome Logo
There has been a great deal of talk about the upcoming social networking product from Google codenamed Google Me. We dont seem to be any closer to have confirmed information about the product, but there are rumours that its scheduled to launch at this years I/O developer conference on the 10th and 11th of May.
While this is not expected to be a direct competitor to Facebook, its supposed to be a social layer over Google’s products. There are already a great deal of personalisation and social layers in Google products, so it will be interesting to see how it can be co-ordinated to improve the useability of their products.
Have you ever wondered where what font some of your favourite internet brands use in their logo’s? Well HongKiat has let the world know. Logos such as Google, Yahoo, NewsGator, Skype, Digg, Twitter and more. You can now find out which fonts they use and then download and use that font.
Here is an awesome Google Chrome theme that is inspired by Grooveshark. This Chrome theme comes with a great yellow and blue design (that I will be using on Chrome from now on).
Last week Google released some major changes to their search algorithms. The aim of this update was to push content farms and low quality content sites further down the list.
Amit Singhal and Matt Cutts wrote on the Google blog:
This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites—sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on.
Since that time we have noticed that our organic traffic from Google has nosedived. Crenk isnt a content farm and we aren’t a low quality content source!
Can someone at Google please get in touch and let us know why we are being heavily punished!
P.S. This seems to have changed our traffic numbers, but somehow the content scraper that is HuffingtonPost hasn’t lost any traffic at all.
YouTube videos have a lot of keyboard shortcuts that I never even knew about. For example, Labnol has let us know that if you press the ‘0’ key to move the play head to the beginning of a video. Additionally, the YouTube player now lets you alter the playback speed of a video so that you may fast-forward, or slow-down, the video with a click.
It is a very simple option that is being rolled out across YouTube videos as we speak.
Google has just updated their social search feature and here is what you can expect.
Google social search results will include published information from your friends, whether they’re publishing on YouTube, Flickr or their own blog or website.
Remember you only get social search results when you are logged in to your Google Account.
