Do you remember your first time using Google search?
I do. Even after all these years. It was amazing.
Hard to believe that was 25 years ago.
September 6, 2023
Google Turning 25
06September
May 5, 2020
Google My Business reviews are getting reviewed
05May
Times are changing – as reported by the BBC back in February this year (2020): An Australian court has ordered Google to identify the person behind an anonymous bad review of a dentist.BBC and Justice Bernard Murphy ruled that… …had grounds to pursue a defamation case and that Google was “likely to have or have had control of a document or thing that would help ascertain...
September 25, 2019
Google Algorithm September 2019 Core Update
25September
Just thought I’d mark this here, since I like to look back and see what I was thinking about in years prior.
This time it was Google rolling out a broad algorithm update – calling it the September 2019 Core Update.
As usual, Twitter is where all the discussion is.
August 31, 2019
Dejan Marketing
31August
Fascinating experiment going on by Dan (here’s the background) after his recent Google penalty.
Here’s his ongoing update on what’s happening.
August 30, 2019
Bonus: More ads
30August
Not sure if this is real or doctored, but it’s pretty funny – and also spot on in terms of the ‘experience’ that Google (especially on mobile) is heading to. via Valentin Pletzer. It reminds me of when The Onion was taking the piss out of men’s razor blades – Google seems to be doing the same thing with their ad coverage: fuck everything we’re going to 5...
August 9, 2019
Surfacing podcast episodes in Google
09August
Good news for podcasters (of which I am one), with Google tweaking things in order to highlight individual podcast episodes more relevantly for search queries. Note: To pull off the search indexing, Google is automatically transcribing all the podcast episodes it finds. And also note: This new functionality could fundamentally change how people find new shows because podcasts have lacked...
August 6, 2019
Australia to create a special branch of the ACCC to scrutinise how Facebook and Google use algorithms to match ads to viewers
06August
Sorry for the long headline, but it’s required in order to actually explain what is happening. Otherwise, from other sources (like Reuters and Fast Company), you’d be forgiven for thinking that the Australian Government was going to force Google to hand over their search algorithm (Spoiler alert: that is never, ever going to happen). Instead, the real story is they want to check how...
August 5, 2019
Alexa, Siri, Google allow opt out of human listening
05August
Not before time (via Bloomberg): Amazon.com Inc. will let Alexa users opt out of human review of their voice recordings, a move that follows criticism that the program violated customers’ privacy. emphasis mine Apple has actioned this just recently, and Google has (in EU at least) as well. Still not right that people can opt out (ie they need to take the initiative) – this should be an...
July 22, 2019
Bye Bye Nacho
22July
Very thorough analysis of the Nacho Analytics demise by Ars Technica (a reminder of what good investigative tech journalism looks like btw). If you’re not familiar with the whole situation, here’s the summary: Chrome Browser extensions (perhaps deceptively) get your permission to track everything you do (recording URLs you visit, content that is on the page etc) and then on-sell that...
December 24, 2017
Eric Schmidt leadership
24December
Eric Schmidt showed how to lead as a student