Google Biz Chief: Over 10M Websites Now Using Google Analytics

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It’s Google Q1 earnings day, and because we all know that you have better things to do than listen to executives dryly read prepared statements, we’re taking one for the team and keeping you in the know about the important stuff. Google beat Q1 expectations, reporting revenues of $10.65B and a net income of $2.9B. During the...

Science Fiction

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In Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Veldt,” two children play in their “nursery,” a sort of home holodeck where they can conjure up any scene in which to play. Bradbury always had a wonderfully clunky sort of technobabble; in this case, as the father tells the mother, “it’s all dimensional superreactionary,...

Google’s Page: 2-for-1 Stock Split An Investment For The Long Term, Not Big Acquisitions

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Larry Page kicked off Google’s earnings call today with a run-down of his statements in the Founders’ Letter and some broad brushstrokes around the company’s new stock structure, which will see Google create a new class of shares, effectively a two-for-one stock split for existing shareholders.

As with the company’s original...

Report: Chrome Doesn’t Win Weekend Browser Battle After All (But Still Popular After Work)

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Remember last month, when StatCounter noticed that Chrome surged to briefly (for one day only!) become the world’s most popular web browser? Well, another key finding in its report had to do with the time of day Chrome usage peaked – according to StatCounter, Chrome seemed to be used more on weekends. The implication, of course, was...

Google Beats In Q1 2012: Revenue Up 24 Percent To $10.65B, $2.9B In Net Income

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Google just released earnings this afternoon, reporting revenues of $10.65 billion for the first quarter which ended March 31, 2012, an increase of 24% compared to the first quarter of 2011 ($8.58 billion). But minus traffic acquisition costs, Google pulled in $8.14 billion in revenue. Non-GAAP EPS in the first quarter of 2012 was $10.08. GAAP Net...

Google: Mobile And Video Research Drive In-Store Cell Phone Purchases

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Curious how consumers are making decisions regarding which cell phone to buy? Google teamed up with Compete on a study examining how the online consumer shops for a wireless device and we have the results of the survey and study exclusively. Google and Compete tracked consumers online and searching patterns, analyzed the behavior of those...

Microsoft Will Soon Start Charging $40/Month And Up For Its Bing Search API

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Ever since Microsoft launched the Bing API a few years ago, this service was available for free to developers who wanted to use data from the company’s search engine in their own products. Today, however, Microsoft announced that it will soon start charging for access to the Bing Search API. The subscription price will start at around $40...

Google’s Chrome OS Will Soon Look More Like Windows Than A Browser

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It’s hard to say how popular Chrome OS, Google’s browser-centric operating system, really is. There can be little doubt, though, that Google is quite serious about this initiative. Today, Google launched the latest developer version of Chrome OS and this update sports the first major redesign of the operation system’s interface...

Why Does The New Google+ Use So Much Whitespace?

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Google launched a massive redesign of Google+ earlier today. The reaction to this new interface for the company’s fledgling social network have been generally positive, but most users are somewhat confused about why there is suddenly so much whitespace on the site. Indeed, the #whitespace hashtag is currently trending on the site and...

How The IPO Ruined Google

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Editor’s Note:Ian Lurie is CEO of Portent Inc, an internet marketing agency that he founded in 1995. He co-published Web Marketing All-In-One for Dummies, where he wrote the sections on SEO, blogging, social media and web analytics. He also wrote Conversation Marketing: Internet Marketing Strategies.

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Google+ Gets A Big Refresh With New Navigation, A Redesigned Stream, A Dedicated Hangouts Page More

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Google this morning is announcing a new look for its social network, Google+, which introduces a revamped navigation, with drag-and-drop elements and actions that appear when you hover over each item, as well as the introduction of new features aimed at making it easier to discover conversations to join, new profile pages, a dedicated page for...

The Meh-Too Crowd

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It’s been a while since I came to Google’s defense but I think it’s time to talk about what an absolute downer it is to dig through a lot of tech commentary these days. The most recent example came after the launch of Google’s Glass project, a HUD for future travelers that will let us connect to our world in a fairly...

YouTube Live Turns One: Adds Pay-Per-View And Real-Time Analytics

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YouTube Live, Google’s live streaming platform, celebrated its first birthday over the weekend. To mark this event, YouTube is adding a number of new features to Live today. Most of these (new production software, improved publishing flows and real-time analytics) are mostly of interest to video producers. The most important new feature,...

Google Launches Android App To Improve Its Indoor Location Accuracy

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Google Maps, Bing Maps and a number of startups have been offering indoor maps for large venues like airports, malls and stadiums for quite a while. The problem with indoor mapping, though, is that it’s pretty hard for these companies to actually tell you exactly where you are on these maps. GPS obviously doesn’t work well in these...