Graham English

Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Google Music Trends

See what Google Talk users are listening to: Google Music Trends

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Google: We Won’t Sell Music

“We are not going to be selling music,” said Chris Sacca, head of business development for Google. read more.

Adwords Ad Scheduling Announced

From Introducing ad scheduling:
Today we released ad scheduling, an advanced campaign management feature that allows you to determine when your ads run.
I’ve been waiting for Adwords ad scheduling for a long time.

Google Speaks Out On Net Neutrality

From The Debate over Net Neutrality:
Our CEO Eric Schmidt believes this situation is so important that he has written an open letter to Google users asking them to speak out on this issue. We urge all of you to read his letter and call your representative in Congress at 202-224-3121. For more information on the [...]

Google Video Ads

If you’ve got the kind of product or service that needs demonstrating, Google video ads look very promising. On the other hand, putting an extra click between the visitor and the advertiser is probably going to lower CTR compared to text ads. But the visitor might be more qualified so I predict the conversion rate [...]

Google Disapproved Ads Now Auto-Update

It used to be that if you had one of your Google ads disapproved, Google would manually review the edited ad before making it active again. Now all you do is edit the ad and it goes live. No more manual review.
Cool. Because I sometimes waited 24 to 48 hours before my ads would go [...]

Chi = Googlejuice

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Google Adwords As Messaging Service?

Mark Cuban did a vanity search on Google and found a personal message via Google Adwords. The advertiser figured he could get Mark’s attention by bidding on his name as a keyword and by writing an ad directed to him.
Talk about highly targeted marketing!
Link: Eurekster The Best Sales Idea I have seen in a long [...]

Your Music Will Sell In Japan?

I have been speaking with a business friend of mine, Greg Percifield. In case you don’t know him, he’s the owner of Music Forte Inc. We were discussing various CD distribution companies, and the problems that existed in that field of the music business. We both concluded that the rate of actual distribution is very [...]

Holocracy Plus Google’s DNA

“Google is actually the first company with a brand that is built entirely of stem cells: able to grow and develop into whatever form it sees fit.”
How cool would it be if you combined Google’s DNA with a Holocracy? read more.

Google Music Search

Google announced Google Music Search on their blog.
Right now the music search feature mostly works for artists popular in the U.S. and a more limited number of artists from other countries, but we plan to expand it to classical music, worldwide artists, and lesser-known performers. Our list of music stores will also grow over time. [...]

What is RSS and Why Do I Care?

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows you to syndicate or subscribe to the feed of a website, blog or almost any media content online (not just articles, it can be music, video or almost any digital media). So instead of having to go visit each and every website to read the latest content, you can use [...]

Google in China

Google in China:
Filtering our search results clearly compromises our mission. Failing to offer Google search at all to a fifth of the world’s population, however, does so far more severely.
Our launch of google.cn, though filtered, is a necessary first step toward achieving a productive presence in a rapidly changing country that will be one of [...]

Lessig: Is Google Print Fair Use?

Lessig: Is Google Print Fair Use?:
Larry Lessig has posted a video of a presentation on whether Google Book Search (AKA Google Print) is protected by Fair Use. His conclusion: Yup. But how he gets there is fascinating and informative. Why wouldn’t you want to hear one of the nation’s top law professors clearly addressing [...]