Google just released their fourth quarter earnings for the year 2006 with a marked increase of 19% over the previous quarter. The total of $3.21 billion earnings by Google just goes to show that Google is moving in the right direction.
Top Earners For Google
Google site revenues had 62% of the earnings and Google Network Revenues had 37% of the total. This combination seems to be pushing Google ahead and may prove to be it’s makers or breakers.
Deal Makers Or Breakers For 2007
So what’s going to stop or increase revenues even more for Google in 2007? If I had to guess I’d say Employee Transferable Stock Options were to be the biggest deciding factor. Even Google admits that when this is introduced in the second quarter of 2007 it’ll increase it’s revenues by $90 million. If this program panics stock holders when it fails it may bring down Google as we know it. But on the other hand if it goes as expected it’ll boost it considerably.
Another factor would be how Google is going to be how Google handles it’s search engine. The folks over at Google need to keep in mind that the search engine drives everything else. Recently with criticism from even the Firefox creator about it’s ads on SERPs. Not to mention it’s hardcore advertising of Google Checkout, it’s newest service.
In summary I think Google needs to recognize its basics and stand by its motto (don’t be evil) and it’ll do just fine.
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I just email sphere it asking about their plugin for wordpress and they promptly sent me a download link to it. For those of you who don’t know what Sphere It is, it’s a new way to find relevant posts across the blogosphere. Therefore the name sphere it.
As you can see on the bottom of this post and my other posts that have the required amount of words I’ve set. This is part of the email:
Hi Didier - your timing is good as we just released a plug-in that works in WordPress Self Hosted blogs. Since you’re running WordPress (a great choice!) we wanted to put you in front of the queue to Sphere It up and running. It should be a natural fit with your content.
And now I’ve got the same plugin that time.com got for their blogs as well as many famous bloggers out there. It should releaser mainstream soon and you can always use the contact form to see if they’ll send you the download yourself.
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Yahoo just announced new features for their site explorer service. Basically the same idea behind Google webmaster central except it’s a little bit slow on progress in terms of features. So you can understand how these new features like authenticating your website via a meta tag and Link Count badge are important.
Yahoo Site Explorer: This new ability to able to authenticate that you own a website via a META tag copies Google Webmaster Central’ s tool. Before you could authenticate your website via uploading a file. Now it’s both this will help freely hosted websites like Blogger or Wordpress.com blogs get their blogs verified. This also with better reporting of the errors encountered during the authentication. I am writing this as I am authenticating several of my Blogger blogs myself.
Site Explorer Link Count Badge: Officially called the Site Explorer Badge it is an original idea by Yahoo to give users the ability to display how many links they have on their website. This link count is taken straight out of the Site Explorer.
Delete URLs: You can delete your URL from the Yahoo Site Explorer and it will be deleted from Yahoo’s index. Though easily achieved through the robots.txt file this is an easier way to get your website removed from the Yahoo index fast.
The Rest Of The New Yahoo Site Explorer Features:
- More than 25 sitemaps
- better labeling of TSV files
- Site explorer should identify itself in the user agent string
- https / ssl
- Wait 1 day? (Speed of authentication)
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Flickr recently released a security notice warning users about new phishing attacks, which ask the user to log in or download a package of private Flickr photos. This is alarming indeed since I use Flickr for any of my images and consider it trustworthy.
Why is this so alarming? There is the fact that most users who use image services like Flickr are novice Internet users who just use the Internet to upload their pictures and send them via e-mail. Users that sometimes don’t even know that they should check the address bar of any links that asks them for information.
The security alert advises users to make sure the address bar shows Flickr or login.yahoo.com. Stay alert to any Flickr emails you receive and be sure to check them to make sure they are secure.
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EDIT: Wordtracker’s released a new free keyword tool to try to get some of this Overture traffic.
The Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool has been down for the past couple of weeks now and I don’t know what’s going on with them but I’ve started searching around for alternatives. Any affiliate marketer knows keyword researching is an important part in using arbitrage to your advantage and making sure your ROI is the highest your products can achieve.
Here’s some alternatives that I seldom use but now have to rely on following this development:
SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool
Google Adwords: Keyword Tool
Wordtracker
7search’s Keyword Suggestion Tool
Keyword Discovery
Digital Point’s Keyword Research Tool
That’s about all I can gather right now but maybe I’ll update this list as I find more.
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Amapedia or really just [Ama(zon)-(Wiki)pedia] is Amazon’s answer to the web’s continuing turn to user content. Any web user can tell that ordinary website reviews are boring and for the most part go unread by the intended users. But with an ambitious service like Amapedia it should serve to gain as much popularity as Wikipedia itself.
Like Google Amazon is learning to use trends to it’s own advantage. From it’s new answers service and it’s mobile phone version called NowNow Amazon is moving in as another web giant.
This beta has few new things mostly the ability of anyone with an Amazon user account to edit it. Other features include the tagging of said products and facts about them. As well as marking your favorite items. They didn’t waste anytime of course coming up with rules from the Amapedia about page:
Do:
- write about your favorite products
- find out what others’ favorite products are
- quantify why you like or dislike a product as much as possible (”oh, I didn’t like it” without any context is not very helpful to others)
- cite your sources
- disclose if you are affiliated with the product, such as being the author of a book (or the spouse or close friend of the author)
Do Not:
- self-promote by referring to yourself, your work, or your Web sites in an article that is unrelated to your self-promotion
- store personal photos
- create a personal home page (we may support that in the future)
- talk in the first person in the main body of product articles (that’s what the “Anecdotes, Experiences, Opinions, Comments” section is for)
- express personal opinions about things that are not products (i.e., while we are very interested in your opinion about a book about the Iraq war – particularly so if you can calmly document specific good and bad points about it – we are not at all interested in your personal opinions about the Iraq war itself on this site)
- accept payments or gifts from anyone to edit material on amapedia
So far it seems to be progressing slowly but on a good scale.
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Google just announced that they will do something about Googlebombs. Googlebombs have become a problem ever since more and more people were attacked. Google has now decided to hand code a new algorithm just to minimize the affects of a Googlebomb. But why now after a dozen of people have been attacked? Why didn’t they do something about it from the beginning?
According to the Google Webmaster blog people were mistaking Google bombs as having been made by Google. So in a way Bush’s “miserable failure” was thought by some to be done by Google because of their dissatisfaction with his presidency.
Google didn’t edit these queries by hand because according to them:
When we’re faced with a bad search result or a relevance problem, our first instinct is to look for an automatic way to solve the problem instead of trying to fix a particular search by hand.
Now with this new algorithm Googlebombs will be detected and removed as quick as they appear in a “couple” of languages. For example if you search “miserable failure” in Google now the Bush White House page isn’t there anymore.
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Google released their new Image search a couple of days ago and I couldn’t help but notice it looked familiar. And then I went over at MSN Live and searched “search engine” and guess my surprise when the results looked just about identical to Google’s new search.
As you can see for yourself it’s another rip off from the folks over at Google. Just as the Yahoo IE7 download page was ripped off when it first came out. One has to wonder if Google still has any creativity left in it’s banks.
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After a couple of moths of testing, Google Groups is finally dropping the beta and officially launching the new Google Groups. With new features ranging from the ability to add graphics to your groups page to the new ability to share files and such.
So just exactly what are those new features?
- Pages. Create and contribute to shared web pages with simple drag, drops, cuts, pastes, and clicks (i.e., no coding).
- Customized look and feel. Select pictures, colors, and styles to express your group’s style.
- Member profiles. See who else is in the group and read their profiles. Personalize your own profile with a photo and other details.
- File sharing. Post documents that anyone in the group can access.
- Easy reading of group discussions. Read easily in a Gmail-style interface.
All these features are fine and dandy but one caught my eye. The ability to share your files with your groups. Can anyone spell warez ? Documents and certain file types are restricted but I was able to upload a zip file or rar file. Which everyone know is the main sharing file type. With 100mbs allowed per group it’s enough for those warez sharers that typically divide large files into smaller ones for easier sharing.
This may lead into the spamming of Google Groups when a user creates hundreds of groups for his file sharing needs.
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