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Zombies and Google
Everyone who knows me knows I have a survival plan in place for the Zombie Apocalypse. I am always on the lookout for new information and tools to use once the dead start to rise and take over our world.
Think Before You Link
The idea behind the link is to leverage your post as much as possible by attaching it to both in-house and external support sites.
Taking Another Look at Bing
Have you checked out Microsoft's search engine, Bing, lately? According to Kunal Das, a Microsoft Bing Evangelist, about 30 percent of us using Bing over Google for at least part of our searches. Bing's partnership with Yahoo - Bing serves up all of Yahoo's search results - helped double the company's market share to its current 30 percent.
Is Google+ Thriving?
When Google+ first arrived, the clammer about how it would forever change the way we communicated and the jeopardy it posed to Facebook seemed pretty ominous. Would Google+ turn out to be the end-all-be-all choice over Facebook or find it's own niche alongside Facebook as another up-and-coming social media outlet?
The Google Logo: Innovation, Art and Fun
Have you checked out Google's home page today? If not, it is worth a look (especially for those all of those who fancy themselves musicians in hour home town of Music City). What appears as an odd Google Doodle is actually music strings that allow you to compose (and record) a quick little number right on Google's home page. The art is meant to honor Les Paul, who would have been 96 today.
Search: Online “Filter Bubbles”
As Internet companies attempt to personalize their services to each user, there is an unintended result: we view an edited down version of reality that colors the world that we see. Eli Pariser discusses this in his latest TED talk that you can watch here.
Disconnect to Connect
Today I read a great blog post written by Richard Watson, the publisher of What's Next (a website that documents global trends) and co-founder of Strategy Insight (a specialist scenario planning consultancy). The blog's title, Why Doing Nothing is Often Better Than Doing Something, grabbed my attention. What Watson found was that he felt overwhelmed with too much information. He was drowning in the details of life and was missing the boat on being an innovative, creative deep-thinker.
Quality Content Reigns in Google Searches
In the never-ending battle between content quality vs. quantity, quality scored game-changing points when Google recently announced a major update to its search engine ranking algorithm.
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