Computers

November 20, 2008

China Tibet Information Center Google-Advertising Its Views On Tibet

Filed under: Technology, Internet, Google, Search — Lindon @ 12:44 pm

The Shanghaiist reports:

<<With political arrows still being shot back and forth between Beijing and Dharamsala [home of the exiled current Dalai Lama], China has been panning out its efforts to win the propaganda battle over Tibet (...)

Lately we’ve been observing lots of Google ads pointing to the China Tibet Information Center appearing in places like Youtube ... and even our Google Reader. Given the massive reach of Google’s self-serve contextual ads, this means anytime you’re viewing something related to China or more specifically Tibet anywhere on the web, that ad may appear, pointing you to http://eng.tibet.cn/ where China’s version of the Tibet story is presented. You’d think these state behemoths are totally clueless when it comes to the Internet, but clearly these guys know their stuff>>

[Thanks Kenneth!]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: China Tibet Information Center Google-Adverti ... | Comments]


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November 19, 2008

Gmail Rolls Out Themes

Filed under: Technology, Internet, Google, Search — Lindon @ 11:25 pm

A couple of months ago it was mentioned here that Google’s web mail client Gmail might get themes, like a black-and-green terminal view, and the waiting time seems to be over soon – Google announced they’ve started to roll out this feature. While I don’t see it in my Gmail yet (the screenshots in this post are courtesy of Andris and Google), it’s supposed to be added to a Themes tab in your settings. Note some themes are dynamic and may change throughout different times of the day. “We’ve also done a minor facelift to Gmail’s default look,” Google adds.

[Thanks Hebbet, Manoj Nahar, Drewkadium, Andris, Leon, A., Louis V., Niranjan B. and David, with hat tip to Google OS and TechCrunch!]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Gmail Rolls Out Themes | Comments]


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Let Me Google That For You

Filed under: Technology, Internet, Google, Search — Lindon @ 4:22 pm

LetMeGoogleThatForYou.com allows you to enter any search query, then grab the resulting permalink to share it with someone else. For instance, if someone in a forum would ask “What does ’AFAIK’ stand for?”, you could (somewhat impolitely) point them to this search, which would then interactively perform a Google search for “afaik” for the visitor. (Kind of the next version of this even more impolite site... and nope, neither site is an official Google site...)

[Via Reddit.]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Let Me Google That For You | Comments]


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What Do People Search For?

Filed under: Technology, Internet, Google, Search — Lindon @ 2:33 pm

Google released an app they call Search-based Keyword Tool. Google says this tool “generates keyword and landing page ideas highly relevant and specific to your website” and in doing so, “helps you identify additional advertising opportunities that aren’t currently being used in your AdWords ad campaigns.” (Google AdWords already has a keywords tool. Google says as opposed to the existing tool, this new one “generates keyword ideas based on your website, and identifies those currently not being used in your AdWords account”.)

You can enter the domain of a website, and Google then tries to return a set of search phrases that may be of relevance to your site. Next to the search query, you’ll see an approximation of the number of monthly searches for this, the level of competition, a suggested bidding price if you want to advertise in Google results using AdWords, and the target page from which the keywords were extracted. (Checking with one of my sites, the phrases listed were already showing the identified target page in the top or top 5 spots at google.com, so advertising that using AdWords would probably be redundant.)

Added to entering a domain, you can also just enter a keyword. The keyphrase “comic book" for instance returned “draft comic book confidential”, “draft comic book manager”, “draft comic book issues” and more.

Even if you’re not interested in finding specific data related to your own website, you might get something out of browsing the categories directory of this tool to find out what people search for. I’ve dropped a couple of these lists into a tabbed Google spreadsheet, for categories like computer, consumer electronics, apparel and more (in all countries, for English searches), as included above. For instance, Google says there are an average of around 1,200,000 searches per month for the query baby names, 540,000 for adobe photoshop, 280,000 for calorie counter, and 440,000 for guitar hero 3.

[Via Search Engine Land.]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: What Do People Search For? | Comments]


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Monty Python’s YouTube Channel

Filed under: Technology, Internet — Lindon @ 11:18 am

“For 3 years, you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them up on YouTube...” Genius comedy group Monty Python (from the BBC program Monty Python’s Flying Circus, which started in 1969) now have their own official YouTube channel. The channel aims to collect better organized, higher quality videos – like of Bicycle Repairman – than what was previously posted to the site. [Via Friendfeed.]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Monty Python's YouTube Channel | Comments]


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