Top Google Pranks This April Fools 2010

1. Google Changes It’s Name to Topeka In response to the City of Topeka’s announcement that it is changing its name to Google for the month of April, Google has in return decided to change it’s name to Topeka. Not quite sure this is true? Just Topeka it. 2. Where Am I? Pluto. Smartphone users [...]

The Year SEO Lost Importance…

Scoops Here. My colleague stumbled upon this post that I thought would be worthy of breaking news in Scoops world, even when taken with a grain of salt. Robert Scoble posted yesterday about shift away from SEO in regards to small business marketing. His reason–Because Google and Bing keep changing the rules so frequently, that they [...]

Scoops Can get You Waving!!

  Scoops Here. Much like my colleague @pmaloney I now have 8 Google Wave invitations! Who wants to be the lucky ones to get a Scoops invite?!  

the coveted google wave invite

I finally got my Google wave invite! For some reason, my husband is on the list to try out all of Google coolest newest stuff and I’ve been after him for weeks to invite me to Google wave. I guess he was bored today. I will play and update you all soon!

Google Labs Launch Social Search.

Scoops Here. Google’s development team has done it again, and this time it is personal. No really, it is. Just a few short days ago Google Labs released Social Search. Social Search taps into a user’s social network profiles and displays relevant links and status updates that members of a user’s own social network have [...]

Oh Google, you’ve done it again!

When it comes to online money making opportunities, Google tends to be the first with its hand in the cookie jar. Leading the way as a search engine icon, Google has just announced its newest endeavourer—tapping in to the music industry and launching an online music search service. As in-store sales continue to plunge and [...]

IE6 No More?

The campaign asks sites to include code that detects IE6 visitors and encourages them to upgrade to Firefox, IE8, or Google Chrome. On Tuesday the movement composed of around a dozen sites, today that number exceeds 70 participants. The sites jumping on board are by no means insignificant: they include established internet startups, consulting firms [...]

Google Buys Web Video Software Firm

Google, on Wednesday, anounced that it has agreed to buy On2 Technologies, which sells video compression software, in a stock deal valued at about $106 million. The per-share price was 57 percent above On2’s closing stock price on Tuesday, and On2’s shares soared on the news. Similar to Google’s 2006 acquisition of YouTube at a [...]

Did Yahoo Get The Short End of The Stick?

It’s what many are asking – and even more are asserting. Did Yahoo get the lesser end of its merger deal with Microsoft? After experiencing a 12% on Wednesday and then another 3.57% on Thursday Yahoo stock Closed at around just $14 a share. Most attribute the incline to investor’s shared perception that Yahoo was [...]

If you can’t beat ‘em, join your next biggest Compeditor, THEN beat ‘em!

In an industry dominated by one company – Google, trying to take some of that market share from the heavy hitter is not always as easy as it may seem. After Microsoft’s failed attempt at buying Yahoo’s search engine for a reported 47.5 Billion dollars, the two have decided to create a partnership that will [...]

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