From the social media world continuing to help with the relief efforts in Haiti, to Hilary Clinton stepping in between Google & China, here’s a look at what happened this week in the social media world. (more…)
A few months ago, both Google & Bing launched deals with Twitter that would allow tweets to appear in real-time search results. And while many of us try to compete to get our websites ranked higher for the search engines, now we must also fight to get our tweets ranked higher too.
Luckily Google is no longer keeping that a secret. In a recent article, journalist David Talbot scored an interview with Google’s Amit Singhal. Singhal admitted that like Bing, ranks are based on the number of followers you have, however, it’s not necessarily how many actually followers you have, it’s how reputable those followers actually are. (more…)
Last week’s earthquake in Haiti is still a major shock to the world. Last week, I shared with you, how the social media world has stepped up to help the victims in Haiti.
The Red Cross, used their Twitter account to try to help raise money, by announcing that whoever texted “HAITI” to 90999 would be charged $10 on their next phone bill which would go to the relief in Haiti. The Red Cross’s original goal was to raise $200,000 and then soon decided to go for the one million dollar mark. In last Friday’s Social Media News Brief, we had announced they had raised over $8 million, just in text messages alone. (more…)
A war between Google & China this week, while the social media world helped raise money for victim’s of Haiti’s earthquake. Find out all the details in today’s social media news brief. (more…)
The Chinese government is fighting back against Google’s comments yesterday, saying they would no longer filter out information on their website.
“The Chinese government administers the Internet according to law and we have explicit stipulations over what content can be spread on the Internet,” said Jiang Yu, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman. (more…)
The most recent report from Nielsen, shows that Google continues to dominate the search engines, but the most surprising news, is that they are gaining more users. The report documents the top 10 search engines for the month of December. Google took 67.3% of those searches. That’s nearly 6.7 billion people searching Google, compare that to only 1.4 billion on Yahoo!, which followed Google with only 14.4%. That’s a drop from November, when Yahoo took roughly 15.3% of searches. That’s close to an entire percent, which is drastic in terms of search. Bing dropped to 9.9% of all searches, which is down from 10.7% in November. It looks like those users went over to Google, since in November Google only had 65% of searches in November but jumped 2.3%. (more…)
It seems like the world’s most used search engine, maybe leaving the country with the most people. Google announced late Tuesday afternoon, that after much thought the company is working closely with the Chinese government but may close down it’s website in the country very soon.
“The decision to review our business operations in China has been incredibly hard,” said Google’s David Drummond, “and we know that it will have potentially far-reaching consequences. We want to make clear that this move was driven by our executives in the United States, without the knowledge or involvement of our employees in China who have worked incredibly hard to make Google.cn the success it is today.” (more…)
Google will not confirm but if the rumors are true this could be a new way for online advertisers. Reports from both RedWriteWeb & CNet say that ads could soon cover billboards on Google Maps.
The concept is interesting, just think about it. Right now, if we were go onto Google Maps, we would pass millions of billboards, without dated opening movie dates, telling us what channel to watch for our local news, and which car dealership is nearby. Now those billboards can be replaced with real time advertisements. This would allow advertisers to be able to select any location on Google Maps for Google Ad’s. (more…)
Facebook decided to dominate Google once again, while Google is trying to make an attempt to bring Apple iPhone sales down. Find out all the details in today’s social media news brief. (more…)
Google has just unveiled their long awaited phone known as the Nexus One, what Google considers a “Super Phone.” Rumors have been swirling about the phone for some time now, and there have been a few leaks with in the past week or so, but today the company shared what the phone can actually do. The Nexus One is designed in partnership with HTC. (more…)
