Archive for the 'Google' Category

Make $10 Million Giving Google An Idea

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Have you got an idea to help the world - or at least some of your fellow citizens? Google wants to know about it.
And the Internet behemoth will pay $10 million for your pitch.
Google’s initiative is called Project 10^100 (that’s “10 to the 100th”). Google wants input from the public and its own panel of […]

Entrepreneur Turns Filmmaker With ‘Google Me’ Film

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Did you ever wonder about people who have the same name as you?

TheStreet:
For Jim Killeen, pondering the question wasn’t enough. With a little help from Google (GOOG - Cramer’s Take - Stockpickr) and inspiration from his entrepreneurial roots, he set out to discover more about his name - and 6 other men who share it […]

How To Make Money With Videoblogs

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

NicheGeek:
One of my favorite ways to make money online is with videoblogs. By videoblogs I don’t mean your own clips (though I am a big fan of talented people like ZeFrank), but rather setting up a nich video site with 100% content provided by Google Video or You Tube.
This isn’t a huge money making endeavor, […]

Google’s GOOG-411 Connects You To Local Businesses For Free

Friday, April 4th, 2008

BIG Marketing For Small Business:
Google has come out with another free cool service called GOOG-411, a voice-activated 1-800 line that connects you to businesses in your area.
For example, if you’re looking for ‘pizza delivery’, say it along with your city and state or province, and it will give you available businesses to choose from. […]

First The Insurance, Then The Car

Monday, March 24th, 2008

New York Times:
Hyper fuel efficiency for cars we’re still working on. Sponsorships are something we’re already expert in. To wit: the newly introduced ‘Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize.’
That’s the new name for contest formerly known as, simply, the Automotive X Prize, a $10 million competition to inspire development of super fuel-efficient vehicles. The concept is […]

Google: Entrepreneur’s Benchmark For Success

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Economic Times:
Over the past decade, Google has been every entrepreneur’s benchmark for success through innovation. Besides its founding duo, Sergei Brin and Larry Page, there were a handful who saw the internet search engine’s potential and backed it when it was still being run from a garage. And here’s the Indian connection. Ram Shriram, who […]

Shocking Invention: Intelligent Glasses Can Find Your Car Keys, iPod

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

National Ledger:
This is an invention that can finally help. Are you always losing your car keys around the house? And once you spend 15 minutes finally locating those where is your iPod so you can jam out on some tunes on your trip? It happens to everyone and you can’t just call it like you […]

Online Advertisers Can Get Free Advice From Google

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

By Janet Meiners - Marketing Pilgrim:
The Google AdWords blog had a post today that caught my attention. The AdWords Optimization Team is accepting requests from advertisers who want feedback on their campaigns. Simply fill out a request form and tell Google about your business and advertising goals. It doesn’t say how many campaigns they will […]

Empresa Financiada Pelo Google Faz Teste De DNA

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

G1:
A empresa 23andMe, financiada pelo Google e lançada oficialmente nesta segunda-feira (19), começou a oferecer teste de DNA feito a partir da saliva por US$ 999 por pessoa, o que ajudará usuários do site a aprender mais sobre seus genes, traços hereditários e árvore genealógica.
‘A missão do 23andMe é levar a revolução genética para um […]

Google Options Make Masseuse A Multimillionaire

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

New York Times:
Bonnie Brown was fresh from a nasty divorce in 1999, living with her sister and uncertain of her future. On a lark, she answered an ad for an in-house masseuse at Google, then a Silicon Valley start-up with 40 employees. She was offered the part-time job, which started out at $450 a week […]

Multimilionária Após Massagear O Google

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Bonnie Brown, 52 anos, foi massagista do Google quando a empresa tinha apenas 40 funcionários. Comprou ações do Google pelo preço antigo e ao se aposentar depois de 5 anos, ficou milionária vendendo os papéis pela cotação atual e lucrando a diferença.
Os papéis do Google foram lançados a US$ 85. Na semana passada, chegaram a […]

Google Gas Stations

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Google Gas Stations? What do you mean? Of course it makes sense! To expand, monopolist companies need to diversify into new markets, and for Google, that means reaching you at the pump.
Specifically, Google will launch a series of internet connected pumps with Google Maps. The pumps, made by Gilbarco Veeder-Root, will help travellers find […]

Google AdSense To Launch Code Free Ad Changes

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Search Eengine Land:
The Inside AdSense blog announced that they will be releasing a new ad management solution to enable code-free ad changes.
Currently, if you want to change your AdSense layout to a different color, format, channel or whatever, after you make that change in the AdSense console, you need to copy and paste new AdSense […]

Highest Paying Keywords For Adsense Sites – Part II

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Highes Paying Software Niche Keywords
software escrow $31.24
billing software $19.35
human resources software $17.78
spy sweeper $17.21
accounting software $15.90
spyware detection $15.46
small business software $14.87
inventory management software $14.38
pestpatrol $14.24
optimization software $14.19
Highest Paying Auto Niche Keywords
auto insurance quote $57.18
auto quote $45.01
auto insurance quotes $39.24
nj auto insurance $36.31
auto quotes $33.13
auto insurance ontario $33.07
safe auto insurance $31.82
insurance auto florida $31.38
auto insurance $31.38
auto […]

Highest Paying Keywords For Adsense Sites – Part I

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Top Paying Financial Niche Keywords
auto insurance quote $57.18
college loan consolidation $53.52
car insurance quote $46.89
federal loan consolidation $46.62
online car insurance $41.92
term life insurance quote $40.43
cheap car insurance $39.79
student loan consolidation $39.45
auto insurance quotes $39.24
online insurance quotes $37.63
Highest Paying Medical Niche Keywords
medifast weight loss $48.18
mesothelioma lawyers $44.45
medifast diet $36.28
mesothelioma attorneys $32.29
mesothelioma lawyers $32.26
accutane class action $30.12
viagra for […]

Which Google Products Should A Small Business Use?

Monday, October 8th, 2007

1.Search Engine Land:
2. Google Analytics
3. Google Maps/Local Business Center

4. Google Base
5. Google Website Optimizer

Free Training - What Every Software Engineer Needs To Know About Security

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

InformationWeek:
Check out this security video.
Neil Daswani, the Google engineer and security expert who hosts the video, has posted accompanying slides.
This stuff is like getting university-level security training, for free.
But wait, there’s more (as they say on late-night TV)! Here’s another one, called How To Break Web Software.

Monetize Your Mobile Website With Adsense

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

ProBlogger:
AdSense publishers who are logging into their AdSense accounts today will notice a new link in their Overview page - AdSense for Mobile - Get Started.
It seems that AdSense have just launched this new service which enables publishers with Mobile websites to monetize them.
To use it you need to have a page that is ‘mobile-compliant’ […]

Sharerevmedia.com - Money For 24/7

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

KillerStartups:
Share your blogs, profile, videos, music, pictures and you will be rewarded by Sharerevmedia.com. This website is like any other traditional social networking site for sharing media, links, and blogposts, but the interesting part is their revenue model: it offers 50%-100% ad revenue to all contributing members direct to their own google adsense account.
When you […]

Google Patents SMS Payment System

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Pete Cashmore:
Amid ongoing problems with Paypal’s subscription service, a Google patent has come to light related to mobile payments. The so-called GPay patent doesn’t propose a direct Paypal competitor, however: instead, it covers a text message-based payments system. The patent was filed on February 28, 2006 and published on August 30, 2007. Google already holds […]