Roller Babies advertising campaign sets a world record
Google owned video sharing service YouTube has announced that the Evian Roller Babies advertising campaign running on their network has been officially awarded a Guinness World Record for “the most viewed online advertisement.”
This online advertising campaign was launched earlier this year and it has been extremely successful. [...]
Google acquiring Teracent advertising company
Google has announced another acquisition in the advertising market.
The search engine giant is now acquiring Teracent which specializes in intelligent display advertising.
This company develop solutions to provide customized advertising to individuals.
Google spoke about Teracent in a blog post:
“Teracent’s technology can pick and choose from literally thousands [...]
Google has a special message on image search page for Michelle Obama
Google has find itself in a fix related to some search queries on their search engine.
Sometimes a website or an image would rank so high for certain queries that it becomes an embarrassment for them.
One such example currently is the image [...]
Hulu asking users to tag videos on their system
Hulu is one of the most popular online video service in the US market.
It host content from almost all the major television studios in the country.
The service is currently free and supported by advertising revenues.
Hulu is now asking their users to add tags to [...]
Google breaking URL info into category blocks on SERPS!
This is the first time we noticed this new ‘feature’ on the Google search engine result pages.
If a result website has categories, Google sometimes breaks the URL info into category blocks.
Here is an example:
The link is displayed as:
news.zdnet.co.uk › News › Hardware
This is happening with news websites and [...]
Google to shut down GrandCentral as Google Voice replaced it
Google has already launched their Google Voice service which replaced GrandCentral.
GrandCentral was acquired by Google and it became the platform for Google Voice.
The company has now revealed that they would close down the original service at the end of this year.
Users are [...]
BBC to optimize headlines for search engine juice
BBC has revealed that they are going to use headlines which are designed to generate more search engine juice.
Instead of shorter headlines they use today, writers would be asked to submit two headlines.
A short one would appear in the stories while the longer one would [...]
YouTube getting automatic captioning capabilities
Google has announced that they are adding automatic captioning capabilities to YouTube.
It would use speech recognition technologies.
Users would also be able to provide text content in raw form and YouTube would try to match the content to the video automatically.
Google said that since this technology is [...]
Yahoo all set to index Twitter to show up to date information
Yahoo has become the latest search engine company to take help from Twitter to stay up to date.
The company has announced that they would start indexing data from Twitter and show it along with search results in the coming days.
Microsoft and [...]
Vevo launch set for December 8
The people behind the upcoming music video web service Vevo have announced that the official launch would take place on December 8.
Vevo would also be accessible through YouTube.
The service has been development for some months now and it aims to become the Hulu of music videos.
We cannot [...]
