Picture this: Your ideal prospect just searched for your products on the web. Google’s local search results come back and…. your company is nowhere to be seen.  You’ve just lost a sale. According to market research firm comScore, 70% of people report that the first place they look for more information about your products, services, and company [...]

Are you one of the many frustrated people with more than one phone, multiple carriers, business and personal, different accounts … etc.? If you can relate, I am sure you don’t like the idea of having to carry the 2 phones to answer calls either.  I have 2 phones with different carriers, one is CDMA and the other [...]

If your small business advertises online, you likely have an account with Google AdWords. For those looking to market their services and products online, Google Adwords pay per click marketing offers one of the best ways for small businesses to get into paid search marketing. To begin, Google Adwords offers a number of easy-to-use tools [...]

Google plans to deliver 1 Gigabit connections to 50,000 homes Google recently announced their plans to begin building and testing an ultra high-speed broadband network in the US. Google will start by rolling this out in a small number of locations, and then expand on from there to hopefully around 500,000 locations. Google’s goal: offering [...]

It’s official. After months of reports that Google would soon announce a new social status feature, today came the big reveal of Google Buzz. In essence, Google Buzz is an add-on for Gmail that allows you to update your ‘status’ – akin to Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites. Since Google Buzz updates can [...]

Last week, Google dropped another bomb on the Search Engine Optimization world – automatic captioning in YouTube videos. Captioning in online video is nothing new – YouTube has offered captions in their videos since 2006. But as anyone who’s ever uploaded a video can tell you, the manual-captioning process is cumbersome and time-consuming. The new [...]

Microsoft and Google continue to slug it out in the press. In a recent blog post, I wrote that Google is releasing their first attempt at building a better computer operating system, a direct shot at Microsoft’s domination, and a powerful addition to the Google Apps suite of office productivity tools offered online for free [...]

Google is currently working on the development of a “smart charging software.” This software will help to prevent electronic (plug-in) vehicles from causing traffic jams when in traffic; where these cars tend to lose their charge fast and breakdown. On of their biggest tasks that is still in its initial phases is writing a software [...]

It’s no secret that Microsoft considers Google to be their #1 competitor these days. Google seems to have their hands in everything, and they are encroaching further and further into the products that are Microsoft’s major cash cows – The Windows Operating System and the Office platform. But it all starts with search. Google has [...]

I got all hot and bothered when I read this in the Google Enterprise blog this morning… “Google Apps Directory Sync lets businesses and schools with an LDAP user directory systems like Microsoft Active Directory or Lotus Domino transition more quickly and smoothly to Google Apps. Instead of manually maintaining a separate user account directory [...]