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7 Ways to Improve Your Google Local Business Listing
Friday, September 25th, 2009It’s been talked about on this blog before, but it’s high time to address the subject again: How is your free Google Maps/ local business listing doing? What do people see when they search for you locally or within Google Maps?  If you don’t have any local listings and/or have no idea what they are, [...]
YouTube vs. Usability
Friday, September 11th, 2009Is your YouTube content usable? A new article from Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox outlines some compelling reasons NOT to participate in social networking sites.  Research behind “Social Media Outsourcing Can Be Risky” makes the case that:
1. Usability can be harmed. In the article’s YouTube examples, inappropriate image thumbnail choices, repetitive features, and poor organization are [...]
Google Knol Launches. Sort of.
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008The long-awaited Wikipedia killer from Google, entitled Knol, launched today to little fanfare.
Announced in mid-December last year, Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects, as described by Cedric Dupont, Product Manager at Google in today’s announcement blog post.
Knols users (through their Google Account) will write reference pages [...]
Cleveland Rocks Google Street View
Monday, March 31st, 2008Cleveland is now getting the Google street view treatment. Below is a screen capture of the areas covered on an overlay of Google Maps.
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It does not make it all the way out to my neighborhood, but many of the local attractions are covered. It is Opening Day, so let’s enjoy one last view of Jacobs [...]
Google Universal Search Not Loving Obama Skit?
Friday, February 29th, 2008I watched parts of the Democratic debate from snowy Cleveland last Tuesday. One of the more memorable moments came when Hillary Clinton referred to a Saturday Night Live skit that poked fun at her opponent. By utilizing my mastery of the power of contextual inference, I could tell the SNL skit made it seem like Obama gets [...]
