The Speed of Search

“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.” - Mario Andretti

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How 15 famous companies got their quirky names.

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A visit to Google’s first quantum computer, filmed by Steve Jurvetson

Colder than anywhere in the natural universe. “We actually think quantum machine learning may provide the most creative problem-solving process under the known laws of physics.” — Google Blog Photos and details: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetso…

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Winning keywords are mapped to customer needs, behaviors, and vocabulary. How effective can our message be when we are pushing the answers before listening to the questions?

Strategic search campaigns start with the customer!

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Daily Mail in the flesh

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If you’re feeling sinister. (This is ridiculous.)

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The best place to hide a dead body...is page 2 of Google search results.

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The future isn’t what it used to be

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And another nice chart from Marketing Charts, this one showing 38% access of social networks via mobile, nice steady growth for SoMo (Social Mobile).

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US Mobile Content Usage

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He has not proven his lack of ability and he has not yet proven his ability. So let’s give him a few more quarters and see what he does.

Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter, about Mark Zuckerberg

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PPC/SEM Jobs Salary Guide

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"Well, anything can be forced to converge. …You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those aren’t going to be pleasing to the user. To make a compromise in convergence — we're not going to that party.”

-- Apple CEO Tim Cook, on Windows 8 tablet-laptop hybrids

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iMessage: more than 1 billion messages per day. Twitter: 3x growth in iOS users, 10 billion iOS 5 tweets, 47% of which are photos. Impressive numbers, especially for the Twitter folks.

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“Build it, and they will come” only works in the movies. Social Media is a “build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.”

-- Seth Godin

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You don’t want to be holding your users hostage. We think it’s important that you as users of Google can take your data, and take it out if you need to, or take it somewhere else.

Larry Page, on Charlie Rose (5/21/12)

Larry Page on Charlie Rose: “We’re still waiting” for Facebook to unlock user data

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Gmail search tweaked with improved autocomplete suggestions

Suggestions based on your inbox

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AD ROTATION HELL...SO MUCH FOR LONG-TERM TESTING...

AdWords “Rotate Evenly” Setting To Stop Rotating After 30 Days

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Super Bowl Ad Blitz 2012