Well guy’s it’s finally happening. The ‘Evolution Week-End Blog’ is no more. Thankfully by striking it down it has become more powerful than you could possibly imagine. Although the only change currently in place is the title it’s a sign of things to come I assure you. This week Google’s in trouble over Buzz’s privacy issues. Add to this the fact that the feds are after Analytics and we’ve got some news.
At the start of this week Google started taking some flack over the privacy issues in their new Buzz service forcing a public apology and redesign. Not that it ended there. Following up from the apology, Eric Schmidt (Google’s chief executive) thought it would be a good idea to make a u-turn and announce that there were no issues and users who complained where just ‘confused’. This is despite the fact that other potential issues have arisen in the service related to mobile access.
Aside from Buzz, Analytics, the website data service is wanted by American Federal Services. Not in the conventional sense, having just been inducted into US Federal General Services Administration (GSA) website. This site provides approved cloud computing application for federal agencies such as Homeland Security and NASA.
Elsewhere Google have a lot going on (as per usual). Could they be on the verge of releasing new ranking checking software? It also seems that Google are back in China looking for a solution to the issues they’ve been having there. In between these they’ve also found the time to donate a $2 million grant to the Wikimedia foundation which provides the Wikipedia service.
And if you were wondering how Google’s Super Bowl advert fared in the rating well… it did ok. Not top, but not bottom as it lost out to the number 1 spot Doritos add. You can see them both again in our Super Bowl Ads article. Google's Android operating system is once again giving little gifts to it's users with a new app and more in the pipeline.
In more humorous news, many Facebook users got a bit confused after using Google to find the home page for log-in and found a news site with info on Facebook as the top ranked site. But instead of just finding the Facebook login page just below this page many immediately went to this page and demanded (in a variety of funny BOLDTEXT ways) it be changed back, much to the confusion of the site administrator I’d imagine.
For your pleasure this week we’re also offering up some SEO techniques and info in the form of customising site product descriptions, the usefulness of Nofollow links and Matt Cutts view on blog tagging. Also, just for fun you can hit the slopes with Google for the Olympics. Enjoy!
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