Vic Gundotra, Google's Vice-President of Social announced his departure from the company yesterday raising fears about the future of Google+. TechCrunch have been quoting sources as saying that "Google+ will no longer be considered a product, but a platform - essentially ending its competition with other social networks like Facebook and Twitter."
A blog post on the Ghergich&Co. website reveals that a 'reliable' source has told them that Google will be announcing very soon that not only will organic search results not pass referrer keyword data but also AdWords ads.
The Twitter Helmet - Today Twitter we’re pleased to "pre-announce the Twitter Helmet™, a sophisticated, fully immersive, staggeringly high-resolution wearable device that allows our users to interact with the world around them entirely via a custom aviary interface.
Matt Cutts from the Google Webspam team has just posted a video on the Google Webmasters Youtube channel answering the question posed by a UK webmaster "How can I tell if my site is affected by a particular algorithm?"
Scott Suiter from Google asked 50 passing members of the public "what is a browser?" The results are surprising. Most people seem to think that a browser is a search engine.
Google has acquired Spider.io, a London startup company with seven employees. Spider.io has exposed a number of methods which botnet owners and malware creators use in order to defraud companies of advertising revenue.
In April 2010, Google announced on their Webmaster Central Blog that site speed had been added to their search ranking algorithms, explaining that "faster sites create happy users and that when sites respond slowly, visitors spend less time there." Shopzilla carried out A/B testing comparing conversions with page load times and found that the faster pages delivered between 7% and 12% more conversions. Firefox ran similar tests and found a 15% increase in conversions.