Online Reputation Management: Monitor Your Online Reputation

At the time to use a service or buy a product, consumers and businesses use the Internet as a source of information and comparison. A recent study published by a renowned organization informs that 60% of users are in search engines to find information on a product and / or service. This means that the content of the Internet has a significant influence over the decision of consumers to make a purchase. That is solely depends upon your e-reputation i.e. How someone, something is seen on the Internet.

That is why the quality of content pages published on the Internet is increasingly important. It is crucial that potential customers are not getting pernicious information, which runs counter to your products and services. There are various online strategies to resolve this type of publicity damages, but the main thing is to know what is said about your business on the net.

If you are a victim of a pernicious and negative publicity in the search results in any form whatsoever. Search Engine Reputation Management (or SERM) tactics can help you to shelter your reputation from the negative search results that are visible on some important search engine queries. To do that you need to analyze each particular case and puts in place a strategy personally to resolve any problem of negative reputation. This will include a review of search results, forums and blogs for inherent opinions on company products or under your name.

How can you monitor your online reputation?

Search engines are probably the most important source to monitor your reputation. Use these search services for a search by name, company or product.
• Google
• Yahoo
• MSN

Blogs are becoming more and more influence on the services listed below, you can browse the blogosphere.
• Technorati
• Google Blog Search

News services quickly to show whether it is news about your company or its products.
Tip: Use the possibilities of a news alerts via e-mail that fit your supervised terms, to inform.
• Google News
• Yahoo News
• MSN News

Audio Indexing: Google listening

No no. There is no spelling mistake in the title of this ticket. Google is not "to" listen to (whatever ... but that's another matter), but Google now has the ability to listen in terms of indexing. More specifically, it "simply" indexes, in videos or audio files, the content of these videos or files, "verbatim”. This service called Google Audio Indexing (Gaudi) this therefore allows the user to search "word for word" directly in those files. The experimental at the moment (it is still attached to the Google Labs) runs only on political speeches and videos of the contenders for the White House. This news is important because indexing audio is a crucial issue for those involved in information retrieval.

Google Updates Google Suggest

Google Suggest is a feature designed to make searching both faster and easier. Whether you are typing into the search box on Google Toolbar or Google.com, or the Omnibox in Google Chrome, Google Suggest guesses what you're typing and offers suggestions in real time. So for example, if you type "bass," Google Suggest might offer a list of refinements that include "bass fishing" or "bass guitar." Similarly, if you type in only part of a word, like "prog," Google Suggest might offer you refinements such as "programming," "programming languages," "progesterone," or "progressive." Again, these suggestions allow you to enter your searches faster, but also in a way that will more likely get you the results you're looking for.

That's what occurs on the surface of Google Suggest. Here's what happens under the hood. To provide its recommendations Google Suggest needs to know what you've already typed, so these partial queries are sent to Google. For 98% of these requests, we don't log any data at all and simply return the suggestions. For the remaining 2% of cases (which we select randomly), we do log data, like IP addresses, in order to monitor and improve the service.

However, given the concerns that have been raised about Google storing this information -- and its limited potential use -- we decided that we will anonymize it within about 24 hours (basically, as soon as we practically can) in the 2% of Google Suggest requests we use. This will take a little time to implement, but we expect it to be in place before the end of the month.

All data retention is a balance between user privacy and trust on the one hand, and security and innovation on the other. In the case of Google Suggest we decided it's possible to provide a great service while anonymizing data almost immediately. But in other cases - such as our core web search - storing data like IP addresses for a time is crucial to make improvements to search quality, improve security, fight fraud and reduce spam.

Source: Official Google Blog: Update to Google Suggest

Download Google Chrome now

Google's new web browser Google Chrome is now now live and available for download.

Visit http://www.google.com/chrome to download and start exploring.

Chrome: Google launched its open source browser

After the failed takeover of Yahoo by Microsoft, there is a new arm wrestling on the Internet with the response from Google. The giant search engines on Tuesday launched its Internet browser, Google Chrome facing Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

Google has unveiled its official blog Monday evening: "We will launch the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in over 100 countries." This will be free software: you can download the applications without paying. Its source code is open; the software will be free, reusable and modifiable by any user.

Digg Soon In Bag Of Google?

According to TechCrunch, Google and Digg reportedly signed a letter of intent, and would be (finally) on the verge of agreeing on a price of around 200M $ (200 million dollars, roughly 130 million Euros) .

This is actually several months as rumors of takeover revolve around Digg. Community website in 2004, Digg is experiencing great popularity that attracts necessarily coveted. But the sale is a possibility that does not like Digg users who have already threatened to desert the ranks if such event were to materialize. The creator of Digg, Jay Adelson, had had to calm the wind of revolt, saying that rumors of takeover by Microsoft or Google were unfounded. Yet, these same rumors back in charge.

SEO Recommendations By Google For Website Owners!!

I was reading an article on Google regarding What is an SEO? Does Google recommend them? And I found something very interesting there. Initially that article was mainly focused on providing negative information about SEO like SEO scam information and the disadvantages of SEO. But now they have re-written that article and supported the SEO techniques and valuable services.

Google have recommended some valuable services of SEO for website owners in its article. That includes:

• Reviewing and providing recommendations on your site content or structure
• Technical advice on website development: for example, hosting, redirects, error pages, use of JavaScript
• Content development
• Managing online business development campaigns
• Keyword research
• SEO training

Google have also suggested the website owners regarding when they should hire a SEO for the website. In its article, Google recommend that an SEO should be hired at the starting level of website design or before the website launching. So that a website owner and SEO can make a website Google friendly and remove all the technical errors/reasons from the website that could affect negatively to the website in the future.