NOD - News On Demand sur Twitter : "Today on nod: #PDjames #google #ebola. Catch up, download the iPhone app! NOD - News On Demand sur Twitter : "Today on nod: #google breakup #eu. Catch up, download the iPhone app. Son vélo a crevé. C'était le web. "Son vélo a crevé. " "Son vélo a crevé. " Cette phrase est une synecdoque. Une synecdoque est une figure de rhétorique dans laquelle "la relation entre le terme donné et le terme évoqué constitue une inclusion ou une dépendance, matérielle ou conceptuelle. " "Je cherche un truc sur Google. " "Je cherche un truc sur Google. " Une synecdoque est une forme particulière de métonymie. Copier. Le "scrapping" c'est du copié-collé automatique. "Cela permet de récupérer le contenu d’une page web en vue d'en réutiliser le contenu.
Le "content spinning" c'est de la génération automatique de contenus. "à l'aide d'outils linguistiques il est possible (...) d'effectuer des opération de "content spinning" : littéralement "essorage" ou "filage" de contenu. Voici donc 2 pratiques qui sont (pour l'essentiel) clairement du côté obscur de la force. Et soudain c'est le drame. Si Google est une figure métonymique du web, c'est parce qu'il en est effectivement le premier et le meilleur indexeur. Donc je résume. Google Had Big Expectations For Its Music Service. Google, une bibliothèque temporaire dans les écoles villageoises. Google+ Now Impacting Klout Scores, Active Users See Scores Go Up.
Love it or hate it, but Klout is one of the key players in today’s influence/reputation market. Even if the whole concept of ranking people based on popularity feels a little icky to you (I feel you), the startup has the potential to form the basis of something bigger, something less spammy, and something less easily gamed by “social media marketers.” Or so we hope.
In the meantime, for those of you who care about this sort of thing: hooray, your score just went up today thanks to Google+! Although people have been able to add Google+ to their Klout profiles since September, the company announced today that Google+ is now directly impacting Klout scores. The service has begun measuring the influence for users who have already connected their Google+ accounts to Klout and, of those, 62% are considered “active” users of the social network. Those who have added Google+ but are not active on the network will not see a drop, however. Google Just Made Bing The Best Search Engine. Meet Google's Biggest U.S. Search Advertisers | Digital. Google’s Newspass: Is the King of Free About to Help News Provid. On Thursday, word seemed to quietly leak out, in Italian no less, that Google would soon unveil a one-click payment system for content called “Newspass.”
According to the newspaper La Repubblica, Google, a brand built on free apps for consumers, is creating the infrastructure for a system that would allow publishers to charge readers for content. “Later this year, Google will launch an integrated payment system that will allow users to buy (news content) with one click and publishers to use a single infrastructure for Web, mobile and tablet to monetize their content,” the article suggested. So has Google, sometimes vilified as “tech tapeworms in the intestines of the Internet” for allegedly free-riding on publisher’s handiwork, suddenly decided to mend their ways? And if there has been some big change of heart, is the company implementing some secret plan to become the toll keeper of a new paid news ecosystem? And even if it is, is it that big of a deal, anyway? Google shutters One Pass, its paid content platform. Google has closed down One Pass, the paid content platform that it rolled out in February 2011 and revamped in February 2012.
On the Google Blog, the company writes: One Pass, our payment platform for online news publishers, has been shut down. We are working with existing partners to make the transition from One Pass to other platforms, including Google Consumer Surveys. While One Pass is going away, we will continue working with publishers to build new tools.
Only a few newspapers, like the Richmond Times Dispatch and Southeast Missourian, ever signed up to use One Pass. Google Consumer Surveys, unveiled last month, lets publishers monetize content by enacting a “paywall substitute” that gives readers the choice of taking a microsurvey in order to read an article. In the same post, Google announced that it is closing the Google Related toolbar, Google Patent Search (which will be folded into regular Google search) and some other small programs. Total US newspaper industry's revenue less than Google's alone | Media. Total newspaper advertising revenue in the United States last year fell by 7.3% compared to 2010.
And print advertising, according to figures compiled by the Newspaper Association of America (NAA), was off by 9.2%. The industry posted total ad revenues of $23.9bn (£15.2bn), a decline of $1.9bn (£1.2bn) from the previous year. Though the NAA does not have current numbers on circulation revenue - nor on other activities, such as contract printing, events and social media assistance to businesses - Poynter's Rick Edmonds estimates that those add roughly $10bn (£6.7bn). This would mean that US newspapers are a $34bn (£21.6bn) industry.
By contrast, Google alone recorded revenues of $37.9bn (£24.1bn) for 2011. One other point of interest from the NAA figures. Sources: NAA/Poynter/WordStream. Google’s Chief Economist: “Newspapers Have Never Made Much Money. Earlier today, Google chief economist Hal Varian gave a presentation to an FTC workshop on the changing economics of the newspaper industry. We all know that newspaper ad revenues have been falling off a cliff for years. Many media companies blame Google and are trying to put the genie back in the bottle with partial metered models for online news. Google is understandably on the defensive, trotting out Varian to paint an unemotional picture with as much data as he can muster. But the picture he paints is a dour one for print media. For instance, the chart above shows the decline of overall newspaper ad revenues. The collapse in print ad revenues is coming from two places: the overall ad recession of the past couple years and the shift to online news consumption.
Varian concludes: “Newspapers could save a lot of money if the primary access to news was via the internet.” “The fact of the matter is that newspapers have never made much money from news,” says Varian. Google Adds Its Own Digital Reader To The Mix - Digits. Eric Schmidt: The Baddest Man On Twitter. Stop what you’re doing right now (reading this) and go look at Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s latest Twitter profile picture. Now look closer. Yes, it appears he’s wearing a flak jacket, also known as a bullet-proof vest. As the New York Times’ Nick Bilton points out, this picture likely comes from a recent trip Schmidt took to Iraq. That makes sense, but the fact that Schmidt put the effort and the thought into changing his picture from a bland old corporate profile one, to this badass one, is pretty awesome. Just as with Facebook profile pictures, Twitter profile pictures are becoming a defining characteristic of everyone’s online identity. Schmidt made headlines last month when he finally signed up for Twitter after seemingly dismissing it as somewhat trivial earlier in the year.
And while he still may not be tweeting a whole lot (he’s currently up to 8 tweets in just about a month of tweeting), the profile picture just bought him a lot of Twitter cred, in my book, at least. Google’s Schmidt in Spiky Form at Le Web - Tech Europe. By Neil Mcintosh PARIS — Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt was on stage at Le Web today, giving a spikier performance than some of his previous showings here in Europe. Much of his discussion with Le Web co-host Loic Le Meur was around a demo of Google’s forthcoming revision to its Android smartphone operating system, called Ice Cream Sandwich, which has already been well-trailed here and elsewhere. Mr. Schmidt raised a laugh when he suggested the key reason you might want to upgrade to the new system was a feature that allows you to squash and exaggerate features of your face during a live video call. He was quick to forcefully bat back Mr. Le Meur’s suggestion that Apple’s iOS was leading Android in terms of market share, price point or — with the new release of Android — features.
Mr. Mr. Key to that, he said, would be governments leading the rollout of high-speed fixed and wireless Internet. Google Loves Apple’s Quattro Deal | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | Al. Google took time from its superphone frenzy yesterday to applaud something a competitor did: The search giant lead a public cheer for Apple (AAPL), which just bought mobile ad network Quattro. Google’s logic here is straightforward: If other big companies are buying mobile ad networks, then Washington can’t possibly be upset with us for buying AdMob. And note that Google (GOOG) is also cheering on other mobile ad network mergers and acquisitions that have yet to happen but that the industry now expects, especially from rival Microsoft (MSFT). From Google’s Public Policy Blog: Today’s news that Apple is acquiring one of AdMob’s competitors, Quattro Wireless, is further proof that the mobile advertising space continues to be competitive.
And with more investments and acquisitions in the space, including from established players like Apple and Google, that’s a sign that vigorous growth and competition will continue. Meanwhile, check out this great “slow clap” montage! Analyst: Google to Sell Five to Six Million Nexus One Superphone. Now that Google’s Nexus One “superphone” has officially launched, along with the far more interesting carrier-independent smartphone store through which it is being sold, what kind of sales can we expect? In a note to clients this morning, Barclays Capital analyst Doug Anmuth hazards a guess: Five to six million units sold in 2010, based on distribution through T-Mobile at launch and Verizon Wireless (VZ) by spring. That’s quite a number, considering that Motorola’s (MOT) 2010 global smartphone shipments are expected to be somewhere around 13 million units. And, according to Anmuth, Nexus One sales should allow Google (GOOG) to book incremental revenue of $2.6 billion–$3.2 billion.
Not bad for a first retail effort from a company that’s not exactly known for retailing. After all, cellphones are not an easy business to get into. [Image Credit: Search Engine Land] Combien coûte le Nexus One ? | MobileHub : le blog des smartnaut. Si Google facture son Nexus One 530$ (pour les amateurs américains seulement pour le moment), combien coûte-il en frais de production ? iSuppli, spécialisé dans ce type de calcul, a sorti sa calculette en donnant un chiffre : 174,15$ ! Il s’agit uniquement du coût des composants de l’appareil, manufacturé par HTC, et il ne prend pas en compte les frais de marketing, de distribution, de conception, etc. Le composant le plus cher des 17 pris en compte par iSuppli est le processeur Snapdragon à 1 Ghz, qui coûte 30,50$. Viennent ensuite l’écran AMOLED 3,7″ made in Samsung (23,50$), la mémoire elle aussi Samsung (20,40$) puis l’interface multi-touch capacitive de Synaptics (17,50$). Pour info, la puce 3G de Broadcom coûte 8,20$… Google did sth seriously wrong.
It's Official: Google Today Is Just Where Microsoft Was in 1999. Google vs Apple : les dessous de la guerre des buzz - Etreintes. Global searches increased by 46% in 2009. The number of searches worldwide increased by 46% year on year to 131bn in December 2009, according to ComScore. The research revealed that people conducted 4bn searches every day. The biggest single market was the US, which represented 17% of all searches globally. The UK accounted for 6.2bn searches in December, an increase of 35% year on year.
Microsoft saw the biggest global gains, increasing by 70% year on year in December, from 2.4bn to 4.1bn searches. Microsoft, which launched its Bing platform in June, is closing in on Yahoo, which only increased 13% year on year from 8.4bn to 9.4bn. Google still remains significantly ahead of all competitors, however, with 66.8% of the global search market. Search queries via Google increased by 58% year on year to 87bn in December. World Cup sponsors 'failing to exploit Google search terms' | Me. World Cup sponsors including Coca-Cola, Sony and Adidas have so far failed to associate their brands online with the competition, according to research. Fifa's main World Cup sponsorship partners, which have paid tens of millions of pounds to link themselves with the event, are mostly failing to exploit internet search, the research found.
The report, by agency Tamar, said that the key sponsors were not linking their activity to key online search terms and phrases, such as "world cup 2010" and "soccer world cup", which the agency found were the most popular search phrases used by consumers on search engines such as Google. Tamar also pointed out that most web users rely on "natural" search results – those that are not delivered by advertisers paying to own keywords then delivering ad links.
These are the most trusted and get clicked on more than paid-for ads. Of the five partners examined only Emirates and Adidas are starting to target popular online search terms, according to Tamar. Comment plaire à Google ? Studie: Facebook und Google gehören nicht zu den Lieblingsmarken der Deutschen. Aardvark Acquired By Google. TechCrunch reports Google has acquired Aardvark, a help engine, for $50 million.
Aardvark allows you to ask questions, which then pushed the question out to a network of people who may be able to answer them. The answers are then sent back to you via instant message, email or even Twitter. Aardvark was created by former Googlers and hasn’t taken on the traction that I expected early on. Google has not yet confirmed the acquisition. Postscript: Google sent me a statement confirming the acquisition. We have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aardvark, but we don’t have any additional details to share right now. Postscript #2: Google posted a blog entry, as did Vark today on this deal. As a first step, effective immediately, Aardvark will be available through Google Labs. Related Topics: Channel: Industry | Google: Acquisitions | Google: Business Issues | Top News. Aardvark Publishes A Research Paper Offering Unprecedented Insig. Google Puts Its $50 Million To Work, Starts Using Aardvark For H. Two months ago, Google acquired promising social search startup Aardvark for around $50 million.
The service allows you to ask questions and get responses almost immediately from other users who are knowledgeable about the topic at hand. Usually it takes Google many months (or longer) before it starts putting its acquisitions to work, but we’ve already come across what may be Google’s first use of Aardvark in the wild: Help support. Visit the YouTube Help page and you’ll notice a prominent link prompting users to “give Aardvark a try!”. Click that link, and you’re taken to the Aardvark homepage. Google has put an identical message on the Help page for Google Toolbar.
Most Google services offer Help guides, but there’s almost never a phone number or email address to contact an actual human (which isn’t surprising given that most of these services are free). Broadcast Yourself. Ridley Scott to crowdsource documentary via YouTube | Technology. Les dessous de l'affaire YouTube-Viacom, par les intéressés - Et. Google Street View: Bundesrat fordert Gesetz für Google Street V. Report: FTC to Fine Google Over Safari Bypass Within Next 30 Days - Liz Gannes.