Well, sort of. If you’re a developer you can get that information on the Android site. But if you’re interested in the history of Android, how much Google may have paid for the platform and its hypothetical outlook, you can read this long Wired article. (You can also read my short riff on it in [...]

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Posted by Jane Copland
This morning, I was talking to Rob Kerry about some particularly competitive search phrases and looking around in the SERPs. We’d gone through most of the usual suspects when [cheap flights] came up. Google duly returned its top ten, and at the bottom, I noticed farecast.live.com.

The first thing I noticed was the [...]

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Privacy is dead, get used to it. In the effort to rescue display advertising from its historically dismal performance and so-called “banner blindness” behavioral targeting (BT) was born a few years ago with Tacoda. It has both increased in popularity and infamy since that time. Consumers prefer more “relevant” ads but they also dislike being [...]

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B2B sites tend to be more difficult for visitors to find what they’re looking for. Perhaps it’s because things don’t always fit neatly into more intuitive consumer categories. Perhaps it’s because B2B sites are often laden with so much diverse information. While site owners can engineer enhanced usability, better optimize and structure content, or [...]

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Google has posted the official blog post summarizing last week’s live chat event. Yes, we did post the unofficial version on Thursday night, but now we have the official version live for viewing.

Q&A Transcript available via Google Groups
John’s Personalized Search Presentation via Google Presentations
Maile’s Case Sensitivity in Web Search via Google Presentations
and the [...]

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