What's Google Doing Now?

Jizzlobber

Jizzlobber

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WTF? My shit just morphed into this layout after doing a couple of searches. Where do I go back to the plain old settings?

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That dark dark grey background on the top links just doesn't go at all. Well done Google, you've managed to fuck up yet again. :moon:
 
i'm not a fan of the url's above the desc. kind of threw me off when I just noticed. it a few min ago. probably increases ctr to their ads instead of sites in the listings.
 
Someone said:
Wired: Inside Google Plus Social
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Awesome find! I need to read more Wired.

This is easily the most revealing article on Google's future plans ever written.

For the TL;DR crowd:

This was a LONG article because it really revealed a lot. Google is going to be your Social provider soon whether you like it or not!

In short, google+ is not "just one more tool." -It is in fact one of over 100 tools that will Completely replace all of the tools you know as google today!

The parts announced Tuesday represent only a portion of Google’s plans. In an approach the company refers to as “rolling thunder,” Google has been quietly been pushing out pieces of its ambitious social strategy — there are well over 100 launches on its calendar. When some launches were greeted by yawns, the Emerald Sea team leaders weren’t ruffled at all — lack of drama is part of the plan. Google has consciously refrained from contextualizing those products into its overall strategy.
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It also gave the history of Google & social and shows in depth many of the upcoming changes... Even specific things like this:

Another twist is that people in your circles don’t have to be members of Google’s social net. If Aunt Mary refuses to opt in, you can include her anyway, and she can still get the pictures you post to the circle via e-mail.
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And for SEOs like myself, we now have to consider Sparks:

In this feature, users type in subjects of personal interest — “sparks.” Then Google streams items about that subject. The content that Google pulls into your Sparks stream is different from the results you’d get if you put the same term into the search engine.

“It’s focused on getting stuff that’s fresh and social and fun. We’ve tried to tune parameters to get something that’s engaging,” says Andrew Tomkins, a top search engineer who joined Google after stints at IBM and Yahoo. The signals that Google looks for in determining Sparks content is freshness, a visual component — videos will rank highly — and the degree to which the content is virally spreading on the net. (Tellingly, the Google News group has moved into the Emerald Sea division.) In other words, Sparks tries to deliver the kinds of thing you want to share with others, and Google hopes that its users do just that.
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If you care about SEO or Social's future in your job, drop everything and go read that wired piece right now. It will change the way you see google v/s facebook at the very least.
 
^ That's scary. While I like their new features that they previewed, its sounding like they're making you use their service, whether you like it or not. Can't op out. You will have to use google search while on the web, and many people have a gmail account.

Still, I am interested in how this will turn out when its fully released. I haven't found anything that bad from what they've been doing with this + thing so far.
 
lukep said:
Awesome find! I need to read more Wired.

This is easily the most revealing article on Google's future plans ever written.

For the TL;DR crowd:

This was a LONG article because it really revealed a lot. Google is going to be your Social provider soon whether you like it or not!

In short, google+ is not "just one more tool." -It is in fact one of over 100 tools that will Completely replace all of the tools you know as google today!



It also gave the history of Google & social and shows in depth many of the upcoming changes... Even specific things like this:



And for SEOs like myself, we now have to consider Sparks:



If you care about SEO or Social's future in your job, drop everything and go read that wired piece right now. It will change the way you see google v/s facebook at the very least.
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I didn't read the whole thing and I'll tell you why. If this is the path they are taking it will be the end of them. If they try to force things down people's throats people will leave simple as that.
 
i still want the search bar at the bottom back. also sometimes instant fucks with my train of thought on long tail searches.

i think moving the light green URL to right under the blue title makes it less noticeable and the description more-so. anyone? for my biggest project this is a good thing. we like our description more than our url.
 
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