TechCrunch says that Google just bought Aardvark for $50 million. Making these people your Aardvark contacts theoretically helps you get better answers to your questions. As you can see, one answer was slightly helpful, the others just what I’d asked for. Everyone wants to know where to eat, where to go on vacation… What the hell is Aardvark (vark.com) ? It’s like a Yahoo Questions that works.

Getting married helped Darrin decide to close Optiwave and it helped explain the closing to his friends. - So he hired Cory Martin, whose work helped roughly double the company’s size. - When Google opened up its mapping API it made Maponics’s Flash-based idea less appealing. - The first company he founded failed, but now Darrin Clement is running a multi-million dollar mapping business that he founded and bootstrapped. How did he go from having to close down his previous company to winning so many customers at this one?

Search engine giant Google said Thursday that it is exiting from the radio advertising business, putting an end into the firm's attempt to leverage its online advertising success into other media. Google--which pulled the plug on its newspaper advertising efforts on January 20th--said the move came because the radio advertising efforts did not have "the impact we hoped for." Google entered the radio advertising market with the buy of Newport Beach-based dMarc Broadcasting in January of 2006. That deal--which was worth $102M in cash plus up to $1.1

Repost of SMCLA's Going Goo Goo Over Google Analytics The Google Analytics panel was a big success with a great turnout of over 150 people at the  Mahalo office in Santa Monica. It takes 5 minutes: Google Analytics is about as easy to setup as setting your alarm clock. Set aside 5 minutes, get your cut and paste Below is a highlight video of the evening.  To To view the entire talk click here .  

And let's face facts, we normally are talking Google search. If you don't know the basics here, go look at Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide (PDF). Which is also really important: off page SEO. However, if all you do is follow the on page SEO advice, it is unlikely that you will get much traffic via search. Off Page SEO The other aspect of SEO is at its most basic, how many pages with decent Google Page Rank point to you using anchor text that helps you with optimization. I recently had a conversation with an pre-launch startup where they discussed how SEO was going to be really important for them.

Don’t worry, we didn’t either until today when he opened up a little bitchfest on the BarCampLA Google group . We aren’t sure exactly what they did, but it sounds like they helped startups get funded or throw parties or something. Thanks for joining us for Great Moments in Google Groups, till next time. ...Tags: Don’t know John Pratt ? The exchange was funny enough to make HackerNews under the title “ How not to promote your new startup “. Certainly an appropriate title

Don’t worry, we didn’t either until today when he opened up a little bitchfest on the BarCampLA Google group . We aren’t sure exactly what they did, but it sounds like they helped startups get funded or throw parties or something. Thanks for joining us for Great Moments in Google Groups, till next time. ...Tags: Don’t know John Pratt ? The exchange was funny enough to make HackerNews under the title “ How not to promote your new startup “. Certainly an appropriate title

Now, when you look closer at the stories of the Multivac, you can see a few parallels with Google. That is, there are enough similarities that Google engineer Neil Fraser was able to put together this interesting pictorial essay , probably on his 20% percent time. If you have a personal problem, you may come to Multivac with it and with its knowledge of all of you, Multivac will be able to help you. The Multivac was a massive computer, both in size and power, dreamed up by science fiction author, Isaac Asimov. Initially, it was used to build spaceships and plot their trajectory;

Now, when you look closer at the stories of the Multivac, you can see a few parallels with Google. That is, there are enough similarities that Google engineer Neil Fraser was able to put together this interesting pictorial essay , probably on his 20% percent time. If you have a personal problem, you may come to Multivac with it and with its knowledge of all of you, Multivac will be able to help you. The Multivac was a massive computer, both in size and power, dreamed up by science fiction author, Isaac Asimov. Initially, it was used to build spaceships and plot their trajectory;

Hello, and welcome to Google Armed Insurgency! You may be surprised or even confused by this new feature on your Google Dashboard. So we decided to help Iranians out by shutting down the Iranian government. How Google Armed Insurgency Works But don’t worry, I’m here to explain how it all works. You see, on Wednesday the Iranian government shut down Gmail service throughout the country .