Archive for July, 2011
Credit Cards for Adwords Customers
Google has some good news for the Adwords advertisers and the news is that it is offering credit cards with low interest rate.The credit card comes with a no annual fee and will be issued by MasterCard with a 8.99 annual percentage rate.
The card will be used by the customers to buy AdWords ads alone. The card will benefit small and medium businesses as they can able to increase their sales with ad campaigns even when they don’t have sufficient funds. Claire Johnson,vice president of Online Sales at Google says “they are resource-constrained and they are often cash flow-strapped. Many of them are trying to grow a business without the kind of means that, say, your classic company has”.
The benefits of the card will vary depending upon the cardholder and Google hasn’t disclosed to whom it plans to offer the card.Chosen customers should get an invitation from Google to start using the card.
Let us know what you readers feel about this Google’s credit offer and let us wait how it works out.
Google Withdraws Toolbar for Firefox
Google’s famous toolbar for Firefox will not be available from Firefox 5 onwards. Google toolbar for Firefox has been a very popular addon for most of the users .Google has been making a lot of changes in the recent past and it has been killing some projects and services and most notably Google Labs.
As Google has it’s own browser Firefox is definitely not it’s priority anymore. The user’s were not happy by this move from Google which was clearly evident from user’s comments in Google Blog
Multiple Calls in Gmail at the same time
We all would be well aware of the old multiple line phones with all the buttons across the bottom. Now in Google’s Gmail we can access to more than one line at a time.
The news from the official Gmail Blog states that the new multi-call capability will let the user to pick another call at the same time and put the current caller on hold. The thing is that there is no music to entertain the first caller.
You will receive a notification on the current call and then it’s up to you whether you’re going to answer it or not. Through out this year US and Canada calls using the Gmail phone will be free and all these features work with Gmail’s phone, voice and video calls.
New URL shortener from Google
A new URL shortener g.co has been unveiled by Google that will link to only Google products and websites.
The earlier URL shortener goo.gl, was launched in the year 2009 and unlike the current URL shortener it can be used for any link on the web via the Google toolbar whereas g.co will always end up at a page for a Google product or service.
Google has been using goo.gl URL shortner for all it’s products until now and they clearly want to eliminate the confusion where it leads to.Apart from Google ,twitter also has it’s own URL shortener to improve the links shared on it’s secured platform
Is Google+ female dominated?
It’s hard to believe that Google+,the new social networking site from Google is not a male dominated network. Statistics reveal that Google+ is about to reach 10million users and 33percent of users as of July 14th are female.
The methodology Allen from Ancestory.com in estimating Google+ statistics varies from other Google+ data sources. The data from US Census Bureau is being compared with Google+ users. By comparing surname popularity in the U.S. with the number of users on Google+ with each surname, he can guesstimate the percentage of the U.S. population that signed up for Google+. We’re not sure how census data can be applied to gender, especially on a social network, but we’ve reached out to Allen for additional information on how his data was composited.
The marketing services from Google has put on a lot of emphasis for women which implies that women are prime target for Google+
Google+ has totally a different interface and I think that users will find time to get adapted to it with especially facebook making a lot of changes.
