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Life Behind Google’s Iron Curtain

Cathy — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:52:09 +0000

In case you haven’t noticed, the very nature of the internet is changing. In addition to numerous draconian bills by various governments throughout the world trying to control or censor it, the internet is also being carved up by the top tech superpowers, and at the forefront of this digital land-grab, is Google. For over [...]

A Quick Update on Google SPYW

Cathy — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:14:36 +0000

If you have been following this blog for a while you’ll know that to say I’m not a huge fan of Search Plus Your World is something of an understatement. In fact, in a week where the focus was mostly on the John Galt style efforts at stopping the world in order to stop SOPA [...]

Why Search Plus Your World gets a D minus

Cathy — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:01:24 +0000

Firstly, it has to be the goofiest name ever. Google Search Plus Your World – hardly rolls off the tongue does it? And as an acronym it’s even worse – it spells the first four letters in spyware. Now how is it nobody at Google spotted that? Or was that maybe part of the inside [...]

Google’s Social Media Fails

Cathy — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:43:39 +0000

Yesterday we spoke a bit about Google’s new and, in my opinion, misguided direction which has culminated in the release of Google Search Plus Your World, a service which has already begun to attract a lot of bad press and negative reactions, including the obligatory Downfall subtitle mashup video on YouTube. For a number of [...]

Google Search Plus Your World – Or Why “Your World” Just Got a Lot More Complicated.

Cathy — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:09:10 +0000

It seems to me that hardly a week goes by, these days, without Google causing some serious controversy about some latest redesign, update or algorithm change resulting in a lot of negative feedback and scores of doom-mongering bloggers proclaiming that the end of the internet is nigh. This week is no exception. Yes, Google have [...]

2012 – The Year of Home Jobs and Businesses

Cathy — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:56:23 +0000

I strongly believe that home-based businesses will be amongst the most important sectors in 2012, and since it’s an area I know quite a lot about, and indeed have a considerable amount of experience in, I decided I would share that knowledge and experience with you. So I launched a new website called Work at [...]

2012 – The Privacy Wars

Cathy — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:39:29 +0000

Right now we can find content via search engines, share via social media, or buy the things we want on sites like Amazon but these types of systems are still pretty pathetic when it comes to knowing what we want. It’s still mostly guesswork based almost entirely on the past habits, behaviour and purchases of [...]

2012 – Human Intuition

Cathy — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:58:00 +0000

If you’re looking for a surefire business model, a simplistic marketing message and a product that sells itself, then it’s this; make lives easier. And one way you can make my life, and the lives of millions of other people like me running their own businesses, much easier, is to find an intelligent way to [...]

2012 – Year of the Info-Apocalypse

Cathy — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:19:02 +0000

This year will be one more step towards the critical point of information overload. What they used to call Future Shock, or what futurists like Ray Kurzweil call the “Singularity”. A point where the world is moving so fast, particularly the tech world, that the future, even tomorrow, becomes impossible to predict. The only antidote [...]

Business Trends 2012 – Part Three: Data Services

Cathy — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:57:09 +0000

Commanding Data As an internet marketer myself, and a service provider to other internet marketers, trends and demographics are my bread and butter. Not surprisingly I am always looking to find as many new credible and reliable sources as I can to ensure I always make better and better decisions each day. For search engine [...]