Google Phone / Platform: What Might The Advertising Options Be?

Google has let out the news that it is looking to standardize the mobile phone platform by creating an open source environment with the powers that wish to take part.  Sprint, T-Mobile and Samsung are just a few of the ones stepping forward right now to create a universal platform dubbed Android.  As they get […]

If You Promote Google, Does Google Promote You?

Some of you marketing hounds might remember back to January 2006 when Pontiac ended one of their tv commercials with a screen shot of Google’s search box with the search term "pontiac" being entered.  The commercial voice over stated "Google Pontiac and discover for yourself".  Ifyou don’t remember, you can read some past thoughts on […]

I’m Headed To San Francisco Hungry, Yelp Will Help.

I’m headed to San Fran and wine country for a few days to celebrate my anniversary of 5 years this week.  Our project manager Janna suggested a great little italian restaraunt to check out, but when we called they will be closed for 2 weeks when we are there. Even though we were totally bummed, […]

Google Local Results Trump Organic Results

If you have done a search on Google lately that included a city or city/state location such as "limousines minneapolis", you will notice what is called the local one box results above the organic results (see screen shot below) with the Google map and top 3 results listed as A, B and C.  This has […]