Have Google Just Demonstrated the World's Biggest Social Network?

...or am I just nuts?

Probably

Have Google just shown their hand in the big social network gamble?  And has it been there all along?

Okay, so I may sound like an insane conspiracy theorist, but with the update of Google Profiles - the quiet backwater for the geeks and profileistas - Google seem to have shown us what a social network really looks like.

Google's Latest Algorithm Update 2011

An extremely useful and informative article from Silicon Beach Training in Brighton. It covers the impact that Google's search algorithm changes may have on your site.

Google's Latest Algorithm Update 2011

 

Google Art Project Launches

Google always find the very best way to represent information, be it search results; map information or e-mail message tags.  Their new Art Project is no exception.  It's the perfect way to enjoy the very best paintings online.

Google Art Project allows you to explore and view hundreds of masterpieces from galleries all over the world.  The method it provides for examining each artwork will be familiar to anyone who has used Google Maps: Drag and Zoom.  They are displayed on a black background to emphasise the colours on a screen and the details is absolutely amazing.

But, I'm sure the model sitting for this work should have completely removed her headphones before the artist started painting... how rude!

I LOVE this! - Google API and Developer Products

And it's all laid out as a Periodic Table.  Try hovering the pointer around a bit.

Google API and Developer Products

What If Google Stored All Our Medical Records?

An excellent article that takes a common-sense approach to the discussion of Medical Records storage.

Ushahidi

Here’s what I was talking about. Go into ‘What it does’ and you’ll see some great uses.

Update on Google's Mayday update affecting natural search visits

http://www.smartinsights.com/blog/seo/update-on-googles-mayday-update/

Lifting Google rank using social conversations

Article from Econsultancy:

• Lifting Google rank using social conversations
• http://bit.ly/brVzeK

Really interesting article which demonstrates that good SEO isn’t just about links and words, it’s also about people and relationships.  (I sound like such a hippie).