November 5th, 2009 by John | Posted under Has this been a busy week or what? We’ve barely had time to dissect the new Google Social Search from last Monday and now the big G is hitting us with even more announcements. Why the sudden spurt of new products ? Is Mr Schmidt planning something? Is Google feeling threatened by ‘Bing’ ?
These questions will have to wait, for the time being lets see what has happened;
| Google Dashboard | See what data Google collects from your all your Google products, manage them in one simple place | Official Release | Test it here |
| Google Commerce Search | Hosted ecommerce platform by Google delivered via SaaS using cloud computing. (paid service) | Official Release | See it here (video) |
| Adwords Ad Sitelinks | New Adwords feature that allows advertisers to create sitelinks in the adblock | Official Release | Read our report |
| Google Music Search | New vertical search results for music that lets you listen and purchase directly from SERP | Official Release | Test it here |
| 2 free Google Webinars | - Think2010: Four Winning Moves for 2010 - Holiday Webmaster Webinar |
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| TBA? Adwords new “Automatic Matching” service | Still hot gossip at the moment, Google Adwords testing a set and forget service to run your campaign | First report | Further confirmation |
The announcement made yesterday on ‘Google Commerce Search‘ I believe is going to have an immediate impact on SEO’s and web developers, some questions that come to mind;
- From what I read correctly, GCS will be a hosted platform.
- Does this mean domains need to redirect to a GCS portal?
- Or is this something which can be embedded into a webpage via JS?
- Perhaps its just a simple database connector to Google for product retrieval?
- If its the JS method, how is the website going to be crawled ? Since googlebot doesn’t read JS content that well.
- Will Google commerce search enabled websites carry more weight in SEO?
- How much customization can be done?
- Will developers have access to the source code?
- How will Google deliver this product via a SAAS method and still keep the site search engine friendly?
- And finally will we see a new ‘Google certified commerce developer’ certification?
Keep your eye on this space, as we will attempt to answer these questions for our readers in the coming days. For now I am sure you are busy hitting the links above for some research of your own!
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