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Google.com the giant financially sound search engine allows bidding for death, murder and senseless violence in keyword terms in their grasp for the almighty dollar.
Google today stooped to a new low in greed allowing large Corporations to Sponsor links on the paid search results, in relation to the senseless murders at Virginia Tech.

Google Slogan - “Do No Evil”

Google Reality - “Its cool to bid on keywords related to death and violence”

Even though it goes against the Google Terms of Service.

I was reading an Ad Age email I get which stated that the New York Times and InsideEdition were bidding for and the sponsors of the keyword term virginia shooting.

I Googled the term ‘virginia tech shooting’ to see if this were indeed a remote possibility and was shocked to see it was being bid for, and even more appalled that some UK based company has sought to make a profit off of an American based tragedy.

Do you people not have a friggin soul??

We fired Don Imus for some very questionable reason, but yet, we allow the leaders of one of the most respected news reporting papers in the world, to authorize the bidding of keywords dealing in death. We allow some of the richest men in the world to take money from grave diggers who want to bid on the terms??? We allow Google to let advertisers bid for something against their terms of service and nothing happens??
We allow the producers of Inside Edition to bid on keywords on senseless random murder and we do not bring these people to task?? We do not ask them where are their morals, and if they have no morals Ask why do we allow them the power they have??

Google employees and leaders - Sergy, Larry and Mr Schmidt…you’ll protect trademark holders… but not the loved ones of those murdered in cold blood???? Stick the “do no evil” slogan up your ass…allowing these type terms to be bid on makes you as greedy as can be…

America should consider boycotting the following businesses whose Google ads are shown below.

Next Inside Edition
Exclusive Coverage. Inside The VA
Tech Dorm Where The Shooting Began
InsideEdition.com

Virginia Tech Shooting
32 Killed in Virginia Tech Shooting
At Least 24 Injured
WashingtonPost.com

Virginia Tech Tragedy
America mourns college gun rampage
massacre. News, analysis, pics here
www.thefirstpost.co.uk

I wonder how long till these no good dirty “leaders” bid on the gunmans name Cho Seung Hoi??

If there is a penny to be made off a senseless death these dirt bags won’t be far behind.
My condolences to all of the families effected by this senseless violence, and it saddens me further that I feel the need to blog about a bunch of callous, low down, greedy dirtbag corporate leaders.

Google has released a patent with Sergy Brins name on it as well as that of other Google employees whose names which are on the patent as inventors and are Alexander Mark Franz, Monika H. Henzinger, and Brian Christopher Milch.

Google Voice Search

The abstract reads

A system provides search results from a voice search query. The system receives a voice search query from a user, derives one or more recognition hypotheses, each being associated with a weight, from the voice search query, and constructs a weighted boolean query using the recognition hypotheses. The system then provides the weighted boolean query to a search system and provides the results of the search system to a user.

This seems like a great application that marketers could use to do business in more ways than thought possible. Think instant translation to any language Google works with and which can be scaled to any device and any device with a microphone could interface with the voice search.

Google has also released a beta test of the applications termed Google Voice Local Search which is just the tip of the iceberg

You can read more here

Google Voice Local Search

To try this service, just dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) from any phone land line or cell phone.

# search for a local business by name or category.
You can say “Giovanni’s Pizzeria” or just “pizza”.

# get connected to the business, free of charge.

# get the details by SMS if you’re using a mobile phone.
Just say “text message”

Best of all it’s free. There is no charge by Google for the call or connecting you to the business (cutting at the telephone companies profits) and they even tell you on the webpage the phone company might charge you.

You can use your telephone keypad to spell the business name or category. Enter one digit per letter and Google will figure out what you want so if looking for toys you would key in the nummbers 8 6 9 7 (8=T 6=O 9=Y 7=S)

That is pretty cool!!!!!

Here is a list of other short cuts

Google Voice Local Search Short Cuts

Google Website Optimizer

Google.com today has released it’s Google Website Optimizer, an application which Google has developed to aide help Webmasters, website owners and marketers to do variate tests over different landing pages in order to determine which designs drive the most targeted conversions.

Conversion statistics can be used for various business goals such as sales conversions, newsletter sign ups and downloads of information to name just a few helpful uses.

With the release of the release of the Google Website Optimizer tool Google has now come full circle with it’s 2006 Fall beta release of the application to Adwords Advertisers, which allows any marketer to display ads, measure with Analytics and now improve the landing pages for increased conversions.

This new tool will allow advertisers to receive up to 10,000 versions of a Web page. Tony Leung of Google, was quoted as saying “Website Optimizer is dedicated to converting visitors into customers and improving Web pages”

The website optimizer will not improve your search engine rankings in the organic side. The Website Optimizer allows marketers and advertisers take a web page, add some Java scripts to the page, and this will allow them to display to consumers varied versions of that page. The marketers and advertisers can track the pages that work best and determine which version is most effective in terms of earning profits and driving return on investment.

The new tool represents one of the biggest product launches in quite sometime for Google’s AdWords business. Markerters and Advertisers can sign up here.

Adwords Website Optimizer