via the NYT and TechCrunch: Google Talk will be integrated into Gmail accounts “within the next few weeks!”
The feature hasn’t been added in full to my Gmail account yet, but I see the beginnings:
Here’s the Gmail Chat FAQ, with much more. It appears as if there will be an integrated contact list, as well as status messages.
Sayeth Ashok Ramani, representing Google, in their response a subpoena from the “Attorneys for Alberto R. Gonzoles’” demanding that Google hand over a million search results:
“Google objects to Defendant’s view of Google’s higly proprietary queries database as a free resource that Defendant can access and use, some levels removed, to formulate its own defense. This is not an appropriate use of the federal courts’ subpoena power.”
“Moreover, Google’s acceding to the Request would suggest that it is willing to reveal information about those that use its services. This is not a perception that Google can accept.”
Basically, DON’T BE EVIL, GONZO.
Word. Further analysis and updates at Search Engine Watch.
Wow. From my freshly updated Google Analytics stats, we have my US visits breakdown by state:
Amazing! Georgia’s my #1 state, with Montana at #2 and New York and California tied for 3rd.
Funny Google should release this during sweeps, the portion of the year in which TV stations run feature news packages and show lame flicks like Category 6 in hopes that Nielsen’s minions will scribble about them in their journal.
Google Analytics makes a real mockery of what TV stations pay Nielsen so much for. These are the real numbers, not samples.
This now allows web publishers to provide detailed target market information to advertisers without paying expensive market research companies. Provided with this thorough information from internet media entities, advertising agencies will be much more confident spending money on internet ads.
The returns from Google Analytics won’t come instantly, but when they do, they’ll come as many more Adwords subscribers, and by establishing the internet as the premier advertising format.
There’s so much more to Analytics than this – the ‘Goal’ idea is quite interesting. You can assign dollar amounts to a page navigation sequence – say, from an item page, to checkout, to a shipping confirmation page – and then break down which segment of visitors is ordering the most wigits or confirming their conference attendance.
There’s even advanced regex filter support (for people who understand what the hell that means =] ). I can’t say enough. If you have any sort of website, from blog to e-commerce-mega-site, sign up for Google Analytics. It’s flipping amazing.
I swear Google is stealing my ideas. I had a frustrating experience with the industry standard webstats package, Urchin, last night, and complained to a couple people about it.
This morning, I awake to a new Google product, Google Analytics, which is the result of Google purchasing Urchin a while back. On the Analytics home page is a bulleted list detailing Google’s solution to every one of my gripes with Urchin. Fishy, eh? :)
However, a stats package can’t really be evaluated until it has data in it. Here’s how it looks right now:
Pretty impressive! I especially like the “Executive Overview” idea, as well as the Geo Map! Check back soon, I’ll post an updated screenshot with some real numbers.
Have a Gmail account yet? Subscribe to my blog in Google Reader, Google web-based feed reader, featuring all of the speed (and keyboard shortcuts!!!) of Gmail.
I’m actually quite impressed with the speed of Google Reader considering that I’m on dailup this weekend. My new favorite key is the ‘j*’ key – press it on your Google Reader and watch how quickly new entries load in the whitespace. Google slick AJAX engine only requires that the next individual entry be loaded. No headers. No footers. No banner ads or blogrolls. This is brilliant – the exact same speed benefit that desktop feed readers get cooked into a web based feed reader that doesn’t even have to *think about synchronization. Add in labels (yep, just like Gmail) and the search that we’ve come to expect from Google, and you have one excellent web app.
The only feature I’m missing so far – integration with del.icio.us. I’m sure they’ll add it soon. It’s still in beta, anyway ;-)
I’m jnewland@gmail.com. Check out Google Talk
UPDATE: It’s Live
Google has launched Google Moon today in honor of the first manned moon landing on July 20th, 1969. Make sure you zoom all the way in :)
