The negative campaigning continues. John McCain this week suggested that Obama was some kind of crypto-socialist terrorist Muslim while Obama pointed out that McCain is, well, John McCain. Surprisingly though the harshest attack came from atop the mighty Googleplex as CEO Eric Shmidt called the Internet a “cesspool.” At press time the Internet had responded with the charge that Schmidt was once seen in an elevator with Bill Ayers. In all fairness Schmidt made his observation to a group of publishers to whom he also explained,”We don’t actually want you to be successful…” at getting good search engine rankings. Okkkaaaay then. This of course was followed by an obtuse non-explanation of Google’s quality score rankings.
YouTube – Buy Our Free Stuff
In other, less ridiculous Google-related news their YouTube moving pictures division may have finally hit on a plan to actually make money. No, it’s not porn. Rather it’s simply linking content – music especially – to iTunes and Amazon.com where users can buy the track that they were looking at online (for free). I suspect that this may actually work – really it’s like the radio used to be except you’ve got the record store right there. Boy did I just sound old.
Facebook Tries out MySpace’s Tune
Facebook keeps growing but MySpace has a commanding lead when it comes to users who are in bands or are interested in music. Facebook is trying to change all that and the music industry is already taking notice as these tips for musical types migrating to Facebook from MySpace by Cyber PR attests.
Live Searches for More Users With Facebook
Microsoft’s Live Search is intergrating with Facebook to give users a search from the web option. It’s a win-win for both parties as Facebook keeps more users on their site for search and Live adds users to its search platform. Interestingly the Live blog hints at even more integration in the future.
Ga Ga for GOOG
Check out this oh so cheeky search results ad that Reprise Media Social Media Analyst Miguel Cancino hipped me to. It comes up when you do a Google search for GOOG which happens to be Google’s battered ticker symbol.
