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Google Accounts on Twitter

twitter.com/Google - our central account

twitter.com/Blogger - for Blogger fans

twitter.com/GoogleCalendar - user tips & updates

twitter.com/GoogleImages - news, tips, tricks on our visual image search

twitter.com/GoogleNews - latest headlines via Google News

twitter.com/GoogleReader - from our feed reader team

twitter.com/iGoogle - news & notes from Google’s personalized homepage

twitter.com/GoogleStudents - news of interest to students using Google

twitter.com/YouTube - for YouTube fans

twitter.com/YouTubeES - en Espanol

twitter.com/GoogleAtWork - solutions for IT and workplace productivity

Geo-related

twitter.com/SketchUp - Google SketchUp news

twitter.com/3DWH - SketchUp’s 3D Warehouse

twitter.com/Modelyourtown - 3D modeling to build your favorite places

twitter.com/EarthOutreach - Earth & Maps tools for nonprofits & orgs

twitter.com/GoogleMaps - uses, tips, mashups

twitter.com/GoogleSkyMap -Android app for the night sky

Ads-related

twitter.com/AdSense - for online publishers

twitter.com/AdWordsHelper - looking out for AdWords questions and tech issues

twitter.com/AdWordsProSarah - Google Guide for AdWords Help Forum

twitter.com/GoogleAnalytics - insights for website effectiveness

twitter.com/GoogleAdBuilder - re building display ads

twitter.com/GoogleRetail - for retail advertisers

twitter.com/TechnologyUK - for U.K. tech advertisers

twitter.com/InsideAdWordsDE - for German AdWords customers

twitter.com/GoogleAgencyDE - for German ad agencies

twitter.com/AdSensePT - info for Portuguese-language publishers

twitter.com/AdWordsRussia - AdWords news & tips in Russian

twitter.com/DentroDeAdWords - Spanish updates from the Inside AdWords blog

twitter.com/AdWordsAPI - AdWords API tips

Developer & technical

twitter.com/GoogleResearch - from our research scientists

twitter.com/GoogleWMC - Google Webmaster Central

twitter.com/GoogleCode - latest updates for Google developer products

twitter.com/GoogleData - Data APIs provide a standard protocol for reading and writing web data

twitter.com/app_engine - web apps run on Google infrastructure

twitter.com/DataLiberation - our initiative for complete import/export of all data

twitter.com/GoogleMapsAPI - about using Google Maps embedded in websites

twitter.com/GoogleIO - Google’s largest annual developer event

Culture, People

twitter.com/googletalks - notes from our @Google speaker series

twitter.com/googlejobs - the voice of Google recruiters

Country or Region

twitter.com/googlearabia - news from the Google Arabia Blog*

twitter.com/googledownunder - Google activities in Australia & New Zealand

twitter.com/GoogleDE - Google in Germany

twitter.com/GoogleKorea - News & notes in Korean*

twitter.com/GoogleLatAm - Latin America (en Espanol)

twitter.com/GooglePolicyIt - Notes on Google policy issues in Italy

Microsoft: Search

• live_search / Live Search (main account)
• nathanbuggia / Nathan Buggia (Microsoft Webmaster Center)
• jandrick / Jeremiah Andrick (Microsoft Webmaster Center)
• ayazook / Aya Zook (Microsoft Live Search marketing)
• benmwatson / Ben Watson (Live Search software engineer)
• fareologist (official Microsoft Live Search Farecast)
• cashbackdotcom (official Microsoft Live Search cashback)

Microsoft: adCenter

• adcenterblog / adCenter Blog (main Microsoft adCenter account)
• msadvertising / Microsoft Advertising Europe
• melcarson / Mel Carson (adCenter community relations)

Microsoft: Powerset & Other

• powerset / Powerset (main account)
• barneyp / Barney Pell (Powerset founder)
• jsenior / James Senior (Live services evangelist)

Yahoo & Yahoo Product Blogs

• yahoo / Yahoo (main Yahoo account)
• yahoogames / Yahoo Games
• yahoomovies / Yahoo Movies

Yahoo: Buzz

• yahoobuzz / Yahoo Buzz main account
• yahoosearchdata /Yahoo Search Data (interesting stats from Yahoo Buzz)
• meredfern / Joff Redfern (VP Yahoo Buzz)

Yahoo: Web Search

• searchmonkey / Yahoo Search Monkey main account
• cornett / Larry Cornett (vice president, Yahoo Search Product)
• crispierry / Cris Pierry (general manager, Yahoo Search)
• grahammudd / Graham Mudd (Yahoo Search Monkey & BOSS)
• jpederse / Jan Pedersen (Chief scientistt, Yahoo Search & Ad Tech Group)
• mwinters58 / Mike Winters (Yahoo Search team)
• rajgossain / Raj Gossain (vice president, Yahoo Search)
• sheila / Sheila Tran (Yahoo PR)

Yahoo: More Twitters

• adamzarlengo / Adam Zarlengo (product manager, Yahoo Movies)
• dennismortensen / Dennis Mortensen (director of data insights)
• kylelaughlin / Kyle Laughlin (general manager, Yahoo Games)
• lauralippay / Laura Lippay (director of technical marketing)
• tonyadam / Tony Adam (SEO for Yahoo Audience Marketing)
• yahooguy / Gabe Elliott (search and display ad exec)

Ask

• askdotcom / Ask.com Europe
• keithhogan / Keith Hogan (vice president, technology)

Techmeme

• techmeme / Techmeme (main account)
• gaberivera / Gabe Rivera (founder, Techmeme)
• megan / Megan McCarthy (editor, Techmeme)

Twitter

• twitter / Twitter (main account)
• ev / Evan Williams (CEO, Twitter & cofounder)
• biz / Biz Stone (Twitter cofounder)

Others

• craignewmark (Founder of Craigslist)
• kevinrose / Kevin Rose (Founder, Digg)
• skrenta / Rich Skrenta (CEO, Blekko)
• thegoldenhat (head of SEO for Facebook)

And don’t forget, the editors here at Search Engine Land are on Twitter, along with Search Engine Land itself:

• sengineland, Search Engine Land
• dannysullivan, Danny Sullivan
• elisabethos, Elisabeth Osmeloski
• gsterling, Greg Sterling
• mattmcgee, Matt McGee
• michellerobbins, Michelle Robbins (technical directory
• rustybrick, Barry Schwartz
• vanessafox, Vanessa Fox

Google is taking action against two scam Google Money Kit and Google Money System. The 2 systems have been promoting themselves on Adwords, and now will have their accounts banned. On top of that, Google Money Kit is not even found in search results, with a complaint taking up #1 for the phrase “google money kit”.

SEO Roundtable also reports that Google is taking action against other known scams that use Adwords to advertise. Aaron Wall has long criticized Google for letting scammers have free way on Adwords, and finally big G is taking action. The scam industry is a multi million dollar business, which makes rich quite a few dogs, willing to take people’s money.

I hope we will see many of the big and obvious scams go down in flames.

As far as the soft scams, like get rich quick - they will always be there, because there’s an army of people, who are new to the internet, and will have to make a couple bad mistakes before learning the ropes.

Google started offering advanced features for real estate searches on Google maps. If you do any searches such as a city name + real estate, Google will offer you an option to do a deeper search. If you do chose to do a deeper search, you will see hundreds of real estate listings on maps.

There’s also an option to refine search by square footage, number of rooms, area and more.

Google gets real estate data from Google Base and from other real estate search engine providers. The real estate listing websites have called Google a scraper site, and voiced a negative view of the search engine, so Google has an uphill battle, to change the view of real estate listing website, make them access their databases and the same time figure out how to monetize newly released feature.

• Google Tries To Save The Housing Market With Real Estate Search
• Land Grab: Google Expands Real Estate Listings

Google and Microsoft have released SEO Help for webmasters.

• Bing white paper for webmasters & publishers released
• Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

The Google Guide - Google recommends adjusting titles with keywords, making sure there are keywords in the content, but most importantly document stresses the importance of making a quality website. As for link building, Google says build a quality website and links will come flowing in.

Bing SEO Guide - Bing SEO guide does not give much SEO tips, rather it points out new Bing features. The features are related searches in the left side pane, search history, best match, how Bing categorizes and more.

If you get this email or a similar email in the mailbox, watch out.

“GOOGLE GIVE-AWAY WINNING NOTIFICATION!!! This E-mail is to inform you that your e-mail emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our online Give-away draws. Over £20,000,000.00 (Twenty Million British pounds) is to be given out for this Draws. No purchases of  tickets were required. Participants for the draws were randomly selected from a world wide range of web searchers who use the Google search engine (Googler) and other Google ancillary services. Google is now the biggest search engine worldwide and in an effort to make sure that it remains the most widely used search engine, Google is running an e-mail beta test.

Your email address was linked with our Computer Generated Profile Numbers(CGPN) and attached to the following details:  Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers:  12-12-23-35-40-41(12), was picked among our lucky winners to receive £500, 000.00 British pounds. Winners were selected randomly through a computer ballot system from worldwide users of the Google search engine.

YOUR WINNING DETAILS ARE AS FOLLOW: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12 Ticket number: 00869575733664 Serial numbers: / BTD/8070447706/06 Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12)

To claim your give-away prize, send the following. Your full names…………….. , sex………………………….,Location……………………….Alternate e-mail address………………Your winning details………….. “

You can add this to the list together with Nigerian Fortunes. The question I have, do people really buy this? It seems like they do, because scammers continue to blast similar email to all the addresses they can get their hands on.

Google Webmaster tools is open to suggestion to new products and everyone with a Webmaster account is welcome to share their ideas on what Google should create or functionalities it should add to its roster of applications.

If you do not want to submit idea, you can participate in the vote over here. Here are some examples:

“The removal tool, needs exact url’s now. I like to see a function for regex patterns. I have often problems with pages having query strings.”

“A “Remove” button next to each broken link listed in the crawl error page, rather than downloading the table and ‘adding’ each link individually when submitting a request.”

“Clearer display of webmaster guideline violations, and tips on how to fix the site to be more compliant.”

“Show me which pages are marked as duplicate content within my domain.”

“Be able to rename sitelinks and even control the sorting”

“Please make it possible to share an account! It’s a nightmare not having the possibility when you need to deal with different clients all wanting to have access.”

There a lot of good ideas as well as absurdity. What do you think Google needs to create? Go ahead and share.

Oppppsss… Google made a big bo-bo and displayed wrong information about Michael Jackson’s death:

What happened there? Google’s snippet was pulled from Wikipedia page about Michael Jackson the writer who died in 2007 at the age of 65, instead of the pop music king. The problem has been quickly fixed by the Googlers but MANY people were exposed to the wrong information, including me.

The snippet was pulled algorithmically without human intervention, so this shows just how much of Google is automated.

On the topic of Michael Jackson.

Google wasn’t the only search engine that honored the pop star that day. Yahoo went as far as sending reporters to the hospital for the coverage of the event. They also recorded number of clicks, beating the election day from 15.1 million to 16.4 million. As a content destination with writers and editors, Yahoo took a more editorial event on the issue. They’ve included stories from major news sources on the sidebars. Yahoo also called staff who were off to help with the overload of traffic.

Bing’s performance was poor, as it showed information for Michael Jackson on the bottom of the page instead of featuring it in the most prominent spot on top of the page.

Personally I think Yahoo did the best job because they are a search engine / content destination. Google is number 2, because the algorithmic error, while Bing is still number 3.

Battle goes on!

Competition in the smartphone market is heating up this summer as one new hot smartphone after another hits the street. The latest is T-Mobile’s next Google Android device, called the myTouch.

T-Mobile will announce the new smartphone Monday. It is the second smartphone the carrier has introduced that uses Google’s open-source mobile operating system, Android. T-Mobile introduced the world’s first Google Android phone, called the G1, last fall. And so far the company claims it has sold over 1 million devices.

The myTouch is manufactured by HTC and is essentially the same hardware design as the Google Ion, which is also known as the HTC Magic. The device was introduced at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February and is now being sold by Vodafone in various markets around the world.

The Google Ion/HTC Magic has been described as thinner than the G1 and slightly smaller than Apple’s iPhone.

But it features a large 3.2-inch touch screen with a resolution of 320 x480 pixels and no physical keyboard. The phone offers network support for 3G and Wi-Fi.