Google Lobbying Spend

Google Lobbying Spend Greatly Surpasses Tech Rivals

Google had nothing to do with Washington until 2005. Since then, Google lobbying spend has jumped hurdles over other tech companies. From 2008 to 2013 Google had increased their lobbying spend from 3.1 million to 15.8 million. That’s over a 5X increase! Google Lobbying Spend You will find more statistics at Statista What do they …

Google Pokemon

Google Maps Employment Pokemon Challenge April Fools Day

The amazingly creative team at Google Maps has released an awesome April Fools Day campaign thats not only entertaining, it can also get you a job at Google! Google Maps Adds Employment Pokemon Challenge for April Fools Day! Here is the video they released introducing the Google Pokemon Challenge. Although Google Maps may be pulling …

Google will use Your Face in Google Ads

Google has released a Terms of Service update (read more) that will take affect on November 11th 2013. Google will use your face in Google Ads to endorse products or services you have reviewed or interacted with.  Similar to Facebook recommending pages that your friends also like, Google will now be using any sharing, +1ing, …

Google Promotions

Gmail Tabs are Worrying Email Marketers: Avoid the Promotions Tab

Google recently released a new feature for gmail to help fight the uncontrollable inbox that everyone seems to find themselves fighting with.  Many people create rules and filters in Outlook or Gmail that move specific types of emails into specific folders and marks them as read or important.  Now Gmail tabs are worrying email marketers on …

Google Releases AdWords for Video

Google has just released a new program called Google AdWords for video.  You can now use Google to advertise your video through Youtube and Googles Display Network.  Display Network ads are shown on other website that offer Google Ad space for revenue.  With both Youtube and Google Display you are able to target geographical location …