Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Yesterday Google released a statement on their Chromium blog that they are creating a new rendering engine based on Webkit called Blink. I encourage everyone to go and read the big news. This is clearly big news for web developers, as another rendering engine on the market means more browser variance to keep in mind when […]

Today, Perficient announced it was named the 2012 Google North America Deployment Partner of the Year. The award recognizes the Perficient team for their expertise in enterprise search and the many successful implementations of the Google Search Appliance (GSA) platform across all industries, including solutions for pharmaceutical, e-commerce and software companies. From the press release, […]

A month ago I blogged about Google Flu Trends measurements of flu-related search terms and how it related to official data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. As it turns out, flu cases came in quite a bit below what Google was predicting. “Flu Trends is meant to be a complementary tool to the […]

Today Google released a new Glass video simulating (yes sorry to disappoint but its still a simulation video no matter how accurate the UI might be) what it is like to wear Google’s new augmented reality device Glass. One of the brilliant moves Google made with this video release is the announcement that they were […]

Earlier this month, I wrote about seven Google Analytics basics to help you understand your website’s performance better. Today, I want to go over five advanced Google Analytics tips to take your website analysis to the next level.

Trying to optimize Google AdWords PPC campaigns can be challenging, especially for campaigns with very specific location targeting. Here are some quick tips to help you increase ad clicks.

Many news outlets have reported that this year’s flu season has hit early, is unusually strong and will result in the worst flu season in a decade. I recently discovered Google Flu Trends, which is a project based on Google Trends. Since Google performs 4.7 billion searches per day, they are sitting on a mountain […]

Investing in innovation is a gamble that usually ends in flop or fortune. Frequently today it falls to startups to make those wagers as they may have less to lose. Seth Godin argues instead that “with great power comes great irresponsibility” and that existing companies don’t have to always play the safest route and ought […]

Two months ago I wrote a blog post to help you figure out if Google’s Penguin penalized your site. If you know for a fact that Google has penalized your website because you received a Google Webmaster Tools Notice of Detected Unnatural Links message then keep reading. Here is a 10 step approach to submit […]

Yesterday, Google announced through their official blog site that they were offering to their Business, Education and Government customers, a private app store called the Google Play Private Channel.  Up till now, if you wanted to publish/host a corporate App Store where you published business-specific apps to internal employees (such as a business intelligence tool […]

Chad Johnson, our Google Practice Manager at Perficient, has received the newly available Google Search Appliance Qualified Deployment Specialist (GSA) certification, and we’re happy to applaud him on the accomplishment. As a national systems integrator and certified Google Enterprise Partner, Chad and his team consult clients of all types and sizes with their enterprise search […]

I came to this year’s SharePoint Conference with one goal in mind: I wanted to learn everything I could about Microsoft’s enterprise roadmap for Yammer.  Well, as of this writing the conference is halfway over and if anything, it looks I’m probably going to get about halfway to that goal. I’m not going to recap […]