Spotted via Google Blogoscoped,
Google Content
Blocker is a parody of a pretend Google feature that blocks editorial content on pages, leaving only ads. But hey, not just Google ads. Any ads, in order not to be evil.
Meanwhile, spotted via Threadwatch is Marissa (Beta), a fake blog for
Google’s Marissa Mayer, director of consumer web products. Marissa often gets called out to defend Google
if it takes heat for some product features such as Google AutoLink.
We’ll see if that lasts longer than the fake blog created for Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin back in
2003 :)
Fun fact #1: "Wow, you looked at a lot of pages from my web site. How did you like it?" - people encountering a crawler for the first time. This and other quality snippets pulled from the original paper presenting Google in 1997.
Vic Gundotra, the driving force behind the Google+ platform, has announced he is leaving Google, which has many people pondering the future of Google+. Gundotra, who has been with Google for eight years, is leaving the company effective immediately.
Google has revealed profits for the first quarter of 2014 of $3.45 billion, up from $3.35 billion in the same period last year, but its average cost-per-click income has fallen by 9 percent year-over-year.
