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Dude Are You Buzzed Yet? --Google Buzz

Google released Google Buzz last week. And it is well, all the Buzz. At least with the folks who care about these things.

For I, a search engine optimizing dude, it leaves me a bit numb as I consider buzz as :

a. another social networking platform to worry about.

b. another way for Google to track behavior.

This whole discussion is precluded however by Google's changes over the past month or so.

Personalized Search

Personalized search is when Google feeds you search results based on your past behavior. So that you will get the sites you visit the most as your top results for a search query.

This is goofy to me since I use Google to find new URLS not old.

Well good ole Google has made personalized search the default as opposed to you having to opt in. Now in order to not have personalized search you have to opt out. Most folks are not aware of this. 

As stated Buzz comes with privacy issues since you are actually signed into Google Mail to use it. Google has taken some steps to back off of some of their intrusions one of which was a ready made circle of friends.

It will be interesting if folks really accept the Big G as nothing more than a tool for the geekey. For those multi task social broadcasters Ping.fm has already added Google Buzz.

 

2.0

I have over the years poo pood the hype of social this and social that. 2.0 this and that. User generated content. The so called conversation.

Suffice it to say, that in a sentence 2.0 to me is nothing new. It is very good MAC make-up on WEB 1.0 and even WEB 0.5 ;-) I know that's two sentences.

The biggest value of whatever it is, is that it is a marketers dream. See any real people socializing for the pure joy at Facebook? Not much. But boy we are all twittering and poking wondering where the dollar is.

However, as I have done, and many in my circle understand is that what the social media is great at is getting a message syndicated quickly and exponentially.

I have also posted that over the years that if you want to watch the future of the net, then watch the political races. In 2004 we saw Howard Dean do miracles for his career on the net. (Seriously, how can a guy who is Governor of a State that does less business than many metros become as powerful as he has become so quickly?).

Well, watch the Obama campaign as they are gearing up to man a web "propaganda" machine to get the word out. I am not a fan of the guy, but I am a fan of good marketing. This I cannot wait to watch!

The mistake they need to watch out for however is singing to the choir. If they wish to expand their base they need to not do what most of the real estate conversational blogs are doing. They need to target their prospects specifically by going into their social hangouts online and winning them over.

They also need to get their large base of social posters energized to spread their message. This will be interesting to watch.

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