Google Analytics Reports from International Space Station

Real Time Active Visitors Location

The Active Visitors are from International Space Station - Control Room as reported by Google Analytics real time location.

Google Analytics on 1st April 2012 played Piano and Sitar in Google Analytics 

Other Google #AprilFoolsDay for 2013

1. Hunt for Treasure on Google Maps

2. Google Nose

Hunt for Treasure in Nepal on Google Maps Now

Start treasure hunting in Nepal today on Google Maps.

Start Treasure Hunt in Google Maps Nepal

Google Maps Nepal - Treasure Hunt

Explore Treasure - Video

Google is always on very good spirit on April 1st.
Check out GoogleNose - another product from Google.

Google Nose (1st April 2013)

Today's date: 1st April, 2013 and so we get the best product from the Google. This is Google Nose Beta,  "Search for smells".

Do not keyword stuff with phone numbers ?

Does Google take action on sites that do keyword stuffing with phone numbers?

Search, Plus Your World result in Australia

Is Google testing "Search, Plus Your World" results in Australia? "Search, Plus Your World" is a personalised search result and is available to people who are logged into their Google account and searching in English in Google.com.

Currently showing personal results & Hide personal results

There was a new toggle in the upper right and with image icons. One with a tool tip as "currently showing personal results" and the other with "Hide personal results". With a single click, you can show and hide personal results.

click to Enlarge Photo, search plus your world

From, http://insidesearch.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/search-plus-your-world.html

We’re transforming Google into a search engine that understands not only content, but also people and relationships. We began this transformation with Social Search, and today we’re taking another big step in this direction by introducing three new features:

1. Personal Results, which enable you to find information just for you, such as Google+ photos and posts—both your own and those shared specifically with you, that only you will be able to see on your results page; 
2. Profiles in Search, both in autocomplete and results, which enable you to immediately find people you’re close to or might be interested in following; and, 
3. People and Pages, which help you find people profiles and Google+ pages related to a specific topic or area of interest, and enable you to follow them with just a few clicks. Because behind most every query is a community. 

Together, these features combine to create Search plus Your World. Search is simply better with your world in it, and we’re just getting started.

Updates on Reviews in Google+ Local Pages

Google has updated its spam detection algorithm, as announced by a Googler, Dasha in the Google Product Forums

"To protect both business owners and customers from spam reviews, we have systems in place that may remove individual reviews." as posted in the product forum.

From the forum,

For reviewers:

• Make sure you’ve taken a look at our review content guidelines.
• Sometimes you may want to review multiple locations of the same business, such as your favorite fast food chain. Just remember to tailor each review to the specific location. Others will want to know what sets that location apart - be it the super friendly drive thru person, or maybe the unexpectedly awesome lake views.
• Don’t write reviews for your current employer. We don’t allow reviews from current owners or employees.
• Spam bots use URLs to redirect to other sites or potentially spread malware. We won’t show reviews with links, so, don’t put URLs in the text of your reviews

For business owners:

• Be wary of an SEO or reputation management service that promises to generate reviews for your business. We’ve seen companies make up fake glowing testimonies -- and we’ll take them down.
• We don’t take down negative reviews for simply being negative for anyone, regardless of any other relationships with Google. Instead, we encourage you to utilize the owner response functionality to respond to the review and address the user’s concerns.
• If a third party claims that they know how to remove reviews from Google, don’t believe them. Google does not work with any third party reputation management companies and we certainly don’t remove reviews unless they violate our guidelines.
• Don’t set up a computer or tablet device in your place of business for customers to leave reviews on site. Consider sending a reminder e-mail so customers can review on their own time.
• Remember, we don’t allow you to give customers free gifts or discounts for leaving reviews.

For SEOs:

• If a business accepts paper comment cards it might be tempting to collect them and “digitize” them by posting the reviews on Google+ Local. We ask that all reviews come from first hand experience and do not allow posting reviews on behalf of others.

For everyone:

• If you see a review that violates our policy guidelines, you can report the review to us by clicking on the gray flag icon next to the review in question. You’ll be taken to a form where you can tell us why you’re flagging that review. Please note that we won’t follow up with you individually, but we do review every piece of content that is flagged.

from, Google Product Forums

Data Highlighter in Google Webmaster Tools

More from, http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2692911