Natural Search Blog » GoogleThought leaders in search engine optimization weigh in with the latest SEO news and commentaryGoogle Pushes Reading Lists of Politicians & Pundits- August 18, 2008 Google announced today that they&8217;re introducing reading lists from major politicians like Barack Obama and John McClain along with reading lists from political commentators like Ariana Huffington and Mark Halperin. Google promoted the new service today on their homepage by touting the ability to read what Obama and McCain are reading, with a link line ...http://www.naturalsearchblog.com/archives/2008/08/18/google-pushes-reading-lists-of-politi... Text In Street View Could Be Used For Quality Improvement- August 5, 2008 Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped observes that Google could potentially use OCR (optical character recognition) to attempt to derive text from signage and such within Google Street View images in order to create further enhancements. Grauman&8217;s Chinese Theatre in Street View, Los Angeles. However, I see a much more immediately valuable use that could be put to ...http://www.naturalsearchblog.com/archives/2008/08/05/text-in-street-view-could-be-used-for... Marriage Proposals Via Google Maps- August 5, 2008 What is it with Google Maps that seems to inspire people to propose marriage (Click to enlarge - Marry Me Leslie) Googler Michael Weiss-Malik, a member of the Google Geo Team, planned ahead and stood at the side of the road when the Google Street View pictures were being updated in a drive-by photo shoot. (Read Michael&8217;s ...http://www.naturalsearchblog.com/archives/2008/08/05/marriage-proposals-via-google-maps/ |