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Cross-channel user-level conversion tracking is no longer possible
“It's become now nearly impossible to do, and that's mapping like a user's ID. Nathan, your ID for being exposed on, let's say, Google media to Facebook media to Pinterest media to a conversion it is no longer possible within the realities of MarTech to build t…”
Lewis: 30% of prospective smart speaker buyers abstain over privacy
“The 30% of the people who are interested in buying a smart speaker have not done so because of privacy concerns.”
Prince: Cloudflare does not run on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
“So we're not running on top of AWS or on top of Azure or Google. We actually had to build the network out ourselves.”
Lee: ProsperWorks is the only CRM recommended by Google
“And, you know, to the point of the Google relationship, we are the only CRM that's actually recommended by Google.”
Google maintains search ranking neutrality between new and legacy domain extensions.
“Google will say that, that new TLD and legacy TLDs they are in different. I'm sorry, top level domain. I hate it when I do that. So whether, so, so Google will say that there is no, a different, you know, bias one way or the other.”
Osetek: Roughly 90% of New US Digital Ad Dollars Go to Google and Facebook
“So a lot of studies, at least in the U S have shown that something like 90% of the new digital dollar dollars going into digital have been going to Facebook and Google.”
Danzy: AODocs manages documentation for Google data centers and Airbus
“We do the same with Google. We help them build data centers. We are working with Airbus as well on, on the airplane certifications.”
Reviews.io was one of only five original Google Seller Ratings partners
“So if you wanted your rating to show up on your Google Ads, gold stars next to your ads, you had to work with one of the Google Seller Ratings partners, and we were one of those partners. Now, originally, there was only about five partners.”
Stevens: Google's Project Aristotle found psychological safety predicts high performance
“What they found across Every hypothesis tested, over 200 hypotheses, thousands of people, is those teams with the highest levels of psychological safety were the highest performing teams.”
Schleifer: Google coordinates tens of thousands of engineers in one monorepo
“Having been at Google, it's like, it's amazing. You have tens of thousands of engineers landing code all day long in a monorepo and it works.”
Chen: Testimonial.to created zero blog content for Google SEO
“There's actually no dedicated you know, content. I didn't really wrote any testimonial related blog posts.”
Booth: Over 60% of AI Investment Comes from Tech Monopolies
“I think it's over 60% of the dollars invested in AI are coming from the monopoly companies.”
Budman: Backblaze Storage Costs One-Quarter of AWS and Google
“And so we actually introduced a, an offering where you can use storage for anything, similar to an Amazon or Google or a Microsoft offering, but one quarter of their price point.”
Geva: Google is a 'closed garden' that blocks machine access to search
“Google is a closed garden in that sense. They are excellent for it, Humans, but for machines that want to tap into their index, there's no way.”
Lemp: Facebook and Google Power 49% of Internet Advertising
“You have sites like Facebook, sites like Google. I mean, they're powering 49% of all internet advertising.”
Rawson: Google AdSense Arbitrage Is No Longer Viable
“It, and it was, it's not really possible anymore because Google kind of doesn't like it.”
Pratap notes Google's Indian railway Wi-Fi is the world's largest
“And, you know, I don't know if you've heard about this, Nathan, but it is the largest public Wi-Fi project in the world.”
Saumet: European buyers do not Google for proposal management tools
“Nobody in Europe would actually search in Google proposal management tool today. It's the case in the U S but not in Europe.”
Bjorn: Google treats product review backlinks as paid links requiring nofollow
“You have to have no follows right now. If you're doing product reviews, you know, Google considers that if you send out a pair of soccer cleats in this instance, and you get a link back for it, you're basically paying for links and Google webmaster guidelines,…”
Ortiz: Google's real-time algorithms eliminate update reference points for SEOs
“It's really frustrating how Google just continually shrinks the SERPs. And you know, now they have real time algorithms, so you have no reference point as to what update hits you.”
Danzy: Revevol was Google's first enterprise partner in Europe
“It was the very first partner of Google in Europe when Google launched their enterprise B to B edition.”
Moore: Selling Stitch for $60M Was a $2.6 Billion Mistake
“Oh, and by the way, my 2.6 billion dollar mistake, which was the headline here, very shortly thereafter, Looker gets acquired by Google for 2.6 billion dollars.”
Keynejad: Veed's YouTube tutorials capture Google's position zero featured snippets
“We're getting the number zero spot on Google with it.”
Google deployed 2,000 Mobstac beacons across 117 Indian train stations
“Google has deployed over 2000 beacons at 117 train stations, and they're using these beacons in conjunction with our platform to do essentially proximity marketing.”
Google Chrome integration allows Mobstac beacon notifications without a native app
“So what Google essentially did last year was they changed the mandate where they basically made beacon technology compliant with the Chrome browser. So what that means is that if you actually have Chrome browser, which by default all Android devices have a sli…”
Detectify co-founders hacked Google, Facebook, and Dropbox before starting company
“My co-founders that are some really, some of the world's best white hat hackers, they have more or less, as part of this responsible disclosure scene, they have hacked, you know, Google and Facebook and Dropbox. They hacked Facebook with the help of Dropbox, e…”
Jonathan Sposato is the only person to sell two companies to Google
“He was the only guy to sell two companies to Google so successfully.”
Lockwood: Google Makes Up to $50 Per User Annually, Facebook $12–$18
“I think, ah, Google make as much as, like, 50 bucks a year per user. Facebook it was around about, sort of, 12, 18 maybe. Twitter a bit smaller.”
Aaron Lee: Google grew from 2,000 to 20,000 employees between 2004 and 2008
“When I joined, like Google had 2000 employees. When I left, it was 20,000, like 10 X.”
Danjou: Mergify ranks on Google's first page for 'merge queue for GitHub'
“If you know what you're looking for, like a merge queue for GitHub I mean, we are in the first, Results on Google, so it's pretty easy to find us. We are one of the only company providing search services”
Google Search ads for WordPress hosting cost $20 per click
“Google for WordPress hosting is 20 dollars a click.”