Some believe that Google is really close toward possessing the technology that would allow them to transcribe videos and index the content on a highly scalable level.  Right now, they are doing this with 2008 election coverage.  Check this out.  This is VERY exciting:

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/017739.html

WebmasterWorld administrator, Tedster, started a thread at WebmasterWorld suggesting that Google may begin indexing audio files in the near future. Tedster linked to the recent news on Google announcing that they are “automatically” transcribing YouTube videos “from speech to text” and then indexing that content in a searchable format.

Personally, I think if they got that technology down, it would simply rock. But it would make much of the audio files, MP3s, videos and multimedia content all searchable.

Many operating systems have speech to text technology. They make software that tries to transcribe your voice as you speak to it. They make technology, OCR, that reads text as an image and translates it to machine readable text. None of this technology is perfect, or even close to it. Google has dabbled in all of this in the past and I am sure they continue to experiment with this now and in the future.

So keep watching the accuracy of search results such as filetype:mp3.

Not sure when this will happen.  But, it WILL happen.  Right now, it is too easy to game the video rankings.  So, it is clear that Google would like to develop a system like this that actually provides legitimate rankings for video.  So, take my advice … invest in video content.

Tags: Google, video, YouTube

It is clear that the new Facebook will be somewhat different from your current version.  To see what the new one will look like, you can login to www.new.facebook.com.  These are the main differences (ala Tech Crunch):

Tech Crunch goes on to mention that many of these changes are very much like what you see at FriendFeed.

Right now, a few of these sites appear to be serving the same purpose.  I repeatedly find myself updating my Twitter feed, and then going over to update my status on Facebook.

Tags: Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed

• All Videos - video extension
• Joomap - sitemap component
• Jim - Joomla Instant Messaging
• JCE - Joomla Content Editor
• JEvents - Calendar
• Joomla Bookmarks
• Fireboard forums
• Joomla Explorer

Tags: joomlaplugin, joomla extensions

Today, I found the best torrent search engine, yet - Speckly.

Tags: torrent, bittorrent

Twitter has always been sort of a random assortment of stuff to do… I never had a good way of finding people… that is … until I found Twellow today…

Tags: Twitter

My good friend and fantastic SEO, Bill Ross, just got back from SMX Seattle.  Bill kept up with the information he was learning at SMX on his blog at SeoWebsiteAnalysis.com.  Very insightful stuff.

Check it out.  And, if you don’t have his blog bookmarked, you should.   You are missing out on some valuable information.

The new Google Adwords Editor was released today.  Very cool and with some good new features.

Google Adwords Editor

I came across this really great list of resources, showing what people are searching for today. This is a good, comprehensive list:

http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&topic=po

Tags: seo, searchengine, Google, Yahoo

Frequently, I am asked … “do I need to pay to be in directories?”  I think that there is a lot of confusion on this one… I mean, why not?  You have Google on one-hand saying “NO, whatever you do, don’t buy links.”  And, then, you have other people saying… “You HAVE to be in the Yahoo Directory”.

Bottom line, being in the right directories is very important.  On a practical level, directories put you in a “good community”.  It enables you to be displayed on a page with great sites - sites like yours.  So, which ones do I need to be in?… you might be asking.  Here’s what I would do.  You need to start out with one phase of paid directory placement and later come back and do more directories.  But, here is where I would start:

• Yahoo Directory
• Business.com
• Best of the Web (BOTW.org)
• Joe Ant (You have that already… I believe.)
• GoGuides.org
• Gimpsy.com
• stpt.com
• Directory.v7n.com

In case you have not seen the new “Going Natural” Stompernet video, you should check it out. It definitely is a different approach to Adwords. I sort’ve cut my teeth on Adwords, via Perry Marshall and the other Adwords gurus. Most of these guys would tell you the same thing. Land yourself in an average position of 4-6. Why? Because, these searchers are “hard-core”… meaning, they will buy your product, for sure - I guess, because they worked harder to get there. Logic that makes sense, right?

Well, in this new Stompernet video, they tell you to throw that advice out the door. Go for the #1 position, cut Google’s recommended bid in half. Bid that. I was thinking “#1???? What????” Reason being… they have done quite a bit of testing and found that the individuals with greater commercial intent only look at the first couple of ads. That’s it. This also makes sense. But, it may not make sense, based on your product. If you are an affiliate marketer in the stroller category (which I am)… it may not make sense for you to be paying $2-3/click for that #1 position. I am not buying it for every situation. But, if your margins are good in your business it might work.