So by now I am sure that everyone experienced that very interactive Google homepage yesterday with the balloons that bounced all around the screen when you moused over them. It was fun. But was it also a cryptic message about the big announcement coming today at 9:30am PST via YouTube?
And then what about today’s logo, which is all grey until you start typing and with each letter typed the logo populates with color!
What does all of this mean? Is it a total shift in organic rankings? Many SEO consultants around the world are eager with anticipation, fear, and trepidation as to what this could all mean for SEO as we know it. What do I think? I think that it could a be a few things. It could be another UI change for the SERPs, with some cool interactive features to spice up the Web results. Look at how cool Google made their Image Search recently. It could be something along those lines.
The other thing that I feel it could be is the announcement of Google’s next foray into social media. We all know that it is coming, there is simply too much delicious data to be mined from social media for Google to resist. Their previous efforts have failed but it is well known that Google will keep trying until they get it right. And to be honest, who better to do this than Google. Because of the wide usage of Google products it makes perfect sense that a social platform from Google could tie all the data together.
Well, just about one hour away from the announcement via webinar on their YouTube channel. Stay tuned.
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