I believe that Google works, by using things called crawlers that google has created to monitor ,and then rate websites on a scale of importance to a certain subject. For example if you type in sports ESPN will be at top because it is highly visited and it a sports site.
How Google really works my believe is fairly correct it is just more complicated Google uses things called crawlers or spiders that builds a list of words and notes that are on different website. These crawlers normally start at highly visited websites The when some some types in a word Google then creates a list of sites where theses key words are located. This is called meta tags.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
facebook growth
3,814,540 users in 2007 5,674,780 growth in kids 0-17 in 2009
2,826,660 in 2007 11,254,700 growth of 25-34 year olds in 2009
35-54 in 2007 680,260 In 2009 6,989,200
55+ in 2007 164,620 in 2009 954,680
Females in 2007 9,778,140 In 2009 23,429,960 females
I find these trends interesting because there is an older crowd of people joining facebook. In the 35-54 year old there is over a 200% increase in people joined. The college crowd it started with is not the growing number of users. The college students age group is not the one bring in the most new users. So the target of facebook might grow to an older crowd. Also the female population in face book has more then doubled. Meaning that females are on facebook and could focus and trraget these appealing to females.
2,826,660 in 2007 11,254,700 growth of 25-34 year olds in 2009
35-54 in 2007 680,260 In 2009 6,989,200
55+ in 2007 164,620 in 2009 954,680
Females in 2007 9,778,140 In 2009 23,429,960 females
I find these trends interesting because there is an older crowd of people joining facebook. In the 35-54 year old there is over a 200% increase in people joined. The college crowd it started with is not the growing number of users. The college students age group is not the one bring in the most new users. So the target of facebook might grow to an older crowd. Also the female population in face book has more then doubled. Meaning that females are on facebook and could focus and trraget these appealing to females.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Social Marketing
I found this commercial to be interesting because some of the earliest forms of social marketing. This commercial has guys on the beach of Australia trying two different types of cola. One is the Pepsi and the other is a competitor. Word of mouth is one of the most trusted and forms of advertising, after the surfer picks the Pepsi his friends around him watching are more likely to purchase the product next time they go shopping. People watching this ad on TV also value human response, making the ad connect to the viewers.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Emotional TV?
The woman that I interviewed was my mother and her favorite that she watches on a regular base are Grays Anatomy, ER, Brothers and Sisters, Desperate Housewife's and House. She likes these shows because of the story lines and she likes how they keep you wanting to watch more, after the shows already over. The characters are are interesting, and the show also provides the right amount of drama and humor.
When I looked at the ratings the six shows that I would advertise to reach my target audience I would focus my advertising to House, CSI, Criminal Minds, Grays Anatomy, and Cold Case. This is because the audience has emotional ties to these programs. I think the emotional attachment to these programs are what drive their ratings up. That why people continue to tune in to these shows.
When I looked at the ratings the six shows that I would advertise to reach my target audience I would focus my advertising to House, CSI, Criminal Minds, Grays Anatomy, and Cold Case. This is because the audience has emotional ties to these programs. I think the emotional attachment to these programs are what drive their ratings up. That why people continue to tune in to these shows.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Touch point project
For this assignment i went out to Tres Hombes, and noticed some of their touch point advertising. Located at the outside bar hanging over the bar are 2 blow up plastic Corona bottles. One is a regular Corona bottle and the other one was a Corona light bottle. The picture I took was of the Corona light bottle. The purpose of this advertising it to try to convince you at your point of purchase to change your mind or reconfirm that you are buying a Corona. Since it is a Mexican restaurant it is normally associated with a Mexican beer, and one of the most popular is Corona. I think it works about average. I think if you are on a limited budget it might not if they are not on sale, but if you are eating there then I feel that noticing the bottles might influence your decision. This touch point ad costs penny's to the business they more then likely got them for free from Corona and on Corona's end it does not cost them much to buy and give out these plastic bottles. I do not think that it would be better to use mass media for this, and or in this area. The Touch point ads work fine for the bar down here.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Math! Math! Math!
Why does everyone hate math so much? It is a part of everyday life, and i believe that everyone should learn more of it. Math is the universal language of the universe and the World. If aliens we to show up on earth they would not understand our humor and or any writings or stories we have created. They would understand math because math is in everything. when you wake up in the morning and look at your clock and notice that you are running late to class you look at the time and subtract it from the time your class starts to figure out how much time you have to get there. You need math to figure out how much your paying for lunch and to make sure they are not over charging you. People need to know how to budget their money, and make sure they can maintain their life styles.
Math is falling under the bus in the school system, kids and even teachers are not taking the subject seriously. I also believe this is due to the parents not caring about the subject. Once parents leave the school system mathematics is not a subject most adults remember and or use the advance styles of...aka geometry, calculus, advanced algebra, and trigonometry. Also they are not apart of our entertainment and media shows, so why would remember it? I mean there is the discovery channel where we can learn new thing about biology and chemistry and some times even astronomy. There is the history channel to keep up on the history we learned in school. But there is no math channel where people use math and keep people informed about new and old happenings in math. The American people are not interesting in because it it boring and if Americans are not drawn into a subject they will lose interest.
Other countries like Russia, India, Germany, China, and Japan have far better math programs and these people with great math skills are getting the engineering jobs and the teaching jobs in mathematics. Also some of these people that are architects which involves a lot of math and creativity are going to people who have excellent math skills. I believe that we need to make sure that the kids that we will have in the future need to be math ready and math prepared. Math should be praised not frowned upon by us adults, and parents. One day our kids will be asking us for our help on a math problem, and we will have to be there for them. If we push the subject aside so will they.
Math is falling under the bus in the school system, kids and even teachers are not taking the subject seriously. I also believe this is due to the parents not caring about the subject. Once parents leave the school system mathematics is not a subject most adults remember and or use the advance styles of...aka geometry, calculus, advanced algebra, and trigonometry. Also they are not apart of our entertainment and media shows, so why would remember it? I mean there is the discovery channel where we can learn new thing about biology and chemistry and some times even astronomy. There is the history channel to keep up on the history we learned in school. But there is no math channel where people use math and keep people informed about new and old happenings in math. The American people are not interesting in because it it boring and if Americans are not drawn into a subject they will lose interest.
Other countries like Russia, India, Germany, China, and Japan have far better math programs and these people with great math skills are getting the engineering jobs and the teaching jobs in mathematics. Also some of these people that are architects which involves a lot of math and creativity are going to people who have excellent math skills. I believe that we need to make sure that the kids that we will have in the future need to be math ready and math prepared. Math should be praised not frowned upon by us adults, and parents. One day our kids will be asking us for our help on a math problem, and we will have to be there for them. If we push the subject aside so will they.
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