Jan 28

This feature is currently being developed and will be launched early 2008. Visitors will have the ability to customize their own homepage to begin their search. Easily add new search widgets to your home page to simplify your searches for your favorite sites. Easily drag widgets around on your page to customize your homepage and much more!

Users will be able to find widgets for their favorite websites and perform searches directly from their customizable home page.  Check stocks, make travel arrangements, or get driving directions, all from one place.

GoGoQuick.com developers are working hard to make this feature available to visitors this year.  This will be a nice addition to many of the existing advanced features on our search engine.  Please stay tuned!

Jan 28

Bright Future Is Ahead For Ecommerce Sales: Is Your Business Prepared?

In the last 15 years the internet has grown faster than any other marketing medium ever seen.  The Social Media sector has exploded on the world scene.  We have seen a growth of up to 345% just in the last year.  Websites like Myspace, Digg, Facebook, and Flickr are leading the pack.

Just in the 3 quarter of 2007 the internet saw over 1 billion sales.  The internet has produced more millionaires than anything we have ever seen.  As consumers continue to become more and more comfortable making purchases online there is a huge opportunity to drive visitors to your online store. With 2008 projections showing a potential online revenue boost of over 13 billion dollars, the question becomes what piece of the pie is your business getting?

There is a lot involved with search engine marketing. In fact, it can be a bit overwhelming, even for those with a great deal of experience. The good news is that by taking it one step at a time, it is not hard to learn. And once learned, search engine marketing can provide an effective method of driving highly targeted visitors to your web site.

The numbers of course are very convincing.  The beautiful thing about Search Engine Marketing, unlike television, radio and print, is that everything can be tracked.  You can more effective monitor your budget and get maximum results because you are only targeting quality traffic.  This means that only people who are interested in your site will be coming to your site.  Other marketing methods do not have the ability to provide that type of accurate detail.

Marketing is all about ROI (Return On Investment).  So every business should be concerned about the return they are receiving.  Are you concerned?  Last year thousands of businesses spent millions, and in some cases even billions of dollars in offline media advertising.  Some of these outlets include newspaper advertisements, magazine ads, television ads, and direct mail.  The problem with those advertising methods is that it is very difficult to truly measure results.  And focusing on those methods can be extremely costly which ultimately can affect your bottom line tremendously.

Jan 21

Steve Jobs Shows Off MacBook Air

During his Macworld Expo keynote address on Tuesday morning, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the MacBook Air, a computer that the company billed as the world’s thinnest notebook — small enough to fit inside an interoffice mailing envelope. It’s priced starting at $1,799 and will be available within two weeks.

Sporting a silvery finish, the MacBook Air features a 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display that has a 1280 x 800 pixel resolution. The backlighting saves power and provides “instant on” response from the moment you turn it on, according to Jobs. The device has a slightly wedge-shaped profile. It weighs about 3 pounds, and sports a thickness of 0.16-0.76 inches. It’s 12.8 inches wide and 8.95 inches deep.

MacBook Air

The MacBook Air also features a built-in iSight webcam and a full sized MacBook-style black keyboard. The keyboard is backlit, similar to MacBook Pros, and has an ambient light sensor that automatically adjusts brightness. The trackpad is also capable of recognizing multi-touch gestures, similar to using an iPhone or iPod touch. As a result, the MacBook Air’s trackpad is disproportionately large, compared to the size of trackpads found on the MacBook or MacBook Pro.

The MacBook Air features a 1.8-inch hard disk drive with 80GB of storage capacity standard. A 64GB solid-state disk (SSD) drive is an option. The hard drive is a Parallel ATA (PATA) model that operates at 4200 RPM.

The laptop is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo chip running at 1.6GHz, with 1.8GHz available as an option. Jobs noted that Intel was willing to engineer a new version of the Core 2 Duo specifically to Apple’s specifications — it’s 60 percent smaller than others. The chip operates with 4MB of on-chip shared L2 cache running at full processor speed, and uses an 800MHz frontside bus. 2GB of 667MH DDR2 SDRAM is also included.

Like the MacBook and the MacBook Pro, the MacBook Air features a slimmed down MagSafe connector for power. It comes with a 45 watt power adapter. A flip-down door on one side reveals USB 2.0, Micro-DVI (to connect an external display) and a headphone jack. The MacBook Air also includes 802.11n-based wireless networking support and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR.

Apple estimates that with wireless networking turned on, the MacBook Air can get about 5 hours of battery life.

No internal optical drive is included, but Apple will offer a $99 USB 2.0-based add-on SuperDrive for users who need it. For users that opt not to get the optical drive, Apple is offering a new software feature on this machine called Remote Disk; it enables you to “borrow” the optical drive of another Mac or PC on the same network as the MacBook Air, to use for installing software, for example.

Apple’s frequently been in the crosshairs of environmental group Greenpeace in recent years. Jobs offered information about the environmental goals behind the MacBook Air — it has a fully recyclable aluminum case, and is “the first” to have a mercury-free display with arsenic-free glass. All the circuit boards are BFR-free and PVC-free, and the retail packaging uses 56 percent less material than the MacBook packaging.

Jan 18

GoGoQuick.com has completed development of their customized toolbar. All preparations have been made for integration into Mozzilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer. The GoGoQuick.com Development team is extremely excited about the progression of the search engine and buzz that has been created internationally. Take a look at the new tool bar:

Our tool bar will offer some advanced search features for users. The toolbar has very useful functionality. Customers will have advanced Autofill functions in addition to advanced email integration functionality. The CEO of Quick Digital Global and GoGoQuick.com Darian Gray comments: “Our team has worked long and hard to develop a solution that is user friendly and highly functional. Our goal is to offer users a healthy alternative to search. As the internet grows users will continue to use multiple options for searching on the internet and ultimately finding what they are looking for. Google, Yahoo, and MSN have continued to dominate the market with Google leading the pack. Some have asked if we are trying to compete with Google. In some ways we are because we do offer search to consumers and marketing to advertisers, however in our long term strategy our plans are to grow beyond just search. With plans to include Business Social Networking into our list of features we feel that in time we will become more than just a search engine delivering quality highly targeted results, but we plan to build a business and consumer community that connects buyers with consumers across the world. We have some really great plans for 2008. We really want to help advertisers. With ad costs rising almost every month, advertisers will be looking at other solutions to grow their business for a more affordable price. We plan on becoming that alternative solution. Search engine functions are only the beginning. Stay tuned!”

Jan 17

For the last few years the developers at Quick Digital Global (Labs) have been working to perfect a search algorithm that rivals the top search engines on the Internet today. GoGoQuick’s Quick Rank™ algorithm provides relevant search results by identifying the most authoritative sites on the Web. With GoGoQuick search technology, it’s not just about who’s biggest: it’s about who’s best. Our Quick Rank™ algorithm goes beyond mere link popularity (which ranks pages based on the sheer volume of links pointing to a particular page) to determine popularity among pages considered to be experts on the topic of your search. This is known as subject-specific popularity. Identifying topics (also known as “clusters”), the experts on those topics, and the popularity of millions of pages amongst those experts — at the exact moment your search query is conducted — requires many additional calculations that other search engines do not perform. The result is world-class relevance that often offers a unique editorial flavor compared to other search engines.

Within the next 60 days GoGoQuick.com will launch. Free advertising will be offered in order to celebrate the launch. Over the course of the past year we have been working hard to perfect our technology and drive the highest volume of quality traffic to our engine. We are now ready to allow our users to benefit from the advanced search features. We are also ready to allow our advertising partners to benefit from our quality search traffic. Please check out our blog to receive updates on new releases, technology updates, news and more!