Tag Archives: Google

Wed 19th June 2013
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Google AdSense Is 10 Years Old - Google is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Adsense program. Here is what Google had to say about the 10 year anniversary: “Ten years ago we launched AdSense to help publishers earn money by placing relevant ads on their websites. I can still remember the excitement and anticipation as AdSense went live that first day. Our small team huddled together in a cramped conference room, and right away we saw that publishers were as excited about AdSense as we were. Fast-forward 10 years, and AdSense ... read more ...
Fri 24th May 2013
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Report: Paid Search On Travel Continues To Decline & Its Google’s Fault - According to a blog post on adgooroo.com, in the first four months of 2013. “Paid search spend in the Travel category on U.S. AdWords is down in 2013. At $238 million for the months of January through April, it’s actually down 19% from 2012’s $295 million during the same period, which was down 17% from 2011.     “Clearly, there’s a downward trend starting in 2011. And the trend holds throughout the summer months as well, with spend from May through August 2012 down 15% from the same period ... read more ...
 
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Bloomberg Reports Google Facing New FCC Antitrust Probe Over Display Ads - According to Bloomberg.com, Google is facing a new Antitrust Probe Over Display Ads by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission According to the story the FCC is looking into “into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition” The story goes on to say that the investigation is in the preliminary stage and may not expand into a larger probe “FTC investigators are examining whether Google is using its position in U.S. display ads ... read more ...
Mon 20th May 2013
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Google protects WithGoogle.com third turn domains with second turn domains - Subdomains are great, but beware the typos. Want to calculate the “full value of mobile” for your business? Google has a microsite at FVM.withgoogle.com. It also protected itself by registering FVMwithgoogle.com.Have you ever come across a Google information page that’s a subdomain of WithGoogle.com? If you just go to Withgoogle.com you’ll be forwarded to Google.com. But type in certain third level domains, often referred to as subdomains, of WithGoogle.com ... read more ...
Wed 15th May 2013
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Google Top $900 For 1st Time & Market Cap Breaks $300 Billion - Shares of Google (GOOG) are currently trading above $900 a share an all time high for the company. It was only 3 months ago that shares of Google hit $800 a share. Its was just a few months earlier when shares of Apple and Google were trading at the same $600 level. Shares at time of publication are  trading at $905 up over $18 a share. Google’s market cap is now over $300 Billion. Google is trading at a price earnings (PE)  of 27. Google IPO was at $85 a share and shares have never been split.   Google+Michael ... read more ...
Thu 9th May 2013
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Yahoo Wants Out Of Its Bing Deal & Move To Google & Why That’s Bad News For Domainers - According several sources, Yahoo would like to get out of its deal with Microsoft and let Google Monetize their search results. Yahoo entered into a 10 year search deal in 2010 and uses Bing search engine to power search results on Yahoo sites. Microsoft just extended the revenue guarantee associated with the partnership, the second such extension since the 10-year pact took effect in 2010. Under the deal, Microsoft gets 12% of the revenue Yahoo generates from search ads that appear next to search ... read more ...
Thu 18th April 2013
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Google Reports: Revenue Up 31%; Paid Clicks Up 20%; Cost Per Click Down 4% - Google Inc. its earnings after the market closed today, reporting a first-quarter profit of $3.35 billion, or $9.94 a share, compared with a profit of $2.89 billion, or $8.75 a share, for the year-earlier period. Shares of Google are up just marginally after the report. Google ends the 1st quarter with over $50 Billion in the bank. Here are the details: Google Inc. reported consolidated revenues of $13.97 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2013, an increase of 31% compared to the first quarter ... read more ...
Mon 15th April 2013
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Final new TLD conflict tally: Donuts 55, Amazon 24, Google 22 - Three of the largest applicants for new TLDs are facing a mountain of objections. Donuts, Amazon, and Google have the dubious honor of having the most objected-to applications for new top level domains. There were 263 formal objections to new top level domains, and that doesn’t include GAC advice. Donuts received 55 objections covering 45 unique objections, which means about one out of seven of its 307 applications are facing an objection. 24 of Donuts’ objections ... read more ...
Tue 9th April 2013
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Google Lays Out Plans For A “Dotless .Search” New gTLD - In a letter to ICANN today Google laid out its plan on how it plans on operating 4 new gTLD that it applied for as a closed Registry with the most interesting being plans for .Search which is plans on operating “a redirect service on the “dotless” .search domain (http://search/).” “To further elaborate on our plans to amend these applications, I am including a brief summary of our revised plans for each of the four TLDs below: ●  .search – Our goal for .search is to provide an easily-identifiable ... read more ...
Sat 6th April 2013
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Hollywood Reporter: “Godaddy Alleges ‘The Oscars’ Aren’t That Famous” - A story in the Hollywood Reporter of all places has landed domain name registrar Godaddy.com on the front pages The story talks about the lawsuit that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has against GoDaddy.com for “allegedly trafficking in unauthorized trademarks. The Film Academy (AMPAS) takes issue with GoDaddy’s “CashParking” program wherein its customers are allowed to buy a domain like Oscarbets.com or Oscarsornot.com, “park” that page and collect a portion of revenue ... read more ...
Mon 1st April 2013
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Google says parked domains = spam - Google’s spam page claims parked domains are web spam. Here’s something interesting to start your week. Google has a page about “Fighting Spam” referring to pages designed to trick search engines such as cloaking and hidden text. Listed right there underneath “Types of Spam” is this: It’s completely understandable that Google doesn’t want to index parked domains. But to label them as spam? I take two issues with that. 1. In order to be web spam, the ... read more ...
Sat 23rd March 2013
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Is Google removing prepared to make an Open Patent Pledge? - Google registered domain names yesterday for an “Open Patent Pledge”. When Google acquired Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, it was clear that a big reason for its purchase was Motorola’s patent portfolio. Now it looks like the company might be getting ready to make some sort of “Open Patent Pledge”, although what that actually is remains to be seen. Yesterday the company registered OpenPatentPledge.com (and .net/.org) as well as OpnPledge.com. (It couldn’t ... read more ...
Fri 22nd March 2013
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First signs of Google’s new domain parking customer marker program… - Internet Traffic asks customers to identify themselves as part of new Google initiative. One of the topics discussed extensively in the hallways at Webfest this year was changes Google is making to its parking program. Although I don’t have all of the details, the bottom line is that Google is making an effort to better identify who is actually parking domains using its ad feed. This may involve steps to identify people across the various parking companies that ... read more ...
Thu 21st March 2013
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Google Updates Adwords To Allow Third Party’s Trademark In Ads Worldwide - Google just posted on its blog, that it is removing all restrictions worldwide regarding use of third party’s trademark as a keyword in ads basically allowing the same conduct which results in a UDRP when domain holders do it on parked domains. “Starting 23 April 2013, keywords that were restricted as a result of a trademark investigation will no longer be restricted in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and Brazil.” “While we will not prevent use of trademarks ... read more ...
Tue 19th March 2013
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Babble Media Maybe The Big Winner If Google Consolidates All Chat Service As Babble -         According to a report in Geek.com, Google is considering a plan to unifying all their messaging platforms into a single service, which is expected to be called Babble. Geek.com says that Google Talk, Hangout, Voice, Messenger, Chat for Drive collaboration, and the Google Talk for G+ will all be rolled into a Babble. On the domain name front, Babble.com is owned by Babble Media, Inc. of New York There also seems to be at least one trademark on the term Babble by a Herman Miller, Inc. ... read more ...
 
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FairSearch files grave objections opposite Google’s .search, .fly and .map TLD applications - Group claims three TLDs would give Google an unfair competitive advantage. A consortium that promotes competition in search has filed objections against three of Google’s top level domain bids. Robin Wauters with The Next Web was the first to write about the objections this morning. FairSearch filed objections with International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) over .search, .fly, and .map. ICC is one of three dispute resolutions providers hearing new TLD objections. ICC ... read more ...
Sat 16th February 2013
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Report: Google To Open Google Stores By The Holidays: Will They Sell New gTLD’s? - According to 9to5google.com, Google is going to roll out retail stores cross metropolitan areas in the United States ahead of the holidays this year. Google Stores will be used to show off Google’s own brand of products, such as the Nexus lineup of Android smartphones and tablets, as well as Chromebooks. I guess if Google goes ahead with opening retail stores they might as well sell their new gTLD’s out the stores as well. If Google went ahead with retail stores there would be no reason why you ... read more ...
Wed 6th February 2013
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Google Rolls Out Enhanced Campaigns For AdWords - According to a blog post Google is as of “Today we’re upgrading AdWords, by rolling out enhanced campaigns”. This is a first step to help you more simply and smartly manage your ad campaigns in today’s multi-device world”. Why enhanced campaigns? “People are constantly connected and moving from one device to another to communicate, shop and stay entertained.” “In fact, a recent study of multi-device consumers found that 90% move sequentially between several screens to accomplish a ... read more ...
Thu 3rd January 2013
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FTC manners hunt disposition is OK, settles on Google scraping - FTC says it’s OK that Google promotes its own vertical search properties over rivals since it is designed to improve overall search experience. The FTC has closed its investigation of Google and the search giant has agreed to make certain changes to its business practices. One key issue was “search bias”, or Google promoting its own vertical search products over rivals. This was particularly the case with vertical search engines, such as product comparison sites. Some ... read more ...
Wed 5th September 2012
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4 new TLD applications withdrawn - Google and one .brand applicant withdraw applications. Kudos to Michele Neylon for spotting an option on ICANN’s web site to see which new top level domain name applications have been withdrawn. Thus far four applications have been withdrawn, including three by Google. The three by Google should not come as a huge surprise. ICANN Senior VP Kurt Pritz previously announced that three application had been withdrawn, and you can thank Kevin Murphy for that. Murphy earlier ... read more ...
Fri 27th July 2012
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Yep, Google bought G.me and it now forwards to Google+ - Google adds another one letter domain name to its collection. In May I wrote about how Google may have purchased the domain name G.me. The domain name was registered to Mark Monitor’s DNStinations, which often times registers domain names on behalf of the company. Now it’s official: Google was the buyer. The nameservers for the domain also point to Google.com now. Type g.me in your browser and you’ll be forwarded to the plus.google.com. The domain name was ... read more ...
Fri 15th June 2012
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Guy files cybersquatting censure opposite a page on Blogger - Apparently blogger.com followed by a bunch of numbers infringes this guy’s trademarks. From the WTF category… Nevada resident Steven Barket has filed a federal lawsuit against Google and a John Doe, claiming violations of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and Lanham Act. The offending domain name that violates Barket’s trademarks? blogger.com/profile/10034500688963114971 Yes, that’s a single page on the Blogger.com domain. Barket demands a judgement ... read more ...
Wed 13th June 2012
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Google relates for 101 tip turn domains - Google looks like the largest player amongst internet brands on new top level domain names. I count 101 total applications. The company applied for the domains under a unique name — Charleston Road Registry Inc. Only three of the names are internationalized domain names. Here’s the full list: ADS AND ANDROID APP ARE BABY BLOG BOO BOOK BUY CAL CAR CHANNEL CHROME CLOUD CORP CPA DAD DAY DCLK DDS DEV DIY DOCS DOG DOT DRIVE EARTH EAT ESQ EST FAMILY FILM FLY FOO FREE FUN FYI GAME GBIZ GLE GMAIL GMBH GOO GOOG GOOGLE GUGE HANGOUT HERE HOME HOW INC ING KID LIVE LLC LLP LOL LOVE MAIL MAP MBA MED MEME MOM MOTO MOV MOVIE MUSIC NEW NEXUS PAGE PET PHD PLAY PLUS PROD PROF RSVP SEARCH SHOP SHOW SITE SOY SPOT SRL STORE TALK TEAM TECH TOUR TUBE VIP WEB WOW YOU YOUTUBE ZIP IDNs: a-code, ... read more ...
 
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Amazon, Google, and Symantec to quarrel for .cloud domain name - Seven applicants to compete for .cloud top level domain include some really big internet giants. Seven applicants filed requests with ICANN for the .cloud top level domain name — and three of them are heavyweight contenders. Amazon.com, Google, and Symantec Corporation are all in the running for the domain name. They’ll be competing against some smaller competitors including Aruba.it, CloudNames.com, Donuts.co, and Top Level Domain Holdings. If the seven can’t ... read more ...
 
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Google and Amazon contest on 21 new tip turn domain applications - Google and Amazon had a lot of the same ideas for new top level domains. One of the biggest battles over new top level domains will pit internet heavyweights Google and Amazon against each other. Amazon applied for 76 top level domains and Google applied for 101 top level domains. But I count 20 — and perhaps 21 — domain names that the two will have to duke it out for. Here’s the list of domains that both companies applied for: .App .Book .Cloud .Dev .Drive .Free .Game .Kid/.Kids .Mail .Map .Movie .Music .Play .Search .Shop .Show .Spot .Store .Talk .Wow .You And ... read more ...