Tag Archives: Google

Sat 7th February 2015
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Google vs a Mississippi A.G. Could Set A Precedent for a State's Right to Regulate Online Content - Matt Schruers wrote an article yesterday on an upcoming legal battle that could set a precedent for content censorship. This is Google going up against the Attorney General of the State of Mississippi. Schruers makes the point that this is like SOPA at the state level. From the article: Far from Washington or any other place associated with Internet policy-making, a federal district court in Jackson, Mississippi is considering a case that could dramatically alter the regulation of Internet speech. ... read more ...
Thu 5th February 2015
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Google To Get Access To The Twitter Firehose - Google will get access to the Twitter firehose once again and tweets should become indexed in Google right after they are posted. This could maybe be beneficial to those tweeting domains for sale if those tweets get indexed under the targeted keyword. Bloomberg Business broke the story. From MarketingLand: Twitter and Google have reached a deal to make tweets easier to find online, according to a report by Bloomberg Business tonight. The deal will give Google access to Twitter’s firehose — the ... read more ...
Wed 21st January 2015
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SearchMetrics.com "The Rising and Falling Stars in Google US - Search Metrics takes a look each year at who fell in the rankings and who saw their website rise on Google. In addition to just looking at winners and losers they look into why some sites succeeded while other sites took a dip. If you are interested in SEO the article is very much worth reading to see their analysis and what affects ranking trends both short and long term. From the article: As another year in SEO ends, it’s time to take a look back at the rising and the falling stars in SEO Visibility ... read more ...
Thu 15th January 2015
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Donuts Beats Google, Amazon, Dish Network, Radix, Famous Four To .Movie New gTLD - Donuts has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Movie beating out 7 other applicants including publicly traded Google, Amazon, and  Dish Network. .Movie was the last new gTLD scheduled to go to the ICANN last resort auction in January and was apparently settled by private auction. The other applicants that have now withdrawn their applications for .Movie were Radix, Famous Four, ARI Registry Services, and NU Dot Co LLC,  the company that sold the .Co registry to Neustar for $109 million dollars. As ... read more ...
Tue 13th January 2015
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Google Domains Now Open to All in The U.S. – Over 60 new gtlds now accessible for registration - Google Domains is now opened to anyone in the U.S. they are also offering over 60 new gtlds for registration. TechCrunch is reporting that Google Domains is now available to anyone who wants an account From the article: Google said at the time its service also includes phone support, indicating Google’s intention to market it more to business customers. To date, thousands of testers have signed up and registered domains during the private testing, but Google didn’t release exact numbers. Additionally, ... read more ...
Mon 12th January 2015
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Google Sees Its Search Share Slip and Yahoo Sees A Rise On Mozilla Deal - StatCounter reports that Google has seen its search share slip to its lowest level ever in the U.S. In the meantime Yahoo is being buoyed by their new deall with Mozilla that makes them the default search engine. NewsEveryday reported: Google search share has slipped to lowest ever in U.S. – 75.2 percent from 79.3 percent last year, according to an independent analytics firm. On the other hand, Yahoo Search has managed to score its highest share in five years – 10.4 percent, up by 3 percent ... read more ...
Fri 9th January 2015
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Report: Google To Sell Car Insurance: Google Compare Auto Insurance Licensed in More Than 25 States - According to TheVerge.com, citing a a  new report from an analyst named Ellen Carney at Forrester says that Google maybe getting ready to sell car insurance in the United States, through Google Compare. Google does own the domain name GoogleCompare.com since 2005, but it currently does not resolve. “A company called Google Compare Auto Insurance Services Inc. is already licensed to do business in more than 25 states, and licensed to sell on behalf of a handful of major insurers like Metlife, Dairyland ... read more ...
Wed 24th December 2014
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Google’s Local Search Algorithm Is Rolling Out To UK, Canada, And Australia - Matt Southern wrote a piece on Search Engine Journal that Google will be expanding its local search to the UK,Canada and Australia. Back in August Search Engine Land called the local search update the Pigeon, Understanding the Pigeon Update At this time, Pigeon seems to only impact local search queries made in English within the United States. At first sight, Pigeon seems to give preference to local businesses over local brands. This is actually good news for small business owners who have a local, ... read more ...
Sun 21st December 2014
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Goliath vs Goliath as Google Takes On Hollywood in Piracy Wars - More and more tidbits continue to come out of the Sony leak, The Verge reported on a meeting between Sony, Google and Homeland Security. The Verge a week later ran a story about Google being incensed over Hollywood’s anti-piracy measures. Google was especially concerned with “Project Goliath” The project’s goal was to find a way to block pirate sites from appearing online. From the article: After hacked documents revealed that Sony and other media companies were attempting to pass harsh ... read more ...
Sun 7th December 2014
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Following The Adwords Money Trail - Eric Van Buskirk wrote an article on Search Engine Journal which detailed his data analysis of where advertisers spend their money on Google Adwords. A pretty interesting look at sectors and prices paid in certain niches. From the article: There is an abundance of pieces written about uber expensive Google AdWords phrases: the top 10 or 100 most expensive, for example. However, little to no data analysis looks at a more significant sample size where an advertiser spends a bit more than a Friday ... read more ...
Fri 21st November 2014
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From Brussels With Love – Europe Wants Google Split Up - Europe Wants Google Split Up We have seen countries in Europe propose a “Google Tax” we have seen several initiatives with regard to privacy and the right to be forgotten. Now Europe looks to be mulling a proposal to split the company up. Bill Gates can only be thinking to himself, “Larry, Sergey, Welcome to my life” The Financial Times Reported: A draft motion seen by the Financial Times says that “unbundling [of] search engines from other commercial services” should be considered ... read more ...
 
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Google Rolls Out “Contributor” Which Allows Users To Block Adsense Ads For A Fee - According to CBS News,  Google is rolling out a new service called “Contributor” that will allow users to block seeing AdSense ads on site  users visit for a charge. “Working with a handful of websites, including Mashable, the Onion, Science Daily, wikiHow, Imgur and Urban Dictionary, Google is offering subscriptions for $1, $2 or $3 per month that will block AdSense advertising on those sites, replacing them with a subtle gray box and a note that says, “Thank you for being a contributor.””Part ... read more ...
Wed 19th November 2014
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Dish DBS beats Google in .Dot auction, pays $700,000 for domain - Dish won a two way race to operate the top level domain name .dot. Dish DBS, the satellite TV company and owner of Blockbuster, has beaten Google in a public auction for the top level domain .Dot. It paid $700,000 for the rights to the domain name. You’re not misreading this – the domain name is .dot. So soon, you might be able to visit Blockbuster at Blockbuster-dot-dot. In its application for the domain name, Dish said it plans to use the domain name for its ... read more ...
Tue 18th November 2014
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Google upgrades mobile-friendly sites in hunt results - Sites will get label, and might get a search benefit in the future. Google announced today that it is adding a “mobile-friendly” label to sites in search results, and is experimenting with using mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. Over the next few weeks, Google will start adding the “mobile-friendly” identifier next to qualified sites for mobile searches (see picture). In a blog post about the move, Google suggested that how mobile-friendly a site is ... read more ...
Tue 11th November 2014
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Google Withdraws Another New gTLD Application: .Earth Won By Interlink Co., Ltd - Google has given up on another new gTLD extension. Just hitting ICANN’s site today, Google has withdrawn its application for .Earth The remaining applicant is Interlink Co., Ltd. of Japan also known as Urban Brain. The new gTLD was set to go to auction later this month. According to its application Interlink Co., Ltd. (Interlink) envisions that the “.earth” top-level domain (TLD) will become a symbol of worldwide unity on the Internet. By registering a second-level domain in the “.earth” ... read more ...
Mon 10th November 2014
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What do Amazon and Google domain name waste meant for new TLDs? - Neither of them won .cloud, which begs a big question. .Cloud is a valuable top level domain name. I’m basing that on the seven applications it received, and that Amazon.com, Google and Symantec all applied for the domain name. So which one of these heavyweights won the rights to .cloud? This one: Wait – what? That cartoonish logo doesn’t match any of the heavyweights that applied for .cloud. Aruba S.p.A., an Italian webhosting company, won the battle for ... read more ...
Mon 3rd November 2014
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Facebook Is Becoming A Bigger Rival To Google In The Mobile Ad Space - Jennifer Booton of MarketWatch reported that when it comes to mobile advertising Facebook is unrivaled according to Morgan Stanley analyst Ben Swinburne. Google and Facebook are duking it out in the mobile advertising space and mobile has been an area that has been challenging for Google. Morgan Stanley analyst Ben Swinburne predicted Monday, after initiating coverage of Facebook at overweight. This comes as Facebook continues to nab a larger share of the global display market, with impressions ... read more ...
Tue 28th October 2014
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Radix gets .site as Google participates in a private auction - Radix tops Google and three others to win .site domain name. New top level domain name company Radix has secured the .site domain name, the company announced on social media this morning. That means the company has .website, .site and is still in the running to complete the trifecta with .web. Particularly interesting is that Google was in the contention set for .site. To my knowledge, the company has been a holdout for participating in private resolution of new TLD ... read more ...
Tue 21st October 2014
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Google Trying New Ways to Stifle Piracy - Google is looking to fight piracy with links to legitimate websites when someone searches for an illegal site, now that is if they want to pay to play. They are also playing around with the auto-complete, they will demote  the predictions that link to illegal sites. Stephanie Mlot covered the story for PC Mag In an effort to fight piracy, Google is testing new ad and search-result formats to help users find legitimate sources of media. In addition to removing sites that traffic in pirated content ... read more ...
Fri 17th October 2014
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This week’s TLDs: a Google launch and .Okinawa - A couple domains hit general availability, but hardly anyone notices. I was so busy at ICANN this week that I neglected to do my weekly preview of top level domain name launches… …but I didn’t miss much. Only two domain names hit general availability this week. On Tuesday, BusinessRalliart Inc. launched the Japan geo domain name .Okinawa. It’s off to a rather slow start, with about 750 names in the zone thus far. Also this week, Google launched the .soy ... read more ...
Thu 16th October 2014
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Google Reports: Revenue adult 20%; Pay Per Click Up 17%; Cost Per Click Down 2%: $63 Billion In The Bank - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2014 after the market closed today, missing slightly from what was expected send the shares down over 2% in after hours trading Google Inc. revenues for the quarter ended September 30, 2014 were $16.52 billion, representing a 20% increase over third quarter of 2013 revenues of $13.75 billion.GAAP operating income in the third quarter of 2014 was $3.72 billion, or 23% of revenues. This compares ... read more ...
 
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Google Standing Firm on European De-Listing Requests As it Pertains to Google.com - Tech Crunch is out with a piece on Google refusing to extend the European search de-lising rules to Google.com, currently requests made can only remove the information from Google.europeancctld. So it really is a cat and mouse game being played here. You could get your de-listing request approved and no longer show in Google.de for example, but that info would be found using Google.com. So anyone wanting to do a complete search would make sure to use Google.com in addition to their local European ... read more ...
Tue 14th October 2014
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Google Discloses A Vulnerability in SSL 3.0 - Google reported via their online security blog, that there is a vulnerability in the design of SSL Version 3.0. Apparently usage is ubiquitous as most browsers support SSL 3.0. They have recommended a work around to the problem. From the article: Today we are publishing details of a vulnerability in the design of SSL version 3.0. This vulnerability allows the plaintext of secure connections to be calculated by a network attacker. I discovered this issue in collaboration with Thai Duong and Krzysztof ... read more ...
Fri 3rd October 2014
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Google Organic Click Rates – A Case Study - Philip Petrescu posted an interesting article on Moz.com that is worth checking out for those who build out websites and are looking for more organic traffic. It is a long article as Petrescu goes into great detail on his case study. The summary is below: So I started searching for a way to find out how much organic traffic I could get for ranking on the top positions in Google. But I faced a big challenge. These days, with “not provided” being almost 100%, it’s very hard to measure how ... read more ...
Wed 1st October 2014
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Google Entering a Domain Business May Have Less of an Impact on Web.com - Summary Web.com’s stock has declined 36.4% year to date. The decline is being driven by lower revenue guidance and Google announcing their entrance into the domain industry. Google will have an impact on the domain industry but the impact won’t be as significant as investors are anticipating. Additionally, Web.com may actually benefit from Google’s presents. Even if Google doesn’t help Web.com, Web.com has been able to perform well in a very competitive market environment. Over the last ... read more ...