Tag Archives: Google

Thu 11th September 2014
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5 million Google email addresses, usernames and passwords leaked - Carla Marshall wrote on ReelSeo.com about a data breach involving 5 million Google email addresses. She also included a link to a website that supposedly will let you know if your Google account is open to being comprised. So you might want to change your passwords. Google said the following, The security of our users is of paramount importance to us. We have no evidence that our systems have been compromised, but whenever we become aware that an account has been compromised, we take steps to help ... read more ...
Sun 7th September 2014
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Google Sued For Trademark Infringement Over Google Plus By Owned Of Googabox.com - Andre Rossouw filed a lawsuit against Google over its Google Plus service claiming it violates its own trademark for GOOGABOX. The Plaintiff’s also own the the domain name GOOGABOX.com. The Plaintiff also sued what appears to be Google’s attorney in this matter Eric Ball in one of the counts of the Complaint Here are the highlights of the lawsuit that was filed in the District Court of the State of California in the County of Santa Clara last week: Plaintiff adopted the trade names “GOOGABOX” ... read more ...
Fri 29th August 2014
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Google Authorship Comes To An End - Eric Enge wrote a very detailed and lengthy post about the end of Google Authorship, I remember when this first came out and everyone was telling me how important this was and to get on it. Bill Hartzer wrote an excellent piece about it on DomainInvesting.com back in March of 2013. This is one of the things that is frustrating with following Google like they are the masters of all things Internet, they start and stop a lot of projects. John Mueller told the  co-author of the piece with Enge, Mark ... read more ...
Tue 26th August 2014
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Why your new TLDs won’t work good with domain parking (yet) - Domain parking ads don’t consider the full meaning of a domain name that spans the dot. A couple weeks ago Donuts launched the .cash top level domain name. This got me thinking about domain parking. I’ve owned a few .com domain names with the term “cash” in them. When they got clicks, they were high dollar clicks. There are lots of expensive Adwords terms related to cash. So would traffic to something.cash monetize well? No, not on the basis of the top level ... read more ...
 
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Rightside signs new Google domain parking agreement - Company says material terms are “substantially similar” to the prior agreement. Rightside, parent company of eNom and domain parking platform HotKeys, has signed a new domain name parking agreement with Google. In an SEC filing, the company stated that the agreement is similar to the one it replaces: In general, the material terms of the Agreement are substantially similar to the Prior Agreement, including compliance with Google’s policies, maintenance of service ... read more ...
Fri 22nd August 2014
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Google Gains Victory in German Publisher Dispute - Back in June, Jeff Jarvis wrote on Buzz Machine about German publishers banding together to go after Google for linking to their content. As Jarvis pointed out Google News does not show ads so the desire to get 11 % of something, would be 11% of nothing. From the article: German publishers are not just fighting Google. They are fighting the link and thus the essence of the internet. Half the major publishers in Germany have started a process of arbitration — which, no doubt, will lead to suits ... read more ...
 
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The Future of Google Glass Lies in Health Care According to the Inventor - Mark Sullivan of Venture Beat did a story on the inventor of Google Glass and his belief that the future of the wearable lies in health care. From the article: Google didn’t design its Glass wearable for medicine, but that use continues to be a hot topic of conversation among medical technologists and the investors who love them. The”Augmented Humanity” panel at today’s Rock Health’s Health Innovation Summit spent much of its time on Glass-based medical apps. This is because one of the ... read more ...
Fri 15th August 2014
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Google’s Response to Negative SEO Extortion “No Bueno” - Hi Rannvijay, Thanks for your reply. I must admit I’m amazed at the costs of your service! Only $1,500 for 20,000 links??? That’s only 8p a link! What a bargain! How can you even afford to pay someone to do that for so little money is beyond me. Either you pay your guys a very minimum wage or they’re incredibly efficient coders. Which is it? I’d love to know your secret. We’ve got engineers here and they’d laughed at me if I asked them to add a link to a page for 8p! What CMS do you use? ... read more ...
Fri 8th August 2014
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Google Wants You To Encrypt Your Traffic and Will Favor Those That Comply - Another homework assignment for webmasters given by Ms. Google Google announced that it will start to favor websites that encrypt their traffic in their search results. Google said: For these reasons, over the past few months we’ve been running tests taking into account whether sites use secure, encrypted connections as a signal in our search ranking algorithms. We’ve seen positive results, so we’re starting to use HTTPS as a ranking signal. For now it’s only a very lightweight signal—affecting ... read more ...
Wed 6th August 2014
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Hong Kong Court Rules Entertainment Tycoon Can Sue Google Over Autocomplete Suggestions - We all start searches at Google and get the autocomplete function going into full effect, giving us suggestions as we type each letter. Apparently one Hong Kong tycoon did not like the results the autocomplete suggested when it came to him. He wants to sue Google for defamation and a Hong Kong court has ruled he can go right ahead and do just that. The South China Morning Post wrote: A Hong Kong court has ruled that a local entertainment tycoon can go ahead with his defamation lawsuit against Google, ... read more ...
Sat 2nd August 2014
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Wikipedia Will Be Restricted Under Right to be Forgotten Law - Juliette Garside wrote a piece for The Guardian today that Google will restrict search terms to a link to a Wikipedia article under the right to be forgotten law. Jimmy Wales founder of Wikipedia said, “You do not have a right to use the law to prevent Wikipedia editors from writing truthful information, nor do you have a right to use the law to prevent Google from publishing truthful information. Wikipedia can and should work hard to do a good job, just as Google can and should work hard to do ... read more ...
Fri 1st August 2014
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The Google Penguin has turn a Punisher - Has the Google Penguin become the punisher ? Eric Enge wrote a very good article on Search Engine Land that took a look at how punitive the Google Penguin really is. Enge expressed that he had a heavy heart with relation to the unforgiving nature of the Penguin. Enge gives those webmasters new to the game a primer on how the Penguin came to be: History Of Penguin The first release of Penguin took place on April 24, 2012, and it landed on the industry like a ton of bricks. From my perspective, everything ... read more ...
Wed 30th July 2014
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How Much Would You Spend For a 30M Meeting WIth Eric Schmidt of Google? Bidding Is At $8K - Bidding is now opened for a what is described as having “Coffee with Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, at Google in New York City.” “Sit down to coffee with Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, for 30 minutes at Google in New York City.” Bidding is underway at CharityBuzz.com, where there are currently 4 bidders with a high bid of $8,000. There are 15 days left in the auction closes on Thursday, August 14th,  2014 at 3 PM EDT.  The auction listing has an “Estimated Value” ... read more ...
Tue 29th July 2014
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Spain Passes The “Google” Tax – How it will work no one is unequivocally sure - Spain Passes The Google Tax Spain passed a law that will give Spanish newspaper publishers the right to get paid from any site that links to them with what they deem a ” meaningful ” description of the content. It is important to note that this law does not apply to all publishers in Spain, only daily newspapers. From QZ.com On July 22 Spain passed a law (link in Spanish) called the canon AEDE, after the acronym for Spain’s daily newspapers’ association. The law has been dubbed the tasa ... read more ...
Mon 28th July 2014
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The other side of Click Fraud - Krebs On Security took a look at the practice of click fraud that depletes a competitors ad budget. The practice is to run up the costs and maybe get them to blow their wad early in the day. I have spoken to people over the years who certainly felt their AdWords campaign was a waste of time and money. While many focus on click fraud on the AdSense side, it seems that the AdWords side is also a big problem. From the article: Today’s post looks at a popular service that helps crooked online marketers ... read more ...
Sat 26th July 2014
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Roundup: this week in a Domain Name Business - It was another exciting week in the domain name industry. Here’s a look back. Domain Registry of America may finally get cut off from ICANN. The notorious company that sends misleading domain renewal notices to domain owners has been suspended by ICANN and a full termination may be coming. Sedo is planning a big new TLD booth at September’s DMEXCO conference in Germany. Interested new TLD companies are invited to reach out to the company about participating. Amazon ... read more ...
Thu 24th July 2014
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Google and Vint Cerf explain a NTIA transition (video) - Simple video explains what’s going on with the U.S. government’s role in the internet. Vint Cerf, the “father of internet” and former Chairman of ICANN, now works for Google. Cerf has narrated a new Google video about the history of internet governance, ICANN and the role of the U.S. government. (See video embedded below.) It’s a pretty clever way to sum up the proposed change in role of the U.S. government in a simple, sub-three-minute video. In other words, ... read more ...
 
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Google induction “MusicKey” domain names for song subscription business? - Google registering MusicKey ccTLDs. Is this the name of its new music service? Usually, when I see a company registering a bunch of similar domain names, I can track it down to a new product announcement. I’m a bit unclear about recent Google domain name registrations for “MusicKey” domain names, but I suspect it might be for YouTube’s new subscription music service. On Monday, the company registered MusicKey.co. It has registered MusicKey in many other ccTLDs ... read more ...
Sun 20th July 2014
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Poll Results: “What Will Google Domains Market Share Of The Registrar Market Be A Year After Launch?” - The results from our latest poll question are out and most don’t think Go Daddy should be crawling under their desk as one IPO analyst remarked. Google getting into the registrar space caused quite a stir a few weeks back. We had 240 voters and 19% do not see Google in the top 20. 13% see Google in position number 10 and 12 % see them in position number 20. What Will Google Domains Market Share Of The Registrar Market Be A Year After Launch? Not in Top 20 (19%, 45 Votes) 10 (13%, 32 Votes) 20 ... read more ...
Thu 17th July 2014
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Google Reports Earnings Stock Up in After Hours Trading - Google is out with their earnings for Q2 2014 Google Inc. reported consolidated revenues of $15.96 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2014, an increase of 22% compared to the second quarter of 2013. Google Inc. reports advertising revenues, consistent with GAAP, on a gross basis without deducting traffic acquisition costs (TAC). In the second quarter of 2014, TAC totaled $3.29 billion, or 23% of advertising revenues. The stock is currently up $6 or 1% in after hours trading.   Q2 Financial ... read more ...
 
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New Stealthier Ads Are A Big Hit For Google - John Koetsier wrote a very interesting piece on Venture Beat on how the new look of Google ads is boosting click through rates. Back in March Computer World explained, Google is testing some changes to the way it displays search results, including a tweak to how it presents paid links that could throw off unsuspecting users. Paid links in Google’s search results are marked today with a yellow shaded background. Under the experimental layout, which is being widely tested with users, a small yellow ... read more ...
Tue 15th July 2014
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Is SEO on a verge of annihilation ? - Where is SEO Headed ? Andrew Edwards wrote an article on Click Z asking the question, “Is SEO dead ?” Edwards seems to believe that Google taking away the keyword data makes SEO less valuable as a major support system has been taken away. Edwards points out that it is in the best interest of Google to try to undermine SEO, There is no good reason for Google to stop trying to stamp out SEO, because in effect, SEO damps the quality of search results for the user. Google is interested in the user ... read more ...
Fri 11th July 2014
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Google Wants Your Opinion On How They Should Implement “Right To Be Forgotten” - Google’s Advisory Council is asking the public on how they should implement the EU court required “Right to be Forgotten” The question Google is asking is: “How should one person’s right to be forgotten be balanced with the public’s right to know?” “”A recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union found that European law gives people the right to ask search engines like Google to remove results for queries that include their name. Since then, we’ve received removal ... read more ...
Thu 10th July 2014
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Yelp Joins The List of Companies Looking to Undo Google – European Union Antitrust Settlement - Yelp would like to see the antitrust settlement between Google and the European Union have a complete overhaul. Yelp has had many things to say about Google over the years and even rebuffed a buyout attempt a few years ago. Greg Sterling wrote a piece on Search Engine Land about Yelp joining others in wanting to see a harsher settlement for Google with the E.U. From the article: Yelp has been an increasingly vocal critic of Google for several years. Now it has joined a group of companies opposing ... read more ...
Wed 9th July 2014
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Xbiz.com Asks Google To Reverse Ban On Advertising For Adult Websites -         Alec Helmy President Publisher of the adult industry publication xBiz.com sent a letter to Google yesterday asking the company to reconsider its “recent decision to no longer accept ads from adult oriented websites” We reported a week ago that Google new policy on advertising for explicit adult terms went into effect which Google announced in early June. Mr. Helmy writes: “Not surprisingly, an organization founded on imposing its idea of morality on lawful material has taken credit ... read more ...