Tag Archives: Google

Mon 5th May 2014
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Does Google Glass Really Cost Just $80 to Produce ? - There seems to be some discrepancy on just how much money it costs for Google to make their Google Glass product. Sci Tech Today wrote about it Sunday, Given the current price of $1,500 for Google Glass, how much could the tech giant make? A new analysis estimates that the actual materials cost just under $80, indicating the tech giant could really be raking in the cash. However, the powers that be at Google are contesting that as a low-ball figure, saying it simply isn’t accurate. The analysis ... read more ...
Sun 4th May 2014
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Google May Have To Pay French Government $1.3 Billion - Forbes reported that Google could have to pay the French government up to $1.3 billion. The Silicon Valley Journal wrote: Mountain View-based Google said it has been hit with a tax assessment from French authorities that could cost between $693 million and $1.3 billion,  according to Forbes. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Google Inc. maintains that it has paid the taxes it owes, and expects to appeal the assessment. It is unclear, however, how successful such an appeal would ... read more ...
Thu 1st May 2014
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Google Testing A Version of Chrome that hides a URL - Venture Beat covered a story today that will peak the interest of domain investors. Do we still need the URL — that gangly collection of slashes and gobbledygook? A new experimental version of the Google Chrome browser says no. Chrome Canary, like the legendary canary lowered into mines to early-detect dangerous gases, is a leading-edge version of the Chrome browser. Google uses it to test out ideas, and one idea in the new Chrome 36 version of Canary is to bury the full URL into the top-level ... read more ...
Wed 30th April 2014
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Alleged Ex- Employee Of Google Says Google Engaged in Theft Of Money From Publishers - The only thing I can say is from my own portfolio the revenue has gone down substantially over the year while Google continues to report ever increasing revenue: I am a former Google employee and I am writing this to leak information to the public of what I witnessed and took part in while being an employee. My position was to deal with AdSense accounts, more specifically the accounts of publishers (not advertisers). I was employed at Google for a period of several years in this capacity. Having ... read more ...
Mon 21st April 2014
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Matt Cutts Answers How To Research A Domain Before Buying -

Matt Cutts got a doubt now from someone who purchased a domain name and afterwards found out a domain had been in difficulty with Google. The domain is not now indexed and a new owners has to do a reconsideration request.

Matt points out stairs to check to see if a domain had problems in a past, like if used for spam.

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Should Business Fear Google ? - Olivia Solon wrote on Ars Technica that a major European media company has concerns about the growing power of Google. From the article: The chief executive of Axel Springer, one of Europe’s largest media publishers, has said that his company is afraid of the power that Google has accumulated and worries that the search giant is becoming a “superstate,” immune from regulation. Mathias Döpfner published an open letter to Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, in the German newspaper Frankfurter ... read more ...
Thu 17th April 2014
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Google Glass Is Only The First Step – Next Step Six Million Dollar Man - Google Glass may only be the first step as Google smart contact lenses could turn average human beings into the Six Million Dollar Man.  Adriana Lee on ReadWrite.com just published a story on some patents that Google filed with regard to their smart contact lense technology. From the article: Imagine the Google Glass headgear, which currently makes some camera-shy onlookers nervous, shrinking down to near-invisibility—say, into a super-thin transparent layer that sits on the cornea. Google certainly ... read more ...
Wed 16th April 2014
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Google Reports: Paid Clicks Up 26%, Cost-Per-Click Drops 9%, Stock Down After Hours - Google reported it earnings after the market closed today for the quarter ending ending March 31 Google had $15.4 billion in revenue. Net income was $3.45 billion, which amounted to earnings of $5.04 a share, or $6.27 a share excluding one-time charges. While revenue rose 19% and profit was up 3%, that fell short of Wall Street’s projections. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters were expecting, on average, earnings of $5.28 a share or $6.40 a share after excluding one-time charges, on revenue ... read more ...
Tue 15th April 2014
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Google Explains How It Reads Your Email - Google has changed its terms of service when it comes to Gmail. Reuters is out with the news, (Reuters) – Google Inc updated its terms of service on Monday, informing users that their incoming and outgoing emails are automatically analyzed by software to create targeted ads. The revisions more explicitly spell out the manner in which Google software scans users’ emails, both when messages are stored on Google’s servers and when they are in transit, a controversial practice that has been at ... read more ...
Mon 14th April 2014
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Google Acquires Drone Maker That Facebook Was Eyeing - Todd Wasserman  is reporting for Mashable that Google has purchased Titan Aerospace, a 20 person drone maker that Facebook was also interested in purchasing. There were no financial terms on the deal released on the acquisition. Apparently Facebook was interested to the tune of $60 million. Google has purchased Titan Aerospace, a maker of drones that Facebook was reportedly interested in buying as well. “Titan Aerospace and Google share a profound optimism about the potential for technology to ... read more ...
Thu 10th April 2014
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Google Extends “Not Provided” to Paid Search - Google is making a change that will bring paid search in line with organic search when it comes to relaying referrer information. Now when people using secure search click on AdWords ads, they will not have their search query show up in the referrer string, this info will no longer be available in analytics packages and third party providers of related software. Ginny Marvin wrote on Search Engine Land: As suspected, Google is moving to secure search for clicks on paid search ads. In an announcement ... read more ...
Mon 7th April 2014
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Google to Launch Android TV – We Already Know They Don’t Own The Domain - According to a story on Mashable, Google is going to launch Android TV. Ten days ago Mike wrote a post about a UDRP that Google filed on AndroidTV.com. The panelists decided that this case was outside the scope of the UDRP. You can read the case and the commentary that Mike added here. March 31, 2014 there was a press release put out highlighting this decision. The press release contact is Mike Berkens who did not pay PR Web for the press release so this looks like it was put out by the registrant. We ... read more ...
 
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Google appears to have sole Hello.com domain name - Hello.com domain name transferred. It appears Google has sold the domain name Hello.com. The company used the domain name for a photo sharing service called “Hello” last decade. It later shut down the standalone service and eventually stopped using the domain name. Last Friday it looks like Google transferred the domain name. The Hello.com domain name whois record showed a change of registrant from Google to “John Murphy” on April 4. The contact email address ... read more ...
Sat 5th April 2014
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USPTO Views The Glass Half Empty When it Comes to Google - There is a lot of buzz around Google and their attempt to trademark the word glass. The Huffington Post and The Daily Mail wrote articles on Google having trouble getting their trademark approved which for the most part they were sourcing the Wall Street Journal article who seemed to be the first to talk about the trouble Google was having with their trademark for glass. Jacob Gersham wrote on the Wall Street Journal: At least one company is opposing Google’s bid. In December, Border Stylo, LLC, ... read more ...
Fri 21st March 2014
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Apple, Yahoo and Google All Reserve The Right To Read Your Email - So there was a story out this week that Microsoft had read the emails of a French blogger who had received code from a former Microsoft employee, the employee has been arrested in Seattle, accused of leaking Windows 8 to the tech blogger. The blogger actually contacted Microsoft to verify what was going on, Microsoft then went through his hotmail and messenger and found the email from the former employee. This of course has created quite a stir about privacy and what providers can and cannot do. ... read more ...
Thu 20th March 2014
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Be Careful of Phishing Attack to Gain Google Credentials - Be careful using Google Docs and Google Drive as Symantec discovered a new phishing attack that is looking to get your Google log in credientials. Afterdawn.com covered the recent finding: Researchers over at security firm Symantec have come across a new advanced phishing attack aimed at stealing your Google credentials. The new attack specifically targets Google Docs and Google Drive users. An email will hit your inbox with a subject line of “Documents” or similar, claiming there is an ‘important ... read more ...
Tue 18th March 2014
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55 new TLDs ask grant from Registry Code of Conduct - 55 .brand application owners request exemptions. Today ICANN posted 55 requests made by new TLD applicants for an exemption from the Registry Code of Conduct. The Registry Code of Conduct for new TLDs includes provisions related to showing preference to different registrars, registering domains in the registry’s own right, frontrunning, and control between an owned registry and registrar. The 55 requests were made by companies wishing to operate their domains as ... read more ...
Sat 15th March 2014
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Matt Cutts Talks About a Softer Panda and a Boost for Sites Using SSL - Matt Cutts had a few things to say at  SMX West regarding potential future moves at Google. Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable wrote that Cutts would like to give a boost to sites using SSL. At SMX West Matt Cutts gave the attendees a few tidbits, one of those items was that making your site secure, encrypted, i.e. SSL enabled, is an important trend for 2014. At the end of the session, I asked Matt if this means Google is looking to give sites that enable SSL a ranking boost. Matt Cutts ... read more ...
Fri 14th March 2014
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Desktop Advertising to Drop $1.4 billion in 2014 as Search becomes some-more mobile - eMarketer released a report today that estimates desktop advertising to drop by $1.4 billion while mobile search will increase over 82 % in 2014. Of course Google has been talking about this in their earnings reports for the last couple years. This is certainly not great news for domain investors who park their domains, as mobile clicks pay less than desktop clicks. It stands to reason that parking earnings will be down across the board as the traffic becomes more mobile centric and a lower cost ... read more ...
Wed 12th March 2014
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Google Scrapping Banner Ad Experiment - Harrison Weber is reporting on Venture Beat and Ginn Marvin is reporting on Marketing Land,  that Google is going to scrap its banner ad experiment. Google started showing banner ads last October which sparked many to become upset as Google had long promised not to show banner ads in search results. From the article: VentureBeat can confirm that banner ads for original partner companies, like SouthWest Airlines, are no longer visible in our own tests — of course, there’s still a chance that ... read more ...
Tue 11th March 2014
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Big Changes Coming To Google Search Results - Jayson DeMers wrote a very detailed and well thought out post about Google and coming changes in search.  In the article DeMers discusses that search will change to accomodate a more mobile world, that SEO professionals will have to adapt and change as well. All things search must evolve. DeMers goes on to discuss that there will be more color and more information, targeted data to get users what they need faster. He goes on at length to discuss the rise of the Knowledge Graph. From the article: Google’s ... read more ...
Mon 10th March 2014
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It’s Official: Google Is Giving Away Free Domain Names - Since the ICANN Big Reveal where we learned  that Google applied for over 100 new gTLD extension we have been chatting about whether Google would giving away free domains. Well we didn’t have to wait long to find out. Google is offering 5,000 new gTLD’s in its first live new gTLD which is an IDN, .みんな Domainincite.com broke the news that Google is offering a free domain name to the first 5,000 people to submit a .みんな web site idea via a campaign web site ” “The offer expires ... read more ...
Sun 2nd March 2014
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Google Starting To Show Full Restaurant Menu in Search Results - Another potential risk with very specific niche gtlds is that something can come along and change the game. Something that has nothing to do with domain names can still come along and affect the niche extension. The Apple iPhone and its .com button along with how smartphones easily rendered a website on a phone was a big hit to .mobi. The .menu extension has already been delegated and four companies are vying to run .restaurant. Tech Crunch did a post yesterday which expanded on something I saw ... read more ...
Tue 25th February 2014
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Moving A Penalized Website To A New Domain May Not Remove Your Google Penalty - Barry Schwartz wrote a piece on Search Engine Roundtable  about Google penalties following to a new website. So we know that if you have a penalty on your site and you move your site to a new domain and redirect the URLs to that new domain, the penalty will flow because of the redirects. That is known. What I did not know is that if you took your site and moved it to a new domain but did not redirect the old domain to the new, that Google may also pass along the penalty without redirecting the ... read more ...
Sat 22nd February 2014
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Could Watson Change Search As We Know It ? - Daniel Newman wrote a piece on Millenial CEO that took a look at Watson, the super computer from IBM. Newman explores the possibility if Watson could change the search landscape. Just Google It…Everyone Else Does Right now when we want to know more about something, anything, we Google it; this isn’t an exception, this is the rule. In fact, 74% of the entire population turns to Google to start their information finding efforts. This trend has been on the rise for sometime and as we have become ... read more ...