by David Goetzl
ONCE AGAIN TRYING TO DIVERSIFY revenue streams as the local station business faces an uncertain future, Hearst-Argyle has broken ground in the digital arena. The station operator has a deal with Google where it will use its connections and manpower in markets it serves to try and sign up local businesses to […]

[#3: Edit Options>MightyAdsense>Adsense Code] By Thomas Claburn

Manipulating Google (NSDQ: GOOG) search results used to be something of a black art, and those who crossed the line from search engine optimization to gaming PageRank with link farms got the Google Death Penalty — being axed from the index.While deceptive efforts to move Web pages to […]

By HENRY SANDERSON
BEIJING (AP) — If U.S. Internet companies are maturing, China’s are still reveling in the kind of party atmosphere their U.S. rivals enjoyed during the late 1990s, with copious capital and enough engineering talent to keep growing for a while.
Executives including Kai-Fu Lee, president of Google Greater China, warned participants in an industry […]

By: Chris “Silver” Smith
Various news sites are reporting that a malware attack was deployed in the last couple of days, apparently based entirely upon black hat SEO tactics. Software security company Sunbelt blogged about how the attack was generated: a network of spambots apparently added links into blog comments and forums pointing…

Google Improvements Fail To […]

Dell said on Tuesday it will sell Google search devices to help companies find information on their networks.
Dell said it would sell Google Search Appliance starting at $US30,000 and the Google Mini starting at $US1995 to U.S. corporate customers and small businesses. Dell already offers personal computers with Google’s desktop search software.
The Google-made machines, which […]

by Verne Kopytoff
Google Inc. says it will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to develop renewable energy as part of an ambitious plan to clean the environment and reduce the company’s own power bill.
The Mountain View company said Tuesday that it will open its deep pockets to foster innovation in solar, wind and geothermal technology […]

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Google Adwords: WordScam?

Posted in Google AdWords, Google News at November 26th, 2007 / 13 Comments »

 By Jane Mundy
Dallas, TX: Marc McKinney and his sunglass company bought into Google’s adwords when it was fairly new, back in July of 2005. “We only had a small budget—we stuck our big toe in,” says McKinney. “We had success for about three weeks, then something unusual happened…”
McKinney’s company got involved in Google adwords on […]

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SEO: How To Top The Search Engines

Posted in Google SEO at November 26th, 2007 / No Comments »

by Bruce Swedal

Just like every webmaster, you want your website to be on top when there is a query in Google. Ranking highly in organic search engine results is a key element for bringing traffic to your website. The higher you rank for search queries, the more often your website is presented to the internet […]

Nicholas Watt, political editor
Sunday November 25, 2007
As he gladhanded his way around the great and the good of the digital age at last month’s Google Zeitgeist conference in California, David Cameron might have come across as a starstruck teenager.
‘Last year I had the great pleasure of speaking to the Google Zeitgeist Europe conference,’ the beaming […]

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Is Google spinning out of control?

Posted in Google News at November 25th, 2007 / 4 Comments »

By Brent Schlender
NEW YORK (Fortune Magazine) — Google is a company convinced of its own brilliance and its clear vision of the future. Being a hotbed of Mensa members will do that to you. As will stumbling early onto an obscenely lucrative business model. The same thing happened to a company called Microsoft.
But that doesn’t […]