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Google gets even more ambitious

Posted in Google News at December 29th, 2007 / 3 Comments »

By Elinor Mills
If Google were an adolescent lad, 2007 would mark the year his voice cracked.
Last year, Google remained at the top of its search class. This year, the company tried out for the wireless varsity teams, played hooky with YouTube, and courted cheerleader DoubleClick.
There was a wave of consolidation in the online advertising […]

[#3: Edit Options>MightyAdsense>Adsense Code] By Andrew R Hickey
Google (NSDQ:GOOG) found itself facing unfriendly fire this week when Reader users learned that information they thought they were sharing with friends was also being passed on to every one else in their contact lists.
Announced earlier this month, the tweak to Google Reader, an online RSS feed service […]

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Oh, No! Google Has a Goatee!

Posted in Google News at December 28th, 2007 / 2 Comments »

By Rick Aristotle Munarriz
Remember the bad Spock from the parallel universe? The Vulcan who wore a menacing goatee? Well, it seems that Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) has its own bearded evil twin, and he’s ready to make another cameo.
Google’s original courtroom victory in a patent-infringement suit has been dealt a blow, now that an appeals court will […]

Peter Sayer
Google’s browser toolbar is back in court on patent infringement charges, after a U.S. court of appeals overturned part of a lower court decision. Google’s AdSense contextual advertising service, though, is in the clear.
Hyperphrase Technologies filed suit against Google in April 2006, alleging that Google’s AdSense and the AutoLink function of its toolbar infringed […]

Japan’s biggest mobile carrier, NTT DoCoMo Inc., will partner with Google Inc. to provide search and e-mail on its handsets, news reports claimed today.As early as this spring, DoCoMo subscribers may be able to access Google’s search tool, as well as the Gmail e-mail service, Google Calendar scheduler and Picasa photo-sharer, using the former’s i-Mode […]

Hearst-Argyle Television has announced a new strategic agreement with Google in which it said Hearst-Argyle will become the first television industry reseller of the Google AdWords advertising program. Under the agreement, Hearst-Argyle, operator of 29 TV stations and more than 30 Websites, will become an official reseller and will use its Web sales force to […]

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Google Is Good At Marketing

Posted in Google SEO at December 25th, 2007 / 1 Comment »

By Aaron Wall
Search is so consolidated that it is uncomfortable being an SEO. If Google decides to profile you or kill your sites there is not much you can do, especially because Yahoo! and Microsoft are losing marketshare month after month. Why are Yahoo! and Microsoft losing marketshare? Their bad marketing coupled with Google’s good […]

ADVERTISEMENTS placed by Google in web pages are being hijacked by trojan software that replaces the intended text with ads from a different provider, Romanian antivirus company BitDefender said in a statement.
The trojan redirects queries meant to be sent to Google servers to a rogue server, which displays ads from a third party instead of […]

As an attorney with many small business clients creating their first websites, I am frequently asked to analyze a website’s searchability and potential for rankings on Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search portals. I find that using a professional search engine optimization expert is critical in analyzing a client’s potential. The SEO specialist I use […]

comScore today released its monthly analysis of the search marketplace. Among core search engines in November 2007, Google Sites remained the top search property with 5.9 billion core searches conducted, representing a 58.6-percent share of the search market.
In November, Google SEO Sites share of core searches stood at 58.6 percent, virtually the same level as […]