Bloomberg (blog)
After listening to that episode of “This American Life,” Schmitz's most promising clue was found in a Google search. In Daisey's monologue, he refers to the translator who accompanied him only by her first name, Cathy. So Schmitz said he punched into ...
Bloomberg (blog)
FTC Probe Google After Safari Privacy Controversy: Report
Huffington Post
By Liana B. Baker (Reuters) - The Federal Trade Commission is examining whether Googledeceived consumers by planting so-called Internet cookies in Apple's Web browser without users' consent, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The agency is investigating ...
Google plans to penalize 'overly optimized' sites
CNET
A Google engineer says the company is rejiggering its search results so that sites with excessive optimization don't trump sites with solid content. by Edward Moyer March 17, 2012 12:31 PM PDT Follow @edatnews Google is planning to penalize sites that ...
Google Facing Investigation Over Safari Privacy Issue: Report
eWeek
Google is facing investigation by US and European Union regulators over the use of advertising cookies in Apple's Safari browser. Google is under investigation by regulators in both the United States and European Union, according to sources speaking to ...
ST. PATRICK'S DAY GOOGLE DOODLE: The Emerald style! Artist reveals the real ...
Washington Post (blog)
PATRICK'S DAY GOOGLE DOODLE: The Emerald style! Artist reveals the real inspiration behind elegant Irish logo By Michael Cavna JENNIFER HOM ADMITS that when she first approached drawing today's holiday Doodle, she was fairly green about Irish culture.
Sorry Google, I don't Want Your Answers
Forbes
But its latest announcement makes me question if Google's growth strategy has jumped the shark. Google rocketed to success in the late 90s because of the efficient way it found other people's information. That was key; every other search engine ...
US regulators probe Google privacy breach: report
msnbc.com
The US Federal Trade Commission is examining whether Google deceived consumers by planting so-called Internet cookies in Apple's Web browser without users' consent, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The agency is investigating whether the cookies allowed ...
Google Flight Search goes global
msnbc.com
By Rob Lovitt, msnbc.com contributor On Thursday, the company rolled out an updated version of its Flight Search tool, expanding the airfare-comparison service from the US to more than 500 airports around the world. “Since we launched Flight Search ...
Google VP Of Apps, Enterprise Departs
CRN
As chief of Google Apps, Girouard oversaw the company's fast-growing cloud applications, including Google Docs, Gmail, and Google Calendar. He also started the company's Enterprise unit, which encompassed Google Chromebooks and Search Appliance for ...
Smarter search: Why 'semantic search' will finally let Google understand you
Digitaltrends.com
Reports have Google working on a major revamp to its search engine to better understand what people want, and give it to them directly. What is semanticsearch, and is it anything new? The Wall Street Journal's Amir Efrati has raised eyebrows with an ...
Digitaltrends.com
Happy St. Patrick's Day 2012 Google Logo
Search Engine Watch
Even the search engines are Irish today. To celebrate the holiday, Google has "gone green" by posting a St. Patty's Day Google Doodle in select countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Denmark, the UK, and Ireland.
US Regulators Investigate Google's Breach of Apple's Safari Privacy Setting
International Business Times
By Bhaskar Prasad: Subscribe to Bhaskar's RSS feed The US and European regulators are investigating whether Google violated privacy of users by a special computer code that tricks Apple's Safari Web-browsing software into letting them monitor many ...
International Business Times
Google will answer privacy questions over Safari 'cookies'
Washington Post
March 16 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. will cooperate with privacy regulators looking into how its advertising “cookies” were enabled by Apple Inc.'s Safari Internet browser. Google has been removing the files since discovering that a temporary link ...
Scam ads on Google declining, search giant says
GMA News
So-called scam ads on search giant Google may be on the decline, with Google claiming over the weekend that itdisabled more than 130 million such ads in 2011. Google SVP for engineering Sridhar Ramaswamy said they will continue to make improvements to ...
TCWH Suffered from Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Albany Times Union
The leading web hosting review site Top-Cheap-Web-Hosting.com announces that it's suffered from content delivery network (CDN) on Google organic search traffic in the week ending March 17, 2012. 2 weeks after moved the whole site to Internap CDN resold ...
Google Enterprise chief Girouard heads to startup Upstart.com
GigaOm
17, 2012, 12:34pm PT No Comments David Girouard, who led Google's push into enterprise applications, is leaving the company for a startup called Upstart.com. An eight-year veteran with search giant, Girouard posted the news to his Google+ site Friday ...
GigaOm
Best Google Doodles of all time
Washington Post
Inspired by the Martha Graham Dance Company, artist Mike Dutton and animator Ryan Woodward collaborated on one of Google's most elegant animations. A fan of the late Beatle, artist Mike Dutton wrote of this animated Doodle: "The old saying, ...
Google Doodler finds St. Patrick's Day inspiration from 'Book of Kells'
Washington Post
The Bay Area-based Hom, 24, is a core member of the Google Doodle team, a small roster of gifted illustrators who create the special logos that the search giant publishes on its home page — about 250 days a year, sometimes globally — to mark historic ...
Pew Finds Searchers Attitudes Toward Privacy Are Changing
PC Magazine
This is good news and bad news for companies like Google. People will still flock to its search engine on a daily basis, but are going to be less and less amenable to all the tracking. And it is not just Google doing the tracking, it's everyone.
Google Launches Chat Sms, Trader at Gnigeria Event
AllAfrica.com
By Emeka Aginam and Charles Mgbolu, 17 March 2012 With not less than 2000 developers, entrepreneurs gathered Thursday and Friday at the civic centre Lagos for Google's third web and mobile conference , the search engine giant has launched the Gmail ...
Google Security Paranoia Forces Sys Admins to Work in Miner Helmets
Technabob (blog)
Search giants like Google spend massive sums of money to eek every millisecond of speed out of their servers. In fact, Google goes so far as to design its own servers and networking gear rather than buy off-the-shelf. Google has what many consider to ...
Technabob (blog)
St. Patrick's Day Google Doodle And The Google St. Patty's Day Vibe
WebProNews
By Chris Crum · 6 hours ago · Leave a Comment Today, Saturday, March 17, 2012, is St. Patrick's Day, and Google has a doodle, of course (pictured above). As they often do, Google'sdoodle appeared in other parts of the world (like Australia) before ...
Government Investigations of Google Pile Up
Forbes
Google has admitted that it created a temporary link between a Safari user's computer andGoogle's servers to ascertain whether a user was “also signed into Google and had opted for personalized ads and other content.” Google stopped the practice after ...
Google Working On An Assistant That Is Expected To Be A Siri Challenger
ITProPortal
A while ago, after the tech world was still in love with Siri, we heard rumours thatGoogle is working to challenge Apple's digital assistant with the voice-powered Majel. Now, the rumours have been cooled off a bit and apparently, Google officials...
ITProPortal
More Malware Discovered With Stolen Digital Certificates
PC Magazine
Some of the stolen certificates surfaced right away—one report said the DigiNotar hack in particular might have compromised the Google accounts of more than 300000 Iranians. Last Septemeber, ESET's Robert Lipovsky blogged about a variant of the Qbot ...
Google's Dave Girouard Is Leaving Company to Start New Venture
BusinessWeek
By Brian Womack on March 16, 2012 Google Inc. (GOOG) executive Dave Girouard, who oversaw Google Apps as vice president of product management, is leaving the company to start a new business. “He's departing to found an entrepreneurial venture unrelated ...
Google Search is gonna change forever | Tech Puma
By Tudor Mardar
google search. Do you know how sometimes Google has no idea what exactly we mean by the word we type in the search engine? I mean when you type “jaguar”, you might refer to the animal, and the results are about the car brand. Same goes for “Europe” (continent and band), ... (the way Google makes most of it's revenue). If you ask me, taking into consideration that last yearGoogle changed its search algorithm (move known as Panda), I would say that the move will take place.
Tech Puma
How else can you help your SEO / Google listings?
By Nikki
It's easy to forget about search engine listings when the world and his dog are hyping social media marketing to the max, but it's important that you don't forget it. While social media will obviously serve a purpose, a large proportion of people ...
Social Media Marketing Support...
Too much SEO? Google's upcoming over-optimization penalty ...
By Steffen Konrath
Search Engine Land :: Google's Matt Cutts announced that Google is working on a searchranking penalty for sites that are “over-optimized” or “overly SEO'ed.” Matt announced this during a panel Search Engine Land's ... for sites that are “over- optimized” or “overly SEO'ed.” Matt announced this during a panel Search Engine Land's Editor-In-Chief, Danny Sullivan and Microsoft's Senior Product Marketing Manager of Bing at SXSW named Dear Google & Bing: Help Me Rank Better!
:: Future of Journalism
Google being probed for privacy breach | eGov Magazine
By anoop
According to sources, the Federal Trade Commission is examining whether Google deceived consumers by planting so-called Internet cookies in Apple's Web browser without users' consent. The agency is investigating whether the cookies ...
eGov Magazine
Online Ad Revenue Decline: Implications for Google? : Beyond Search
By Stephen E. Arnold
Considering the fact that the revenue streams of search engines like Bing, Yahoo! and Googleare made up largely of advertising revenue, some have speculated that these declines in ad spending may push these search engines to charge its ...
Beyond Search
How to remove your web.me.com (MobileMe) address from Google
By paul
After switching from MobileMe to a real web hosting service many users are finding that theirweb.me.com website is still appearing in Google, and often higher.
Promote Your Web Site With Mac...
Ami Ben-David is Trying to Beat Google in Mobile Search
By Kira M. Newman
So Ami Ben-David and co. must be really crazy – they're trying to beat Google at search. Everything.me, or “The Everything Project,” is a mobile search engine that delivers easy-to-view, highly visual results. It evolved out of Do@, which called ...
Tech Cocktail
What does Google Panda and its Updates Mean for SEO?
Aside from the rollout of Google's “Search, Plus Your World” in January 2012, the ... And in honor of Google Panda's first birthday, Search Engine Land has a ...
www.tmprod.com/.../what-is-google-panda-and-what-do-the-u...
FTC subpoenas Apple over details of Google search deal for iPhone
The FTC has requested details about the deal between Google and Apple over search on the iPhone as part of its investigation into the search giant's business ...
arstechnica.com/.../ftc-subpoenas-apple-over-details-of-google...
Techmeme: Too Much SEO? Google's Working On An “Over ...
Too Much SEO? Google's Working On An “Over-Optimization” Penalty For That — Google's Matt Cutts announced that Google is working on a search ranking ...
www.techmeme.com/120317/p7
Google Panda Completes 1 Year: A Timeline, Analysis and ...
One year ago, Google pushed out a much needed algorithmic update to its search filter, popularly known as the Panda farmer update. This algorithmic update ...
techie-buzz.com/.../google-panda-1year-timeline-analysis-sug...
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