CNET (blog)
The father of the Internet -- a vice president at Google -- says the search giant could one day be outshined by a company with better techology. by Lance Whitney March 23, 2012 10:13 AM PDT Follow @lancewhit Google is seen by many as the de facto ...
Firefox Switching To Google Secure Search By Default
Search Newz
This is one big news " for the search industry. The Firefox browser used by 25% of internet users is going to use Googles secure search by default. This means users are better secured as nobody except Google will know what they are searching for.
What Google Hasn't Done: Explained Why We as Users Would Want a Unified Online ...
All Things Digital
After years of providing us with many very good products — search, Gmail, GoogleMaps, YouTube, Chrome — Google is now on a mission to turn itself into one big product that understands each of us as one unified person. In a forceful Gizmodo essay ...
All Things Digital
Does Google Deserve To Be Labeled Evil?
WebProNews
By Chris Crum · 3 hours ago · Leave a Comment Is it just me or does Google seem to be getting a lot of negative press lately? There seem to be an irregular amount of stories about Google and whether or not it's “evil” making the rounds.
Why Google is 'right to be paranoid'
Network World
The latest survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 83% of American Internet users say they use Google as their primary search engine, vastly more than any other individual search engine. Yet despite this, Google is constantly ...
Google's Punchd wants to replace loyalty cards with an app
Los Angeles Times
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles Over the years, Google has changed the way we search online and the way many businesses advertise online. With Android, the company has built the most popular smartphone operating system in the world.
I Wish I Knew How to Quit You, Google
Huffington Post (blog)
"If we do things that are evil, with one click you can leave Google..." Sounds compelling, except it's been years since using Google's search page was the only relationship most people have with Google. In fact, given the myriad ways Google penetrates ...
What does Google want out of your Voice?
ITworld.com
Google Voice is an odd duck in Google's app collection. What does it really do for the searchgiant? By Kevin Purdy Add a new comment With almost every Google product, you can point somewhere in your browser window or Android screen and say, ...
Google: When Search Results Suck, It's Because We're Stupid
Search Engine Roundtable
Ryan then explains that when search results "suck" it has nothing to do with "perversely smart at funneling you into money making opportunities." But rather it has to do with Google's "system is too stupid" to get the right result.
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Strikes Back After MPAA Objects To Hotfile Intervention
TorrentFreak
In response the MPAA objected to Google's intervention with claims that the search giant is only interested in influencing the law in its own favor. Now Google is striking back stating that the welfare of legitimate businesses and the climate of free ...
TorrentFreak
Santorum campaign says 'Google problem' has been solved
Daily Caller
By Alex Pappas - The Daily Caller Photo: AP Until recently, the top result for users who typed Santorum's name in the search engine was a crude sexual term devised by gay columnist Dan Savage to attack Santorum. Peter Pasi, a digital consultant to the ...
Daily Caller
NDP LEADERSHIP: Who's popular in Google searches? Thomas Mulcair comes out on top
Canada.com (blog)
Of all the contenders in the race to replace Jack Layton, Thomas Mulcair has been the most searched in Google over the last 90 days. Coming in second is Nathan Cullen, with Peggy Nash nipping at his heels. Paul Dewar and Brian Topp are at the bottom of ...
Google: Much More Than Search, For Better Or Worse
Seeking Alpha
What does Google do? Google (GOOG) does search, and it is arguably the world's best search engine. Type any word or phrase into the Google search engine and it is likely to retrieve more relevant results than you can read in a day.
Google granted creepy eavesdropping patent for keyword-based ads
Android Community
Google is watching you. So is everyone else, of course, and it's not like Google is trying to hide the fact – their controversial new privacy policy was plastered over every single web service for the better part of a month.
Android Community
Move Over, Wikipedia: Amazon May Be The King Of Google Rankings
Search Engine Land
While the SEO industry has spent years decrying how well Wikipedia seems to dominate Google's rankings, it may be that Amazon.com is the real king of visibility. For most of the past 18 months or so, Amazon has shown up on the first page ofGoogle ...
Search Engine Land
Disconnect: Ex-Googlers Raise Funding To Stop Google, Twitter & More From ...
TechCrunch
In October 2010, Google engineer Brian Kennish created Facebook Disconnect, a Chrome extension that disables all traffic from third-party sites to Facebook servers but still allows you to access Facebook itself. The extension was an immediate hit, ...
Google's Street View Debuts in Thailand
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Newley Purnell Google Inc. today officially unveiled its new Street View service for Thailand, releasing online a vast collection of panoramic street-level images of the country. That means that anyone with a Web connection can now view high ...
Dear Google: Take Me To Dinner First Before You Try To Score
Search Engine Land
In the ongoing wake of Search Plus Your World, there has been a lot of piling on the 'beat down Google' bandwagon. Much that has been written has been fair criticism of the search giant, but more than a small portion has been a gratuitous 'piling on' ...
Search Engine Land
Google charts a careful course through Asia's maps
msnbc.com
Google rushed out its panoramic Street View maps in Thailand on Friday as part of the country's efforts to show tourist hot spots have recovered from last year's floods. But it also marked something of a change of fortunes for Google itself, ...
msnbc.com
Keyword Not Provided Percentage to Grow: Firefox Adding Default Encryption for ...
Search Engine Journal
Recently, Mozilla announced that they are testing default encrypted Google searches on the Firefox browser. The change, which is expected to reach all Firefox users within the next several months, will severely limit publishers' analytics data related ...
Artist Juan Gris is the latest Google Doodle art star [video]
Los Angeles Times
Google has a gained a reputation for offering users a quick artistic education. Today's GoogleDoodle is dedicated to Spanish artist Juan Gris on the 125th anniversary of his birth. Gris was born in Madrid on March 23, 1887, and followed the lead of ...
Google overtakes Facebook in employee satisfaction
ZDNet (blog)
By Emil Protalinski | March 22, 2012, 7:27pm PDT Summary: Google employees are more satisfied working for the search giant than Facebook employees are working for the social networking giant. This comes after three years of Facebook beating Google.
Google interviews: would you get a job with the search giant?
The Guardian
At Google, of all places, anyone applying for a job knows how to use a search engine. It's expected that candidates will Google for advice on Google interviews, including the questions asked. Consequently, Google encourages its interviewers to use a ...
The Guardian
Google Analytics “Not Provided” is a Double Standard
Business 2 Community
By Nick Stamoulis, Published March 22, 2012 Back in October Google rocked the world of SEO with their announcement that they intended to make search more secure by encrypting searchdata. When someone who was logged into their Gmail account searched in ...
Lawgical Announces Release of Lawgical Local Search Optimization
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
This service helps legal professionals achieve higher rankings in Google Places and other localsearch platforms, where according to Forbes.com, 70% of consumers are searching for services. Since most potential clients will use searches like "New York ...
Google's eavesdropping technology: Going too far to sell ads?
The Week Magazine
Photo: Erik Isakson/Tetra Images/Corbis SEE ALL 92 PHOTOS Even as Google overhauls itssearch engine, the tech giant is looking for ways to diversify its revenue streams. One possibility? This week, Google was awarded a patent for "advertising based on ...
The One Question Google Panda Has Taught Us To Ask Ourselves ...
By Eric Siu
In the old days, there were clear cut ways to game search engines and rank well for whatever keyword you ... ... Then Google Panda hit and things changed drastically. ... No SEO should ignore the fact that black hat still works – no question.
Search Engine Journal
Google's semantic search and the future of SEO | EtonDigital
By Dejan Levi
The summary of the change is simple - Google is changing its search algorithm away from a solely keyword-based system to also include semantic search - but the consequences for SEOwill take a little time to work out, although it is clear that it will become increasingly difficult to 'game' results with so-called black-hat SEO techniques (last year's Panda update also ... Pandaretained the focus on individual keywords for Google search, but just reconfigured how they were interpreted.
EtonDigital
Google Search, Plus Your World: What You Need to Know | SEO ...
By Shannon Steffen
However, I am going to tell you that you need to pay attention to Google's most recent child because a lack of strategy can cost you in search engine results. Yes, as the search engines are now using social media networks to help gauge ...
Excira SEO and Social Media Blog
Google Changing Search – Again | James Burchill
By James Burchill
When relatively big changes do come, they become topics of discussion in the press and online for months as those who make a living courting Google's search algorithms struggle to figure out what the changes mean to their business. Now, the search giant has once ... This was also asearch engine that, in a rudimentary way, attempted to answer plain English questions directly. It was marginally successful in its ... 4 of My Favourite Google Tools. Tags: google, searchmarketing, SEO ...
James Burchill
The Big Google Change: “Semantic Search” Technology | UK SEO ...
By michelle@queryclick.com (michelle)
It was announced this week that Google is about to undergo one of its biggest changes since its inception in 1996. A long-term overhaul of the search engine's algorithm is set to include new “semantic search” technology. These changes will ...
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Content Marketing Overtakes SEO as Google's Quest to Be “Human ...
By Marcus Sheridan
Google's search capabilities are getting more “human” everyday, which means SEO is going down as content marketing goes up. Here's why… ... What many thought was earth shattering with “Panda” will look like chicken-feed five years from now. With some of the smartest people in the ... But the solution to all of this is the same thing it has been since the search engine was invented by Alan Emtage in 1990—produce great content that people care about. Or, as Cutts put it at SXSW: ...
The Sales Lion by Marcus Sheridan
Google Search Revamp: A Step Closer to Artificial Intelligence ...
By Rafael Scapin
Google is again trying to redefine what it means to search for information on the Web and get closer to delivering on its mission statement to “organize the world's information” and make it accessible. It may also get us closer to realizing the ...
DawsonITE
Google Filtering Tool Ushers YouTube into Classrooms : Beyond ...
By Stephen E. Arnold
Last December, though, YouTube owner Google provided a portal to content that has been vetted for student use and scrubbed of their unpredictable comments sections. Teachers and school officials seem pleased at the development.
Beyond Search
Does Google hate their users? The problems with Google Analytics ...
By Michael Gillen
The reason why Google would do this is pretty easy to understand: they want people to rely only on their paid search, so they're trying to make SEO as difficult as possible. And, what would be tougher than not even knowing if your SEO efforts ...
Techi.com
Google Near Realtime Hot Queries Patent - SEO by the Sea
By Bill Slawski
Trending topics as discovered through Google's query log files, delivered in near real time and displayed as regional results could transform Google from search engine to real time monitor of the Web.
SEO by the Sea
Google Webmaster Tools notice of detected unnatural links
By Patrick Altoft
Google Search Quality Team. We've had a few people contacting us asking what to do about this message recently (Google has sent 700000 messages in the past 2 months). The answer is pretty straightforward – you need to remove all the ...
Blogstorm
The Case Against Google
The Case Against Google For the last two months, you've seen some version of the same story all over the Internet: Delete your search history before Google's ...
gizmodo.com/5895010/the-case-against-google
Google in the News - Semantic Search, Movies from Google, Google ...
Almost everyone who has a presence on the internet understands the basic premise of SEO and the importance of keywords. Big changes are underway at ...
gplusdecoded.com/.../google-in-the-news-semantic-search-mo...
Stop Google search personalization keeping search history - Web ...
I know I can stop Google search personalization by not logging in or clearing web history. What I want to do is to keep my search history, but stop Google to ...
webapps.stackexchange.com/.../stop-google-search-personaliz...
How long for the site to appear on google search engine? - Google ...
How long for the site to appear on google search engine? iaresearch57, 3/13/12 10:38 AM, I created a new site, clicked share, but when I search the keywords in ...
https://groups.google.com/a/...com/d/topic/.../-JmeAOkdz6A
Search Techniques Google, How To Search Better On Google ...
It has seen that many people doing Google Search don't get better results and the reason behind it is improper searching techniques. Therefore, if you really ...
www.bloggingshiksha.com/.../google-searching-tricks-to-get-b...
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