Full FCC report on Google Street View reveals new details

Full FCC report on Google Street View reveals new details
Los Angeles Times
The Google engineer who wrote the code enabling Street View cars to capture data from unprotected wireless networks told fellow engineers and a manager that he had done so, the FCC report says. A Google Street View mapping and camera car drives through ...

Los Angeles Times

Bing Details URL Normalization In Webmaster Tools
WebProNews
It's the second most popular search engine now and plenty of people use it. The good thing is that you can apply tips from both Google and Bing to your Web site to make your site the mostSEO-friendly Web site there is. Today's tip comes from Bing on ...

Sky Sports.com Google Search
SkySports
Gael Givet then cleared a Van der Vaart free-kick with Spurs again building up a head of steam insearch for their second goal. It almost came from the resulting corner as captain William Gallas glanced a header on to the crossbar, which came to ...

Google Penguin Update: 5 Types of Link Issues Harming Some Affected Websites
Search Engine Watch
The main purpose of the Penguin update is to put a deep freeze on web spam in Google's search results. By extension, a big piece of that web spam appears to be links from low-quality networks. Before we get into the new findings, first it's important ...

Google Gamifies Maps. Where Will the Cube Take You?
Technorati
Millions took some time on Friday to search for "Zerg rush" in the simple Google Search form, madly clicking away to battle the insect-like swarms of o's destroying their search results. The search "Easter Egg" is one of many hidden secretive, ...

Technorati

Google Drive vs. Microsoft SkyDrive: 4 reasons Google wins out
ITworld.com
Comparing the two services, Google Drive emerged as the winner. Here are four reasons why. After comparing the two services, Google Drive emerged as the winner, based on four reasons. Let's take a look at them. Google has a six-year head start on ...

Street View Payload Data Was Irresistible Scientific Opportunity for Google
Forbes
A report by the Federal Communications Commission concluded definitively thatGoogle as an organization had knowingly collected a vast trove of personal information—so-called payload data—while building its Street View database.

Forbes

Stekys Media Help Calm Client Fears Amidst Google Penguin Update
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The biggest search engine on the planet has always preached a policy of "Do no evil" both as a company policy and in terms of search engine optimization and more importantly in search engine manipulation. In 2011 Google launched their Panda update ...

Google's Zerg Rush Easter Egg Goes Viral
iProgrammer
Google's has an established tradition of giving users hidden or unexpected surprises. The latest one is currently encouraging millions of users, who may never have heard of them, to shoot "zerglings". The original idea of the software Easter Egg was ...

Google launches Drive to compete with Dropbox and Skydrive
Examiner.com
Well Google thinks it has the answer. With Drive, users start off with 5 GB of free storage space in the cloud, which is upgradeable to up to 16 TB (who really needs that much space?!) for a whopping $800 a month. Google has several advantages over ...

Google Posts FCC Report about Street View
PCWorld
By Christina DesMarais, PCWorld Apr 28, 2012 1:50 PM Google has made public a report of the Federal Communications Commission's probe into the payload data its Street View cars had been collecting from unprotected Wi-Fi networks, reports the Los ...

Cloud opens up for your data
Business Standard (blog)
Not all users and businesses will be comfortable using an online backup service provided by asearch and advertising company. Users or businesses that have data or files already on GoogleDocs, Google Drive does make the sense.

Google launches AdWords on video
The Australian
JUST three weeks after the Federal Court found Google was responsible for false and misleading advertising through its AdWords search engine advertising software, the company has launched a video version of the product, targeting businesses that ...

Google's Easter egg game for Starcraft fans: Zerg Rush
GMA News
Visitors to Google who type in "zerg rush" in the search box will get their search results page invaded by lowercase Os that eat up the content on the page. A screenshot of Google's latest Easter egg: a point-and-shoot game that pays homage to the ...

Shut up and 'Drive': Could Google's new cloud computing service be the next ...
CultureMap Houston
Shut up and 'Drive': Could Google's new cloud computing service be the next big thing? By Minh Vu Google has announced the arrival of its latest project and dubbed the cloud computing service "Google Drive." Drive allows users to access their files at ...

Google Chats About Its First TV Hackathon And Why Discovery Code Is Critical
Forbes
If there were any doubts left about whether Google still had its eyes on the TV prize, the geeks will lead you to the truth. Last weekend in both Mountain View and London, developers were hacking new trails for Google, which hosted its first-ever...

Forbes

Google confirms investigations by two more countries
VatorNews
Google has revealed that it's now the targets of regulators in two more countries, only a day after the FTC hired a new prosecutor to investigate the search giant. Mountain View, California-basedGoogle is currently under investigation by agencies in ...

Details of FCC Google inquiry made public
Bend Bulletin
By Los Angeles Times New revelations in a full report detailing the Federal Communications Commission's investigation into Google's Street View service are raising questions about whether the search giant escaped scrutiny for capturing personal ...

Hard Facts on Software - Get the Most Out of Google
AllAfrica.com
By Immo Bohm, 27 April 2012 A few days ago I stumbled across an article talking about all thesearch options one tends to not know about with Google. So I have decided to take a break from the safe online shopping theme this week and rather share with ...

FCC report marks Google low
Financial Times
By Richard Waters in San Francisco The lone engineer who was blamed by Google for its most controversial breach of online privacy told others in the company far more about the affair thanGoogle has previously disclosed, according to the results of a ...

Google spends $5.03M on lobbying
Worcester Telegram
Google even outspent Verizon Wireless, which spent $4.51 million. The increase is a sign that the search engine company can no longer afford to operate in a Silicon Valley vacuum. For years, Google had a reputation for indifference inside the Beltway.

Google warns over mobile payments
Financial Times
By Alex Barker in Brussels and Daniel Thomas in London Google and PayPal have sounded the alarm in Brussels over a proposed joint venture between Britain's biggest mobile phone operators, warning it could choke the fast-developing mobile payments ...

Google TV YouTube app updated for better recommendations, search and sharing
Engadget
By Richard Lawler posted Apr 28th 2012 5:18PM It only makes sense that the Google TV initiative to increase personalization would extend to videos served up from its YouTube site, and now the official app has been updated to do just that.

FTC May Be Looking To Take Google To Court Over Antitrust Issues
Mobile bloom News
Google seems to be emulating Apple in almost every sphere as it now faces a lawsuit from a government authority. Google will be heading into a showdown with the Federal Trade Commission. On the 26 th of April, the FTC announced that the organization ...

Google Death Star strikes fear into also-ran
The Australian Financial Review
Google Australia has been described again as the Death Star by rival ninemsn as part of a concerted effort to blunt the momentum it has in the search and online display advertising market. The media sector is abuzz with conjecture that Google is now ...

Google Street View Cars, a Closer Look Under the Hood
autoevolution
It's almost a cliche, but we all know that Google is no longer just a search engine company and the Mountain View giant is now involved in what can very well be considered revolutionary projects. Just think about the autonomous car developed by Google.

Google releases full report of US inquiry into street data collection probe
Newstrack India
London, Apr 29 (ANI): Google has released a report of the US Federal Communications Commission's inquiry into the sensitive data it collected from millions of unknowing households while operating specially equipped cars for its Street View service.

Mobile commerce study reveals important data about search requests
QR Code Press
A Chitika mobile commerce study showed that Linux drives the fewest searchesand iOS and Mac platforms drive the most. Though Google easily receives the most queries in terms of search engines – with a 92 percent share – but according to the Chitika ad ...

QR Code Press

Top Tech News: FTC Hires Outside Attorney to Investigate Google
NewsFactor Network
The Federal Trade Commission hired an outside attorney to help it deem whether to file antitrust charges against the search-engine giant. The Wall Street Journal confirmed that the FTC hired Beth Wilkinson, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, ...

Google sued in France over 'Jewish' searches
The Times of Israel
(Google's English sites use the same autocomplete tool, suggesting “Jewish” when you look up names including Rupert Murdoch and Jon Hamm. Neither is Jewish, but the suggestion, based on Google's search algorithm, shows that many users are trying to ...
 
The Times of Israel

Excluding a site in a Google search | Davin's blog
By Davin Granroth
This morning I found myself thinking about that perennial question of the reliability of Wikipedia. This time it is because my older daughter (she's in junior high) is forbidden to use Wikipedia articles in papers for school, but she wasn't given any ...
Davin's blog

Android App of the Day: Google Voice Search - TheUnlockr
When driving your car, walking down the street, or jumping on the subway for your morning commute searching the web on your smartphone can sometimes presen.
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A Marketer's Guide to Optimizing Images for Google Search | Digital ...
Learn the best practices for optimizing your images and visual content for SEO. ... GoogleTargets Low Quality Sites Again Source : Google Inside Search Blog Importance : Our Commentary Google has started the rollout of a small al.
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Eliminate Personalized Search Results at Google
By LindaJoMartin
A month ago I sent my first-ever email to Google asking for a way to get a plain-vanilla listing insearch results rather than all the personalized search results – which drive me batty. You see, I often search for my own sites in Google to see if ...
Linda Jo Martin

Google will Never Lift their Penalties | SEO Seattle | Organic Search ...
By brandon
We have a post that talks about when penalties can be lifted against a particular site where Matt Cutts, the head of the spam team, talks about the process to get reconsidered within the search engine results pages. It shows up on the first page ...
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Google's Penguin Update: Threat or Resolution? | Spiders Watch
By admin
This update already affected more than 3% of search engine results of high-ranking sites. After webmaster's rage over Google Panda, this new Google update has created chaos for some websites and search results. ... “The idea is basically to try and level the playing ground a little bit, so all those people who have sort of been doing, for lack of a better word, 'over-optimization' or overly doing their SEO, compared to the people who are just making great content and trying to make a ...
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Google Explains How Search & Pagerank Works [Video] – Simply ...
If you were ever curious about how Google determines pagerank and how it crawls through the ...
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HowTo: Find license free images with Google Search – gustmees
But when searching on Google the results show ONLY ALL images! But there is a little trick to find the right stuff, which I will show you here… First of all you need ...
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Is Bing Superior To Google in Search Quality? Google SEO News and ...
But are Google's search results better than Bing - probably, when you can see and compare them. That's the key issue for me - they are frequently not prominent ...
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Google Search and Encrypted Search | Publications
Google has began to encrypt its searches end of 2011 (October 2011). It first started onGoogle.com before expending to more Google properties and countries ...
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"Zerg Rush" swarms Google search results | ScrewAttack.com
Today, multiple sites around the web, including CNN, are showcasing the newest little easter egg from Google. Googling "Zerg Rush" will cause a large number ...
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FTC Hires Attorney, Eyes Google Search: What's Next?

FTC Hires Attorney, Eyes Google Search: What's Next?
InformationWeek
Despite Google's mantra, "competition is only a click away", FTC hires lawyer to head antitrust investigation of Google's search advertising business. This pressures Google to make concessions. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek For the past three years ...

Why The Antitrust Allegations Against Google Are Absurd
Forbes
Now the Federal Trade Commission has hired Beth A. Wilkinson, an experienced outside litigator, to head up an investigation into, among other things, whether Google tweaked that search engine to advance its own interests. The accusation sounds slightly ...

'Zerg rush' chews up Google search results
CNN
By Doug Gross, CNN The "O's" from the Google image become swarming "zerglings" after a searchfor the gaming term "Zerg rush." (CNN) -- Feeling besieged by pesky little problems today? You might want to be careful with your Google searches.

Google's Destruction Is Already Under Way (GOOG)
San Francisco Chronicle
"The general issue underlying the investigation is whether Google abuses its power in the market for Internet search. Google controls about 66 percent of the United States search market, according to comScore. Microsoft's Bing accounts for about 15 ...

Google 'Zerg Rush' Easter Egg Invades Your Search Results
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius It's Friday, so why not waste a few minutes this morning with Google's latest playable Easter Egg? Typing "zerg rush" in Google.com seemingly returns the regular Google search results for this unusual term, but soon, ...

Google gives 'rush' to gamers with Zerg
Fox News
A screengrab of the new "Zerg Rush" Easter Egg in action on Google.com.Google Next Slide Previous Slide What a rush! Google has hidden a new Easter Egg on its homepage that's bound to get gaming geeks hyped. Type the words “zerg rush” into the search ...

Google's 'Zerg Rush' Easter Egg Celebrates Starcraft Game
PCWorld
By Ian Paul, PCWorld Apr 27, 2012 8:00 AM If you're sitting at work bored out of your mind right now, try typing in "zerg rush" to Google search and play a fun point-and-shoot that sure beats filling out TPS reports on a Friday.

Google Drive: Half-Baked Cloud, With Scary License
InformationWeek
Because it belongs to Google, Google Drive offers some services that the smaller cloud storage services can't. In addition to integration across Google services such as Gmail, Google+, andsearch, the service includes maturing technologies such as ...

FTC Recruits Beth Wilkinson for Google Antitrust Probe
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Brent Kendall and Joe Palazzolo The Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday it has enlisted a seasoned litigator to help lead its antitrust investigation into whether Google Inc. has abused its dominance in Web-search advertising, ...

Google 'Zerg Rush' To Unlock A Delightfully Geeky Game (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
Tired of the same old Google searches? You type your query, Google returns results, you click the one you want. Yawn. But what if you had to battle Google for your search results? If that sounds like your cup of tea, then type "zerg rush" into your ...

US Escalates Google Case by Hiring Noted Outside Lawyer
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
The Federal Trade Commission is examining Google's immensely powerful and lucrative searchtechnology, which directs users to hundreds of millions of online and offline destinations every day. The case has the potential to be the biggest showdown ...

FTC chairman talks privacy as agency pumps up Google probe
Computerworld
With Wilkinson on board for the Google probe, observers say the investigation has now moved into a higher gear. "They're obviously taking this very seriously," said Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research. "Google is a very ...

Google 'Zerg Rush' Easter Egg eats search results
Chicago Sun-Times
BY LAURAN BERTA SUN-TIMES STAFF April 27, 2012 11:56AM As users discovered this morning, a Google search of the phrase 'Zerg Rush' releases flying O's from the Google logo which slowly eat your search results if not clicked on.

Google “Zerg rush” to play a hidden game
New York Daily News
Google has planted an end-of-the-week treat for video game fans on its homepage today: a point-and-shoot game hidden within in the search results for the words "Zerg Rush." Enter "Zerg Rush" into Google's search bar, and you'll find your results ...

New York Daily News

Zerg Rush Easter egg and other great time wasters from Google
Los Angeles Times
If you have a few minutes to spare, try typing the words "zerg rush" into Google from the search engine's homeage. Then wait and watch as a hungry pack of Os who start to devour all the words on the search result page. But this isn't just a sit back ...

Google's 'zerg rush' Easter egg and other surprises from the search giant
Washington Post
It's not the first time Google has made headlines for a fun Easter egg or light-hearted hoax. Here are some other examples of Google getting silly. Journalists noticed on April 27, 2012, that if yousearch for "zerg rush" in Google, a series of "o"s ...

Google blames FCC for delays in Street View investigation
Kansas City Star
The move came as the Federal Trade Commission announced it had hired an outside lawyer to run its antitrust investigation, escalating a separate probe into Google's search business. The FTC said Beth Wilkinson, a former Justice Department prosecutor ...

How Google's Drive helps kill Microsoft's Office
CNET
This is how a search company can steal the productivity business: By storing work, not helping users edit it. by Rafe Needleman April 27, 2012 10:54 AM PDT Follow @rafe Google's hard drive in the sky, Google Drive, is a big threat to other cloud ...

FTC hires more help in Google probe
CBS News
Full coverage of Google at Tech Talk Former Justice Department prosecutor Beth Wilkinson will take the reins as the FTC digs deeper into allegations that Google Inc. has been abusing its dominance of Internet search to stifle competition and drive up ...
 
CBS News

FTC hires former DoJ lawyer in Google antitrust investigation
ZDNet (blog)
The Federal Trade Commission has hired a former Justice Dept. prosecutor in efforts to push forward with its investigation into Google. Lawyer Beth Wilkinson will help the Commission decide whether it should bring charges against the search giant for ...

ZDNet (blog)

Google search eats your browser with a 'Zerg Rush'
msnbc.com
If you search "Zerg Rush" a swarm of Os will eat all the information on your webpage as a new easter egg referencing the popular video game "Starcraft." In-Game's Todd Kenreck reports.

Google Zerg rush attacks your search results with this fun Starcraft-inspired ...
VentureBeat
Head over to Google.com and type “zerg rush” (without the quotes) into the searchfield. Clicking on the search icon or hitting return on your keyboard will cause theGoogle logo to drop tons of little letter Os to attack the entire page, ...

VentureBeat

FTC hires outside lawyer to steer Google probe
Boston.com
Former Justice Department prosecutor Beth Wilkinson will take the reins as the FTC digs deeper into allegations that Google Inc. has been abusing its dominance of Internet search to stifle competition and drive up online advertising prices.

Google Explains Latest Search Game: 'Zerg Rush'
TPM
Type “zerg rush” into Google search on Friday and get ready to have your search results attacked by copies of the letter “O” in Google's logo, which spring to life and swarm the page in Google'slatest animated, time-sucking, game-like easter egg.

Google's “Zerg rush” Easter egg game eats up search results
ZDNet (blog)
By Zack Whittaker | April 27, 2012, 3:53am PDT Summary: The battle of the Zergs is on, as Googleinstalls a new Easter egg to waste millions of global productivity hours. Kill the rogue letters and stop them destroying your search results!

Google goes to Washington
Fortune
Meanwhile, Google is expanding its Washington presence in a big way. FORTUNE -- Recent moves by both Google (GOOG) and the government seem to indicate that thesearch giant's future might be determined in Washington as much as in Mountain View.

Fortune

Daily Report: US Escalates Google Antitrust Case
New York Times (blog)
The inquiry, by the Federal Trade Commission, centers on whether Google is abusing its advantage in Internet search by manipulating results to favor its own products. The case has the potential to be the biggest showdown between regulators and Silicon ...

New York Times (blog)

FTC turns up heat on Google in antitrust probe
Los Angeles Times
By Jessica Guynn The Federal Trade Commission, which is investigating whether Google has abused its colossal share of the US search market and put competitors at a disadvantage, has unsheathed a new weapon in its year-old probe of the search giant: It ...

Zerg Rush decimates Google search | Ubergizmo
By Edwin Kee
The dreaded Zerg Rush – a strategy that was once considered to be unbeatable in the hands of an extremely skilled Zerg player in Starcraft, but it has since been balanced out, but is still a nail biting experience. Why not type “Zerg rush” into ...
Ubergizmo

Zerg Rush Easter Egg Destroys Your Google Search Results ...
By Josh Wolford
Zerg Rush Easter Egg Destroys Your Google Search Results. As if it's not already hard enough to get anything done on a Friday… A new Easter Egg in Google search results allows you to fight an onslaught of little Google “o”s, usually with ...
WebProNews

Online Marketing News: Mobile Shows Muscle, Google Panda to ...
By Ashley Zeckman
Google's recent webspam algorithm update (aka Penguin) released earlier this week is aimed at better filtering out spammy SEO tactics like: keyword stuffing, link schemes, cloaking, doorway” pages, etc. (Weren't they ... Learn what other changes are in-store including the YSlow browser plugin or other Google tools such as Google Analytics and PageSpeed Online for Site Performance analysis and how that might impact your reporting in this post from Search Engine Land. Time to ...
Online Marketing Blog

Maximum PC | Google Searches Fall Prey To A Devastating ZERG ...
By Brad Chacos
A new Google easter egg brings the doomed gameplay of fending off an unending Zerg Rush to yourGoogle Search results -- but unlike in Starcraft, it's actually surprisingly fun. (You're still screwed in the end, though.) Just search for "Zerg ...
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Zerglings Have Rushed Your Google Search Results. Kill Them All
By Adrian Covert
Someone at Google must still be obsessed with Starcraft 2, because if you bring up the search engine and type in "zerg rush," a (very, very) Google-fied version of Starcraft 2 appears before your eyes.
Gizmodo

Shoot the Messenger: Author Clout to Play a Role in Google Search ...
By Warren
Over the course of the past year, sweeping changes to search engine rankings — largely concerningGoogle's changes to its own online platform — have forced businesses and publishers to change how they produce content. For marketers, these changes ... Google's Panda update, the centerpiece of its search refinements, garnered the biggest attention, but the increased integration of social media into publishing has also had its hand in changing how marketers think. And if all goes ...
PLR Internet Marketing

6 Ways to Boost Your Rankings Using Google Authorship - Search ...
By Kevin Gibbons
Google authorship and Google+ already influence personalized search results – which can boost the rankings for your social connections. This opens huge ... In comparison, only 41 percent trust search engine results! That stat alone shows the ... In many ways, authorship is almost a Panda-style algorithm update, meaning that Google will reward quality over quantity. Look for top writers ...Google's Unnatural Links Messages: The Shot Heard 'round the SEO World? April 24, 2012 ...
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ZOMG! Search "Zerg Rush" in Google! | TechnoBuffalo
By Joey Davidson
Here's a fun search term trick for Google: “Zerg Rush.” Type it in and defend your search index from the incoming zerglin–ahem, Os. It's tough stuff, but Google keeps track of your kills and APM.Google has been doing these things for a while ...
TechnoBuffalo

New Google Easter Egg "destroys" search results - Neowin
By John Callaham
A newly found Google Easter Egg "destroys" a person's search results on the site when they type in "zerg rush" in the search box, in an apparent homage to the Starcraft game series.
Neowin

Google Places & Local Search Buzz – Issue #1 April 27 2012 ...
By Linda Buquet
Google Places Optimization and Local SEO Blog ... Flunking the local search market - Googleseemed to have the biggest advantage as the integration of local search and user reviews seemed to be a no-brainer for the search engine giant.
Google Places Optimization and...

Google 'Zerg rush' to launch a swarm of devastating, ravenous Os
By Andrew Couts
Fail to click quickly enough (and fail you will), and your search results (and everything else on theGoogle search page) will be consumed by the ravenous letters. Of course, once you're done, you can post your score to Google+. Just be ...
Digital Trends

FTC Retains Outside Expert Counsel for Google Antitrust Probe ...
By David Angotti
google antitrust investigation counsel retained The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which is currently investigating Google to determine if the search engine is unfairly favoring its own web properties over competitors, announced Thursday ...
Search Engine Journal

Latest updates in google panda?? - SEO Chat
Find help for defeating spam pages, building site trust, and beating the Google algorithm. Also read about the best SEO tools to help with Google search.
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[ubuntu] Google search auto suggestions not working in Chrome ...
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and Chrome 18.0.1025.162. The search term auto suggestions have stopped working in Chrome when I run a search in Google.
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Google+ trends: Google Search 'zerg rush' easter egg, The Piano ...
From Yahoo! News: Google+ users are having fun with a new Google Search easter egg which transforms the search experience into an interactive video game ...
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Zerg Rush gobbles up your Google search - One News Page
Zerg Rush gobbles up your Google search: An interesting new Easter Egg has surfaced in Google searches that turns your search into a video game. And this ...
www.onenewspage.com/.../Zerg-Rush-gobbles-up-your-Googl...

google search location - Opera Mobile for Android - Opera Community
Hi, is there a way of changing the google location for the google search shortcut bar next to the address bar. I am in South Africa, but it seems to search from ...
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Google Antitrust Inquiry Advances

Google Antitrust Inquiry Advances
New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday it has hired an outside litigator to take charge of an antitrust investigation of Google, a sign that the agency has moved beyond the preliminary stage of its inquiry and was preparing to go ...

Google's New Search Algorithm to Crack Down on 'Black Hat Webspam'
Wired News
By Ars Technica By Matthew Braga, Ars Technica Following previous changes to Google's ranking and page layout algorithms, the search giant is pushing yet another update to its algorithm this week with the hopes of curbing “black hat webspam” from ...

5 Reasons Microsoft SkyDrive is Better Than Google Drive
PCWorld (blog)
By Ian Paul, PCWorld Apr 26, 2012 7:21 AM Amid the excitement over Google Drive, the search giant's new Dropbox competitor, Microsoft recently improved a similar online sync and storage service, SkyDrive. Microsoft added the ability to store files ...

Google trial docs show plans for growth past search
Reuters
* Google's TV, commerce projections seen as "ambitious" * Court documents provide rare insight into search giant * Emerging threat from Facebook, Bing By Dan Levine and Alexei Oreskovic April 25 (Reuters) - Google Inc projected in 2010 it would get ...

Bing, bang, boom: Is Microsoft's search engine secretly for sale?
ZDNet (blog)
Here's how The Times described what their sources said: “Some executives within Microsoft have advocated selling Bing to another company, with the idea that a company better focused on the Internet market could pose a more credible challenge to Google, ...

Google Gains Ground in Internet-Search Biz
Barron's
In the search-engine industry, overall global query growth rose 21% in the first quarter of 2012, adding 95 billion queries year-over-year, the second most added in any quarter, trailing only the seasonally strong fourth quarter of 2011.

What's next for Google? Secret docs reveal plans that didn't pan out
Fox News
REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Google TV. Driverless cars. Robotic homes. What's next for the sprawling tech giant Google? Rarely seen internal corporate documents filed in a California court -- part of the ongoing legal battle between the search giant and ...

Cloud wars: How Google Drive's privacy policy stacks up against its rivals'
Washington Post
The Google Drive cloud storage service launched yesterday to much fanfare, but as with any newGoogle product, there are important questions about how the company will actually use personal data uploaded to the system. Google sells ads against your ...

Google trial documents reveal ambitious plans for growth beyond search
Financial Post
Google highlighted the emerging threat from an alliance between social networking service Facebook and Microsoft's Bing search engine, noting that “Facebook-Bing users may bypass Google.” Google also said revenue from its business selling software to ...

Financial Post

Google Drive Sparks Privacy Concerns Among Businesses
Wall Street Journal (blog)
There is some confusion around whether Google Drive, the company's new online storage service, gives the search engine too much license over user data. The New York Times advised employees not to use Drive for company content until Google clarified how ...

“Something” is Wrong with Google (since 2004)
Search Engine Journal
It never ceases to amaze me how Google has become such an integral part of our lives. Search has evolved in such colossal proportions and especially with the advent of Google instant my belief thatGoogle can actually read my mind has only been ...

Confusion over content rights greets Google Drive
CBS News
(CBS/AP) SAN FRANCISCO — Google is facing suspicion and confusion as it tries to persuade people to entrust personal documents, photos and other content to the company's new online storage service. That became apparent shortly after Tuesday's...

CBS News

How to Google-Proof Your Small Business SEM Strategy
Search Engine Watch
by Adam Stetzer, April 26, 2012 Comments For small businesses, recent developments in thesearch engine marketing (SEM) industry have been quite terrifying. Small business owners already live on the edge, often with large debt and little margin for ...

FTC hires outside attorney in Google antitrust case
San Jose Mercury News
By Mike Swift SAN FRANCISCO -- Signaling the gravity of the government's antitrust investigation against Google (GOOG), the Federal Trade Commission has hired a prominent Washington litigator to serve as its outside counsel in the case, the first time ...

Google disputes FCC's reasons for recent $25000 fine in Street View data ...
Washington Post
SAN FRANCISCO — Google is firing back at the Federal Communications Commission on an investigation that led to a $25000 fine against the Internet search leader. In a letter sent Thursday,Google Inc. disputed the reason for the fine.

The Penguin Update: Google's Webspam Algorithm Gets Official Name
Search Engine Land
Move over Panda, there's a new Google update in town: Penguin. That's the official name Google has given to the webspam algorithm that it released on Tuesday. For those unfamiliar with Google updates, I'd recommend reading my Why Google PandaIs More A ...

Search Engine Land

Google Investing $300 Million in Iowa Data Center
Sci-Tech Today
By Margery A. Beck Internet giant Google will begin construction on a new data center on a 1000-acre site south of Council Bluffs in Iowa. The center will bring about 50 new jobs to the city across the Missouri River from Omaha, Neb.

Sci-Tech Today

Google Drive falls foul of China firewall
SlashGear
Google Drive has seen China's Great Firewall slam it its cloud-storage face, the latest service from the big search firm to be blocked from billion-strong population. Launched earlier this week to take on DropBox, Box and SkyDrive, Google Drive offers ...

SlashGear

Google Street View Investigation by US Declared Closed
BusinessWeek
Google's disclosure about the inquiry was in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission today. The FCC proposed on April 13 fining the owner of the largest search engine for delaying the commission's probe into improper data collection.

Penguin Update Recovery Tips & Advice
Search Engine Land
We've got a little initial advice from Google on the topic, mixed with our own. The Penguin Update launched on April 24. It was a chance to Google's search results that was designed to punish pages that have been spamming Google.

Search Engine Land

Google fires back at FCC on Wi-Fi investigation
The Seattle Times
Google is firing back at the Federal Communications Commission on an investigation that led to a $25000 fine against the Internet search leader. The Associated Press No comments have been posted to this article. Google is firing back at the Federal ...

Google Drive's Introduction Looks To Dropkick Dropbox
Forbes
Google introduced its cloud storage offering Google Drive, which had reportedly been stuck in development limbo for years. Google Drive will compete with Dropbox, Microsoft's SkyDrive as well as Apple's iCloud, a cloud-based storage and sync service.

Google Related, One Pass Shutting Down
Search Engine Watch
by Danny Goodwin, April 26, 2012 Comments Google is bidding farewell to another batch of products that have failed to catch on. Google Related, One Pass, and Patent Search are among the latest products Google announced is sending to live on a farm ...

Google and the myth of first-mover advantage
Washington Post (blog)
By Dominic Basulto The reception area at Google's offices on December 2, 2008 in Washington, DC. (Brendan Hoffman) “First-mover advantage” has been the rallying cry of the innovator for generations. But it's being replaced by a very different (and ...

Big Google Algorithms Update: Rankings Drop for 3% of Websites
PR Newswire (press release)
The roll-out of yesterday's webspam algorithm confirmed what SEO's or any avid Google follower, for that matter, already knew was coming. While the algorithm is set to affect 3% of search results and will indeed impact many sites alike, ...

Baidu's Mobile & Personalized Efforts Will Drive Growth
Forbes
[1] Baidu is the leader in the Chinese online search market where it competes with Google and a few small local competitors. It generates most of its revenues from search and display advertising. Baidu is likely to continue to dominate the Chinese ...

7 Ways Links Cause Search Rank Changes
Search Engine Watch
by Eric Ward, April 26, 2012 Comments Based on the happenings over the past few weeks, and especially given that Google is sending warning messages about unnatural links to webmasters, it seems almost inevitable that the next great link building ...

Google pays fine, but denies impeding Street View probe
Kansas City Star
"Google has cooperated fully with investigations around the globe regarding this matter, acting in good faith at all times," the Mountain View, Calif., company said Thursday in a letter to the FCC. Thesearch giant also revealed that the US Department ...

Google Panda Update: Data Refresh Hit Last Week | WebProNews
By Chris Crum
This latest Panda refresh came to light as Searchmetrics put out its winner and loser lists (though the firm specified that they were not the final lists) for Google's new Webspam update, which is presumably still rolling out. .... So basically she fails to understand how this games a search engine's index and so until she removes the 302′s she's going to have to rely on referral traffic mostly for her website as her search engine traffic keeps on dropping more and more each day. It's not just...
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Google Panda List & Avoid Overuse of SEO - Webmaster Forum
By snakeair
... commenting. Google's search algorithm is something. ... SEO Forum Search engine optimizationdiscussions. ... The last major update to Google's algorithm was known as the Panda update and it was first released back in February of 2011.
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How Does Google Search Work So Fast? [With Matt Cutts ...
By Kim Castleberry
Have you ever wondered how Google goes about turning all of the sites on the web into a relevantsearch. ... Note: This is more of a “how do the mechanics work” rather than a “how do I SEO my site so it performs well” kinda video. I did note ...
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A Marketer's Guide to Optimizing Images for Google Search
By Pamela Vaughan
It's no surprise then that today on the Official Google Webmaster blog, Google shared some helpful tips on how to effectively optimize your website's visual content and images to get found in Google'sImage Search. We thought these tips, ...
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Google updates its search filtering algorithm, targets SEO violators
By Evan Rodgers
google search android. Google has announced an update to its ranking engine in an effort to reduce spam in search results. The update targets specific "black hat" search engine optimization (SEO) techniques, or methods used to increase the visibility of websites without any corresponding increase in content quality or relationship with the search query. ... This update has a smaller impact thanGoogle's February update, referred to as Panda, which affected 12 percent of queries.
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Google begins penalizing search 'over-optimization' | HITBSecNews
By l33tdawg
Google is making a change to its search algorithm to penalize what the company's head of Web spam called "over-optimization" and instead favor websites with high-quality content and less refinedsearch-engine optimization. Google ...
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Google Drive Goggles
By Alex Chitu
It also found a screenshot of Google's homepage and a Chrome logo when searching for [Google], this time using OCR technology. "Let's say you upload a scanned image of an old newspaper clipping. You can search for a word from the text ...
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How to Use Google Alerts to Stay Updated On Anything As It ...
By Melissa
A Google Alert can be created for any number of queries, such as your favorite musician or news headline. Google Alerts bring together search results to find new additions to Google's search engine. Everything from news articles, web sites, ...
VikiTech.com

Built in Sydney: Google Drive | Official Google Australia Blog
By A Googler
Built in Sydney: Google Drive. For the last few years, many of us in Google's Sydney office have been working on the latest new features for Google Docs. But a lot of them have been “under the hood” type pieces of engineering -- hard to explain to ... These contributions include things like rendering files of many types in a browser, using optical character recognition (OCR) and other technologies to enable search across those files, social commenting, and the Drive app for Android.
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Head of Google's Spam Team Explains How Google's Search Works ...
By brandon
Here's an 8 minute video that Matt Cutts, head of the Spam team at Google, just shared with us on his Google Plus account: ... Tweet. SEO Seattle | Organic Search Engine Marketing · Home · About · Clients · SEO Success · Rankings Success ...
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USDM Blog: Google Announces New Algoritm
By Marketing Department
For a site to have excellent search engine optimization it requires a quality content strategy, regular site optimization maintenance, and time. We applaud Google with this latest innovation and know that it will make for a better consumer search ...
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Google Faces Intellectual Property Questions Over Online Storage ...
By mhigginscbs
As the owner of the Internet's dominant search engine, Google has faced increasing scrutiny over the trove of data it gathers about Web surfers and the ways it uses the information to serve up ads based on people's personal tastes and ...
CBS Seattle

Life at Google - Google Jobs
Search engineering at Google Hear from the engineers that work on the product that's been there since our beginning: Google search. They share why they're ...
www.google.com/about/jobs/lifeatgoogle/

Google Search Forum - Google Product Forums
Share your suggestions, ask questions, and connect with Google Search users from around the world. For more information on how to get the most out of Google ...
productforums.google.com/d/forum/websearch

How does Google search works ?
How does Google search works crawling and analysis of a site, crawling timelines, frequencies ...
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Winners & Losers From Google's Webspam Update

Winners & Losers From Google's Webspam Update
Search Engine Land
Yesterday, Google rolled out a new search algorithm it says should better prevent webspam from polluting its search results. That's already produced changes. Who won and who lost? Searchmetrics has done a quick analysis. Winners include names like...
Search Engine Land 

SEO Consult® Review Impact of Latest Google Panda Update
Sacramento Bee
By SEO Consult SEO Consult® , a UK based company specialising in a number of natural SEOservices, have a begun a review into the impact that the latest Google Panda update has had onsearch results. SEO Consult® have reacted to the news that Google ...

New Google Search Algorithm Update Targets Web Spam
Search Engine Watch
Except Google called it an algorithmic update that's targeting web spam – aka, keyword stuffing and link schemes, in the process causing some big search ranking upheavals. Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts, head of the web spam team, ...

Google Drive vs. Microsoft SkyDrive: 4 Reasons Google Wins Out
PCWorld
By Ed Oswald, PCWorld Apr 25, 2012 12:03 PM After comparing the two services, Google Drive emerged as the winner, based on four reasons. Let's take a look at them. Google has a six-year head start on Microsoft's Web Office with Google Docs.

Bing Versus Google: Search Engine Showdown
PCWorld
We pit Google and Bing against each other in a quest to determine which one is better. By Liane Cassavoy, PCWorld Bing versus Google: It's the modern-day version of Coke versus Pepsi. For many people, the two search engines are indistinguishable.

Google begins penalizing search 'over-optimization'
Macworld
... IDG News Service Google is making a change to its search algorithm to penalize what the company's head of Web spam called “over-optimization” and instead favor websites with high-quality content and less refined search-engine optimization.

Google Drive: Hands-On Winner
InformationWeek
Google's new online storage service represents the natural evolution of Google Docs, and another transformation for the world of collaborative file management. Google launched Google Drive, its new cloud-based file storage, management, ...

Google Drive cloud storage as only Google can do it
Chicago Sun-Times
On Tuesday, Google took the wraps off of Google Drive, the newest coud storage service to suit up and compete to store your pictures, music and documents. Are they late to the game? Dropbox, Apple, Microsoft and others already have their own mature ...

SEO Philadelphia Company, 1 SEO Announces Google AdWords Management, PPC At ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) April 25, 2012 SEO Company Philadelphia, 1 SEO proudly announced itsGoogle AdWords, PPC services. Adwords is Google's proprietary advertising product that places relevant ads next to the search results on a search engine.

Companies Raise Concerns Over Google Drive's Privacy Protections
New York Times (blog)
Google executives said that customers could avail themselves of built-in Google technologies like character recognition, visually based image search and video encoding for multiple formats, including Google's YouTube. Critics pointed out that Drive, ...

More Thoughts On Google Drive - A Hybrid of Cloud Storage and Computing
Forbes
But like what used to be called Google Docs, it also allows you to create and edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations. That model makes sense, especially for Google. If the searchgiant had its way, there would be no Macs and PCs –just Android ...

Google investing $300M to build Iowa data center
BusinessWeek
By MARGERY A. BECK Google Inc. announced Tuesday it was investing $300 million to build another data center in Council Bluffs, bringing the Internet search company's total investment in the western Iowa city to about $900 million.

5 Reasons to Give Google Drive a Shot
TIME
By Matt Peckham | @mattpeckham | April 25, 2012 | + Google Drive, the company's answer to online storage tools like Dropbox, Box.net, SugarSync and Microsoft's SkyDrive, arrived yesterday afternoon as forecast, though with little ceremony.

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Wajam Unveils New Social Search Experience for Google
MarketWatch (press release)
Wajam's browser extension, launched last year, brought users the ability to receive social searchresults everywhere they searched, including Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Amazon, Yelp, Trip Advisor, YouTube and Ebay. "Nobody knows you better than your friends ...

Google Maps Gets 3D Photo Tours of Popular Landmarks
PC Magazine
Google on Wednesday added a new feature to Google Maps that lets you see 3D photo tours of more than 15000 popular sites around the world. The search giant added tours for popular city landmarks and attractions like New York City's Central Park, ...

Google's original phone surfaces in court
CNET (blog)
In 2006, Google proposed to partner with T-Mobile for a phone and fund a $9..99 unlimited data plan. by Dan Farber April 25, 2012 12:12 PM PDT Follow @dbfarber In Wednesday's episode of the Oracle-Google trial, a November 2006 presentation outlining a ...

Google Seeks Path To Market for Self-Driving Cars
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Joseph B. White Detroit — The leader of Google Inc.'s effort to develop self driving cars came to the Motor City Wednesday to send a message that the Internet search giant is looking for partners to bring its self- driving car systems to market ...

Google Drive: first impressions, who owns what
CBS News
(Credit: Google) (CBS News) Google Drive, the free online storage service fromGoogle, launched Tuesday. While it's not open to the general public yet, a handful of journalists got to test out the cloud storage service and raised a few questions over ...

CBS News

Google's Chade-Meng Tan Wants You to Search Inside Yourself for Inner (and ...
Knowledge@Wharton
Chade-Meng Tan (widely known as Meng) was among the earliest engineers to be hired at Google. He and his team worked on ways to improve the quality of the site's search results and also played a key role in the launch of mobile search.

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Google Drive is a magic warehouse, Dropbox a robotic filing cabinet
ITworld.com
By Kevin Purdy Add a new comment Google Drive has arrived. To me, it feels more like a reminder than a release. It's Google letting you know that the way they see your computer life is very different than the way you see it. Allow me to explain.

Made-in-India Google Drive set to roam worldwide web
Business Standard
After years of speculation, internet search giant Google has announced the launch of Google Drive. The cloud storage service will be rolled out globally in the next few weeks. The launch is special for India, as Google's engineering teams in Bangalore ...

Google adds to cloud options
Greenville News
Google Drive, the search giant's oft-rumored and delayed cloud-based data-storage service, made its debut Tuesday — joining a growing list of high-tech players serving consumers and small businesses. Drive lets people store photos, documents and ...

Google Drive debuts; Storage service for personal files
ABC7Chicago.com
The Internet search leader began its pursuit of the audacious goal Tuesday with the much-anticipated debut of Google Drive. By keeping files in massive data centers, users will be able to call up the information on their smartphones, tablet computers,...

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Google launches storage service for personal files
BusinessWeek
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE Google is hoping to build the world's largest digital filing cabinet in the latest attempt to deepen people's dependence on its services. The Internet search leader began its pursuit of the audacious goal Tuesday with the ...

Change of Tone Could Help Google in European Antitrust Case
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
The European Commission could bring charges against the US company for abusing its dominance in the search and advertising market in the next few weeks. But there remains hope for a deal that would spare Google the arduous court orders and huge fines ...

Google to penalize websites that abuse SEO
Ubergizmo
By Tyler Lee on 04/25/2012 06:43 PDT Websites that want to attract a larger audience will no doubt have to learn about SEO (search engine optimization). This basically allows webmasters to make their pages more accessible and noticeable when being ...

Google explains how it searches the internet in under half a second ...
By James Trew
If you remember the Google dance, Cutts explains what caused that, before going on to give a good idea about how today's version of the site does what it does. If you're thinking this all sounds a bit too much like SEO 101, you'd be half-way ...
Engadget

How Google Search Works, In a Nutshell
By Pamela Vaughan
Learn precisely how Google search works, straight from Google's Matt Cutts, so you can improve your SEO. ... For more information about SEO, download our Introduction to Search Engine Optimization ebook here. And because Google is ...
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Google Webspam Update: Where's The Viagra? | WebProNews
By Chris Crum
According to Google, it's designed to keep sites engaging in black hat SEO tactics from ranking. The update is still rolling out, ... Search 'viagra' on Google.com – 3 edu sites are showing in the first page. Is it relevant? Matt you ... I have seen a big mess in results now. Doesn't this algo change just allow spammers to bring down competitors a lot more easily, just send a heap of junk/spam links to their sites. Nice one google, you're becoming well liked. Enter BING.” How's Bing looking on ...
WebProNews

New Google Update Targets Seo Over-Optimization and Webspam
By admin
Throwing the Baby Out with the Bath Water! Google just announced that it is releasing a new searchalgorithm update that will filter out or penalize websites that over optimize and also catch people who spam its search results or purposely do ...
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Google Sheds Light on AdWords Quality Score with Comparative ...
By Jonathan Allen
Google has just activated a feature in AdWords which should save pay-per-click (PPC) advertisers' time diagnosing issues with their keyword quality score. Now, when you hover over the status bar of your keywords, a dialog box appears with ...
Search Engine Watch

How does Google search work? | Icona
By dtail
It only takes a fraction of a second for Google to return a Search Engine Response Page (SERP) based on keywords you type in, but there's a whole lot more happening behind in the background. You can learn more about search engines and ...
IconaIcona | Interactive | Social...

How does a search engine like Google work? | Spectate
By Caitlin vonHedemann
How does Google give me back what I want and give it to me so fast? Or rather, for those who are trying to get their pages to come back in searches more often (a process called Search Engine Optimization or SEO), how does Google know ...
Spectate Inbound Marketing

Google Webspam Algorithm Update Draws Mixed Reviews From ...
By erikwestlake
They recently shared some SEO DOs and DON'Ts, specifically talking about some white hat things webmasters can do to help Google rank their content better. And Cutts' point ... SEO at all. “We want people doing white hat search engine optimization (or even no search engine optimization at all) to be free to focus on creating amazing, compelling web sites,” Cutts says. ... As we saw with thePanda update, there were some sites hit hard, that possibly shouldn't have been. So is that ...
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Google “Bad” SEO Update – A first earthquake on the short-head ...
By marcus
Google, by way of Matt Cutts, announced some weeks ago that a special SEO over optimization update will come. Now it's live ... The impact on all keywords queries is about 3.1%, which compared to Panda (with around 12%) is much less. ... In a first study I took over 50000 keywords from short-head to medium and low search volume and looked at the current rankings from position 1 to 100. ....Wepspam Updates Initial Results | SEO Suffolk | Search Engine Optimisation in Suffolk ...
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How Google Searches the Entire Web in Half a Second [VIDEO ...
By robintek_shawn
Here is an article from Mashable where Google explains how their search engine works and how yoursearches get results so quickly. Check it out here. “It only takes half a second for Google to return asearch based on keywords you type in, ...
Robin Technologies

Video 2.23 Creating a Search Engine (Google) Type Query in Access
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Search Engine Optimization Articles ... Search Engines by dannysullivan. Laura Betterly – Rants of a Marketing Executive from Rants of a Marketing Executive Price: USD 0. View Details about Laura Betterly. Google's PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings Why doesn't your home page appear on the first page of search results, even when you query your own name? ....Powered by Free WordPress SEO Plugins. Search. Use Google Search. Google Custom ...
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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Another step to reward ...
Google has said before that search engine optimization, or SEO, can be positive and constructive—and we're not the only ones. Effective search engine ...
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Facebook's Potential Search Power Could Surpass Google's ...
Facebook's developing social search framework will be a catalyst for redefining advertising and monetizing mobile, unleashing a torrent of new revenue and ...
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Google's Panda Update 3.3 – How Does It Effect SEO? | Internet ...
Search Engine Optimiser around the world will be eager scrutiny ranking of your website to Googleand the effects of the last update of Panda begins to make an ...
www.belleofamherst.com/.../googles-panda-update-3-3-how-d...

Free Press Release Distribution and Google Panda
Google Panda is surely the hottest topic in SEO forums and blogs nowadays and this makes a lot of people think that the future of the search industry greatly ...
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What You Should Know About Google Panda Update | Bureau 24
Remember the Google Search Your World rollout? Well, despite some of the claims made at ...
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5 Google Search Updates You Should Know About — lonelybrand
Google unveiled dozens of changes to its search service during March, 50 of which they highlighted in a recent blog post. You can read the entire list here, but if ...
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Documentation for the Google Enterprise Connectors - Google ...
Google Search Appliance software version 5.0.0, 5.0.4, and 5.2 running on model GB-1001.Google Search Appliance software version 5.2 running on model ...
https://developers.google.com/search-appliance/.../connectors/

The New Google SEO (Search Engine Optimization): What You ...
Forget What You Know About Google SEO!In April, 2011 Google implemented the Google Pandafilter which fundamentally changed Google SEO. In the old ...
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