Antitrust and Google

Antitrust and Google
Chicago Tribune

Antitrust is on the rampage again. Government agencies in the U.S. and Europe are investigating Google for alleged anti-competitive practices. No agency or critic has articulated a coherent theory of how Google harms consumers. The principal basis for the investigations appears to be that if one does not understand practices in an industry, the practices must violate the law....

Chicago Tribune

Google CEO Larry Page Touts First-Year Accomplishments
InformationWeek
Google boss also justifies the hard choices he had to make to keep the company focused. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Google CEO Larry Page on Thursday published an open letter revisiting his accomplishments during his first year as CEO and ...

Sky Sports.com Google Search
SkySports
Needing to find a spark, Rodgers summoned Graham and Sinclair for Dyer and Moore as his side's search for an equaliser intensified. But, having failed to heed the earlier warning, they fell further behind in the 69th minute as Cabaye again combined ...

Google's Larry Page Offers Company Update, Defends Privacy Decisions
eWeek
Google CEO Larry Page, in a blog post, described Google's key focus for 2012: creating a better, more intuitive experience. Which means getting to know you better. Google CEO Larry Page posted a “2012 Update” on the company's Investor Relations page, ...

Google's Search for Clean Energy
Mashable
Google once brashly believed its engineers could invent a solution to the world's energy problems. These days, the company has a new strategy: finance less risky clean-energy projects where it can actually make an impact. Last year, Google invested ...

Google's New Data Centers Raise Asian Profile
Voice of America
April 06, 2012 Google's New Data Centers Raise Asian Profile Ralph Jennings | Taipei The Internet search engine Google announced this week it had broken ground on a third data center in Asia. The project in Taiwan is expected to increase search speeds ...

Future Versus Past: Google Searches Correlated To GDP
Science 2.0
Countries with a higher per capita gross domestic product (GDP) are more likely to havesearches for information about the future than information about the past, according to an analysis of Google search queries in Scientific Reports.

Google Search Behavior Linked to GDP
WebProNews
The team of four behind the results, Tobias Preis, Helen Susannah Moat, H. Eugene Stanley and Steven R. Bishop, examined Google search queries made by Internet users in 45 different countries in 2010, to calculate the ratio of the volume of searches ...

Customers aquired through Google search advertising more valuable than ...
Washington University in St. Louis News
By Neil Schoenherr http://youtu.be/az5_BCuGFwgThis year's Olin Award-winning paper proposes a model for measuring the true lifetime value of customers acquired through Google search advertising and finds it is much higher than traditional methods have ...

Should Google Favor Google+ More Or Less In Search Results?
WebProNews
Even if Facebook doesn't come out with an actual web search engine in the style of Google or Bing, significant improvements to Facebook search (with the right marketing behind it) could chip away a nice chunk of searches that would otherwise go to ...

Larry Page: Google wants to be 'deserving of great love'
CNET
As he marks his first year running the show, Google's CEO sends out a long missive reaffirming that it's still "possible to make money without being evil." by Charles Cooper April 5, 2012 1:22 PM PDT Follow @coopeydoop Larry Page marked his one year ...

Don't Like Google's New Privacy Policy? Sign Out
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Google once again defended its new privacy policy this week, arguing that its approach is simple yet comprehensive, and suggesting that those who don't like it can just sign out. In a Thursday letter to France's CNIL (Commission ...

Google CEO Reflects On Past Year in Rare Dispatch
TIME
By AP | April 6, 2012 | + SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Now that he has been Google'sCEO for a year, Larry Page may be ready to tackle some of the public-relations duties that typically accompany the job. Page opened up in a way that he hasn't previously with ...

TIME

Larry Page: The Year of the Big Cleanup
TechNewsWorld
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) CEO Larry Page issued a public dispatch on the state of the company Thursday, enthusiastically promoting the Android platform and next-generation search techniques. Page took over as CEO of the company about a year ago.

Google AdWords Adds ZIP Code Targeting, Location Insertion; Updates Location ...
Search Engine Watch
This is a key area for advertisers, considering more than 20 percent of all searches on Googleare related to a location. Google will allow you to tag specific ZIP codes within the US with AdWords Location Targeting. Advertisers can target up to 1000 ...

Google search behaviour 'follows GDP'
Zee News
Washington: Web users from countries with a higher per capita gross domestic product (GDP) tend to search for information about the future than past, a new study has revealed. Quantitative analysis of Google search queries suggest there may be a link ...

Zee News

Google CEO touts gains, focuses on long term bets
Chicago Tribune
(Reuters) - Google Inc's chief executive said the company's fledgling social network, Google+, has scored more than 100 million active users, and he reiterated the Internet search giant's commitment to making long-term bets. Larry Page, also co-founder ...

Scientists study Google searches, social networks to predict global crises and ...
Vancouver Sun
For example, a study published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports found Google searches done from richer countries were more likely to seek information about the future, while those done from poorer countries were more likely to seek ...

Google Doesn't Understand Its Own Social Network
BuzzFeed
In an annual letter to investors, Google CEO Larry Page said exactly what he was supposed to say. Google is great, but needs to stay focused. Search is awesome, but needs to work better. Tablets are cool. Social is the future, and Google gets social.

Google defends privacy policy to European watchdog
ECNmag.com
By Leila Abboud and Claire Davenport, Reuters | Friday, April 6, 2012 (Reuters) - Web searchgiant Google Inc defended its new privacy policy as lawful and cited measures to educate users about it, in a letter sent on Thursday to French data protection ...

Google's Larry Page defends privacy changes
Digital Spy
Google co-founder Larry Page has marked his first year as the US search giant's chief executive by defending the recent controversial changes to its privacy policy. Page, who took over from Eric Schmidt in April 2011, said that the changes will create ...

Google CEO Issues 2012 Update
RedOrbit
Google CEO Larry Page made a rare public statement this week on the company's website for investors. In a post that appeared to be channeling the late Steve Jobs, Page made an emotional appeal on behalf of the billion-dollar search giant.

RedOrbit

Google creates a spectacle with project
OneNewsNow
If you think texting while walking is dangerous, just wait until everyone starts wearing Google'sfuturistic, Internet-connected glasses. Directions to your destination appear literally before your eyes. You can talk to friends over video chat, ...

Rivals already eying Google eyewear; competitors now in development
Fox News
Thomas Hawk Apr. 4, 2012: A series of images posted by the search engine giant show models wearing prototypes of the new augmented reality glasses from "Project Glass."Google Next Slide Previous Slide Google unveiled “Project Glass” earlier this week, ...

One Year Later, Google's Page Defends Changes, Looks Ahead
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Google's Larry Page today defended the decisions he's made over the past year as CEO and pushed for a future that embraces simple but far-reaching search capabilities, particularly on mobile. In a post on Google+, Page said he was ...

The Cold Hard Stats From Google CEO Larry Page's Manifesto (GOOG)
San Francisco Chronicle
It's mostly about how awesome Google and its new products are, and how Google is all about making people's lives better so they can get to "living and loving, not messing with annoying computers!" Page also talks about why the company has to change, ...

Larry Page Delivers 2012 'State of Google' Address
Search Engine Watch
The Google co-founder said in his 2012 Update from the CEO report that the company would be looking to simplify the Google search platform while integrating the platform with Google's other services, including the Google+ social network.

Google CEO Larry Page reflects on first year back in charge
San Jose Mercury News
By Mike Swift Google co-founder Larry Page marked the completion of his first year back asGoogle's CEO . (Pauline Lubens/San Jose Mercury News) Larry Page on Thursday marked the completion of his first year back as Google's (GOOG) CEO with a spirited ...

Anti-Trafficking Organizations Request Investigation of Google ...
By David Angotti
During my time as a managing member of an educational startup I gained direct experience related to business development, search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization(SEO), conversion rate optimization (CRO), online ...
Search Engine Journal

Google+ Has Over 120 Integrations Throughout Google Products ...
By Chris Crum
“But these are tremendously important changes, and with over 120 Google+ integrations to date (including Google Search, YouTube and Android), we are on the right track. Well over 100 million users are active on Google+, and we're seeing ...
WebProNews

Larry Page letter highlights Google's conflicts - search engines ...
By Nancy Gohring
Google CEO Larry Page published a long public letter on Thursday that gives an update on the company's strategy and highlights some of the conflicts he faces after a year at the head of the company. The letter talks about some of Google's ...
CIO - News RSS feed

Google's CEO updates us on everything - Neowin
By John Callaham
He also states that Google+ has been integrated into over 120 Google products, includingGoogle Search, YouTube and Android. Page also talks about how Google has improved and added new features for its search product. He believes ...
Neowin

Search Engine Optimization: a simple guide for hoteliers | WIHP ...
By Martin Soler
Search Engine Optimization: a simple guide for hoteliers. With the recent release of Google Panda and other updates to the Google search engine results there may exist some confusion on what hotels need to do on their websites to optimize ...
WIHP Magazine » | WIHP Magazine

Google Releases March Updates to Database, Algorithm | Business ...
By Alex Wall
Google's official Inside Search blog unveiled the 50 tweaks, nudges, and adjustments made in March. Some of the most important changes for SEO include: Indexing symbols (codename “Deep Maroon”) – in the past, Google has ignored ...
Business 2 Community

Fridaygram: 3D graphs, battling bacteria, viewing art - Google ...
By Scott Knaster
Back in December we added graphing capability to Google Search. That was pretty cool, but only 2D graphs? Come on! Most of the people we know are three-dimensional, so it only made sense to add 3D graphing to Google Search as well.
Google Developers Blog

Recovering from a Google Penalty – Part II: The Solution(s ...
By Gops A
Another source to consider is Google's terms of service. If you violate the service terms, you risk a penalty which could include your site being banned from the search engine. This means your web pages will not be included in search results.
Submitedge Blog - Search Engine...

Searching for the Crucifixion (a google experiment) « L'Historien ...
By historienerrant
So in the end I decided to let Google do the work for me: I was going to do a Google imagesearch and pick whichever depiction of the Crucifixion came up as the first search result (though ignoring film stills from that Mel Gibson movie, photos ...
L'Historien Errant

Prototype Google Glasses Spotted on Sergey Brin | Ubergizmo
By Pradeep Chandrasekaran
Yesterday, Sergey Brin no less was photographed at a charity event in San Francisco with Tech evangelist Robert Scoble while he was wearing a pair of Google's Augmented Reality prototype specs called Google Glasses. Scoble tweeted ...
Ubergizmo

Google Panda: Targeting Content Farms and More!
Panda Changes the way SEO works Earlier, websites looked up to the PageRank methodology of Google to determine their search engine optimisation strategies. Many website owners thought that on-page website optimisation and off-page ...
Tagza / Published

Exclusive: James Altucher Defends His Controversial Google Call ...
By info@wallstcheatsheet.com (Damien Hoffman)
The informative and entertaining financial journalist shed some light on a very precarious situation with a Vringo (AMEX:VRNG) patent which has the potential to destroy currently anticipated future shareholder value at Google. ... C) If they lose ( anything is possible and I provide links in the original article comparing Google's description of their AdWords algorithm (not their search algorithm) and the patent) then some percentage of their $67 billion in revenues since 2001 and $200 ...
Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Google and Viacom: A Reprise the Ground Hog Day Way : Beyond ...
By Stephen E. Arnold
News and Information from ArnoldIT.com about Search and Content Processing. ... I can conceptualize Google's management explaining that Viacom was just kidding around in order to motivate the Viacom staff. I am not sure Viacom will be ...
Beyond Search

Google Panda Update Rolls Out - Affects 1.6% Search Queries ...
It's been a little over one year when Google rolled out the first update in its search engine algorithms - better known as Google Panda, to fight 'spam' and to ...
techsmush.com/google-panda-update-rolls-out-affects-1-6-sea...

Larry Page Explains Google's Plans, Anonymous Hacktivist Exposes China Secrets...
Fast Company
BY Kit Eaton | 04-06-2012 | 6:14 AM Google Tablet Delayed. Although we know precious little about Google's upcoming Nexus tablet, we do now seem to know one fact: It's delayed. Earlier reports had suggested a June timeframe, with the device priced at ...

Fast Company 

Is the Google search algorithm going to stop getting worse ...
Is the Google search algorithm going to stop getting worse? I have been using google for longer than I can remember, because, historically, I usually found what ...
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