New York Daily News
Google is facing legal woes overseas over suggested-search results that seek Jewish associations for the selected subjects. According to local reports, Google is being slapped with a lawsuit in France, stemming from its suggested results for noteworthy ...
New York Daily News
Google Wardriving: How Engineering Trumped Privacy
InformationWeek
For example, compare the 2003-era iPod to its rivals, or Google Search to its predecessors. But an unfiltered engineering mindset would help explain the apparent thinking behind the Street View wardriving program: "Well, if this Wi-Fi data is flying ...
Bay Area SEO Company Comments on Google's Latest Update, Codenamed: "Penguin".
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Search engine giant Google's search results are based on their proprietary algorithm which decides which sites to show. This algorithm goes through many changes throughout the year, but this last one has many webmasters up in arms. Search Engine ...
Google Instant's Allegedly 'Anti-Semitic' Results Lead To Lawsuit In France
Huffington Post
Indeed, querying the search engine for "Jon Hamm," for example, yields "Jon Hamm Jewish" as one of the top results. According to Google's website, its algorithm for the Google Instant autocomplete feature "predicts and displays search queries based on ...
Google Ads Now Handle App Download Links
InformationWeek
Google AdWords advertisers can now include mobile app download links in search ads. Publishers of native Android and iOS apps will likely be thrilled. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Google has introduced a new way for its advertisers to promote ...
Flashback Malware Robs Google of $10000/Day in Ad Revenue
PC Magazine
Ultimately, Google's advertising clients are paying for Flashback's attackers to host ads onGoogle. "There's very little Google [or any other search engine] can do about it," said Vikram Thakur, a principal security response manager at Symantec.
Google Teaches Employees To 'Search Inside Yourself'
Forbes
There's a new search program at Google, but one without a magic algorithm. This program lets you search inside yourself so you can find, well, yourself. Cleverly titled “Search Inside Yourself,” it's a free course Google provides employees that is ...
Meet MillionShort: The Hack That Could Be The Perfect Antidote To Search ...
TechCrunch
The problem is, web search results for certain topics are just overloaded with dummy websites with little to no valuable content, many of which have utilized “search engine optimization” (SEO) tactics. Of course, search engines work overtime to stay ...
Google Penguin Update: A Lesson In Cloaking
WebProNews
Barring any unintended penalties, the algorithm has wiped out sites engaging in webspam and black hat SEO tactics. In other words, Google has targeted any site that is violating its quality guidelines. One major thing you need to avoid (or in hindsight ...
Asbury Automotive Group Featured in Google White Paper Detailing the Group's ...
Midland Daily News
Haystak Digital Marketing, one of North America's largest automotive digital marketing agencies, recently announced that Google has released a white paper that details Asbury Automotive Group's online search marketing success with Haystak Digital ...
SEO Consult® to Conduct Review Into Google's Penguin Update
MarketWatch (press release)
CHESTER, England, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- SEO Consult®, an award winning agency specialising in a range of ethical and organic SEO techniques, have recently commented on Google's latest algorithm update, known as 'Penguin'.
French group suing Google for Jewish auto-complete searches
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
(JTA) -- A French anti-discrimination group is taking Google to court for offering to search if celebrities are Jewish. SOS Racisme, a French organization that fights discrimination, is scheduled to meet Google attorneys in a French courtroom on ...
Google's Penguin Update: Wrap Up
Business Insider
... a Panda, but not nearly as large or imposing…) – this is the change Matt Cutts was referring to, but he told Search Engine Land that using the term “over-optimization” wasn't entirely accurate, as the algorithm doesn't target SEO, just webspam.
Google's Sebastian Thrun: 3 Visions in the 'Age of Disruption'
Wired News
Aside from heading the search engine giant's super-secretive Google X laboratory, Thrun is a Stanford University professor and a leading computer scientist. Since the early 1990s he has worked to develop artificial intelligence and robotics systems, ...
Wired News
Google's Penguin update cuts down on spammy links, affects 3 percent of search...
Digitaltrends.com
Google has attempted to be as open and honest as possible in regards to itssearch algorithm, but when in-house tweaks lead to plummeting page rank, Webmasters will come calling. The latest (relatively quiet) uproar has been named the Penguin update ...
Digitaltrends.com
Google Paid Inclusion Results: Sponsored, But Not Ads?
WebProNews
By Chris Crum · 3 hours ago · Leave a Comment It would appear that some companies get the privilege of paying to be featured in Google search results that most others don't. Obviously anyone can pay for AdWords ads, but Google reportedly has a new ...
Microsoft's Nook Investment; Google Street View Gaffe; BlackBerry World Kicks Off
PC Magazine
Elsewhere, Google found itself in some hot water after an unredacted FCC report indicated thatGoogle workers knew about Street View data gathering. Contrary to what the company had maintained, there were several employees and at least one senior ...
Free SEO Scorecard Helps Small Businesses Avoid Costly Website Mistakes That ...
Sacramento Bee
By Venture Marketing CHICAGO, May 1, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- As Search Engine Optimization(SEO) continues to be the number one source of leads for both B2C and B2B marketers, without proper tools, small businesses find it increasingly difficult to ...
Flashback 'hijacked' Google keyword searches
BBC News
By reverse engineering the software, Symantec has discovered that it lurked on infected machines waiting until a user searched on Google for certain words such as "toys". If a user clicked on an advert related to that search, they would never reach the ...
Google Engineer In Street View Flap Identified
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Amir Efrati A Google Inc. engineer at the center of the company's controversial practice to scoop up personal information from wireless-network users as specially equipped cars drove by their homes has been identified. The Google street view mapping ...
Google's Street View 'Engineer Doe' Identified
eWeek
The Google engineer behind the software code used to collect wireless network data and personal information in connection with the company's Street View program has been identified as a software maker who has been with the search engine giant since ...
Mac botnet generated $10000 a day for Flashback gang
ZDNet (blog)
(Google never receives the intended ad click.) The ad click component parses out requests resulting from an ad click on Google Search and determines if it is on a whitelist. If not, it forwards the request to [a] malicious server.
Google Is Blurring The Lines Between Ads And Search Results
San Francisco Chronicle
Google has steadily been moving away from the "don't be evil" principles it laid out in its 2004 IPO filing, and now another one is about to bite the dust: paid inclusion. Paid inclusion was how a lot of search engines worked before Google came on the ...
Google Sued Over 'Jewish' Search Suggestions
PC Magazine
When users type Murdoch's name into Google.com, the suggested search results that drop down include "rupert murdoch jewish." "Numerous users of the first search engine of France and the world are confronted daily with the association, unsolicited and ...
Flashback gang could be making $10K a day off infected Macs
Computerworld
The malware steals clicks from ads that Google's search engine displays alongside searchresults. In a blog entry posted today, Symantec published an analysis of Flashback's money-making capabilities, and concluded -- as others had earlier -- that the ...
Lies, Spies, and Wi-Fi: Google 'Fesses Up
PCWorld
Google admits it knowingly gathered sensitive data from unprotected Wi-Fi networks with Street View and did nothing to stop it. The FCC fine: Pocket change. By Robert X. Cringely, Infoworld Late last week, Google released a redacted version of the FCC ...
Report: Google's Wi-Fi-sniffing Street View code came from NetStumbler's creator
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
When Google was explaining to the FCC and other regulators just why its Street View cars were grabbing private information from the Wi-Fi hotspots they passed along their routes, the search giant claimed that a rogue engineer inserted the sniffing code ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
How to double your search traffic using SEO, Webmaster tools and ...
By David Mercer
Content and SEO has helped my Google organic search traffic double nearly every three months for the last year and a half - despite Google's Panda and Penguin u. ... The following articles and content have helped my site rise to the top of the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) for some pretty important keywords and phrases: On-site SEO vs. off-site SEO ~ top result for a number of phrases like "offsite SEO"; Creating links in Drupal ~ first page for searches like "Drupal links" ...
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How Does the Google Search Engine Actually Work? by Vertical ...
By Brad Kuenn
How Does the Google Search Engine Actually Work? May 1st, 2012 • By: Brad Kuenn • Search Engine Optimization. How does Google search engine work? When we give presentations to different business groups we are often asked how ...
Vertical Measures
Google's 'Search Inside Yourself' Program Built on Mindfulness
By Bob Curley
Employees at Google's hard-charging headquarters are offered a course on mindfulness to help ease workplace stress and improve happiness and cooperation, the New York Times reported April 29. The Search Inside Yourself (SIY) program ...
Well-Being Wire by MeYou Health
Google 'Search Inside Yourself' Class Teaches Mindfulness at Work ...
By Marissa Brassfield
Posted by Marissa Brassfield. By Marissa Brassfield, PayScale.com · Google is infamous for its world-class amenities, but the company's free "Search Inside Yourself" class is perhaps its most compelling employee perk. "S.I.Y.," as it's called at ...
The Salary Reporter
Google Autocomplete Faces New Lawsuit for “Jewish” Autcomplete ...
By David Angotti
Google's autocomplete feature, which has faced many legal challenges over the past several years, is facing a new lawsuit in a French court related to Rupert Murdoch search query suggestions. When a ... 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 marketing, mergers and acquisition, product ...
Search Engine Journal
Insights on Standing Against Google Panda & Google Penguin
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Contact for Internet Marketing, SEO, Website Development, Web Hosting India ... Web masters have not ideally settled with Google Panda and now, they are burdened with the new algorithmic change called Google Penguin. Where ... Social Media Presence: At the Google Plus launch, it was declared that social media will help magnificently a website to rank on search engine result pages. ... SEO Services India - Search Engine optimization (SEO), Professional SEO Company India.
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Google Penguin Update: A Lesson In Cloaking | ErikWestlake.com
By erikwestlake
There are a number of reasons your site might have been hit by Google's recent Penguin update (formerly known as the Webspam update). Barring any. ... Barring any unintended penalties, the algorithm has wiped out sites engaging in webspam and black hat SEO tactics. In other ...Specific examples mentioned include: serving a page of HTML text to search engines, while showing a page of images or flash to users, and serving different content to search engines than to users .
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Google Is Blurring The Lines Between Ads And Search Results ...
By Matt Rosoff
Our search results will be objective and we will not accept payment for inclusion or ranking in them. Not anymore. Starting soon, as Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land reports, Google will make ads for certain kinds of products look like ...
Business Insider
Jon Hamm & Rupert Murdoch Victims of Bogus Google Scandal
By Jon Mitchell
SOS Racisme, a French NGO that fights discrimination, has accused Google of reinforcing the notion of an international Jewish conspiracy to control the media. Where did they get this idea? From autocomplete suggestions in search. If people ...
ReadWriteWeb
Google's Poor & Defiant Settlement Record
By scleland
Google's poor and defiant track record in respecting government agreements and settlements is likely one of the reasons the FTC hired an undefeated former Federal prosecutor and litigator to lead their Google antitrust probe and potential litigation ... The purpose of that code was to collect a new and different data set that could have potential use for improving search algorithms or other Google products and services, to be determined later — which would be consistent withGoogle's ...
Net Competition
Organic Search Engine Visibility: Google Penguin Update | Rosetta ...
By Jayna Grassel
An initial look at Google's recent organic search ranking algorithm update and its potential effects on SEO strategies and website visibility. ... Google predicts only 3% of all search queries will be affected (compared to 12% from the Panda Update ), yet many digital marketers are already seeing drastic drops in website traffic. VN:F [1.9.8_1114]. Rating: Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast).Search Engine Marketing: Google Penguin Update, 5.0 out of 5 based on 1 rating. Tags: GoogleAlgorithm ...
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Unbound Edition | Google Teaches Employees To "Search Inside ...
There's a new search program at Google, but one without a magic algorithm. This program lets you search inside yourself so you can find, well, yourself. Cleverly titled “Search Inside Yourself,” it's a free course Google provides employees that ...
Unbound Edition
20 Tips To Survive Google Panda or Penguin Updates | Youngblah
There are many software available these days to check how a website or webpage ranks inGoogle search results for various queries. These software send ...
youngblah.com/20-tips-to-survive-google-panda-or-penguin-...
Google Search Update at Who? Me??
I had earlier posted about a starters guide to SEO. Back then my understanding of this was also developing and the only way I could add to my understanding of ...
kidakaka.com/blog/2012/04/23/google-search-update/
How Does Google Search Work? [Video] - How-To GeekHave you ever wondered how Google Search works? Matt Cutts provides a quick overview of ...
www.howtogeek.com/.../how-does-google-search-work-video/
Improve your Google Search skills - Los Angeles Times
Think you're a Google Search power user? You might not know all the ways to get faster, more focused search results. Here are five tips:Exclude terms. If you're ...
articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/27/.../la-fi-five-google-2012042...
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