Man sues to make 'Google' ordinary word

Man sues to make 'Google' ordinary word
CNET (blog)
An Arizona man says that "Google" now simply means "search on the Internet," so he sues to have Google's trademarks canceled. Oh, and he does own Googlegaycruises.com and Googledonaldtrump.com. by Chris Matyszczyk May 27, 2012 10:44 AM PDT Have you ...

App for finding apps helps with the clutter
Worcester Telegram
•Google Docs now has a “research” tool that lets you search the Web without leaving the program. And you can add footnotes. To try it out, click “tools” in Google and choose “research.” •GoogleMaps can be viewed offline. Search for your destination ... 

Microsoft to Google: Cut links from search
TODAYonline
CALIFORNIA - Microsoft has asked Google to remove more than 500000 links from its search index last month, new figures published by the search giant show. The majority of the links direct people to websites selling pirated Microsoft software, ...

Small changes to Google products could save you a lot of time
StandardNet
By Leslie Meredith Google has been busy adding new features to some of its biggest products, including its Chrome browser, Search and Google Docs. The additions are small improvements, but familiarizing yourself with the changes and putting them to use ...

How Google Helped Hampton Bay Lighting to Grow 300% in Four Weeks at ...
PR Web (press release)
Hampton Bay Lighting Website Increases 300% in Google search. When hamptonbay-lighting.net was first launched it grew from a few visitors to about 1000 per month in about two months. However with Google's Panda and Penguin updates this saw the initial ...

PR Web (press release)

Microsoft's Take-Down Link Requests Still Reside in Bing
Tom's Guide
Google's results didn't pull up the infringing page, but Microsoft's Bing did. There are several possibilities for the differences between the two search engines. As Softpedia suggests, Microsoft may be issuing the same take-down notice to both Google ...

Yahoo's New Axis Browser: An Early Look
eWeek
Of course, one knows there are plenty of skeptics out there thinking: "Now THAT's exactly what Yahoo needs to do: Compete head-on with two of the most successful IT companies in the world (Google, Microsoft) in the browser business, for goodness sake.

eWeek

Google Search Antitrust Probe: EU Willing to Settle
Midsize Insider
The European Union's Competition Commissioner offered Google a "quick resolution" to the EU probe of Google search practices. The unspoken implication is that investigators are unable to build a strong antitrust case against the search giant.

Google Snoop View: Search engine giant 'knew' its software could steal emails ...
Daily Mail
By Emily Allen Google knew software for its Street View fleet could secretly collect personal data including emails, pictures and text messages from unprotected wi-fi networks, it has been claimed. Documents seen by America's Federal Communications ...

Daily Mail

Pairing with Google for a snapshot of success
Cincinnati.com
The nonprofit charity will become the next local operation to have its inner workings featured in Google Business Photos. The new program offers 360-degree visual interior tours that can be found in Google Maps, Google Places and Google Search when ...

3 Hard Lessons to Learn From Penguin: Be Relevant, Be Balanced, Keep it Real
Search Engine Watch
by Guillaume Bouchard, May 27, 2012 Comments Google's most recent Penguin update has caused a storm of controversy since it began cracking down on search engine enemy No. 1: “unnatural” links. The Panda update targeted low value on-page optimization ...

Google Knowledge Graph: Wikipedia on Steroids or the Web's Demise?
ITProPortal
Further establishing itself as the Borg of the Web, Google is adding a Knowledge Graph capability to its search engine, which will roll out in the US first and then worldwide. Simply put, Google will now try and answer your question right on the search ...

Can Online Video Marketing Rescue Businesses from Googles Panda & Penguin Updates?
Broadcast Newsroom
A large proportion of the online community became unsettled last year when Google released theirPanda update. The update upset the order of how SEO (Search Engine Optimization) impacts a websites search ranking. The release came out to eliminate ...

Reams of Data in Google's 'Transparency Report' - UPDATE
AVN News (press release)
Yesterday, according to the Google Transparency Report, the company filed 153 separate requests, identifying many thousands of individual URLs, on behalf of three companies—Intellectual Property Promotions Association, RK Netmedia and BangBros.com.

Do-it-all search pages do the fetching
Brisbane Times
You could look up a web page using Google and Bing, but you still had to go and fetch it. A screenshot of of Microsoft Bing's Snapshot, right of search results, where one panel gives details about items related to shopping or travel and another lists ...

Brisbane Times

Is Yahoo! Finally a Buy?
DailyFinance
Not a breakthrough, I realize, but an interesting addition. At the very least, it makes hunting for information more aesthetically pleasing. Trending searches. Much like Twitter or Google's (NAS: GOOG) Trends, Axis shows the most popular searches.

Malicious software may cut web access if not removed, Google warns
The National
The internet search giant Google has been alerting users to the threat of DNSChanger with the message "your computer appears to be infected" on machines affected by the software. "After successfully alerting a million users last summer to a different ...

Yahoo seeks to shake up search, Web browsing
Barre Montpelier Times Argus
Much like Google's Knowledge Graph, Axis draws its results from a custom-built index. Most of the data in the Axis index resides on Yahoo's own services. If Axis can't find answers there, it presents links from Bing's search index.

Larry Page: With A Healthy Disregard For The Impossible, People Can Do Almost ...
Singularity Hub
by David J. Hill May 27th, 2012 | Comments (0) Larry Page, Google's CEO, talks about the bets the company took and how to ambitiously dream big. In a talk titled “Beyond Today”, Google's CEO Larry Page infused Zeitgeist 2012 attendees with a healthy ...

Singularity Hub

Jury decides in favor of Google in Oracle's lawsuit
allvoices
By sarah1 Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google, saying that the search giant had violated their patent rights in the development of Android mobile operating system. The complaint has now been rejected by a federal jury, which examined the case.

Clean your computer by July 9 or lose internet access: Google warns
Emirates 24/7
Unless users with infected computers clean up their devices by then, they risk losing internet connectivity, search engine Google is warning as part of a new campaign to rid the world of the dreaded DNSChanger malware. Starting this week, Google says ...

Browser wars flare in mobile space
Phys.Org
Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo! are all in the struggle, along with the Norwegian-made Opera browser and the open source Firefox software from Mozilla. The motive behind the wars is not just bragging rights. The company that controls the mobile Web ...

Kansas students' work featured in 'Doodle 4 Google' exhibit at Wichita Art Museum
Kansas.com
By Jason Dilts Kansas student artwork will be on display this summer in Wichita Art Museum's new “Doodle 4 Google” exhibit. The pieces were part of a national contest. Tucker Brown of Baldwin City was the Kansas winner in the Doodle 4 Google national...

Kansas.com

Yahoo joining better browser battle
NorthJersey.com
BY MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP SAN FRANCISCO — Joining the battle to redefine the Internet search, Yahoo is taking aim with a new browser enhancement it calls Axis. It alters browsers made by other companies to display search results in a more convenient and ...

Opera is Facebook's best browser play
IDG News Service
It would also put Facebook in the middle of a browser battle with Microsoft (Internet Explorer), Mozilla (Firefox), Google (Chrome) and Apple (Safari). Some of those companies -- like Microsoft -- have partnered with Facebook, while others -- such as ...

Budget Freight Shipping Company Now Offering "Quote in 5 Minutes", says SEO ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
According to SEO Service Group, the form just takes 5 minutes to complete. "A new feature of the BudgetFreightShipping.com website is the simple online quote form. Visitors simply enter in their details and requirements such as type of delivery needed, ...

Apple Tops This List. Again.
msnbc.com
Tech blue-chip IBM overtook search giant Google to take the No. 2 spot, pushing Big G down one notch to No. 3. The fourth and fifth place finishers were unchanged, with fast-food eatery McDonald's valued higher than software giant Microsoft.

Browser wars flare in mobile space
Bangkok Post
An employee stands next to a giant screen for "Chrome Experiments" in the Google France offices in 2011 in Paris before its inauguration. Google stepped up its effort earlier this year by releasing a full version of its Chrome browser for mobile ...

How Google stole your secrets and an iPhone caught a thief
The Drum
Google is the world's largest and most successful search engine, accessed by millions every minute to find information. Unfortunately, while you've been using it, it has been at it behind your back, searching for your inner secrets.

The Drum

IForce Ecommerce Annouces Upcming Ecommerce Program Scheduled for Sept 2012
PR Web (press release)
The program will focus on recent algorithmic changes introduced by Google through its Panda and Penguin updates and its impact on search engine consulting and web development for the coming 12 months. Mr. Prince will discuss anticipated Google future ...

Some Effective SEO UK Google Penguin Recovery Tips
Connectus.net (press release)
There are many online identities which have been severely hit by the recent Google Penguin updates. However, if you are one of them, do not get panicked. In this article, we are going top discuss some SEO UK tips which will help you recover from the ...

Jim Hillibish: High tech changes lives
Canton Repository
Google is becoming increasingly intrusive into that space we guard as our private thought processes. When you're worth half a trillion, you assume you own everything. Their new feature completes your search query for you, literally putting words into ...

Wanted: techies
Crain's New York Business
Yes, the search-engine colossus will get first crack at hiring these much-needed engineering students. But for once, what's good for Google is good for everyone else. That's how desperate New York is for tech talent. The lack of engineers and ...

The Worst Big Tech Stocks of 2012
DailyFinance
Part of Google's sell-off could be due to investor worries over its ability to keep growing search in the years ahead. Google's cost-per-click has been erratic in recent quarters, sometimes seeing big declines. My take on the issue is: So what?

Act Natural. The Penguin is Looking
Business 2 Community
By Steve Masters, Published May 27, 2012 The roll-out of Google's Penguin update on 24th April has created a plethora of new content as search marketers and webmasters try to understand the changes, complain about them or report on their experiences.

Business 2 Community

Google Penguin Updated To Version 1.1 | WebProNews
By Zach Walton
Google's Amit Singhal: Penguin A Success. Early this morning, Google Fellow Amit Singhal was interviewed by Danny Sullivan at Chris Sherman on stage at SMX London, the sister conference ofSearch Engine Land. Singhal discussed a ...
WebProNews

Larry Page: With A Healthy Disregard For The Impossible, People ...
By admin
In a talk titled “Beyond Today”, Google's CEO Larry Page infused Zeitgeist 2012 attendees with a healthy dose of optimism and a call to make ambitious bets, be better organized and work harder to accelerate technology and improve people's lives. Larry Page: With A ... Under his direction, Google has been becoming more streamlined by letting go of about 30 projects and picking out about four areas of focus: Google+, search, mobile, and integration across services. You can watch ...
Awaken

SEO NES: Yahoo Folding its Hand? | SubmitEdge News - SEO News
By sarah
What it all means for SEOs is that Google is still king, and while Bing is queen, the queen is wielding more power. Yahoo on the other hand went from king, to queen to joker in a decade. Yahoo is not asearch engine to focus on any longer.
SubmitEdge News - SEO News

Google Now Searches JavaScript - Slashdot
mikejuk writes "Google has been improving the way that its Googlebot searches dynamic web pages for some time — but it seems to be causing some added ...
search.slashdot.org/story/12/.../google-now-searches-javascript

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