By Linda Buquet
If a business hears about Google+ Local and has never created a Place page previously and they search GOOGLE to find out how to set up a Google+ Local page – guess what they find in the SERPS??? You would expect to find in the #1 ...
Google Places - Google+ Local SEO Blog
Google searches answer to $4-billion question
ABS CBN News
BRUSSELS - Google is searching for the answer to a four-billion-dollar question: can a new, gentler approach from a US tech giant persuade the European Union to be more lenient in competition cases? The world's dominant Internet search provider has ...
Can Google Predict the Impact of Racism on a Presidential Election?
The Atlantic
By Garance Franke-Ruta A provocative new study argues that Google searches for racial epithets can be synced with election results to reveal what Americans truly think. Since 1982, political pollsters and Democrats have worried about the tendency of ...
Insight: Google goes softly-softly on European antitrust
Reuters
Almunia has said he has "concerns where Google business practices may be considered as abuses of dominance". These include the possibility Google's general searches direct users to its own specialist search services, away from smaller rivals.
Google denies search results are rigged
Techworld.com
By Christina DesMarais | PC World | Published: 14:10, 11 June 2012 Google is aggressively defending itself against accusations it manipulates its search results based on ad payments, and it is encouraging users to go elsewhere if they don't like what ...
Apple challenges Google with maps
AFP
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple unveiled its own mapping program Monday for its iPhone and iPad devices, moving onto turf already occupied by Google in the popular software application. Apple's new iOS 6 operating system includes "an entire new mapping solution ...
AFP
Google, French publishers agree to end copyright clash over out-of-print book ...
Washington Post
PARIS — Internet search giant Google and a group of French book publishers say they've resolved a long-running dispute over Google's book scanning and indexing efforts. Google and France's National Publishers Association said in a joint statement ...
Updates From Apple's Conference Keynote
New York Times (blog)
These are obviously not Google's maps. There is local search for more than 100 million business listings, Mr. Forstall says, so you can search for nearby things within the Maps app. There's a traffic view to see where traffic is — dotted red lines.
New York Times (blog)
Google, French publishers settle book clash
The Seattle Times
Internet search giant Google and a group of French book publishers say they've resolved a long-running dispute over Google's book scanning and indexing efforts. The Associated Press No comments have been posted to this article. Internet search giant ...
Apple Keynote Message To Garmin, GlobalStar, Google: Get Lost!
Forbes
That's because one of Apple's big announcements revealed a completely homegrown Maps program, including local search, flyover imagery and turn-by-turn directions. Apple's Maps is a direct shot across the bow at its biggest competitor, Google, ...
Google co-founders face FTC antitrust grilling
Register
By Kelly Fiveash • Get more from this author Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be quizzed by antitrust investigators at the US Federal Trade Commission, according to well-placed moles. The web giant's CEO Page and special projects ...
Apple Updates Macs and Mobile Operating System
New York Times
The new maps software is a replacement for Google Maps with Apple's own mapping system, in a sign that Apple is further distancing itself from the Internetsearch giant that it once considered a close partner. “We are so proud of these products, ...
New York Times
WebSavvy Reveals How to Unleash the Power of Google AdWords' New Auction ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Leaders in digital search marketing, WebSavvy, explains how the latest edition to the GoogleAdWords report suite, Auction Insights, empowers advertisers by giving them highly valuable insight into what their competitors are doing.
Pros and Cons of the New Google Webmaster Tools
Search Engine Journal
Hundreds of thousands of webmasters have created Google Webmaster Tools accounts for the sole purpose of receiving information on the status of their sites from the web's search giant – and now, these loyal users have been rewarded with a series of ...
Search Engine Journal
Apple expected to take on Google
St. Catharines Standard
More than ever, Apple Inc finds itself in a pitched battle with the online search giant Google Inc - in smartphones, cloud computing and the never-ending competition for the hearts and minds of the best software developers. REUTERS/Stephen Lam (UNITED ...
Google, author body end spat on internet books
IBNLive.com
PARIS (Reuters) - US internet search provider Google and authors group Society Men of Letters of France (SGDL) have reached an agreement that ends a dispute dating back to 2006 over the publishing of snippets of books on the internet.
Google strikes deal with French publishers
Financial Times
By Scheherazade Daneshkhu in Paris Google hailed what it called a “pioneering” agreement in France on Monday over digitising out-of-print books, ending six years of litigation between the USsearch company and French publishers.
Beyond Google: Tap Into the Alternative Search Engine Data Opportunity
Search Engine Watch
by Miranda Miller, June 11, 2012 Comments It may surprise many marketers to learn that while 62 million US searches are performed on core search engines like Google and Bing on the average day, an additional 33 million are happening on alternative ...
Search expert Danny Sullivan asks FTC to review Google's new paid ads policies
VentureBeat
Search engine marketing guru Danny Sullivan has asked the FTC to reviewGoogle's treatment of paid results within, next to, or near organic search results. Our search results are the best we know how to produce. They are unbiased and objective, ...
VentureBeat
Mozilla dumps Yandex as default search for Russian Firefox
Computerworld
Yandex, Russia's most-popular search company, will be replaced by Google when Firefox 14 ships July 17. A beta of Firefox 14, however, launched on Thursday with Google as the first-ranked search engine. The switch was triggered by the multi-year ...
Google given July deadline in web search antitrust investigation
ITProPortal
Google has been given until July to defend itself in the European Commission's antitrust investigation. The probe was instigated by complaints that Google uses its power in web searchto promote its own products over those of competitors.
Google and Nextag's Jeff Katz Exchange Blows
Search Engine Journal
In the article, Katz emphasized that Google currently holds 82% of the global search market and 98% of the mobile search markets, which constitutes an “effective monopoly” in terms of market share and revenue. Similar to his Senate Judiciary argument ...
CanadaOne.com Unveils Panda Hit and Recovery Methods via @canadaone
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
CanadaOne.com, a leading small business resource website, confirmed through an SEO audit conducted by Reliable SEO that their website was hit by Google's Panda penalty. On Monday, June 11, 2012 at 8:00 am EST CanadaOne will reveal the key things that ...
Search Industry Vet Calls Upon FTC To Scrutinize Google (And Other Search Engines)
WebProNews
By Chris Crum · 4 hours ago · Leave a Comment Veteran search industry journalist Danny Sullivan has written a letter to the Federal Trade Commission, calling on the organization to look into the disclosure of paid listings in Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, ...
Twitter And Facebook Strongly Correlated To Google Search Engine Rankings ...
mediabistro.com
Searchmetrics looked at Google UK search engine results for 10000 selected top keywords, 300000 websites, and millions of links, tweets and shares. Facebook is the highest correlated factor when it comes to search engine rankings – even higher than ...
mediabistro.com
Apple takes on Google with own maps on iOS6, better Siri
Economic Times
SAN FRANCISCO: Apple Inc took the wraps off its own mobile mapping service and made its enhanced Siri voice-search available for iPads as itrolled out souped-up software and hardware on Monday to help it wage war on Google Inc. CEO Tim Cook, ...
Bing apes Google graph with Encyclopaedia added to search results
Internet Marketing News
Bing has leapt to bring Britannica on board to boost its own search results – in the face of ongoing improvements over in Google's camp. For the Internet marketing industry, the recent changes to bring up pertinent facts and info related to search ...
Is Google changing the Internet as we know it? | Site prebuilder
By David Mercer
This SEO tutorial shows how to combine SEO (Search Engine Optimization) keyword research with Google insights for Search to drive targeted Google search traffic to your website or blog. Organic search traffic generated by SEO is vital for small ... And, with the massive changes toGoogle search, Panda, Penguin, Knowledge graph, and paid product search, it is now crucial to ensure a diverse Internet marketing strategy. Up until 2012, many small business websites could get a ...
Site prebuilder
Local SEO Guide: How to Refine Local Search Terms to Master ...
By David Mercer
Local SEO is a powerful way to drive high quality Google search traffic. Local search terms can be improved by refining keywords for a local target market -
Business 2 Community
The Knowledge Graph: Analyzing Google's Updated Semantic Search
By Debbie Lawrence
It's a huge leap forward in search technology that will make the web safer for the creators of great, unique, sharable content — and a terrifically inconvenient place for anyone using unethicalsearch engine optimization, or SEO, techniques. They' ve done this by ... Although other searchengines like Bing compete with Google's dominant power, it is clear that there Panda and Penguin algorithms can and will weed out the quality vs. quantity of content online. It still looks mostly like they ...
Shareaholic Blog
By Debbie Lawrence
It's a huge leap forward in search technology that will make the web safer for the creators of great, unique, sharable content — and a terrifically inconvenient place for anyone using unethicalsearch engine optimization, or SEO, techniques. They' ve done this by ... Although other searchengines like Bing compete with Google's dominant power, it is clear that there Panda and Penguin algorithms can and will weed out the quality vs. quantity of content online. It still looks mostly like they ...
Shareaholic Blog
Bing Challenges Google with Encyclopedia Integration into Search ...
By SearchNews
Instead of making you visit a website to get information, their goal is to provide you with the answer to your question directly from the search engine results. Compared to Knowledge Graph.Google has been doing something similar to Bing's ...
ineedhits
Google's Busy Month | PM Digital Blog
By Clay Cazier
Google continued its juggernaut of changes in May and early June, with the following interesting items hitting our radar: Google's Semantic Search Hits the.
PM Digital Blog
Internet News: Does Google manipulate or not? - Web Search Guide
By Gwen
Does Google manipulate or not? Google Defends Against Claims of Rigged Search Results, Christina DesMarais, PCWorld (Jun 9). When Danny Sullivan concludes that Google has adopted paid inclusion as a policy for some of the Google ...
Internet News
Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Hogpile on Google
By Chris Horton
Earlier in June, Microsoft rolled out its revamped Bing.com search engine, complete with a social sidebar where users can see any relevant data from their social graph for any search they perform. The move is a response to Google's attempt ...
The 10 Geekiest Google Easter Eggs
By Robert T. Gonzalez
The Google Earth App is loaded with all kinds of great easter eggs, but one of the best is actually located off-planet. While in Google Earth, choose Mars from the drop down list of explorable planets and search for "MELIZA." The camera will ...
io9: Top
Write for Your Reader: Using Google Analytics to Capture Your ...
By Abe Bellini
Writing for your readers and not for search engines is an important part of your business andSEO strategy. When working to create content that readers will enjoy, you will need to dig intoGoogle Analytics and learn about what interests your audience. If you are searching for ideas of what to write about, you ... This entry was posted on Monday, June 11th, 2012 at 9:43 am and is filed under Search Engine Marketing Blog. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Problems with Google Search being redirected Google SEO News and ...
when I go to google using http it changes to https and then the search and results are in Japanese. I guess this is a bug or virus but I cannot find anything on the ...
www.webmasterworld.com/google/4463826.htm
Patent Troll Sues Google, AOL Over Search 'Snippets' and Ad ...
First time accepted submitter WindyWonka writes "Google and AOL were sued for patent infringement Thursday, accused of violating two former British Telecom ...
search.slashdot.org/.../patent-troll-sues-google-aol-over-search...
Enhance your Google search with advanced search commands
Whatever be you are searching on Google, these are the advanced search commands that will make your search results accurate.
techinsoftware.blogspot.com/.../enhance-your-google-search-...
WordPress › WP Custom Google Search « WordPress Plugins
This plugin allows to customize the Custom Google Search inside your posts. You can change language, theme, a search field for every post. Requires PHP 5.3.
wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-custom-google-search/
Google to Search Engine Users in China - 'It's Not Us - It's Them ...Google launches new interruption message to tell search engine users in China when results ...
newstex.com/.../google-to-search-engine-users-in-china-its-not...
Search marketers battle Panda, Penguin, and other Google animals ...
Share You've probably heard about the various black-and-white animals that Google has named its new search ranking algorithms for. First, in early 2011, it was ...
www.biznology.com/.../search-marketers-battle-panda-pengui...
Google Product Search Transitions to an All-Paid Model
Google announced that it's transitioning Google Product Search to a "purely commercial" model built on Product Listing Ads.
sproutsocial.com/insights/2012/05/google-product-search/
Google, AOL Face Patent Suit Over 'Snippet' Search Results, Ads ...
Google and AOL were sued for patent infringement Thursday by New Jersey- based Suffolk Technologies, LLC over their Internet search summary descriptions , ...
techlaw.justia.com/.../google-aol-patent-lawsuit-snippet-search...
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