Bloomberg
Google Inc. (GOOG)'s share of Russia's Internet searches rose in the week to June 3, while the portion of competitor Yandex NV fell, data compiled by Liveinternet.ru showed. Russian searches forGoogle, the world's largest Web-search provider, ...
Google Readies New Local-Ad Assault
Wall Street Journal
Those Google+ pages will draw traffic from the company's Web-search engine. When shoppers visit these businesses, Google wants them to use their Internet-connected phones like a digital wallet, earning loyalty points and making payments at stores that ...
Google Cryptically Alerts The World That It Will Nudge Chinese Searchers Away ...
Techdirt
It's no secret that Google has a troubled relationship with China: at one point leaving the market entirely, and later going back but with significant limitations, though where Google tried to be as transparent as possible about when information was ...
Standard Marketing Ltd Reacts to Google's Recent 2012 Efforts to Streamline ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Google+ Launched 8 months ago as Google's entry into Social Media. Businesses were initially slow to adopt this new social network. Mixed reviews and a lack of understanding about how to use Google+ tools as a means to enhance consumer engagement kept ...
Google Helps Chinese Avoid Censorship
Sci-Tech Today
By Joe McDonald In a new move in its censorship battle with China, Google has added a feature that will display warnings to search users in mainland China when their query is likely to result in blocked results. The change comes after filters were ...
Sci-Tech Today
Google Accuses Microsoft and Nokia of Patent Trolling
NewsFactor Network
By Michael Liedtke Search giant Google has asked European Union regulators to investigate alleged collusion between Nokia, Microsoft, and so-called technology "patent trolls." Google's attack on Microsoft and Nokia escalates a legal brawl among ...
Google Search "Lionel Richie" for New Knowledge Graph Easter Egg
Search Engine Watch
by Miranda Miller, June 4, 2012 Comments Google is having a bit of fun with their new Knowledge Graph feature. When you search for musician Lionel Richie on Google, you'll see an Easter egg that asks, "Hello, is it me you're looking for?
Google still best for mapping, but contenders gain ground
The Seattle Times
Competitors such as Bing and MapQuest have adopted Google's approach, but Google still excels at helping you find where you're going. By ANICK JESDANUN AP Technology Writer No comments have been posted to this article. ORO VALLEY, Ariz.
Google Acquires KikScore Technology And Assets To Complement Trusted Stores
Search Engine Land
In an effort to expand the kind of information available to online shoppers via its Trusted Stores program, Google has acquired the technology and certain assets of KikScore, a trust seal company serving mostly small businesses.
Search Engine Land
Why the Google Penguin Update is Good For SEO
Search Engine Journal
Every now and then, Google changes up their search ranking algorithms to cut down on spam, penalise duplicate content and generally eliminate weak websites from the first page. It's an ongoing arms struggle between Black Hat SEO artists and Google, ...
WSJ: Google Gears Up Again To Tap Local Business Advertising Market
NASDAQ
Google's social network Google+ will be an integral part of this project. Consumers can use this to interact with local businesses having special web pages on the network. These pages will draw traffic from the web-search engine. Google wants shoppers ...
Internet marketing news roundup, June 1
Brafton
Using excessive keywords and complex linking schemes aimed at search crawlers is an especially troubling practice for users, since it often results in a poor experience. Both Penguin and Google Panda are designed to bring users content that is most ...
Brafton
WSJ: Google Prepares “Business Builder” For Small Business Marketers
Search Engine Land
Google plans to have its newest small-business service—which at one point it was calling Business Builder—up and running as early as July, said a person familiar with the matter. The project combines several products and services aimed at small ...
Google Is Now Getting Serious About Local Businesses
WebProNews
By Chris Crum · 5 hours ago · Leave a Comment Google has big plans for local businesses, and making billions for itself in the process. “Much of the information from a business owners' GooglePlace page – such as the business address, phone number, ...
As Google Tinkers with Search, Upstarts Gain Ground
Technology Review
By Tom Simonite Google's willingness to tinker with its Web search may be opening a gap for new search engines to fill. January saw Google launch Search, plus Your World, a service that adds links shared by friends to the results page a user sees, ...
Technology Review
Top China Stories from WSJ: Google Tips Off Users, Housing Market, Spy Case ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
AP A Chinese flag flutters near the Google logo on top of Google's China headquarters in Beijing, China on Friday, Jan. 22, 2010. Google Tips Off Users in China: Google Inc. has begun warning users in China of certain search words that may trigger the ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Google: Don't Let Us Make Imaginary Evils
WebProNews
By Chris Crum · There has historically been a lot of talk about whether or not Google is evil. The company brought this upon itself, by making “do no evil” a part of its public policies. @googlebooks Don't let us make ...
Google, Cisco, Amazon, RIM, Weinstein: Intellectual Property
Bloomberg
Google Inc. filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Nokia Oyj (NOK1V), saying the companies are using patents to thwart competition. The complaint focuses on a transfer Nokia and Microsoft made last ...
Pay-per-click can pay off for advisers
Reuters
DO-IT-YOURSELF A firm can start a web marketing campaign with a search engine like Google. Companies often spend thousands of dollars on consultants to help make sure they appear at the top of the organic search results page. But you can also advertise ...
Google SA launches online safety campaign
Independent Online
By SAPA AP Johannesburg - The launch of internet search engine Google's Online Child Safety Campaign on Friday was a noble effort to protect children, Minister of Children Lulu Xingwana said. “I would like to take this opportunity to commend Google for ...
Google files patent claim against Microsoft, Nokia
Independent Online
Google also shared the complaint with the US Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission. Microsoft brushed off Google's accusations as the “desperate tactic” of a company facing regulatory questions about its dominance of online search and ...
The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Google, Amazon.com, eBay, Oracle and ...
Sacramento Bee
Google Inc. (Nasdaq:GOOG), the world's most popular Internet search engine, is leaving no stone unturned to reap maximum benefits from its search engine business. So long a free product service, product placements and information displayed by merchants ...
Get Bing And Google Back-links - How To Find Backlink Services That Actually ...
The Bakersfield Voice
These tell Bing and google that your particular website is applicable to your search engine, knowning that additional websites find the articles you write persuasive.The more you will get Googleback-links, the more expensive you may ranking in the ...
Google to Push Local Advertising for Small Businesses
Search Engine Journal
With local businesses spending over $20 billion on marketing each year, Google is hopeful that the recently announced small-business services will help them capture some of the highly-profitable market share. As early as next month, Google is expected ...
Bing makes search social, ups their game
AGBeat
by AGBeat in Social Media - June 3, 2012 · Add Comment Bing has long integrated Facebook likes, but with their new social features, they have surpassed Google's social search capacity. AlthoughGoogle remains the search default for most Americans, ...
UnGoogleable: Search Without Search
Complex.com (blog)
But a look at recent major changes to search made by both Google and Bing would suggest that both companies see this future, or something similar, as a sort of aspirational endgame. The idea is to remake search into a more intuitive and personal ...
Google: Don't Worry About The Latest Dips
Seeking Alpha
Google (GOOG) shares have fallen to a 4-month low while other search-friendly giants bulk up in the shadows. On the plus side, Google finally won the legal case against Oracle (ORCL), which has been simmering on the back burner since August 2010.
The browser wars are back!
Fortune
Competition between Firefox, Google, and Microsoft for users' time online -- and especially on mobile devices -- is fierce once again. FORTUNE -- The long, cold war over the Internet browser is heating up again. Recent statistics from StatCounter ...
Google Free Product Listings to Become Paid
TopTenWholesale News
by Claudia Bruemmer | June 3, 2012 4:34 PM PST Later this year, Google will no longer offer free product listings on Google Product Search, and the name of the service will change to Google Shopping. Right now, merchants must send their product feeds ...
TopTenWholesale News
Google Analytics Custom Reports: Paid Search Campaigns Analysis ...
By Avinash Kaushik
Search Engine Optimization will have a large source of your search traffic (surely you are not just renting traffic from Bing, Google, Yandex, right?). You can learn so much from bounce rates on SEOlanding pages, the Per Visit Goal Value (or ...
Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Bravo: Google stickin' it to the communist-man in China « Hot Air
By Erika Johnsen
Google decided to go for it, but it's been an uphill battle — they had to move their web search and other services to Hong Kong to avoid working with the Chinese regulations. Last week, Google announced that they're implementing a way to let ...
Hot Air » Top Picks
Google to Search Engine Users in China - 'It's Not Us - It's Them ...
By Susan Gunelius
Google wants to make sure that people who conduct keyword searches in China know the results don't stink — censorship does. In 2010, Google pulled out of China and moved to Hong Kong after years of censorship battles with the Chinese ...
Newstex is Content On Demand
Google+ Local – What Wasn't in the Announcement Was More ...
By Mike Blumenthal
We know that Google has been gradually diassembling the Dashboard (pulling out AdWords Express and revamping Offer Coupons) and that its functionality has not been updated in eons (think analytics that only report out pack results NOT blended). .... For years independent seo reviews of traffic to their clients sites suggest that google domination of search is far greater than what comcast and other market companies report. Run ppc campaigns in Adwords and Bing/Yahoo.
Understanding Google Places &...
Google Product Search To Become Google Shopping, Use Pay-To ...
By John Lawson
Google Product Search is getting a new name, Google Shopping, and a new business model where only merchants that pay will be listed. It's the first time Google will decommission a search product that previously listed companies for free.
ColderICE: Ecommerce Social Business
Why the Google Penguin Update May Have Slapped Your Website
By Dana Prince
If you have a small business website and follow the topic of search engine optimization, you know that Google frequently makes changes to the rules that they follow for ranking web pages and sending traffic to sites. The rules are continually ... The predecessor to Google Penguin that last made big news in SEO circles was the Google Panda update, which aimed to eliminate sites with poor quality and lousy user experience from the top of the search engine results pages. Many large...
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Google's Knowledge Graph Takes Search Closer to Star Trek | Kiwi ...
By Howie Hershorn
Google seems to be on fire these days. First they teased us with a video for augmented reality eyeglasses, a prototype that produces web-enhanced Heads Up Displays for the people who wear them. Designed to interact with the social media ...
Kiwi Commons
Google Places is No More, Long Live Google+ Local!
By Obaidul Haque
He focuses heavily on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Social Media Marketing (SMM). Also a passionate blogger and freelance writer, he shares his insightful views regularly on HelloBloggerz . You can follow him on Google Plus or ...
Houston Search Engine Marketing and ...
Demystifying the Google Knowledge Graph (Part I) | The Results ...
By Mohammed Alami
... effect on the industry. People have taken notice, and for good reason; Google has confirmed a radical change in their way of serving up search results, which since 1998, has been based on matching keywords to queries (as well as other variables such as the popularity, source, and quality of content). ... Back in 2008, Microsoft purchased Powerset to develop the capacity of semantic analysis in their search engine, Live Search, all in an effort to overthrow Google. Even earlier, it was...
The Results People
Where is the Google Scholar advanced search? - Royal Roads ...
By Royal Roads University Library
Where is the Google Scholar advanced search? The Google Scholar advanced search option has been moved! To access it click on the down arrow on the right side of the search box. Posted by Royal Roads University Library at 11:09 AM ...
Royal Roads University Library Lowdown
Google Product Search
By admin
On May 31, 2012, Google announced that it will no longer be supporting free product uploads throughGoogle Product Search. Instead, it is developing Google Shopping this summer, a paid shoppingsearch engine. We cannot guarantee the ...
MerchantMoms
Small business SEO & Internet marketing strategy guide, 2012 | Site ...
By David Mercer
The effects of Google product Search on SEO & Internet marketing. Small business SEO and Internet marketing strategies are going to have to revised and adapted following the announcement of paid product placements in Google search results. Read these two articles for ... If you got hit byPanda and Penguin, or simply can't get your blog, site or content to generate the traffic you want, read these articles: Panda & Penguin friendly SEO: A business guide to recovering from Google's ...
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Google - ICANNWiki
By Caterina
In 1997, Page and Brin decided to change the name of the BackRub search engine, the two brainstormed and came up with Google -- a term derived from the mathematical term googol, which means the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.
ICANNWiki - Recent changes [en]
Google search iPhone app update : Speed, Full screen searching
Google has recently released an update to its Google search iPhone and Android app. The new upgrade makes it much better, faster and Full-screen search.
infworm.com/google-search-app-update/
Google Shopping to change formats, charge merchants -- Engadget
It's just about closing time for Google Shopping's free merchant listings. The iconic search enginehas traditionally shown us products regardless of a.
www.engadget.com/.../google-shopping-to-change-formats-ch...
Google Penguin And Search Engine Over Optimization – What Your ...
We were made aware of the Over-optimization penalty when Google's Matt Cutts spoke at SXSW back in March. At the time we were not sure if this new update ...
jasegroup.com/google-penguin-and-search-engine-over-optim...
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