By Hugh Duffy
The biggest takeaway is that if you want to continue to rank toward the top of search engine results in Google, you will probably have to create and optimize a Google + account. As part of this evolution, here is what I see: Google will integrate ...
Intuit News Central
Google Search in Mainland China Now Shows Censorship Warnings
Search Engine Watch
by Miranda Miller, June 5, 2012 Comments Google recently launched an anti-censorship tool for Chinese search users, announcing the update on their Inside Search blog while carefully dancing around any direct mention of government censorship.
Google Makes Renewed Grab for the Rest of Online Advertising
Forbes
That's the problem Google aims to solve with a revamped ad buying system it will announce today at a private Future of Advertising event hosted by its DoubleClick display-ad management and technology unit. (Part of the event will be livestreamed here.) ...
Forbes
Apple's already started the process of replacing Google Maps
GigaOM
5, 2012, 7:30am PT 4 Comments Google Maps' days of being the default map in iOS are numbered. 9to5Mac reported a few weeks ago that Apple was planning to replaceGoogle Maps with its own homegrown mapping solution, and late Monday The Wall Street ...
GigaOM
Google Advertising Service Tracks Success of Digital Marketing
BusinessWeek
By Brian Womack on June 05, 2012 Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG) is introducing a feature to help advertisers manage different types of promotions -- including mobile, video, display and search -- as it tries to boost revenue by streamlining digital ...
Apple and Google set to battle over mobile mapping
SlashGear
The iPhone used Google Maps technology to provide users with the location of businesses and other details while Apple pushed a lot of traffic through Google servers and to Google search. As the iPhone became more and more popular and Googleunveiled ...
SlashGear
Forget Keyword for SEO -- Concentrate on the Properties and Associations of ...
Huffington Post
On June 2, 2011, Google, Yahoo and Bing announced Schema.org, a plan to support a common set of "tags" to help webmasters add properties to their content. This allows search engines the ability to recognize that content about "Miami" is about a city, ...
The Cable: Google to warn users targeted by state-sponsored attacks
Foreign Policy (blog)
Web giant Google is about to announce a new warning informing Gmail users when a specific type of attacker is trying to hijack their accounts -- governments and their proxies. Later today, the company will announce a new warning system that will alert ...
3 Reasons Why the New Google Shopping is Bad for Ecommerce Merchants
Search Engine Watch
by Andrew Davis, June 5, 2012 Comments Google has announced that they will transition GoogleProduct Search away from being free for merchants to list their products into a commercial model built on the Product Listing Ads program.
Search Technologies Surpasses 100 Google Search Appliance Customers
PR Web (press release)
Kamran Khan, CEO, Search Technologies Search Technologies announced today that it has now helped more than 100 companies implement and extend the capabilities of the Google SearchAppliance. Search Technologies is one of Google's most proficient ...
Google gives Chinese citizens alerts when their searches have flagged terms
Business Insider
Google is now warning Hong Kong users if their search has been flagged for containing “sensitive words”. USA Today reports: “Google's announcement Thursday described the change as a technical improvement and made no mention of Beijing's extensive ...
Half of car buyers in India search online before buying: Google
Economic Times
MUMBAI: Nearly 50% of the car buyers researched online before making a final decision, and they typically change their choice of brand after online research, according to a joint study by GoogleIndia and Nielsen. With an Internet population of 121 ...
Meebo bought by Google to bolster its social media presence
GlobalPost
Meebo has been acquired by Google for a reported $100 million, in the hopes that the messaging service will give Google+ a competitive edge on Facebook. Social sharing and messaging service Meebo has been acquired by Google, the company announced ...
Dental Marketing: Bye Bye Google Places and Hello Google Plus Local
The Wealthy Dentist (blog)
On April 24th of this year Google released another major search algorithm update called “Penguin” in its ongoing effort to clean up search results. In its most recent move, Google eliminated GooglePlaces and replaced it with Google Plus Local to ...
Google Search Results Looking More Like Facebook: Layout and Ad Units ...
Business Insider
He blogs at RyanSpoon.com For specific queries, Google's search results pages are looking less and less like traditional Google pages and more and more like Facebook. The below example for the query “starbucks” promotes Starbucks, local maps and news ...
[Breaking] Google Acquires Quickoffice - Let The Productivity Wars Begin
Android Police
So, Google just acquired Quickoffice, one of the leading distributors of productivity and office software for Android. The company, best known for being better than Docs or Microsoft Office on Android, has now been purchased by the search giant.
WSJ: Apple Has Been Planning Google Maps' Ouster “For Years”
Search Engine Land
Apple plans to encourage app developers to embed its maps inside their applications like social-networking and search services . . . Apple has been hatching the plan to evict Google Maps from the iPhone for years The WSJ reports that Apple believes a ...
Google Slurps Up Meebo to Get More Social
E-Commerce Times
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) on has acquired social networking site Meebo, a possible bid to expand and reinforce the search giant's social networking acumen. The deal has been the subject of rumors for about a month, after AllThingsD reported the two ...
Will iPhones Be Lost Without Google Maps?
Smartmoney.com (blog)
By Quentin Fottrell If Apple deletes Google Maps from its iPhones, experts say many users won't even notice. Once the business of Good Samaritans, giving directions now accounts for $625 million in mobile advertising annually.
China's Wikipedia, Hudong.com to Help Bing in Search Model Revolution
Sacramento Bee
By Hudong.com BEIJING, June 5, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Hudong.com, having been an important part of Microsoft MSN (China)'s (Nasdaq:MSFT) presence, has officially reached a strategic partnership with Bing search engine.
Google gives Chinese Web users glimpse into censorship
CPJ Press Freedom Online (blog)
China-based search engines are required to clean up the search results of politically sensitive terms so that no undesirable links appear. When Google moved its Chinese search engine to Hong Kong to avoid censorship, it was no longer required to edit ...
50% urban car-buyers search online before purchase: Google
Moneycontrol.com
Published on Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 18:36 | Source : PTI Nearly 50% of car buyers from main urban centres research online before walking into a showroom, a Google survey said. Besides, on an average a car-buyer spends 9 to 12 weeks researching before ...
Watching the Google auto-complete algorithm at work from a hill in Tuscany
Business Insider
Last week I went to a wedding in Italy –and I got to watch the Google Auto-Complete algorithm at work. (I think it did anyway and as a product/design/brand guy I welcome corrections from the more technical). The wedding was a 4 day affair and we were ...
Google Buys Startups Quickoffice and Meebo
KBOI
In the span of 24 hours, Google has acquired two decently-sized Silicon Valley startups. On Monday the search giant announced that it had purchased the instant messaging firm, Meebo. And now, another purchase: it has acquired Quickoffice, ...
If You Own Google, Watch These 3 Trends
Seeking Alpha
Google's (GOOG) entire method for displaying search results has changed greatly over the last several years, to the point of making several changes that search engine optimization experts traditionally thought were extremely unlikely.
Goodbye Google Places, Hello Google+ Local
Bar Harbor Times
By Dream Local | Jun 05, 2012 Google launched a new product last week — “Google+ Local” — that integrates Google Places with the Google+ social media site. With the change, Google has abandoned Google Places, forcing all of its business listings into ...
Google acquires social media toolbar maker Meebo
Computerworld
By Jeremy Kirk IDG News Service - Google has acquired Meebo, a company that makes a toolbar that aggregates content from websites as well as displaying advertisements, the company said on its blog on Monday. Founded in 2005, Meebo's main product is a ...
Google Plus related? Search giant buys “Meebo”
PopHerald.com
June 5th, 2012, 12:15 PM– Google is buying a new social platform to strengthen its social networking site, Google Plus, apparently. Meebo's official web blog confirmed on Monday that search giant Google is acquiring them. “Meebo has entered into an ...
PopHerald.com
Stocks to Watch: Amazon, Google, FedEx
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Mia Lamar Among the companies with shares expected to actively trade in Tuesday's session are Amazon.com, Google and FedEx. Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) acquired publication rights from Avalon Books for more than 3000 of its books, mostly in the romance, ...
6 SEO Tools to Analyze Your Site Like Google Does | Measured SEM
By Tom Demers
And while Google freely talks about their overarching goals with these updates being to weed out lower-quality websites that don't satisfy searchers with quality content, there is still some secrecy behind exactly how Google evaluates a website ... 2) Screaming Frog SEO Spider. The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a search marketer's best friend. Designed specifically for the SEO-minded, this program crawls the websites you specify examining the URLs for common SEO issues in an ...
Measured SEM
Climateer Investing: As Google Tinkers with Search, Upstarts Gain ...
By climateer
January saw Google launch Search, plus Your World, a service that adds links shared by friends to the results page a user sees, based on activity collected from other Google services such as Google+ and Gmail. February brought news that ...
Climateer Investing
Google Returning Searches For Adult Terms With Non-Adult Results ...
By Michael H. Berkens
According to a pretty interesting article over at xBiz.com "several seemingly “adult” search terms have recently become dominated by mainstream sites as the Google algorithm now ranks non-adult content sites on the first page for keywords that were his ... ... whether search users want porn or not,” said Mitch of BurningAngel.com. “Now as Google appears to be recharacterizing many adult terms, the SEO window of opportunity appears to be shrinking even tighter for paysite owners.” ...
The Domains
By Michael H. Berkens
According to a pretty interesting article over at xBiz.com "several seemingly “adult” search terms have recently become dominated by mainstream sites as the Google algorithm now ranks non-adult content sites on the first page for keywords that were his ... ... whether search users want porn or not,” said Mitch of BurningAngel.com. “Now as Google appears to be recharacterizing many adult terms, the SEO window of opportunity appears to be shrinking even tighter for paysite owners.” ...
The Domains
Google Relies on Social + Local Search in Latest Ad Push ...
By Saroj Kar
Google in the past has tried to capture the local business ad market with several attempts, but most of them suffered from one misstep or another. The search engine giant is at it again, planning as early as July the launch of its small business ...
SiliconANGLE
Google: Wait For A Pullback To $550 - Seeking Alpha
By Vatalyst
Through diversification and smart allocation of company resources, Google's (GOOG) management team was able to turn a nice search engine into an almost $200 billion company. But how does it stack up in the ever evolving information and ... of 2011, Bing accounted for about 13.9% of the U.S.search share. Losing 1.3% in a year may not seem like a huge blow to Google, but if the trend continues, I believe that Bing could represent the first real competition to Google in years.
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
Apple's already started the process of replacing Google Maps ...
By Dennis
And the Journal has some great details about how we got from 2007, when then-Google CEO Eric Schmidt shared the stage with Steve Jobs to talk about Google Maps and Google Search on the iPhone — with Schmidt joking about combining ...
Latest electronics
It Really Is a Google World and We Are All Just Living in It ...
By David Mihm
I feel like we're at a point where competition between digital advertising giants like Google and Facebook is focusing less on the user experience and too much on how to monetize the eyeballs that they've collected through innovation. Jim Rudnick says at June 5th, 2012 at 9:19 ... Actually first time I saw that title from analytics I was hoping it would take the approach you took– ie the google search page….than the information they are highlighting. (above the fold on your own pages ).
Mihmorandum: Local SEO + Web Design
Google honors Dana crash victims with black ribbon on search page ...
Google's Nigerian search page has a black ribbon on its site today in memory of those killed in the Dana Air crash of Sunday June 3rd.
Sturvs
Google Places Replaced By Google+ Local: What Small Businesses ...
By Sam Zastrow
Google Places was a dominant player in the local SEO world and it certainly demanded the attention of local businesses, trends that will likely continue with its movement to Google+. This means small businesses everywhere need to take ...
Business 2 Community
Google+ Local Replaces Google Places | CustomerLink Systems
By Robb Holmstrom
Confused by all the changes to Google Places, Google Local and now Google+. What does it all ...This change has been speculated for a while, and this week Google finally started merging GooglePlaces pages into a tab called “Local”” within Google+. What the heck does that ... When I searchfor a pizza place in downtown Sacramento, Google Local now highlights places that people I'm connected to on Google+ (people in my Circles) have given positive reviews. You can imagine ...
CustomerLink Systems
And just like that, Google snaps up mobile productivity suite ...
By Christian Zibreg
Whoa, looks like another iOS app developer (not exclusive, though) just ended up engulfed in the Google ecosystem as the search giant announced its.
iDownloadBlog.com
Now Microsoft Can Launch Its True Bing Assault Against Google ...
By Chris Crum
Still, it's a chance for the company to push its browser, and perhaps its search engine in front of a hard core (as well as casual) gaming base more than ever. Last year, Bing came to the console in very limited fashion. Microsoft launched Bing ...
WebProNews
Google Highlights Censored Search Terms In China - Slashdot
itwbennett writes "Responding to complaints from Chinese Googlers that the search engine is 'inconsistent and unreliable,' Google has updated its service to ...
tech.slashdot.org/.../google-highlights-censored-search-terms-i...
How to use Google Search + Your World? - Web Applications
I have tried a lot of Google Searches but nothing shows up. I have taken this pic from net, I do not see any such option anywhere while using Google Search.
webapps.stackexchange.com/.../how-to-use-google-search-you...
eBay Strategies: RIP Google Product Search (Froogle) - What it ...
Part I - Details on the death of Google Product Search. (you are here) Part II - What does this mean for Google and the industry? Part III - What should retailers do ...
ebaystrategies.blogs.com/.../rip-google-product-search-froogle...
Google Search - CNET Download.com
The Google Search app brings the company's many Internet resources to your iOS device and a recent redesign of the interface makes the app even better.
download.cnet.com/Google.../3000-2379_4-75180385.html
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