Forbes
Google faces similar ongoing investigation in the US and India. At the heart of the antitrust scrutiny is Google's competitors' claim of “search bias” – that Google manipulates its search results to penalize competitors (think MapQuest and Yelp) or to ...
Google takes on WSJ, defends search infrastructure
ZDNet (blog)
By Rachel King | June 8, 2012, 11:03am PDT Summary: Google defends its search algorithms, reminding Internet users that if they don't like Google's results, they can always try a different search engine. Google has struck back against the Wall Street ...
Google Defends Search Business, Denies Being 'Brand Killer'
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Google today hit back at accusations from shopping site Nextag that it is manipulating search results to favor its own products and effectively becoming a "brand killer." "While we're always happy to have feedback about how we can ...
Google responds to WSJ guest post; defends search algorithms
CNET
Search giant strikes back at column by Nextag CEO Jeffrey Katz, reminding Internet users that if they don't like Google's results, they can always try a different search engine. by Rachel KingGoogle has struck back against The Wall Street Journal ...
What Google's Competitors Want Is Not Exactly What Its Users Want
Huffington Post (blog)
Jeffrey Katz, the CEO of a company called Nextag, has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal arguing that Google's practices in search had hurt his company. His op-ed responds to the EU's recent request that Google propose remedies to address competitive ...
Google's Monopoly and Internet Freedom
Wall Street Journal
Google has enjoyed this unrivaled position for nearly a decade. It is the most popularsearch engine in the world, controlling nearly 82% of the global search market and 98% of the mobile search market. Its annual revenue is larger than the economies ...
Wall Street Journal
Apple Jab at Google Likely at WWDC
PCWorld
Google's iOS search app uses location to improve local search results, and mobile ad networks rely on location to deliver relevant advertising. Location on the iPhone is big and promises to get bigger as people increasingly consult their smartphones ...
EU gives Google till July to offer fix for search dominance
Register
By Brid-Aine Parnell • Get more from this author The EU's antitrust head honcho has said thatGoogle has until early July to tell him how it's going to change itself enough to sort out its dominant position in the marketplace. Google has repeatedly ...
Google rolls out certification service Trusted Stores
Times of India
Google is dipping its toe into the customer-service business as the world's largest internet searchcompany steps up competition with e-commerce giant Amazon.com. CHICAGO: Google is dipping its toe into the customer-service business as the world's ...
Google forays into customer service business
NDTV
Google Inc is dipping its toe into the customer-service business as the world's largest Internet search company steps up competition with e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc . Google rolled out a new certification service called Google Trusted Stores on ...
NDTV
Google Gets Slick with Updated Search App for iPhones
CIO (blog)
Web search on your iPhone has gotten easier. Google's search app lets you enter queries via voice or typing, and it has a slick, easy-to-use interface that pulls up full-color images. Google's privacy policies offend me, and its immense size and ...
Google to Add Voice Recognition to Mobile Enterprise Search?
CIO
Matt Eichner, Google's general manager of enterprise search, has hinted that companies may soon benefit from voice recognition when searching enterprise data on mobile devices. By Derek du Preez Matt Eichner, Google's general manager of enterprise ...
CIO
Google maps out future
Asia Times Online
By Martin J Young HUA HIN, Thailand - Search giant Google intensified its rivalry with Apple this week by upgrading its mapping services in anticipation of the launch of a competing product coming from the iPhone maker. Google said it would introduce ...
Apple's war with Google heats up
Reuters
Apple on Monday is expected to announce its own mapping application, displacing Google Maps as one of the most-valued features on the iPhone. It will unveil closer integration of its iPhone apps and its iCloud storage service, the latest riposte in its ...
Given Nextag's Lack Of Transparency, Its WSJ Opinion Piece Asking For Google ...
Search Engine Land
65% Of Traffic From Google Is A Stacked Deck? At my company, Nextag, a comparison shopping site for products and services, we regularly analyze the level of search traffic we get from Google. It's easy to see when Google makes changes to its algorithms ...
Hefty book serves up printed version of Google search results
CNET (blog)
Who needs Wi-Fi and a laptop when you can search Google Images via this thumb-indexed dictionary? by Edward Moyer See the embedded video below for a look inside. "If the Internet goes off, you may need this reference book." So says artist and designer ...
Google Improves Google+ Search Signals
WebProNews
By Chris Crum · 4 hours ago · Leave a Comment Google revealed a list of 39 changes it made in May, and one of them is about improving social search – particularly when Google chooses to show Google+ pages in the right-hand panel, often reserved for ...
EU's Almunia: Google has until July to address antitrust concerns
CNET
"On May 21, I sent a letter to Google underlining our concerns in its business practices that we identified in our preliminary investigations that started in November 2010," Almunia said in a speech today. "I want to give the company the opportunity to ...
Google Launches Trusted Stores Program
PCWorld
By Cameron Scott, IDG News Google launched a Trusted Stores program on Thursday that will provide online shoppers with customer satisfaction scores for participating merchants, according to a company blog post. Google will serve a Trusted Store badge ...
Google Told by EU to Offer Antitrust Settlement in Weeks
BusinessWeek
By Aoife White on June 08, 2012 Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG) was told to make an offer by early next month to resolve a European Union antitrust probe and avoid a formal complaint over allegations the operator of the world's largest search engine ...
Why Google's (and Apple's Alleged) 3D Maps Don't Seem That Exciting
TIME
It's all part of Cupertino's grand plan to extricate itself from Google's ad-speckled clutches, goes this line of thinking. Google Maps serves up sponsored search results — I just typed “Buy Buy Baby” into Google Maps on my iPhone, for instance, ...
Google Got Trolled In The Wall Street Journal And Decided To Hit Back
Business Insider
The Wall Street Journal ran a big opinion piece from a CEO at comparison shopping site Nextag, which basically said that Google wasn't being fair in its search results. Now Google's Amit Singhal, SVP of engineering, is firing back on Google's blog in a...
Business Insider
EU gives Google till early July in antitrust case
San Jose Mercury News
ST GALLEN, Switzerland - The EU antitrust chief on Friday gave Google (GOOG) until early July to say how it would change its business practices to settle an investigation into possible abuse of a dominant position. "I want to give the company the ...
Bing bulks up against Google with Encyclopedia Britannica
Computerworld
By Sharon Gaudin Microsoft is moving to bulk up its Bing search engine by partnering with the Encyclopedia Britannica to add more data to its search results. The company announced on Thursday that Bing now will include Britannica Online answers ...
Bing signs Encyclopaedia Britannica for search results
BBC News
The tie-up means summaries of topics using data from the Encyclopaedia will be added to some search results. The deal builds on Britannica's decision in March to stop producing a print edition. It is also seen as a response to Google's "knowledge ...
BBC News
Building the Star Trek computer: how Google's Knowledge Graph is changing search
The Verge
Giannandrea and his team recently launched Knowledge Graph, a informational meta-sidebar you may've noticed in Google Search. Depending on whether you search a person, place, or thing,Google now delivers contextual results that often provide the ...
Google Panda and Penguin got you stumped? Catch this live ...
By Staff Reporter
Google and the SEO industry seem to be in a constant state of battle. Algorithm changes likePanda, along with updates like Penguin have made it increasingly difficult to manipulate Google's search results. Livelihoods are at stake on either ...
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Setting the record straight: competition in search - Google Public ...
By Google Public Policy Blog
We know that if we don't give users the best results, people can and will switch to another search engine. ... In today's Wall Street Journal, the CEO of comparison shopping site Nextag makes several claims that are wrong -- or suggests that Google start doing things that we already do. Let me set the ... The great thing about the openness of the Internet is that if users don't find our results relevant and useful, they can easily navigate to Nextag, Amazon, Yelp, Bing or any other website .
Google Public Policy Blog
Firefox demotes Yandex, makes Google the default search engine in ...
By Donald Melanson
It looks like you can chalk up one more win for Google in its bid to be the number one search enginein as many places as possible. When the next version.
Engadget
Google's 2012 revenue? Two percent will come from iOS
By Christian Zibreg
Look, we already know Apple's iOS platform made Google four times the revenue of Android by end of 2011, courtesy of huge traffic coming from iOS device owners using preloaded search and mapping services from Google. And as Apple is ...
iDownloadBlog.com
FairSearch.org | WSJ Op-Ed: Nextag CEO Jeffrey Katz “Google Has ...
By FairSearch
In it, Katz outlines how Google has been abusing its monopoly power to charge higher prices for preferred search rankings, distorting the presentation and order of sites listed on its search results page and effectively hampering other companies' ... Transparency for users in how Google's search engine works, and when a link receives more prominent placement because it is a Google product or advertiser with the company;; Access to search results that are not biased by Google's ...
FairSearch.org
Google's Human Evaluators, Local Search, and ... - SEO by the Sea
By Bill Slawski
Google employs human evaluators to judge the relevance of web pages in search results, but according to Google's Matt Cutts, usually only when engineers from the search engine are testing a new algorithm, and want to compare the results ...
SEO by the Sea
[SEO, SOCIAL MEDIA] Facebook and Twitter activity found to ...
By paul.fabretti
The study aimed to find out the main factors that help web pages rank well in Google searches. It found the greatest correlation between social activity and Google search rankings came from Facebook pages. This was followed by Facebook ...
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Demystifying the Google Knowledge Graph (Part III) | The Results ...
By Mohammed Alami
In Part 2, we looked at how the Google Knowledge Graph fits into the overarching framework of the Semantic Web. In Part 3, we will outline the impact of the Knowledge Graph on search engine optimization (organic/paid) and how we can take ...
The Results People
Improvements to mobile search a heavy focus for Google in May ...
By Joe Meloni
Google unveiled the entirety of its search updates for May recently, and it's clear that mobile is a major focus of the company. ... of all platforms have seen this adjustment to mobile search. The role of mobile in evolving SEO strategies is critical.
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Viagra Adverts when Search For Podiobooks on Google ...
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Facebook And Twitter Shares Closely Linked With High Google ...
Facebook And Twitter Shares Closely Linked With High Google Search Rankings Says ... The company analysed search results from Google.co.uk for 10000 ...
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Actual Search Results in Google Search Results, Through the Years
Re: last night's item on the ever-decreasing screen space Google devotes to actual search results, I wondered aloud how today's Google search results ...
www.techinvestornews.com/.../actual-search-results-in-google-...
Danny Sullivan - Google+ - Proof that SEO, Google and search is in ...
Search Engine Land originally shared this post: Proof that SEO, Google and search is in every day life for every day people. Google Penguin & Panda Talk Now ...
https://plus.google.com/.../posts/gbdBCZfKazb
Customize Google search settings
This article will explain you how to customize Google search settings to your preferences.
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Does the Google Search Now Better Than 5 Years Ago?Google did in the past 5 years. Or in the past year and a half, two major changes in the ...
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Google search acting odd? - Yahoo!7 Answers
"Google search acting odd?" - Find the answer to this question and millions more on Yahoo!7 Answers.
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Google should highlight searches which the Chinese government ...
Google is continuing its low level campaign for freedom of speech in China with a change to how it delivers its search results in China. Google of course has its ...
idebate.org/.../google-should-highlight-searches-which-chines...
Google Search Tools
Google Tools for the Those Who Want to Learn More About Google Search!
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An unsolved mystery of google - Google Product Forums
Searches appear right in front of my eyes! These stupid so-called google solutions don't work. I haven't been on a public computer or anyone's elses computer ...
productforums.google.com/d/msg/websearch/.../NbiCypZtyFg...
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