EBay vs. Google
Date: 2008-02-08 Source: CBS.MarketWatch.com
My final assessment is that eBay isn't going to lose customers to Google. But the advent of search as an alternative will take away the potential eBay once had. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Being a Bigdaddy Jagger Meister
Date: 2006-06-08 Source: Search Engine Guide
About ten days ago, the light at the end of the intellectual tunnel became eminently visible and SEO discussion forums are abuzz with productive and proactive conversations regarding how to deal with a post-Bigdaddy Google environment. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Is There Really a Google Sandbox?
Date: 2006-06-08 Source: Search Engine Guide
Anyone that's spent some time in a search related discussion forum knows what a popular topic the sandbox is for debate and a great deal of the search community accepts the concept as fact. Guess what? They're wrong. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
AdWords to Integrate Dayparting and Ad Scheduling
Date: 2006-05-26 Source: Search Engine Guide
Last week, the Google team announced plans to integrate dayparting and ad scheduling into the AdWords advertiser panel. With Microsoft's adCenter already offering limited dayparting options, it was only a matter of time until Google was forced to do the same. Even so, most small businesses will be looking forward to this feature launch with great anticipation. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Is Google Dropping Conservative Sites They Disagree With?
Date: 2006-05-24 Source: Search Engine Guide
There's some buzz moving around the blogosphere that speculates on whether the left-leaning ideology behind one of the most popular search sites on the Internet may be tainting their ability to provide unbiased results through the Google News search engine and through the actual Google Web search. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
The Goods on Google – A Few Facts From Their SEC Filing
Date: 2006-03-20 Source: Search Engine Guide
Now that Google stock circulates on the open market, US law requires them to file reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). As a result of these reports, Google is no longer able to hold a wealth of information about it or its business as secrets. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google’s Growing Online Office
Date: 2006-03-13 Source: Search Engine Guide
The acquisition of Upstartle, combined with other current and pending Google services poses a serious challenge to Microsoft’s desktop oriented products. Google is clearly building a suite of branded, browser-based applications that contains several daily use products designed to capture users from Microsoft Office. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
A Little Q&A With Google
Date: 2006-02-13 Source: Search Engine Guide
Brin, Page and Schmidt, the trio that runs Google, are the cover boys of this week's Time Magazine. The article includes some interesting insight. For example, the decision not to run ads on Google's image search results because the estimated $80 million that it would produce in revenue each year isn't "worth it."
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Google Launches Toolbar Update
Date: 2006-01-30 Source: Search Engine Guide
The Google Toolbar is testing some new toys. In a beta launch available only to IE users, Google is offering several new features aimed at making the Google toolbar a more personal and more powerful browsing companion. From the addition of quick launch buttons to Google based bookmarking to closer integration with Gmail and Blogger, the toolbar upgrades look promising.
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Unified Theory of Google
Date: 2006-01-27 Source: Search Engine Guide
Along with its competitors, Google has been undergoing a remarkable series of changes over the past six months as it adds new features, acquires new technologies and expands its operations. It is no longer a pure search engine company though its search engine is the most popular around the world.
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5 Ways Google Will Help You With Your Traffic
Date: 2005-12-01 Source: Search Engine Guide
If you’ve ever had a severe drop in your Google rankings in search results, you may think of Google more of an enemy than an ally. Here are five ways that Google provides free traffic assistance.
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Matt Cutts: Celebrity Google Engineer
Date: 2005-11-29 Source: Search Engine Guide
On behalf of the webmasters and SEO's of the world, I do have to thank Matt. For a man who literally holds the power of online life and death for many webmasters, Matt's just a really nice guy.
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Google Analytics :: Branding and Packaging Results
Date: 2005-11-16 Source: Search Engine Guide
Google will be receiving a wealth of consumer and marketing information from sites using the software, information that will be incorporated into Google's understanding of how users travel through sites found in its index. That kind of information is worth its weight in Google shares.
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Google Bowling
Date: 2005-10-24 Source: Search Engine Guide
A small loophole on Google has turned into a devastating black hole, sucking in and wiping out countless quality websites in the process. And it just may be their competitors sending them into the abyss.
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Splogs + Scraping + AdSense = Fraud
Date: 2005-10-20 Source: Search Engine Guide
Splog fraud is a big problem for Google and a growing concern for the other major search advertising providers such as Yahoo Search Marketing, and MSN. The way content is taken from one site and replicated to dozens of others can cause no end to technical and financial issues for honest webmasters.
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Is Google Building Alternative Internet?
Date: 2005-09-22 Source: Search Engine Guide
There are a number of reasons backing speculation that Google is building its own global digital communications network. Google has formally entered the telecom business with the release of a VOIP client known as Google Talk.
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Vint Cerf talks Google
Date: 2005-09-15 Source: Search Engine Guide
Over the years, the Internet has become far more than Cert and his partner Kahn could have imagined. Just over a decade after it was opened for commercial use, the Internet is now the primary means of global communications and data transfer.
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Google Blog Search Debuts in Beta
Date: 2005-09-14 Source: Search Engine Guide
Google's new Blog Search isn't limited to blogs published through Google-owned Blogger. Instead, it works to index all blog content that is published via RSS or Atom feeds. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Launches Google Talk
Date: 2005-08-24 Source: Search Engine Guide
In a move that likely marks the company's first forray into online communication tools, Google launched its new Google Talk tool just after midnight last night.
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Google Updates Desktop Search
Date: 2005-08-22 Source: Search Engine Guide
Google unveiled version two of its desktop search software this morning. Google Desktop 2 featured an updated look and a suite of new tools designed to improve a users' overall search experience.
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Froogle Mobile Might Shake Up Your Business
Date: 2005-08-17 Source: Search Engine Guide
Those innovative engineers over at Google are at it again. This time they are bringing the power of Froogle to the palm of your hand. Froogle Mobile launched yesterday and is now available on phones that support WML (WAP 1.2). How does this launch impact you? [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Is Google Messing With Organic Algos?
Date: 2005-06-22 Source: Search Engine Guide
The search industry continues to explore ways to use behavioral targeting because the technology can be used to meet user needs while achieving advertiser objectives. Personalization of search will have a big impact on the way ads are placed and displayed [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google's Patent Implications
Date: 2005-06-09 Source: Search Engine Guide
Good content is not content that is just there to target specific keyword phrases. I wasn't surprised about the stuff in Google's new patent that corresponded with Google's aging delay and its "sandbox" as I had already seen a lot of discussion on this. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
