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Google reveals Chrome extensions plan

Google has published its plan to build into Chrome what is arguably its most requested feature: the ability to accept extensions that can customize how the open-source Web browser operates.
And guess what? Google’s dependence on advertising notwithstanding, one of the extension examples the company points to is the ability to block advertisements.
The Chrome extensions document, [...]

Google Asking Their Advertisers To Publicly Support Yahoo Search Deal

A reader, Darrin (from ReverseMortgageGuides), who says he spends about $100,000/month on Google adwords received a voicemail from a Cleary Gottlieb lawyer named Donald Burke. Burke says he’s representing Google in the Yahoo advertising deal.

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Next Post Previous Post Watch The Political Spin Machine With Google “In Quotes”

Google has just opened a new Labs project, called In Quotes, to the public. The site allows users to compare quotes from various political figures, displaying key excerpts from speeches and interviews that they’ve given recently.

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Google To Help Australians Get The Best Value For Their Fuel Dollars

Google Australia has partnered with Motormouth to help provide everyone with easily accessible information about petrol prices. We’ve developed an iGoogle gadget that allows you to find out the price of various fuel types across parts of major metro areas in Australia.

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The Google Android Phone’s Big Premiere

by Olga Kharif
T-Mobile is set to unveil its HTC-built G1, the first mobile phone based on software from the Google-led Open Handset Alliance:
In the most anticipated mobile-phone launch since the release of Apple’s iPhone, the T-Mobile G1 is due to be unveiled Sept. 23.
Like the iPhone, unveiled in June 2007, the G1 is the brainchild [...]

Rules on Getting Your Business’ News Heard in Google News

How can you get any recent news on your business out to the listener’s ears? Why not try Google News. Google News is currently one of the top five news portals in the world and can bring lots of traffic to your site. But as you might suspect, getting in isn’t easy.

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New Google Affiliate Network Features

Publishers who have attained this designation will be presented to advertisers with an icon next to their name.

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Google In One More Language

It recently came to our attention that Google was not accessible to a large, influential, and notoriously quick-tempered community: Pirates. As of today we are proud and rather relieved to announce that Google Search is available in Pirate.

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At the Republican Convention: Politics in the cloud and on the ground

After Hurricane Gustav blew through and Americans started searching for Sarah Palin, the Google and YouTube teams got down to business at the Republican Convention.

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Google Launches New Browser: Google Chrome

In case you missed it, Google have launched their own web browser called Google Chrome. Chrome is based off the same engine that runs Apple’s Safari browser and has created quite a stir amongst users and webmasters alike.

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Google Now Showing Geographic Location of Clicks

Recently announced on the Inside AdWords blog, the geographic location report provides Google AdWords advertisers with an understanding of the geographic distribution of their impressions, clicks, and conversions down to the ad group level.

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Google Improves Website Optimizer with New Features

Google have enhanced their website optimizer to allow advertisers to disable low performing ad variations and send the remaining traffic to higher performing ones. Previously, to achieve this, advertisers would have to stop the entire test (and lose all test data), so the improvement is a big timesaver for webmasters.

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Google: Create a Custom 404 Page with Google’s New Tool

Google has launched a new tool in their Webmaster Tools suite that allows website owners to create custom 404 pages. 404 pages are those that don’t exist and therefore return a “not found” error when users try to view them in their web browser.

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Google To Solve Energy Crisis With Geothermal Wonder-System

From Clusterstock: You probably know Google (GOOG) as the internet wonder-company that saved the search business. But did you know it’s poised to save us from the energy crisis too? Continue Reading

Google Sites Now Home For Spammers

Google Sites, the Google platform for document sharing and collaboration, has been dubbed “SharePoint Light” by many members of the tech community. However, the platform might be getting a new name soon, and one that won’t be so nice. Apparently, spammers have adopted Sites as a tool to host spam and malware, and, thanks to the google.com domain name, some spam filters are having trouble blocking the messages. Continue Reading

Google, Yahoo! & Microsoft in Hot Water with India!

The worlds 3 biggest search engines, Google, Yahoo! & Microsoft are about to be caught up in a legal battle with one of the world’s biggest countries, India. Continue Reading

Google Launches Feed Advertising

I’ve ranted about the importance of the blogosphere for years. Vital for reaching new markets, creating valuable SEO content, building your reputation and authority…and on and on. Continue Reading

Google Reveals Major Elements of their Ranking Algorithm

Google have revealed some important elements of their ranking algorithm and given advice on how to improve your sites positioning in natural search results. The unusual post was made on the French ‘Inside AdWords’ blog, which is strange considering AdWords listings have nothing to do with natural search. I’m sure posts like this will continue to raise speculation on the connection between paid and natural listings – but that’s another story. Lets look at Google’s ranking tips: Continue Reading