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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?
Google’s philanthropic arm has invested $10 million in a geothermal technology that promises to “Supply Thousands of Times US Energy Needs.” And we have to admit: [...]

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 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.

India’s National Newspaper, The Hindu, has reported that India’s Supreme Court issued notices to Google, Yahoo! & Microsoft over the promotion of “sex selection techniques” in its online [...]

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.
Well Google has just opened up its AdSense service for Blog Feeds which for many, will provide more reason to enter and remain active in the blogosphere. It also [...]

The Google Blog has recently announced some enhancements to the Google content network aimed to deliver more features for advertisers and better returns for publishers. The enhancements are a result of Google’s integration with DoubleClick, an advertising company they acquired in April 2007.
The enhancements will be available in the coming months and include:

Frequency Capping - [...]

Those who have been watching closely while Google and Yahoo iron out some kinks in their search ad deal would be glad to know that the two search engines have partially disclosed some information about it. In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Google and Yahoo have made publicly available the [...]

It seems like the “ink” only just dried on us reporting Google’s update to its toolbar PageRank. Well guess what? They’re updating their rankings too - look out!
And this is the Google update that hurts the most. When Google does a shuffle to its SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages), you know there’ll be uproar from [...]

Some of you might recall Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick last March, where the search engine giant also acquired Performics, an affiliate and search marketing business.
When the deal was confirmed, Search Engine marketers started to panic. How could a search engine with the power of Google, own and operate a search engine marketing company? A [...]