All Entries Tagged With: "Google"

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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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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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: 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 Updates Content Network: Changes for Publishers & Advertisers

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. Continue Reading

Google-Yahoo Release Some Details of Their Search Ad Deal

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 contract governing their advertising agreement, although leaving out some more important details such as financial terms and how the two companies will split revenues they would earn from the deal. Continue Reading

First PageRank, Now a Google Ranking Update!

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! Continue Reading

Google Dumps Its Search Marketing Division

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. Continue Reading

New Competitor for Google PageRank!

Google better watch out: there might be a new competitor in town for PageRank.
CNet reports that Microsoft has announced a new idea that they call BrowseRank, which they hope will help boost the search engine’s popularity. Continue Reading

One Year Later: FeedBurner Gains Google Server Power

Over a year has passed since Google completed the acquisition of feed massaging and hosting service Feedburner, and today some users now finally have their feeds hosted on what appears to be Google’s servers and infrastructure. At Techcrunch we have always been big fans of Feedburner , and their widgets and RSS subscriber counts have adorned almost all of our sites since their first days. At some point in the past 12 hours, the feed URL at feeds.feedburner.com began to redirect to feedproxy.google.com. Our subscriber count widget dropped to displaying a zero count for a few hours while the domain change took place. It appears that only select feeds have been migrated, mostly those with higher subscriber counts. This would indicate that Feedburner has turned to Google to assist with serving the load on high-traffic feeds. Continue Reading

Interview With Matt Cutts on ranking, spam and the future of search

During a recent visit to the Mountain View Googleplex, I had the chance to interview Matt Cutts for our German Webmaster Blog. While enjoying the California sunshine we chatted about how to rank in Google, resources for webmasters and Matt’s first encounter with spam. As these topics are not only interesting for a German audience, I want to share them with you as well. So watch the video and find out how difficult it can be for the head of webspam engineering to surf the Internet. Continue Reading

Blogger Prank Deprives Sony BMG Of Precious Google Dollars

We don’t know why Sony BMG’s Columbia label has been running Google AdSense on the front of its homepage: Surely they weren’t trying to recoup some of the $40-plus million they lost last quarter, right? Continue Reading

The Pressure Rises – Google’s Index Reaches 1 Trillion Pages

Reports out of the Googleplex are purporting that Google’s search database has hit a significant mark…it’s finally tipped over the 1 trillion URL (web pages/files) mark. Continue Reading

Google Finally Gives Wikipedia a Run for It’s Money!

It was December last year when we first heard about Google Knol, touted as the “Wiki Killer”. Well, Google has finally put the finishing touches to Knol and opened it to the public. Continue Reading

Google Updates PageRank and Drops Old Penalties

Last Friday, Matt Cutts (Google’s head of webspam) announced that Google was updating its PageRank (toolbar) over the weekend, and more importantly, some of the older penalties were being dropped. Continue Reading

Google Not Cheating: Knol Pages Buried Deep In Search Result Hell

One advantage Wikipedia has over Google’s Wikipedia-inspired Knol: Its entries still show up much higher in Google’s (GOOG) own search results. Continue Reading

Microsoft’s Facebook Deal Really A “Threat” To Google?

Microsoft casually announced a new search and search ad deal at the end of Steve Ballmer’s analyst presentation today. Microsoft gave next to no details about the pact, but the Wall Street Journal has gone ahead and declared that the deal “could pose a threat to Google“. Continue Reading