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Archive for March 2007

March 19th, 2007

Comcast May Dump Google for Microsoft

Comcast who is one of the biggest non-Google sources of search queries handled by Google, is apparently unsatisfied with it’s current compensation plan with Google and is now considering crossing the street to Microsoft.
Comcast who will make approx $70 million from Google sponsored ads this year feels as if it is worth no less than […]

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March 19th, 2007

Google Associating non-WWW with WWW

Google keeps improving their great Google Webmaster Central tool and are now allowing site owners to select a “preferred domain” by associating the non-WWW version of a domain with the WWW version (or vice versa).
This has been a problem with search engines for years as they see the two as two separate domains, therefore, may […]

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March 15th, 2007

Google’s Response to Viacom

In their defense to this suit, Google notes that they believe that all their products launched in accordance with current copyright laws and that they will continue to work on new products regardless of this suit.
“Here there is a law which is specifically designed to give Web hosts such as us, or… bloggers or people […]

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March 15th, 2007

Google is being Sued, Big Time

For those of you who do not know, on Tuesday, Viacom landed a $1 billion lawsuit on Google Inc. and its Internet video sharing site YouTube. The suit was filed over “unauthorized use of its copyrighted entertainment”.
Viacom claims that almost 160,000 unauthorized clips of its programming have been uploaded onto YouTube’s site and viewed more […]

By Gilad -- 4 comments

March 15th, 2007

Google Integrates GoogleTalk and Personalized Homepage

Google announced today the integration of GoogleTalk (their IM service) and GoogleIG, their personalized home page platform.
This is a new widget which allows people to embed their buddy-list and chat window directly into their homepage.
More on the features in this video:

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March 13th, 2007

Google Testing TV Ads in Northern California

Following the rumor of a possible Dish Network acquisition, TechCrunch points out a a WSJ article which is reporting that Google is conducting a small scale test of television advertisements in the Northern California town of Concord (east of San Francsicso).
It is noted that the TV ad market is currently worth $54 billion annually, far […]

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March 13th, 2007

Google Local Business Center Adds Personal Touch

In an attempt to personalize search results in their Local engine, Google now allows business owners to upload as much as 10 photos of their business along with their registration. These images can be pictures of the premises, photos of the team, your company logo, even products (for example: Hotels Honolulu, Steakhouses Boston).
I must add […]

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March 12th, 2007

Acquisition Rumors for Google & Yahoo

Two big search-related acquisition rumors were spread today, the one related to Yahoo being acquired by AT&T and the second about Google acquiring Dish Network.
MSNBC was the first to post Yahoo feels the pressure of AT&T alliance in which they write:
AT&T was trying to renegotiate a five-year-old agreement under which the US telecoms giant has […]

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March 10th, 2007

On SEO Impediments

An interesting thread is taking place at V7N titled SEO Impediments. It proves the notion that this guy presented as wrong and shows that there are very many who don’t know their left from their right when it comes to SEO.
The thread starts with the top 5:
1. (Poorly designed) doorway pages
2. Keyword stuffing
3. Non-SE-indexable site […]

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March 10th, 2007

Is The Seo Industry About to Collapse?

This is an interesting thread I ran across this morning over at the HighRankings forum. The writer seems to be concerned with the lack of updates on Google’s behalf and his notion that more and more are building optimized and relevant sites.
He then asks: Eventually every man and his dog will have a good high […]

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