YouTube has been serving its clips of animals, planking, people falling over and monkeys in sheepskin coats for eight years. The video streaming website launched eight years ago with a single video. Bought by Google in 2006, YouTube now has more...
Corresponding with Jennifer Bass was inspirational and led to hearing that Saul Bass was a Dave Brubeck fan. Google honors iconic graphic designer Saul Bass in today's Google Doodle. The Doodle, which is actually a video, recreates some of Bass...
Facebook has confirmed that it will remove videos of people having their heads cut off. The social network is responding to an increasing outcry over the kind of content that its users upload to and Like on its servers.
When thinking about how to manage an emerging (and growing! product listing ad (PLA) channel, retailers often have a tricky personnel decision to make. Should you hire someone with deep SEO know-how or someone who is an expert at managing the SEM...
Without doubt, Google is the dominant player in display simply because they own so much infrastructure across the key capabilities to enable display," said Dave Zinman, chief executive of Infolinks. Google’s Active View viewability measurement...
Google will close the Meebo toolbar on June 6 and hopes that users will switch to Google+ and its single sign on. Google acquired Meebo for about $100 million last summer. The firm encouraged websites to adopt the Meebo bar when it decided that its...
Google has accepted a fine from the German data protection authority over its mistaken and unused collection of WiFi data using Google Street View cars. The €145,000 fine comes nearly three years after we first learned about the Street View WiFi...
Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube has handed Viacom yet another loss in the latest round of a copyright infringement court case that has lasted six years – so far –according to the Hollywood Reporter.
She highlighted the AARRR model from Dave McClure, a VC in Silicon Valley, with his five questions: And hopefully your company has at least started to build out a mobile strategy to provide a better experience for your users.
Ever since last year’s rollout of the new product listing ad (PLA) system from Google, there’s been an ongoing debate about whether PLAs steal from paid search. And with similar changes pending from Yahoo/Bing, it only becomes even more critical to...
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt took some time out of his busy schedule this weekend to tell the Guardian newspaper that civilians flying spy drones over each other's houses is a bad idea. We shrugged in confusion too.
Google is the subject of yet another anti-competitiveness complaint, this one from Streetmap. Streetmap used to do a lot of business back in the 2000s. It still does of course, it's just that Google Maps does more business for more people.
GigaOm's Om Malik recently wrote a great post about how data without soul is meaningless. Essentially, in a world where everything is quantified to the n-th degree, being solely dependent on numbers often obscures our ability to make reasoned...
If you’ve noticed CPCs going up in Yahoo Bing, you’re not alone. Yahoo Bing made some subtle changes to its cascading bidding structure last year, putting it more in line with Google. The net result, from what we’ve seen across various clients in...
Twitter has been recognized by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as an invention. Confirmation of this initially came from the Verge website and a document from the USPTO. It was also confirmed by founder Biz Stone where he tweeted...
Twitter turned 7 years old today. The social network now has 200 million active users – up from 140 million active users last year. More than 400 million of the 140-characters tweets are sent every day – up from 340 million last year.
After a long delay, Google Flight Search, its airline flight comparison service that has been available in the U.S.since September 2011, has finally arrived in Europe. The service is a bit limited. A blog post from Noam Ben Haim, senior product...
To start with, not every brand has the recognition of eBay as well as the SEO chops to be in high ranking for every class of products, so eBay will suffer less than most by removing paid search, noted Dave Schwartz, VP of client services at DataPop.
In the age of social media the attention that business blogs used to have is diminishing; traded for the instant gratification and ease of tweeting and posting short pieces to Facebook with a picture of your latest product or special of the day.
In an interview with KIRO Radio, the bar's owner, Dave Meinert explained that "the 5 Point appeals to a wide variety of people" and that some of the tech geeks visit the bar because it's close to Amazon's head quarters.
