Google has claimed victory in the second phase of its high-profile legal battle with Oracle. While the decision brings an end to the jury phase of the trial, the battle between Oracle and Google looks far from over.
Google has released a new version of its iPhone search app, boasting a revamped interface, full screen image searches and improved search speeds. Google's interaction designer, Noah Levin, claimed that the update means results will update with each...
Google and others have already gone down this path, while showing strong performance for both call and click rates when localized content (including phone numbers) are present in ad copy.xAd and Duda Mobile meanwhile report high call rates from...
Google receives more than 250,000 requests to take down URLs accused of copyright infringement each week. In the past month, Google has received 1.2 million requests from 1,000 copyright owners to remove pages from 24,000 websites from its search...
Google is embarking on an awareness-raising program that will see it notify roughly half a million users that they may be on the brink of losing their Internet connection as a result of a malware infection.
Many small businesses have lost search rankings, traffic and income in the weeks since Google’s latest algorithmic update, known as Penguin, was launched. A Wall Street Journal article on Google’s Penguin update highlighted some of the damage, as...
New Google Search Algorithm Update Targets Web Spam BloomReach launched late February and has raised over $16 million in two series of funding – It positions itself as a Web Relevancy Engine with its ex Google, Facebook, and Cisco employees...
Many small businesses are still severely rattled by Google’s aggressive moves in the spring of 2012. Many webmasters received the dreaded backlink warning emails directly from Google Webmaster Tools. And the Google PR machine got to many more who...
Google CEO Larry Page took the stage at Zeitgeist 2012 sporting an augmented reality headset and joked, “If you guys are going to take my picture, I’ll take your picture, too. Google has shut down over 30 services since Page took over again, in a...
Google has begun testing "Ads Related to" for segments and categories for a few different search queries. Dream Systems Media broke the news earlier this week when they found that Google has yet again started to test these types of ads in the...
Americans searching Google for travel destination information are most interested in Disney, Las Vegas, and Florida, according to a new report by digital marketing intelligence firm AdGooroo. As AdGooroo points out in the in-depth analysis of their...
Now that we've seen entire link building related companies vanish due to Pandas and Penguins and other search quality improvements from Google, my hunch is we will see a surge in freelance or solo link builders who decide to go it alone.
Sure, a good chunk of that data is now concealed (thanks, Google.but you can still find great question-driven queries in the exposed keyword data. There's no denying it: coming up with solid topic ideas for content and linkable assets on a...
Google, Bing, Yahoo, Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter, Dex, AOL, Yellow Pages, Citysearch, infogroup, Localeze and hundreds of other sites encourage businesses to submit their location information, not to mention the opportunities available in GPS...
Google Users Dislike Personalized Search Results [Survey] A Google search for [iphone]: By 2009, search personalization further expanded to become ubiquitous for all Google searches. Pariser cites Amazon’s and Netflix’s recommendation engines as...
Google’s homepage logo today celebrates Robert “Bob” Moog, electronica pioneer and inventor of the Moog synthesizer, who was born on this date in 1934. In what just might be the coolest interactive Google Doodle ever featured, their logo is...
Web analytics can reveal questions people most often use on Google that send them to the company website. In order to accomplish this, Odden told us he would do a relevant query on Google News, take the RSS feed of the search results for that query...
European antitrust chiefs are offering Google a chance to end the 18-month investigation into alleged monopoly abuses by the company. Competition commissioner Joaquín Almunia said that its initial investigations had identified four areas of...
Google and Bing have a long and storied history of taking shots at each other whenever the opportunity presents itself and the Penguin/Panda updates have proven no exception. In the not-so-distant past, we’ve seen a hard-coded Bing Easter Egg...
Google has announced a new AdWords feature promising to provide advertisers with more transparency into the ad auction. The ad auction is the process by which Google determines the cost per click (CPC) amount an advertiser will pay for a click on...
