Another instance involved a UK local law enforcement agency's request to take down a YouTube video that falsely portrayed an official wearing a racist uniform. Local law enforcement also asked that another YouTube video be taken down because it...
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has defended the firm’s UK tax payments, claiming it operates within the law and is responsible for “billions” of spend in the country. I think the most important thing to say about our taxes is that we fully...
The rel=author tag is particularly powerful if you're in a business where your personal brand is as important as your organization’s brand, such as law, medicine, real estate, and consulting. Google authorship has made it easier for small- and...
If you have 2 minutes with a customer, and the law required that you show a random sampling of your links to customer prospects, would you happily show the link to a target customer? This article represents my opinions, but my company has worked on...
If the firm can succeed in its fight against NSLs then it could open the floodgates for others to stand up against a law that some see to be nothing more than a snooper's charter. Google is fighting a National Security Letter (NSL) issued by the U...
Google's privacy policies are under investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to see if they are illegal under UK law. The action follows an initial investigation by the French data protection authority CNIL, on behalf of the...
Google receives thousands of requests from law enforcement authorities to hand over user data, and while the firm was one of the first to publish transparency reports, it took until today for Google to work out a way to publish statistics about...
Influence follows a “power law,” where a relatively small number of individuals drive the lion's share of social referrals. This fundamental change has been driven by the rapid adoption of social media and mobile devices.
It's important for law enforcement agencies to pursue illegal activity and keep the public safe. We're a law-abiding company, and we don't want our services to be used in harmful ways," he added. We scrutinize the request carefully to make sure it...
Google's Richard Slagado, Legal Director, Law Enforcement and Information Security, stated they will release those numbers in a separate report from here forward and to "stay tuned" for those data. Today, Google released new data in the...
The rest of the infographic contains horn-tooting numbers to give law-abiding advertisers and consumers the warm-and-fuzzies. Once again, the Google AdWords team has reported on its continued efforts to eliminate bad AdWords ads.
Since the JOBS Act was signed into law in April 2012, crowdfunding campaigns and platforms have been growing like wildflowers. Rory Eakin of CircleUp; recorded in December 2012 There are many choices for businesses, entrepreneurs and marketing...
Now actually managing a global SEO is campaign is a whole post or two in itself as you look for variance and differences across local nuisances, translation, search engine types, and global law. 2012 has been a year of rapid change.
The website is called "Verteidige dein netz" or Defend your network, and Google has launched it to warn people in Germany about proposed changes to German law, specifically the Copyright Act of the Federal Republic of Germany
If you do this, then you should make yourself aware of the law of diminishing returns. So… you're now a content marketer and not a SEO practitioner. You're now a strategic thinker and not just a technical or tactical implementer.
The New York City Open Data Project kicked off in 2010 and enshrined into law by Mayor Bloomberg in 2012, the effort aims to make all sorts of NYC data available to the public via the Internet. Governments everywhere are opening up their data to...
As we have publicly stated previously, the search function is not a government-run utility, established by law and thus subject to bureaucratic oversight, but a service provided to consumers and businesses by private companies, which have set up...
On the other hand, Rite Aid bids on their own keyword of “rite aid” and those alike in addition to keywords such as “pharmacy law”. Evaluating the Internet marketing efforts, trends, and budgets of these brands proves to be quite revealing.
Kate Middleton’s naked pix may be a great reason to write a "privacy and media law" advice piece, for instance. While I certainly don’t agree with everything Nietzsche shared, his famous quote above captures nicely where digital marketing is right...
The only thing that surprised me were the police officers (in the left header and the body top right), because I thought that self-defense and home security folks might not trust or appreciate government-paid law enforcement personnel.