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Lawsuits Over The Google Party Jet; Arguments Over Bed Sizes On Board

New details out now about the Google Jet we’ve written about before, the used 767 that Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have purchased. Turns out, there…

By Danny Sullivan · 07 Jul 2006

Industry

Myanmar Enables Access To Google After Blocking Gmail & GTalk

Mizzima News reports that Myanmar (also known as Burma) has opened up access to Google again, after blocking it about a week…

By Barry Schwartz · 06 Jul 2006

Industry

Search For “Therapy Products” On Google Suggests Yahoo As Alternative Results

SEO Speedwagon posts notes that a query on Google for [therapy products] displays a See Results For box listing pages from Yahoo.…

By Barry Schwartz · 06 Jul 2006

Industry

Google Fixes XSS Security Holes

A security vulnerability in Google, discovered and posted at ha.ckers.org was patched quickly by Google. Both Philipp Lenssen and JasonD posted about…

By Barry Schwartz · 06 Jul 2006

Industry

Google Ombudsman? Search Ombudsman? Great Idea — Bring Them On!

Back in 2004, Gary Stein suggested that Yahoo hire an ombudsman, a sort of impartial referee to handle disputes involving advertising programs.…

By Danny Sullivan · 06 Jul 2006

Industry

Incroyable! ‘Le Tour’ Uses Google Earth Not GeoPortail

WebProNews points to the Google Earth Blog in explaining that The Tour de France has integrated Google Earth into its site and…

By Greg Sterling · 06 Jul 2006

PPC

Report: Advertisers Lost $800 Million To Click Fraud Last Year

The San Francisco Chronicle reports on a click fraud study that claims 14.6 percent of all clicks and $800 million worth of…

By Barry Schwartz · 05 Jul 2006

Industry

New Search Patent Applications: July 5, 2006 – Google Coming to a Shopping Mall Near You

Google files patents for shopping offline with online assistance, a secondary map in Google Maps, and an updated review aggregator. Yahoo adds…

By Bill Slawski · 05 Jul 2006

Analytics

Interactive Review Of SEOBook’s SEO Firefox Extension

Aaron Wall over at SEO Book released a Firefox extension for SEOs. The Firefox extension can be viewed here, it allows you…

By Barry Schwartz · 05 Jul 2006

Industry

Google’s Spam Score Details Shown?

Peter Da Vanzo spotted a DigitalPoint thread that found clues as to how Google scores spam results behind the scenes. Now, honestly,…

By Barry Schwartz · 05 Jul 2006

Industry

Google To Launch Book Search Service In China

The People’s Daily Online reports that Google will be launching an on-line book search service in China. Google signed agreements with publishing…

By Barry Schwartz · 05 Jul 2006

Industry

Google Warns U.S. Legislators On Anti-Trust Complaints Over Net Neutrality

The Washington Post reports that Google has warned the United States, that if telecoms abuse net neutrality principles it backs, through a…

By Barry Schwartz · 05 Jul 2006

Industry

Windows Live Local Integrates ‘Call For Free’ Into All Business Listings

The intrepid Gary Price called my attention to the quiet integration of “click to call” functionality into Windows Live Local over the…

By Greg Sterling · 05 Jul 2006

PPC

Ending Click Fraud with Pay-Per-Percentage

In Pay-Per-Percentage vs. PPC, Shimon Sandler points out an interesting new paper from the folks at Microsoft Research – Pay-Per-Percentage of Impressions:…

By Bill Slawski · 03 Jul 2006

Industry

Matt Cutts Is Back From Vacation

We all missed him, Matt Cutts has returned from his long vacation. Hopefully he can get back in the saddle and begin…

By Barry Schwartz · 03 Jul 2006

Industry

Google Page Creator Now Supporting AdSense

Google Page Creator, which I recently reported did not support AdSense, now does. Garett Rogers has invitations sent out to Google Page…

By Barry Schwartz · 03 Jul 2006

Industry

Google’s Non Search Products A Flop

BusinessWeek reports that when Google launches a new non-search product, the competition “shivers,” Google has yet to lead in market share for…

By Barry Schwartz · 03 Jul 2006

Industry

Googleplex Irvine & “AdSense Audio” For Radio Ads

Zachary Applegate posted his visit to the Googleplex Irvine at SEOMoz, where he describes the demonstration given to him by Google. The…

By Barry Schwartz · 30 Jun 2006

Industry

Myanmar Government Blocks Google & GMail?

The Times of India reports that Myanmar government has blocked Internet users from reaching Google.com and Gmail. They claim users trying to…

By Barry Schwartz · 30 Jun 2006

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: June 30, 2006

Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…

By rumo · 30 Jun 2006

Industry

Vertical Images From AdSense Include Images in Ad Units

Vertical Images is the latest international beta test being run by Google AdSense. Vertical images displays a related generic image within the…

By Jennifer Slegg · 29 Jun 2006

Industry

Google AdWords Adds Statistics Tabs

I just discovered that Google has updated their AdWords campaigns interface to include “account statistics tabs.” The new tabs are named “Summary,”…

By Barry Schwartz · 29 Jun 2006

Industry

Google Now A Verb In The Oxford English Dictionary

Gary Price reports that “Google” is now officially a verb in the Oxford English Dictionary. Google already is a verb in some…

By Barry Schwartz · 29 Jun 2006

Industry

Google Knocks Off Apple On The Wired 40

The Wired 40 was just released and Google has secured the top spot, at number one this year. They have bumped off…

By Barry Schwartz · 29 Jun 2006

SEO

Google Checkout: Check Out of Commercial E-Mail

“Control commercial spam” is a Google Checkout value proposition. “You can keep your email address confidential, and easily turn off unwanted emails…

By rumo · 29 Jun 2006

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