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Google to Host Annual Stockholders Meeting May 11th

Google is to host their annual stockholders meeting on May 11, 2006 at 2PM (PST). There will be a live webcast of the event at https://investor.google.com/webcast. For more…

By Barry Schwartz · 02 May 2006

Industry

Microsoft Shares Fall Due To MSN Search Performance & Spend

TheStreet.com reports that Microsoft’s share fell as much as 13% today due to Microsoft’s search engine, MSN Search. Microsoft was not prepared…

By Barry Schwartz · 28 Apr 2006

Industry

Textile Shop In Turkey Names Itself “Google”

Someone looks like they named a store in Istanbul, Turkey “Google.” An anonymous reader sent me a link to this picture of…

By Barry Schwartz · 28 Apr 2006

Industry

Google Translates English To & From Arabic

Philipp Lenssen reports that Google one-upped Yahoo’s Babel Fish by adding English to Arabic & Arabic to English to the Google Translate…

By Barry Schwartz · 28 Apr 2006

Industry

Change Your Time Zone Once & Only Once At AdWords

Last night Google announced at the AdWords blog that you will be able to change your time zone on the account level.…

By Barry Schwartz · 28 Apr 2006

Industry

Google Second Most Desired Place For MBA Students To Work For

ZDnet reports on a 2006 Universum Survey MBA Edition, that shows Google has jumped from 129th place in 2005 to 2nd place…

By Barry Schwartz · 28 Apr 2006

SEO

AOL’s Financial Blog Network

AOL’s Weblogs Inc. has launched its first blog network, BloggingStocks.com, since it joined the company. The network consists of eight separate blogs…

By rumo · 27 Apr 2006

Industry

Washington Post Talks About The SEM Community

Leslie Walker from the Washington Post wrote an article named How to Juice Up a Site’s Rank, which is basically an article…

By Barry Schwartz · 27 Apr 2006

Industry

Google Promotes First Non-Google Product On Homepage – Firefox

There has been tons of buzz in the blogosphere about Google promoting Firefox on the Google.com homepage. News.com has a quick write…

By Barry Schwartz · 27 Apr 2006

Industry

Google Sued In Israel For Search Ad Trademark Dispute

EEFTimes.com reports that Google is being sued in Israel for enabling an advertiser to buy AdWords targeting a trademarked company’s name. Matim…

By Barry Schwartz · 27 Apr 2006

Industry

Run Down Of Recent Google Bugs & Glitches

Over the past two days or so, I have reported over at my other blog, four new bugs and glitches over at…

By Barry Schwartz · 27 Apr 2006

Industry

Search Engine Strategies Toronto – Day Two

I covered three of the five sessions today, Google made one big announcement with an enhanced Google Sitemaps feature. Other than that,…

By Barry Schwartz · 26 Apr 2006

SEO

Google Sitemaps Adds Spam Checking, New Webmaster Help Center & Other Features

I just came out of the Meet the Crawlers session, where Google announced new features and a new layout for Google Sitemaps.…

By Barry Schwartz · 26 Apr 2006

Industry

Google Toolbar Now Supports IE 7

When Google released version 4 of the toolbar it did not support Internet Explorer 7. Nathan Weinberg reports that they now support…

By Barry Schwartz · 26 Apr 2006

Local

Google Adds Localized Domains For Google Maps

Philipp Lenssen reports that Google has added localized domain names for specific countries. The list Philipp has includes; + https://maps.google.de/ + https://maps.google.fr/…

By Barry Schwartz · 26 Apr 2006

Industry

Daily SearchCast, April 25, 2006: MSN Snags Ask.com Head; New Way To Search Blogs; Google Toolbar & Ranking Issues; Google Confirms UI Tests & More!

Today’s search podcast covers MSN stealing away Ask.com chief Steve Berkowitz, Google explaining some recent user interface tests and more! SearchReturn editor…

By Danny Sullivan · 25 Apr 2006

Industry

Google Confirms More User Interface Tests

Google has officially confirmed recent tests with the Google user interface that has been spreading around the Internet. This is not the…

By Barry Schwartz · 25 Apr 2006

Analytics

Yahoo’s Ad Inventory Beats Out Google

Susan Kuchinskas informed me of this post that shows recent comScore qSearch stats where Yahoo’s ad inventory is higher as a percentage,…

By Barry Schwartz · 25 Apr 2006

Industry

Google Web Site Categories Explored

Social Patterns writes a detailed explanation of what he feels determines a site’s Google Web categories. What I define as a Web…

By Barry Schwartz · 24 Apr 2006

Industry

AdSense Launches Text Ad Referrals, Site-Flavored Search and New Image Ad Sizes

The Google AdSense team has made some new additions to the program over the past few days. The first is a new…

By Jennifer Slegg · 24 Apr 2006

Industry

Matt Cutts Provides More Information On Google’s Crawl Caching Proxy

In response to the new caching techniques Jennifer reported last week, Matt Cutts posted a more detailed explanation of what is called…

By Barry Schwartz · 24 Apr 2006

Industry

Judge Approves Class Action Lawsuit Settlement of $90 Million

News.com reports that a judge from Arkansas has approved the $90 million settlement issued between Google and Google AdWords advertisers. Of the…

By Barry Schwartz · 21 Apr 2006

Local

Google Local Goes Back To Being Google Maps

Google gave us the heads-up about this earlier this week, that Google Local was going to be renamed Google Maps. Now it’s…

By Danny Sullivan · 21 Apr 2006

Industry

Searches Per Day

Shows how many searches are performed each day at some major search engines.

By Danny Sullivan · 19 Apr 2006

Industry

Yahoo Pondering Free & Low-Cost WiFi

OK, Google, we’ll see your free WiFi plans and sort of match you maybe, says Yahoo. Yahoo Testing Free Wifi Product from…

By Danny Sullivan · 19 Apr 2006

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