Archive for the ‘Google’ Category

Google’s Long Road To Number One In China

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Google is a company that's used to being number one. In fact, they're used to be so far in first place they don't really have any competition. Therefore, the fact they haven't been able to dominate the search market in China speaks of their need to try a ...

Google Unveiling Social Network Platform

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

One thing about Google, they just can't stand to see anyone be successful on the internet without their involvement. Their attempt at social networking, Orkut, went into the dumper for the most part, but that hasn't stopped the company's ambitions to eventually emerge victorious in the market. In ...

For Adsense Dollars, Scraping Always Continues

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

We've heard many initiatives over the years that have been aimed at removing 'scrapers' from the Google SERPs. And generally events occur the same way. There's a bit of 'die-back' as the scrapers are targeted and temporarily removed. But, since they're run by resilient webmasters, they almost ...

Google Doesn’t Pay Much To Advertise

Monday, October 15th, 2007

One of the most interesting elements about Google's runaway success is the fact that the company has grown so huge without doing that much advertising of its' own. Sure, they expect you to pay them for ads, but they don't spread their own money around quite so fast. ...

Debugging Google Ranking Issues

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Let's take a look at what you can do when things go wrong. I'm speaking of when your website drops in Google's rankings. You have to take a fine-comb approach to figuring out what went wrong. If you don't, you'll end up feeling down emotionally, and you ...

Google Volatility - The Reason To Have Multiple Websites

Monday, October 1st, 2007

People use the phrase "don't put all your eggs in one basket" quite a bit, especially when it relates to owning a website. And the advice cannot be ignored. If you put all your eggs in one basket, and you drop that basket, well, your eggs are pretty ...

Whining About Google

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

One webmaster past-time that never gets old for most people is the ancient sport of "whining about Google". Some people are so good at this, I'm pretty sure they spend most of their time practicing it. There is one forum I visit ever now and again where the ...

Google Is Now An In-House Lobbyist

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Not content to just be a search engine, Google is now bringing their influence to Government and has registered their first in-house lobbyist. Google used a number of outside lobby firms until this year, including the Podesta Group to represent the companies interests. "We've expanded our presence because there are an ...

Google To Be Grilled By Senate Over DoubleClick Deal

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Google has been interested in taking over DoubleClick since April, but the transaction has not gone smoothly. The main reasons for the delay are concerns about privacy and competition. The combined company would put Google way ahead of other companies in what advertising they offer, and with how ...

Google’s Private Jet Gets A Home At NASA’s Moffett Field

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

One thing about Google is that they never think small. And they like their privacy, so it comes as no surprise that company President Eric Schmidt is said to have secured a hangar to house Google's refurbished wide-body Boeing 767-200 out of Moffett Field, an airport that is run by ...