Matt Cutts (head of Google’s Webspam team) yesterday announced that the new toolbar PageRank values should become visible over the next few days.
He also said in the next few days Google will be expiring some older penalties on websites.
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July 25th, 2008 | Posted in Google | No Comments
Rumours are doing rounds that Google has signed a letter of intent with Digg to purchase the social news site for around $200 million.
Google has a history of buying companies like YouTube, Blogger, Picasa, GrandCentral, Keyhole (Google Earth), Writely (Google Docs), JotSpot (Google Sites), Dodgeball etc. Purchasing Digg wouldn’t be any surprise.
It is reported that [...]
July 25th, 2008 | Posted in Google, Industry News, Microsoft | 1 Comment
Google Trends is a tool from Google Labs that shows the most popularly searched terms from the beginning of 2004 to now.
Google Trends charts how often a particular search term is entered relative the total search volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages.
Recently, A well known forum that goes by [...]
July 15th, 2008 | Posted in Google, Search Engines and Directories, Security | No Comments
A Google Inc. executive defended the company’s proposed search advertising partnership with Yahoo Inc. in prepared congressional testimony released Monday, contesting the prevalent notion that it will only expand the market leader’s already considerable influence.
On June 12, Yahoo said it would run advertisements supplied by Google alongside search query results as part of a four-year [...]
July 15th, 2008 | Posted in Google, Microsoft, Yahoo | No Comments
Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest nonprofit health maintenance organization has teamed up with Microsoft to expand its HealthVault online medical records program.
The partnership was announced on Monday and they will be running a pilot project which will run until November. The pilot program aims to expand functionality to the personal e-health records of Kaiser Permanente [...]
June 10th, 2008 | Posted in Google, Industry News, Internet, Microsoft | 1 Comment
The Google Adsense Team announced that publishers located in Hungary and Hong Kong can now sign up to receive payments by Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT).
With EFT, your earnings will be directly deposited into your bank account so you won’t need to wait for checks to arrive in the mail and clear at the bank. Signing-up [...]
June 1st, 2008 | Posted in Adsense, Google | 6 Comments
Yes.. You heard that right. We just got a new pagerank PR2 for our blog. There’s no change in PR for the forums. The forum still stands strong with PR2. Anyways I’m happy that the blog got a PR.
I haven’t promoted the blog a lot but whatever little promotional techniques I used, it has got [...]
May 17th, 2008 | Posted in Blogging, Google, Site | 10 Comments
Google is expected to receive unconditional approval from European Union regulators next week for its $3.1 billion takeover of ad firm DoubleClick, people familiar with the situation said.
The approval has long been expected because the European Commission decided in January not to object formally to the transaction. The Commission, the EU’s top competition watchdog, has [...]
March 9th, 2008 | Posted in Google, Industry News | No Comments
“We’re in the game, and we’re the little engine that could, just working away, working away, working away,” Ballmer told interviewer and former Apple employee and evangelist Guy Kawasaki. “In online, yeah, it’s Google, Google, Google. I’d say we’re the underdog.” That’s a far cry from as recently as last year, when Ballmer called Google [...]
March 9th, 2008 | Posted in Industry News, Microsoft | No Comments
The US defence department has banned the giant internet search engine Google from filming inside and making detailed studies of US military bases.
Close-up, ground-level imagery of US military sites posed a “potential threat” to security, it said.
The move follows the discovery of images of the Fort Sam Houston army base in Texas on Google Maps.
A [...]
March 9th, 2008 | Posted in Google, Internet, Security | No Comments