Google unveils GBoard, a new app for your iPhone that lets you search and send information, GIFs, emojis and more, right from your keyboard. The company blogged about their new app available surprisingly only for iOS and currently only available in the U.S. Search is incorporated right into the keyboard as one would expect from a Google app. They made a video to introduce the … [Read more...]
How will Google Banning Payday Loan Ads affect Domain Owners ?
Google dealt a blow to Payday lenders and domain investors who have invested in payday loan type domains. A few years back I knew some people getting big parking clicks with Payday loan domain names. From a parking or developed site monetized by AdWords, it is a negative, but since the industry is still in business it could mean owning the very best names in the niche have gone up in value. The … [Read more...]
Google Finally Acquires the Domain AndroidTV.com
Google has finally acquired the domain name AndroidTV.com Google lost a UDRP on the domain name back in March 2014 after the panel said the dispute was outside the types of disputes the UDRP was set up for. You can read our summary of the UDRP here. In April 2014 Google announced that they were launching a product called Android TV. Google did in fact launch Android TV and … [Read more...]
“We will move from mobile first to an AI first world”
Every year Larry Page and Sergey Brin write a founder's letter to update shareholders about what's going on. This year Larry let new Google CEO, Sundar Pichai do most of the talking. While Google is obviously a player in the domain space there was not one word about domains. Sundar did speak about something that long term could affect domains. The move to a world of virtual reality and … [Read more...]
77 of the 100 Most Expensive U.K. Keywords are Gambling Related
Chris Lake wrote an article on Clickz that looked at the most expensive keywords for the U.K. After looking at the data it is clear that Google would love to see online gambling legal in the U.S. SEMRush compiled data for Lake and showed 77 of the 100 most expensive keywords are gambling related. The report noted 3 of the top 25 are typos of Roulette. … [Read more...]
As Viewer Patterns Change So Are The Search Engines
For those not following Google over the last six weeks, right side desktop ads are gone and the rules of SEO and how people scan Google have changed a bit. Dan Bagby wrote a good article on these changes and provided some insight into keyword research. From the article: Removing the ads from the right rail of Google search results pages was a long time coming (well, a long time for … [Read more...]
Alphabet and Verizon considering buyout of Yahoo according to report
Greg Sterling published an article on Marketing Land that Yahoo is in play and that Alphabet and Verizon are both interested in acquiring the company. Sterling pieced together a couple recent reports along with data from comScore. Below is a look at the top digital properties according to unique visitors. Read the full story on Marketing Land … [Read more...]