In a blog post today, Google introduced the world to the new Google+ "Today, we’re starting to introduce a fully redesigned Google+ that puts Communities and Collections front and center" "Communities, which now average 1.2 million new joins per day, and Collections, which launched just five months ago and is growing even faster. Whether it’s the Nonfiction Addiction Community, where people … [Read more...]
French Regulators Want the right to be forgotten to include .com
We have written before about Google and their battle with certain European countries on the "right to be forgotten". Google has contended that results should only be removed from the local country code results, so if someone from France makes a request, then the results no longer show on Google.fr. The E.U. would like to see the results removed from everywhere including Google.com. Google does … [Read more...]
Google Upset With Symantec Over False Security Certificates
According to PCMag.com Google is rather peeved at Symantec for issuing fraudulent security certificates for numerous domains, including Google. This started out with just a few bad certs and then Google started looking into it themselves. Google found more bad certs than what Symantec first quoted, a few weeks later Symantec found more on their own after their own audit. From the article: So … [Read more...]
.XYZ is Back Over 1 Million Domain Registrations & None Of Them Are Free
The new domain extension .XYZ has crossed the 1 Million domain name registration mark again. However now all of the "free" Network Solutions (NetSol) domain names that were stuffed into customers accounts on a non-automatic renewal basis have run their course. So all remaining Netsol registrations for an .XYZ domain exist because the owner paid to register or renew the domain According to … [Read more...]
Google Threatens To Block Repeat Offenders of its Webmaster Guidelines
In a blog post yesterday Google warned sites that volatile Google's Webmaster Guidelines repeatedly can be barred from the search engine results pages (SERPs) permanently. "In order to protect the quality of our search results, we take automated and manual actions against sites that violate our Webmaster Guidelines. When your site has a manual action taken, you can confirm in the [Manual … [Read more...]
Google’s Domain Buying Spree Continues With ABCAlphabet.com & Alphabet.kr
Google Inc. continues it's onslaught of buying and registering domain names relating to its announcement on August 10, 2015 of it's new holding company, Alphabet Inc. So much talk has been behind the ABC.xyz domain acquisition, yet Alphabet Inc. has been on a domain buying spree every since buying many other domain names related to "ABC" and "Alphabet". I’m not sure how much Google has … [Read more...]
Add ABC.cm to the list of Google Names
Looking at whois records for other cctlds on the heels of the .mx purchase, it looks like ABC.cm changed hands on 8/7. The domain looked to have been owned by a Chinese registrant. Of course .cm has been in the news before, Kevin Ham was once profiled in a Business 2.0 article that is published on CNN. Maybe Disney will care about this name if Google is indeed the buyer. The domain was dropped … [Read more...]