Juliette Garside wrote a piece for The Guardian today that Google will restrict search terms to a link to a Wikipedia article under the right to be forgotten law. Jimmy Wales founder of Wikipedia said, "You do not have a right to use the law to prevent Wikipedia editors from writing truthful information, nor do you have a right to use the law to prevent Google from publishing truthful information. … [Read more...]
The Google Penguin has become the Punisher
Has the Google Penguin become the punisher ? Eric Enge wrote a very good article on Search Engine Land that took a look at how punitive the Google Penguin really is. Enge expressed that he had a heavy heart with relation to the unforgiving nature of the Penguin. Enge gives those webmasters new to the game a primer on how the Penguin came to be: History Of Penguin The first release of … [Read more...]
How Much Would You Spend For a 30M Meeting WIth Eric Schmidt of Google? Bidding Is At $8K
Bidding is now opened for a what is described as having "Coffee with Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, at Google in New York City." "Sit down to coffee with Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, for 30 minutes at Google in New York City." Bidding is underway at CharityBuzz.com, where there are currently 4 bidders with a high bid of $8,000. There are 15 days left in the … [Read more...]
Spain Passes The “Google” Tax – How it will work no one is really sure
Spain Passes The Google Tax Spain passed a law that will give Spanish newspaper publishers the right to get paid from any site that links to them with what they deem a " meaningful " description of the content. It is important to note that this law does not apply to all publishers in Spain, only daily newspapers. From QZ.com On July 22 Spain passed a law (link in Spanish) called the canon … [Read more...]
The other side of Click Fraud
Krebs On Security took a look at the practice of click fraud that depletes a competitors ad budget. The practice is to run up the costs and maybe get them to blow their wad early in the day. I have spoken to people over the years who certainly felt their AdWords campaign was a waste of time and money. While many focus on click fraud on the AdSense side, it seems that the AdWords side is also a big … [Read more...]
Poll Results: “What Will Google Domains Market Share Of The Registrar Market Be A Year After Launch?”
The results from our latest poll question are out and most don't think Go Daddy should be crawling under their desk as one IPO analyst remarked. Google getting into the registrar space caused quite a stir a few weeks back. We had 240 voters and 19% do not see Google in the top 20. 13% see Google in position number 10 and 12 % see them in position number 20. What Will Google Domains Market Share … [Read more...]
Google Reports Earnings Stock Up in After Hours Trading
Google is out with their earnings for Q2 2014 Google Inc. reported consolidated revenues of $15.96 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2014, an increase of 22% compared to the second quarter of 2013. Google Inc. reports advertising revenues, consistent with GAAP, on a gross basis without deducting traffic acquisition costs (TAC). In the second quarter of 2014, TAC totaled $3.29 billion, or … [Read more...]