Wonder of Tech posted an interesting look at You Tube around the world. YouTube is the third most popular site in the world, including everything from TED Talks that educate to stupid human tricks that make you wonder about the future of civilization. But did you know how different YouTube is in countries across the globe? This infographic illustrates the popularity of YouTube in various … [Read more...]
IPOFinancial: “No Way Godaddy’s IPO Can Move Forward As Is With Google Entering The Market”
I chatted with David Menlow, who is the founder IPOfinancial.com yesterday about Godaddy's planned IPO and Google's announcement this week that they were entering the domain name registrar business "I don't see how GoDaddy's IPO could "move forward." "If it does, the valuations of this deal has to be radically" "Whatever valuation models were being thrown around had to be completely … [Read more...]
If Google Domains Is Going To Be About New gTLD’s, Google.Domains Should Be Resolving
The domain name world is still chatting about this weeks announcement that Google is getting into the domain registrar business. The "official site" right now for Google Domains is a subdomain of Google.com: domains.google.com If you type in GoogleDomains.com into your browser you will be re-directed to the subdomain. However if you type in the domain name … [Read more...]
Google Releases Data to Help With Adwords Confusion
Google has released a couple pieces of data over the last two days that are worth reviewing for those who use the Google Adwords product. Google released a white paper to try to dispel some myths when it comes to the subject of quality score. As Ginny Marvin pointed out on Search Engine Land, There has always been a healthy amount of debate over the importance of Quality Score as an indicator … [Read more...]
InfoWorld: “Privacy concerns loom over ‘new’ Google domain registration service”
InfoWorld has concerns about Google and their new domain registration service. Google's invitation-only Domains name registration service works a lot like the old one but raises new questions about privacy and ad scraping The big unanswered question: What about privacy of data stored on the domain? If Google is your registrar, can Google reach in and finger all of the data associated with … [Read more...]
TechCrunch Covers The New Google Domains Registrar & Google Talks About New gTLD’s
TechCrunch.com just covered the new Google Domains name registrar. The only surprise for TechCrunch is that its taken Google so long to get into the business: "The move makes enough sense that it’s actually kind if surprising that it’s taken Google this long. " "While domains aren’t generally considered a massive-margin business, they’ve always seemed like a glaring omission in Google's … [Read more...]
Canadian Court Rules Google Must Remove Websites Worldwide
We wrote previously about a ruling by the European Union with regards to the "right to be forgotten". Now a Canadian court has ordered Google to remove sites worldwide. Amy Gesenhues covered the story on Search Engine Land, from the article: On the heels of Europe’s “Right to Be Forgotten” ruling, a British Columbia court in Canada has ruled Google must block a group of websites … [Read more...]