So there was a story out this week that Microsoft had read the emails of a French blogger who had received code from a former Microsoft employee, the employee has been arrested in Seattle, accused of leaking Windows 8 to the tech blogger. The blogger actually contacted Microsoft to verify what was going on, Microsoft then went through his hotmail and messenger and found the email from the … [Read more...]
Be Careful of Phishing Attack to Gain Google Credentials
Be careful using Google Docs and Google Drive as Symantec discovered a new phishing attack that is looking to get your Google log in credientials. Afterdawn.com covered the recent finding: Researchers over at security firm Symantec have come across a new advanced phishing attack aimed at stealing your Google credentials. The new attack specifically targets Google Docs and Google Drive users. … [Read more...]
Matt Cutts Talks About a Softer Panda and a Boost for Sites Using SSL
Matt Cutts had a few things to say at SMX West regarding potential future moves at Google. Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable wrote that Cutts would like to give a boost to sites using SSL. At SMX West Matt Cutts gave the attendees a few tidbits, one of those items was that making your site secure, encrypted, i.e. SSL enabled, is an important trend for 2014. At the end of the … [Read more...]
Desktop Advertising to Drop $1.4 billion in 2014 as Search becomes more mobile
eMarketer released a report today that estimates desktop advertising to drop by $1.4 billion while mobile search will increase over 82 % in 2014. Of course Google has been talking about this in their earnings reports for the last couple years. This is certainly not great news for domain investors who park their domains, as mobile clicks pay less than desktop clicks. It stands to reason that … [Read more...]
Google Scrapping Banner Ad Experiment
Harrison Weber is reporting on Venture Beat and Ginn Marvin is reporting on Marketing Land, that Google is going to scrap its banner ad experiment. Google started showing banner ads last October which sparked many to become upset as Google had long promised not to show banner ads in search results. From the article: VentureBeat can confirm that banner ads for original partner companies, … [Read more...]
Big Changes Coming To Google Search Results
Jayson DeMers wrote a very detailed and well thought out post about Google and coming changes in search. In the article DeMers discusses that search will change to accomodate a more mobile world, that SEO professionals will have to adapt and change as well. All things search must evolve. DeMers goes on to discuss that there will be more color and more information, targeted data to get users … [Read more...]
It’s Official: Google Is Giving Away Free Domain Names
Since the ICANN Big Reveal where we learned that Google applied for over 100 new gTLD extension we have been chatting about whether Google would giving away free domains. Well we didn't have to wait long to find out. Google is offering 5,000 new gTLD's in its first live new gTLD which is an IDN, .みんな Domainincite.com broke the news that Google is offering a free domain name to the first … [Read more...]