Another potential risk with very specific niche gtlds is that something can come along and change the game. Something that has nothing to do with domain names can still come along and affect the niche extension. The Apple iPhone and its .com button along with how smartphones easily rendered a website on a phone was a big hit to .mobi. The .menu extension has already been delegated and four … [Read more...]
Moving A Penalized Website To A New Domain May Not Remove Your Google Penalty
Barry Schwartz wrote a piece on Search Engine Roundtable about Google penalties following to a new website. So we know that if you have a penalty on your site and you move your site to a new domain and redirect the URLs to that new domain, the penalty will flow because of the redirects. That is known. What I did not know is that if you took your site and moved it to a new domain but did not … [Read more...]
Could Watson Change Search As We Know It ?
Daniel Newman wrote a piece on Millenial CEO that took a look at Watson, the super computer from IBM. Newman explores the possibility if Watson could change the search landscape. Just Google It…Everyone Else Does Right now when we want to know more about something, anything, we Google it; this isn’t an exception, this is the rule. In fact, 74% of the entire population turns to Google to … [Read more...]
Go Daddy Owns it Role in the Twitter @N Case – Paypal Does Not
Go Daddy admits that it was at fault in the @N case. Paypal denied any fault. ItWorld covered the story that has been going on for a few days with regards to Naoki Hiroshima, his Twitter handle @N and his Go Daddy account. The story has been covered inside the domain world and out and now comes an acknowledgement from Go Daddy and a denial from Paypal. — GoDaddy has acknowledged that one of … [Read more...]
Google Finally Agree To Its 1st Stock Spilt
Google (GOOG) announced a stock split by creating "Class C" shares which will carry no voting power. The stock split which is Google's 1st, is set for April 2nd. One share of C stock will be distributed for each share of voting Class A stock owned as of March 27. Initially, the value of the current stock will be divided equally between the two types of shares. But they will then trade … [Read more...]
Google Reports: Paid Clicks Up 31%; Cost Per Click Down 11%
Google reported its financial results for the quarter ending December 31, 2013 after the market closed today Google's consolidated net income was $3.38 billion, or $9.90 per share, compared to $2.89 billion, or $8.62 per share, in the year-ago period. Excluding certain items, Google said it earned $12.01 per share. Google's consolidated revenue, rose to $16.86 billion from $14.42 billion … [Read more...]
OMGChrome.com Takes A look at what .chrome might look like
Omg Chrome did a piece on how Google will use dot chrome. Of course Chrome is ubiquitous all throughout the Google landscape, from netbooks, to the most popular web browser on the planet, to ChromeCast for your tv. There were a couple Chrome related news items today, Google is offering a $2.7 million bounty for cracking ChromeOS Forbes is out with a story on an add on that turns your … [Read more...]