Google made a rather big update to Panda search metrics which is being called Panda 2.5 last Thursday. Searchmetrics.com listed the biggest winners and losers on it blog a couple of days ago. eHow owned by Demand Media, a company we cover in our domain name Parking Stock Index, was actually one of just a handful of winners listed as content farms by SearchMetrics.com although LiveStrong.com … [Read more...]
Google Rollouts Real Time Stats On Google Analytics
According to a blog post on by Google, Google is upgrading its Google Analytics tool to give users real time information. Google's free analytics tool offers a comprehensive data on websites but until now, it has a 24-hour lag on full data reporting. The new Google Analytics Real-Time tool offers an instant look at a site's active-visit count. It began rolling out Thursday to some users … [Read more...]
Forbes.com: Out Of Google Senate Hearing: “Google’s ‘Bait & Switch’ Deception Exposed”
Forbes.com just wrote a pretty scathing article on Google based off the Senate antitrust hearing on Thursday saying "Google has perpetrated what maybe the largest bait and switch scheme ever." "Simply, Google has baited over a billion users to implicitly trust Google Search by continuously promising that its search engine is unbiased and “always does what is best for the user.” "However, as … [Read more...]
Google’s Schmidt Faces Senate Hearing Today
Google's executive chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt will be speaking before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee later today as that panel looks to determine whether Google abuses its power in online search. Antitrust regulators are investigating complaints that Google favors its own commerce services and offerings in its search results, among other … [Read more...]
Google Names Its News Reader To Compete With Flipboard & AOL “Propeller”: Problem is AOL Owns Propeller.com & Has its Own NewsReader Called Editions.com
According to various reports yesterday here and here, Google is working on launching a social and news reader app to compete with the very popular Flipboard App as well as Facebook, and is going to call it Propeller. AOL is the owner of Propeller.com AOL also has its own similar App already that competes with the leader Flipboard. The name of AOL apps is Editions by AOL Editions.com is … [Read more...]
Will AOL & Yahoo Merge?
There are a few reports out today including one from Bloomberg that AOL and Yahoo, two struggling companies are in merger talks. Chief Executive Officer Tim Armstrong of AOL is "talking with advisers to Yahoo! Inc. to gauge its interest in combining the companies after the ouster of CEO Carol Bartz" According to the story Armstrong was interested in a merger with Yahoo last year but Carol … [Read more...]
VeriSign CFO Quits & Stock Plunges & Quickly As It Soared
The CFO of Verisign (VRSN) resigned today causing shares to fall as quickly as the rose the other day on buyout rumors. The other day we notice that shares of Verisign rose on take over rumors from around $29 a share to almost $35 a share. Today the Chief Financial Officer of Verisign, Brian Robins resigned which seemed to end rumors that the company is being bought out. Shares Verisign … [Read more...]