I know your thinking this must be the all Google blog this week, but everyday news is coming out on Google and today's is not good. As we wrote yesterday, Google announced the further expansion of its policy regarding allowing rivals to buy keywords under trademarked terms in up to 200 countries (you can read that post here). Today it appears, Google is facing a new lawsuit for allowing … [Read more...]
Google Sued For Trademark Infrigement Over Android
In 2002 Erich Specht was granted the a trademark on the term Android to use with his firm Android Data. 2004 Mr. Specht's company went out of business and he lost his domain, androiddata.com. Google applied to the US Patent and Trademark Office for a trademark on the term Android, but its application was rejected in 2008. Google as we all know, went on to use the term in connection with … [Read more...]
Baidu.com Profit Up 23%
Baidu, China’s largest Internet search engine, and a part of our Domain Parking Stock Index, reported a 23.5 % increase in first-quarter net profits. However, Baidu also warned that the global downturn was affecting online advertising. The company registered a rare drop in the number of of active online advertisers, and in the revenue per online advertiser, from the fourth quarter. The … [Read more...]
Search Engine Accussed of Blocking Natural Search Results Of An Advertiser Who Cut Their PPC Spending
What if a search engine blocked a company who cut back its PPC spending, from appearing in non-paid search results? That is exactly what Renren Information Services is accusing Baidu.com, China's leading search engine, of. Renren says that Baidu.com basically blackballed the site, after the company dramatically lowered its PPC spending with Baidu Renren is suing Baidu for the equivalent … [Read more...]
Yahoo Shutting Down GeoCities: Another $4.6 Billion Down The Drain
Yahoo announced today that it is shutting down GeoCities, a free service that hosts personal home pages for consumers. Yahoo acquired GeoCities in 1999, in a stock deal valued at roughly $4.6 billion. A posting on a Yahoo Help page for GeoCities Thursday said the service was no longer accepting new customers and that it will be closing later this year, with more details about how individuals … [Read more...]
Didit.com: Google Widens Its Lead Over Yahoo For Ad Dollars
According to Search Engine Marketing Firm Didit.com, Google share of search dollars spent by all clients of Didit.com keep rising and dollars spent on Yahoo keeps falling. Didit.com which reports 95% of its clients are US based, is reporting that over 70% of its clients ad dollars now go to Google while less than 20% now go to Yahoo. This difference has grown in the past 4+ years where … [Read more...]
Yahoo’s Earnings Down 78%; Gross Down 13%: 5% of Workforce to Get the Axe
Yahoo reported that its gross revenues fell 13% to $1.580 million, compared to the first quarter of 2008 Yahoo also reported, that its first-quarter net income fell to $117.6 million, or 8 cents a share, from $536.8 million, or 37 cents a share in the same period a year earlier. However, net income for the first quarter of 2008 included a non-cash gain of $401 million, or $0.29 per … [Read more...]