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Google Pilots AdSense To Video
A closed pilot program for video ads on AdSense will launch this week; it's a limited test that give online video publishers…
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Africa, Iraq, Cuba Safer than US for Sites?
Google launched its Online Security Blog this week. Their first post took a look at compromised websites and malware around the world.
Google Gets Turned Down – Twice
Everybody makes mistakes, but it’s surprising to see large companies like Google commit these goofs, and it’s even more unexpected when foul-ups in the recruiting-and-hiring process. These things do happen, though, as Jeff Barr, who turned down a job with Google, recently found out.
Local.com Launches Mobile Service
Google and Yahoo issue press releases on a daily basis, but it’s been a busy month for Local.com, as well. The local search engine launched an advertising program, appointed a new Vice President of Product Management, and, earlier today, made a new mobile service available.
Yahoo Autos Condemned For Cloaking
The automotive world can get pretty shady, but it still came as a surprise when Yahoo was recently caught “serving keyword stuffed pages to the SE crawlers and regular pages to the average users.” This is known as “cloaking,” and it took place on the Yahoo Autos site.
If Technorati Can Beat Google…
...Why not Microsoft or Google? The newly-relaunched Technorati exposes a weakness in Google’s armor. I just tried a bunch of searches. Technorati does “Live” search MUCH MUCH better than Microsoft and even better than Google’s Blog Search.
