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Things change when a large, publicly traded company acquires a smaller firm. Google's $100 million pickup of Feedburner has elicited some negative…
Advertisements for weapons, drugs, and prostitutes have been banned from Google. All right, fair enough. But now advertisements for essay-writing services will also be forbidden, and while more than a few people have raised their eyebrows, others have cheered.
Google launched its Online Security Blog this week. Their first post took a look at compromised websites and malware around the world.
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.
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.
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.
