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Google Apps And Gmail Problems Resurface
Some people check their email once an hour. Others, every five minutes. But a recent Google Apps outage made a number of…
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YouTube’s Search Ads – Will You Buy Them?
Google will announce its third quarter financial results on Thursday, and in the meantime, the company seems to be looking for revenue under every rock... and YouTube may be the biggest rock of all.Searches for all sorts of terms on YouTube are turning up links to one or more "promoted videos" on the right-hand side of results pages. Each ad consists of one small image…
Google Helps Find Missing Links
It’s been said links are the currency of the Web, and an honest-gotten inbound link is like a tip for good work. Locating broken inbound links, then—links attempted but because of an error don’t connect with a page on your site—is like an opportunity to locate missing money.
Father of the Internet Backs Obama
Often called the Father of the Internet (though he calls himself a “cofounder”), Vint Cerf these days works for Google being, as Valleywag’s Own Thomas puts it, “vice president in charge of being the guy who created the Internet.” So that’s what “Internet Evangelist” means! Whatever his title, he’s using throwing some of the clout onto YouTube to endorse Senator Barack Obama as President. The…
Google Up, Up and Away
For another straight month, Google has gained in search share. At this point you wonder why one bothers measuring by the month. How about for the 15th (at least) straight quarter Google has gained in search share? How about for the fourth straight year, Google has gained in search share? I’m not sure about that last statement. I’ve only been covering search for three and…
Pandora Cuts Staff, But Still Growing
Layoffs at Internet companies continue to be announced, with the latest coming from Internet radio site Pandora. Pandora's fate itself was in question not too long ago, but has recently found new hope and expects to survive after all.
