Google Scrubs SubDomains
I had a chance to catch up with Matt Cutts and Vanessa Fox last week at the Las Vegas Pubcon. We talked about a variety of things – from the hacking of someone’s out of version WordPress blog to the recent PageRank updates at Google. One of the more recent and perhaps lesser-publicized changes we discussed however was Google’s recent decision to change the way they handle content on subdomains. You can find our video interview on the Murdok Video blog incidentally.
Ex-Microsoft Manager Charged With Fraud
Former Microsoft employee Carolyn M. Gudmundson, has been charged with defrauding the company of $1 million and will plead not guilty her attorney said.
Google Street View Explores 8 More Cities
Google Street View hasn’t gotten too many of my minutes, but I’m more than ready to admit that it’s a neat program. And it’s just gotten bigger and better with the addition of 8 more cities.
Vivid Entertainment Sues Adult Site
Producer of adult films Vivid Entertainment Group has filed a lawsuit in Los Angles federal court against X-rated site PornoTube and its parent, Data Conversions, which does business as AEBN Inc.
Cutts, Sullivan Weigh In On Paid Links
The wild debate about Google’s increasingly hardline stance against paid links looks like Wimbledon, with Matt Cutts taking on Rich Skrenta, while Danny Sullivan volleys against Michael Gray.
AskEraser Elevates Privacy Standard For Search
Ask.com launched its AskEraser service across all of the search engine’s products, where people can opt to erase their search history with a single mouse click.
Universal Strikes Deal with iMeem
The music industry has had a lot of shakeups recently, and here’s yet another. Social media community imeem has signed a licensing deal with Universal Music group, the largest music label in the music industry. Now you can listen to Universal’s streaming music and watch videos free. Rather than make money on the music, they show ads and split ad revenues. This isn’t a new model, of course and I wonder what the artists make from it.
No Zep Tickets? The Song Remained The Same
If not for the Internet, you would be waiting for either 90 seconds of coverage on the 11 o’clock news, or the morning paper to find out about Led Zeppelin’s tribute to Atlantic Records late founder Ahmet Ertegun.
Search Insider Summit – Park City, Utah
A whirlwind conference schedule winds up this year with Mediapost’s Search Insider Summit being held in Park City Utah at the Stein Eriksen Lodge Dec 12-15, 2007. As part of our media sponsorship duties, I caught up with conference chair, David Berkowitz from 360i and the host/MC, Gord Hotchkiss of Enquiro for a quick interview:
Gordon Brown Asks Google, Others To Assist Poor
All things being equal, who would you ask for money: the insanely rich or the average citizen? Most people would go to the first group, and in doing so, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has knocked at Google’s door.