Ready the vegetable-tossers, conspiracy theorists, and patriotic guillotiners: Google and Yahoo have snubbed President’s Day.Google especially (in part because nobody pays attention to Yahoo unless Microsoft tries to buy them) is known for spicing up its logo on special days, to commemorate artists, historic accomplishments, and often, national holidays.
Google Headcount Tops 16K Employees
At one time, CEO Eric Schmidt blamed rising headcount for having an impact on Google’s numbers and claimed Google would get that under control.
Google Search API Questioned Again
Industry pros have never been fully happy with the results they receive through Google’s Search API.
Google Urchin Vs. Google Analytics
If you remember correctly, Google bought the Urchin Software Corporation in 2005, and reformed Urchin software to Google Analytics. The one major change in the software was that Google allowed Analytics to be free.
Top 10 Ways To Raise Your Site In Google
No matter how much some people claim the SEO industry is a den of snake-oil salesmen, there are still definite ways webmasters can improve their rankings, and thus their visibility in Google’s search results.This isn’t a manipulation game—Google absolutely hates that game and will punish you for it—which is perhaps what the darker element of the SEO world sells. Good, in-bounds SEO is made up of smart, user-and-search-engine friendly techniques. Think of SEO as a performance-enhancing drug—one that won’t get you kicked out of baseball.
Chinese Freedom Fighter Slams Google
You have to love sometimes the rhetoric of freedom fighters. The US had Patrick Henry and Nathan Hale. More recently, China has university professor Guo Quan, who, after being deleted from Google’s index at the behest of the government, called Google "a servile Pekinese dog wagging its tail at the heels of the Chinese communists."Ooh. I love it when people get all revolutionary.
1% Of Google Search Results Still Contain Malicious Content
Last Tuesday, Google published a report stating that web browsing and searching are increasingly becoming risky. Google for a year and a half now has been identifying web pages that infect vulnerable hosts via drive-by downloads, i.e. web pages that attempt to exploit their visitors by installing and running malware automatically.
Google China Prepares Sink Or Swim Music Partnership
Cultural dissimilarities will remain; Google isn’t likely to move its headquarters to China and replace thousands of American employees. The company may overcome one other obstacle in that market, however, as it prepares to enter a partnership with Top100.cn and make music available for free.
U.S. Doodle 4 Google Contest Begins
First off: this contest is for kids. But if you’re an adult with a kid, keep reading, because the winning child will receive a $10,000 college scholarship. Now, pray that you’ve done enough to encourage the kid’s artistic abilities, because the contest involves creating a Google Doodle.
Regulatory Issues Nix Google, Yahoo Deal
Outsourcing paid search to Google sounded like a panacea to some who have followed Yahoo’s travails, but antitrust concerns probably ended that discussion.