Google will "probably" bid in the FCC’s 700 MHz spectrum auction set to take place in 2008, CEO Eric Schmidt told attendees at a Colorado summit with telecommunications industry representatives heavily in attendance.
Google News Gets Video Clips
There are hundreds of quality newspapers, and perhaps thousands of good online sources – every current event is covered extensively in text. Still, network news shows and cable news networks carry on, and now Google News intends to embrace video, as well.
Google’s IPO, Inside AdSense Have Anniversaries
You know that feeling when you forget a birthday? Well, I don’t have it, but it’s nonetheless true that I failed to note two Google anniversaries. Google’s IPO occurred three years ago as of August 19, and on August 15, the Inside AdSense blog turned two.
Google, YouTube Grow In San Bruno
I buy clothes once a year or so (if that). I run searches dozens, if not hundreds, of times per day. So on the whole, I’m rather pleased with this development: Google is taking over a San Bruno, California property formerly inhabited by Gap Inc.
Recent Changes on Google
For those who read this with an interest in SEO, I’ve noticed a few interesting changes on Google over the past week.
Firstly, Google seems to have tweaked the algo so that keyword domains have lost a little of their dominance. So just because “blue-widgets.com” is an established, if poorly built and promoted site, it no longer seems to have automatic rights to rank No.1 on searches for “blue widgets”.
Google Earth Gets Book Search Layer
To research a place’s past, you could drive around looking for historical markers. Or you could call up Google Earth; a new default layer allows users to “explore locations through the lens of the world’s books.”
Google Apologizes For Video Shutdown
After being blistered by criticism over the abrupt termination of the Google Video program, Google has offered an apology and full credit to video purchasers.
ComScore qScore Tallies Well For Google
Search sites measured by comScore under their new qScore 2.0 methodology will benefit from the hosted and affiliated search traffic they send back to the main search engine. It’s a scenario that offers Google a heaping helping of share by comScore’s reckoning.
Google China Gets Blog Search Engine
Imagine a life-size model of a car. It might look nice, but as for functionality . . . Similarly, Google China had a blog search site that didn’t do much of anything. The company has just dropped in an engine, though, and (censorship issues aside) users can have at it.
Yahoo! Gets One Back on Google
These days, it’s not often that you hear anyone outdoing search giant Google on any playing field, but a recent American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) report has seen Yahoo! take top honors in terms of customer satisfaction.