I had a client ask me the other day where his traffic was coming from, since he couldn’t find his listing in the top few pages of search results for a keyword that was showing up in his analytics reports.
Google Puts Up Doodle For NAIDOC Week
If you visit Google Australia’s home page today, you’ll see a nifty little image incorporated into the company’s logo – a few rings of black and red dots, and two human figures (one of whom is bearing a shield). This was done in honor of National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) Week.
Google Introduces AdWords Automotive Newsletter
Google caters to a lot of specialized interests and industries – with a market cap of almost $170 billion, the company can afford to be versatile. Yet a new AdWords newsletter addresses a topic about which I’m especially enthusiastic: cars.
Google, Yahoo Quietly Develop Social Networks
So Google’s Orkut hasn’t taken off where it counts and the company missed its chance to buy MySpace for the half the price News Corp. paid for it. And Yahoo couldn’t get Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg out of bed long enough to negotiate a successful buyout. Must be why both of them are working on new social networks on their own, on the sly.
Google May Have To Reveal Your Data
A competitor’s advertising data held by Google may be just a legal complaint and a subpoena away from being available to anyone who wants it.
Scientist Locates Chinese Sub On Google Earth
Nothing like an arms race to bring back those Cold War memories, when the Red Dawn seemed eminent even if we had the Iron Eagle, rock music blaring through his Walkman, to protect us. Nowadays it’s Google Earth, not Hollywood and Reagan, scaring everybody to death.
Google To Watchdog: Mind Your Own Business
Peter Fleischer, Google’s top global privacy counsel, said data retention issues are of no concern to a European privacy watchdog group.
Google Scholar Put To The Test
Companies always claim to be leading in this or pioneering in that. Google Scholar is less boastful, but still says it “provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.” And so Marilyn Christianson, a librarian at Auburn University, put that assertion to the test.
Google Public Policy Blog Touches On Carhenge
Google’s Public Policy Blog has been home to discussions about censorship, net neutrality, and national security. Now it’s promoting Carhenge, Nebraska’s “whimsical recreation” of England’s famous stone ruins. Ah, well. “All work and no play . . .”
Elsevier Has No Fear Of Google Scholar
Publishing power Reed Elsevier will have its scholarly journals crawled and indexed by Google, under the terms of the Google Scholar program.