Google Video is now more search engine than video site as the search giant revamps it to include framing similar to how they present images on Google video.
Google Video Search
Ask.com Ad Campaign Associated With Google
Ask.com has gotten a lot of flack over its “algorithm” ad campaign, and it seemed possible that the publicity might hurt, rather than help, the company. Now one survey has revealed that many people didn’t even associate the ads with Ask.com – instead, they believed those strange and controversial messages were coming from Google.
Google Wants You To Report Paid Links
Google is offering users a way to report paid links in an effort to provide searchers with better results, a move that has generated plenty of discussion.
Google Offers Olive Branch To eBay
In an apparent change of heart Google canceled their "Let Freedom Ring" event that would have been an attempt to steal eBay’s thunder and attract sellers away from the eBay Live event.
Google Courting More Students With Email
Google’s serious about creating relationships with the greater Academia – its founders were collegiate all-stars building printers out of Legos, and of course badly-named search engines (Google was once called BackRub, we imagine because that was Larry Page’s best pickup line) – ahem, as more and more universities turn their email systems over to the search engine company.
Ensure that Google Knows It’s Your Content
If you run a blog, you might have noticed several “shadow blogs” which scrape your content, omit your name in the credits, but display big ads instead.
Google Introduces AdWords Business Pages In AU
Compared to much of the rest of the world, the nation of Australia is pretty young – you might say it got off to a late start. Google’s doing its best to help the country’s inhabitants catch up, however, and in Australia and New Zealand, the search engine company recently introduced AdWords Business Pages in an attempt to get more businesses online.
Google’s Paid Link Reporting
Google added a new section to webmaster central today entitled “report paid links”. How anyone other than me or quite possibly my book keeper know whether a link is paid or not is very questionable, but let’s dig just a little deeper shall we.
You can get the full data on this page but I’ll reprint it here because some of you might be concerned about privacy issues as far as Google is conceded:
New Google Analytics Features
After receiving numerous requests for the same features, Google Analytics has added some new features. They include:
Google Shows Who’s Selling Cheap Quality Links
Google recently added the ability for you to report link buyers, which is probably nothing more than a mind control game and a complete waste of time. I recently saw what looked like obvious link buying by Discovery.com. Do you think Google would do anything about it if I reported them? Nope.