Yes, I am meant to be on holidays and no, I’m not meant to be posting here, but I felt this news was too important to wait another two weeks.At the Search Summit Conference this week, I had the opportunity to ask Adam Lasnik from Google a question that I get asked a lot: Is it better to use 301 Permanently Moved or 302 Temporarily Moved redirects if you need to move a site to a new domain?
Play Stump The Google Personalized Page
Some updates have hit Google’s Personalized Homepage (unfortunately a shorter/catchier name was not among them), including one that makes the tabs a little more interesting.
Google Has Resources, Rivals, And Risks
The annual report filed by Google with the SEC reveals hefty revenues, its thoughts on Yahoo and Microsoft, and the potential for its multi-billion dollar business to suddenly go pancake-shaped in certain circumstances.
Google Scares Up Free Photoshop
You may be tired of hearing about Google by now. This article is actually about how Adobe plans to create a free Web-based version of Photoshop. But Google’s the reason they’re doing it. Google’s the reason anybody’s doing anything online. That company just can’t seem to find a pair of britches that fit.
Google Set To Bust TV Ad Market
If there were any doubt before (and there wasn’t really), Google has every intention of busting in on the television ad market. A couple of job postings on Google’s website confirm that intent while shedding some light on why networks are so jittery about this media revolution.
Google News Played by Foreign Sources?
Take a look at Google News U.S. and how many obscure foreign news sources are linked to. Of course nothing is wrong with this until you realize that the stories these sources are writing about are U.S. based. Looking deeper it’s obvious that some of the news sites appear to be only writing about these stories in order to get traffic from Google News U.S..
Google On Click Fraud
Detected click fraud that must be refunded to advertisers occupies a minuscule bit of all the clicks on ads run by Google’s clients.
Let the click fraud debate begin again. Google has put a number to the click fraud it misses and must reimburse to its AdWords clients. It’s a teeny tiny number: 0.02 percent.
Current Event Searching on Google and Yahoo
One of the folks over in Yahoo! Search sent me a pointer to Showing Yahoo Some Search Results Love which says, among other things: As we’ve pointed out on several occasions at the Internet Marketing Monitor, Yahoo generally has much better results for searches based on current events.
And then:
Google’s Success a ‘Wake Up Call’ to Microsoft
Microsoft was left shaken and stirred with the way Google Inc. increased their advertising revenue. Microsoft’s top technical executive, Ray Ozzie said, “was a wake-up call within Microsoft”. However, Ray said that they do not plan to copy Google and plan to come up with something that is their own innovation.
A news report states:
Ozzie: Google
Microsoft can admit when it’s wrong. Well, not so much wrong as behind the curve, and the admission was made at a conference, instead of in any sort of black-and-white press release. Still, Ray Ozzie, the company’s chief software architect, turned a few heads when he admitted that Google’s success in advertising had caught Microsoft by surprise.