Google may be king, but it’s definitely not czar. The dominant U.S. search engine is only the eighth biggest “Internet brand” in Russia, and it’s losing the competition by a very large margin.
Links And Google Can Coexist
It’s all in the way you gain incoming links – purchased equals bad and earned with content equals good. Keep that in mind because Google watches those backlinks more closely now.
Google Tasting Orange For Mobiles
Phones from Google in partnership with wireless provider Orange may hit the United Kingdom starting in 2008, with the devices optimized to deliver geo-targeted Google ads from local businesses.
AJAXing Google’s SOAP API
There are many webmasters who leverage Google’s search results and other related data by using their SOAP API. However, what are these folks to do now that Google is no longer supporting it?
Google Buys Swiss Mapping Company
Google continues its pattern of omnigooglization in Europe by acquiring the Internet, mapping and data processing units of Switzerland-based Endoxon, for an undisclosed sum.
Google/NASA Enter Space Pact
Google and NASA Ames Research Center have signed a “Space Act Agreement” to pool their collective technological expertise to address issues ranging from large-scale data management and massively distributed computing, to human-computer interfaces.
Google, Baidu Shop For Video Sites
Google and Chinese search engine Baidu look to expand their reach with Chinese online video sites.
Google Puts Domains Up For Sale
Not its domain names, of course, but ones that people may want to register while signing up for Google Apps for Your Domain services. It could be an indication of Google’s future intentions for the Apps services too.
Google and Technorati Rewarding Sploggers?
I find it ironic that in a search of who is linking to Mashable’s report about StumbleUpon that a splogger is there using MY blog post (a splogger is someone who uses a system to automatically copy blog posts from other people).
Journal Register Co. Partners With Google
The New Haven Register, which Journal Register Company describes as its “flagship newspaper,” entered a print ad partnership with Google earlier today. And as the parent company stated, the New Haven Register is joining “more than 50 major newspapers across the U.S. that are currently participating in the Google program.”