It’s a meltdown of PageRank 9 proportions, as Jeremy Zawodny and Matt Cutts (of Yahoo and Google, respectively, but you knew that) took shots at each other’s corporate masters over strikingly similar pages touting Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7.
Google & Yahoo Square Off On Wall St
Google Finance unrolled a healthy offering of new features today, aimed at positioning the tool as a stronger competitor to the more widely visited Yahoo! Finance website, which offers a wide range of financial resources and services to its users.
Google Ads Appear For Firefox, IE7
Earlier today, an advertisement for Firefox appeared on Google’s homepage. While that isn’t really too remarkable, the ad featured an “optimized for Google” tagline, which is interesting. To complicate matters, an ad for an “optimized for Google” version of IE7 has appeared among certain Google search results, as well.
Google Click Fraud Rate: Less than 2%
Back in November, Google’s business product manager for trust and safety, Shuman Ghosemajumder, declared that click fraud at Google was “on average is in the single digits, quarter over quarter.”
Google Says Click Fraud Only 2 Percent
Defying the third-party firms that sell themselves to customers amid claims of greater incidents of click fraud, as much as 20 or 30 percent, a Google executive claimed the actual rate is only about 2 percent.
Google To Put You To The Test?
A new Google service has been spotted; it might issue tests and exams to students. The service could quiz potential job candidates, as well. Or it could do something else entirely, or even die before it ever makes it out of the developmental stage, but screenshots of Google Online Assessments have proven that the service is, in fact, real.
Top Ranking in Google But Nothing in Yahoo!
SEO Question: I rank #3 in Google for one of my core keywords and yet I am nowhere in it for Yahoo!. Why?
Google China VP Poised To Jump Ship
Only last week, the president of Yahoo China resigned. Now Johnny Chou, the vice president of Google China, is making a similar move. Chou has arranged to leave the company on December 31st.
Google’s Not Stopping Click Arbitrage
Who would have though click arbitrage would be a topic worth of being covered by Forbes?
Google Offers To Educate Egypt
The Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education is getting a helping hand, courtesy of Google. The search engine giant is going to provide the ministry with Google Apps for Education, which will allow it to access “innovative email, instant messaging, and calendaring, with accounts on your school’s domain, all for free.”