Either Microsoft or Yahoo could emerge as a partner to the online auction site in facing down the potent threat posed by Google. The stunning financial numbers released yesterday by Google probably exacerbated the distress felt in eBay’s C-level offices.
Google Scholar Wants To Keep You Updated
There are geeks and there are nerds, so the Eighties told us (dorks and dweebs, too, but these have yet reach to any type of social prominence). You may have guessed by now that I’m a nerd – I like to study. Google Scholar’s new addition, then, will just increase the hours I spend in ancient civilizations — for another, their time in quarks.
Google Miro Logo A No-No
Today’s Google logo features elements of work by Spanish surrealist Joan Mir to commemorate the artist’s 1893 birth, but an organization representing the artist’s estate exploded in anger over what they called a copyright violation.
Google Makes Huge Comeback In 1Q
Google Inc.’s first-quarter financials bounced back considerably from a disappointing January 31st fourth-quarter report that sent stock prices into a tailspin. At the closing bell Thursday, Google reported a profit increase of 60 percent, returning to its usual flogging of analyst estimates.
Microsoft Typo-Patrol May Prey On Google
Sites that pickup traffic from misspelled versions of well-known domain names frequently contain advertising served by Google AdSense and other products; Microsoft’s latest feature in the Strider URL Tracer may make hunting them down an easier prospect for trademark holders.
MediaBot – New Google Agent Confirmed
Website owners and administrators might have noticed a new search spider agent appearing in their site logs. It appears that Google has another bot operating out there.
Google MediaBot Indexes Web Pages
Google’s Matt Cutts confirmed that the AdSense Mediapartners bot, commonly known as “mediabot,” is indexing webpages for Google’s Big Daddy index, according to some well-known bloggers. What that means to webmasters: having two versions of a webpage (one for each bot) can get you into duplicate content issues.
Shocker: Google Still Leads The Others
(Yawn.) In March, Google was again (yaawwwn, excuse me) the leader in all things search, according to comScore Networks, with competitors nowhere near matching the number of search queries or percentage of market. In fact, Yahoo and MSN slipped a bit.
Google To Charge For AdWords API
The current free quota system used in capping developer usage will be replaced by a usage-based fee system that will charge developers 25 cents per 1,000 quota units used.
Google Dominated Paid Search In Q1
Yahoo and MSN trailed behind Google in the share of spending in sponsored search, and the first quarter of 2006 saw a 9.3 percent increase in overall online ad spending.