A soccer-focused community website based on Google’s invite-only Orkut service recently launched in advance of this year’s Wolrd Cup.
KinderStart Sues Google Over PageRank
KinderStart filed suit yesterday in U.S. District Court in San Jose alleging that Google improperly “blacklisted” its website. We have not yet obtained a copy of the legal filing but news reports confusingly use the term “blacklisted”. An AP wire story states that KinderStart claims Google blacklisted its website which would mean the site would […]
Rant on Class Action Suit Against Google
The class action noise about Google and the company who’s rankings have dropped is a pure waste in my opinion.
Yahoo Better Than Google For Kids Schoolwork?
An 11-year old’s social studies presentation has sparked a discussion at the Digital Point search engine forums, when the girl found that Google just wasn’t good enough to help her school research.
Judge Stiffarms DoJ In Google Case
What began as a quest for virtually unfettered access to Google’s database of search information by the Department of Justice has ended with a judge’s decision that the DoJ receive 50,000 URLs retrieved with Google’s search engine, and zero queries.
Google Me, Im Irish
Welcome to the party! The Irish are known for a few things – whisky, odd Irish luck, fierce warriors, and poetry. “Stereotypes!” says my Irish friend Martin. Maybe. But St. Patrick’s day is a celebration of those very things-the spirit of the Celt. If I spoke Gaelic (and I once did, I’m sure of it), I’d tell you to toss one back for me, even if my family’s color was orange (and at one time we even liked the snakes).
Google, AOL Need More Time To Consummate
The billion-dollar investment Google will make with AOL has proved complex enough to require Google to move the anticipated completion date for the deal to the second quarter of ’06.
Now Google Says The FCC Doesn’t Suck
Andrew McLaughlin, senior policy counsel with everyone’s favorite search advertising company, claims he was horribly misquoted by a Light Reading reporter who gave lots of writers a great headline.
Could the New Google Spider be Causing Issues with Websites?
Around the time Google announced “Big Daddy,” there was a new Googlebot roaming the web. Since then I’ve heard stories from clients of websites and servers going down and previously unindexed content getting indexed.
Google And Nike Launch Soccer Website
Google and Nike have launched Joga, a website for soccer fans and players (and it says soccer, not football). Its invite-only, and logins are through Google accounts (which is really surprising to me).