An updated version of travel search engine Kayak.com provides Google Maps of hotel locations and lets users add hotels to the index.
New Google PageRank, Backlinks On Tap
Google’s resident rock star, Matt Cutts, has posted that a little Google Dance is underway again. Google probably doesn’t derive any pleasure from sending the ranks of SEO and SEM pros hustling to tweak hundreds of web sites for better placement each time they update.
eBay May Not Accept Google Purchase
A sudden change in eBay’s payment policy has many wondering if this is a preemptive move in preparation of the rumored Google Purchase, which could offer some serious competition to PayPal. Conspiracy theories and lots of between the line eyeballing are rampant, even if eBay insists the changes are to enhance protection for buyers.
India: Stop Looking At Me, Google!
When you’re president of a nation whose mountainous borders are dotted with gunners out to kill you, directions to your house are the last thing you want to send them. Even though Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam spoke more on behalf of developing nations during his complaint to Google Earth, the 2001 terrorist attack on Parliament couldn’t have been far from his mind.
Experimental Google Search Results Page
On the one-word query [skol], typed into Google Search, the usual results appear at the top, but then below that, the user is prompted to extend their query to [skol beer] or view the first three results for that longer phrase.
Google Writes To Privacy
Google updated their privacy statement on Friday. Many have had privacy concerns for Google and other search engines for a while now. This is the latest effort by Google to get privacy concerns under control.
Google, Yahoo Out Of Censored Commerce Report
A Department of Commerce report on how offshore outsourcing has affected tech jobs in the US was sanitized to present a brighter job picture.
Users Satisfied With Google Search, Yahoo Mail
Yahoo got top marks in a J.D. Power online services satisfaction study for web mail and instant messaging, while Google topped the search satisfaction review.
Google Stock Begins To Deflate
The search engine company’s shares have begun to drift downward since their secondary stock offering took place.
Fear Strikes Google
Comcast and Google will offer Time Warner $5 billion for a minority stake in AOL, which currently provides Google with 11 percent of its revenues.