It was just a few days ago that Australia’s nuclear power chief was complaining to Google about the detailed images of a nuclear reactor near Sydney accessed by Google Earth. And now, as reported this morning on NBC’s Today Show, the US military forces in Iraq are even more concerned.
Hitwise Says Google Gets Most Hits
Marketing research firm Hitwise just released numbers for July discussing search engine rankings. The information from a press release on Tekrati says Google is still the top dog for search, more than double the number of searches of their closest competitor, Yahoo.
Is Google Getting Into Behavioral Targeting, or Not?
It’s interesting to juxtapose the formal and informal statements of Google staffers (on panels, and in the hallway) on the question of making more behavioral targeting available to advertisers …
Google News Now With RSS, Atom Feeds!
It took a while for Google to make feeds available from its well-known news aggregator page.
Release from Google Sandbox Only to Search the Playground
The Google Sandbox Effect has been discussed at length in our case study of a new website first crawled in May by Googlebot.
Google Countersuit Taken Out of Googleplex Backyard
Understandably, Microsoft is playing hardball with Google’s countersuit regarding the legitimacy Kai-Fu Lee’s non-compete agreement by working to disallow Google a home field advantage in California court. California laws do not recognize non-compete agreements, which is the basis for the countersuit, and Microsoft has asked that the case be taken up by a federal court instead.
Google Insider Cutts Into Blogging
One of Google’s software engineers, Matt Cutts, has a blog up and running. The latest post has a great personal reply to someone questioning him on why their site wasn’t showing up on the engine. Cutts gives a lengthy reply as to why that was, and it didn’t look good for the site operator.
Google May Break The Ice With Meetro
Sources say the search engine company may be ready to acquire introware company Meetroduction.
Is Google Gunning For Directories?
Why is it that webmasters are so quick to blame Google if their website falls down the search rankings, or out of the rankings altogether? Can it never be their own fault…
How To Avoid The Google.com Duplicate Content Filter?
More and more webmasters are building websites with publicly available content (data feeds, news feeds, articles).