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Google to Start Charging Non-Profits
Google announced today that starting at the beginning of March, non-profit organizations who use Google Checkout will be subject to the standard fee structure. Previously, they have been able to use the service free of charge.
Google Shuts Down Services, Cuts Jobs
Google has decided to shut down some of its services, as well as trim some recruiting jobs, and consolidate engineering offices. Services that Google is shutting down include:
Google Announces Winners Of Website Workout Contest
Google’s Website Optimizer works, and the company really, really wants you to know it. The winners of the Google Website Workout contest – which challenged businesses to use the tool and improve their conversion rates – have been announced in just about every place possible, giving both them and Website Optimizer all sorts of publicity.
Google Starts Apps Reseller Program
Google has started a program in which resellers can begin selling Google Apps to businesses. Naturally, you would sell the apps to customers, and then kick up money to Google.
Google Introduces New Open Source Sitemap Generator
Google has introduced a new Sitemap Generator for webmasters to help them create better sitemap files. Google had previously introduced one back in 2005, and watched many other people make their own, but this one is different they say.
What SEOs Want from Google’s Webspam Team in ’09
UPDATE: Cutts has tallied the demands so far and shares them in a list here.
Google to be More Transparent in 2009
Matt Cutts of Google’s Search Quality Team made a post on the Google Webmaster Blog indicating that a goal of his this year is to make Google more transparent and to communicate more.
Times Online Source Denies Google Teakettle Comparison
Remember all that hype about a pair of Google searches being equivalent to heating a teakettle to boiling? Yeah, never mind. It seems the Times Online did a little fuzzy math and the Harvard source credited with providing that little tidbit says they didn’t hear that from him.
Google On Pace To Take 75% Of Search Market
How long do you think it will take Google to corner a full three-fourths of the search market? According to the latest Hitwise report, not long. Does April or May sound too conservative?