Laura Macias, mayor of Mountain View, California, where Google is based, disagrees that Google isn’t a "model citizen," as portrayed in an article published by the Los Angeles Times. In fact, things sound downright peachy.
Mountain or Molehill: Reporting Paid Links to Google
Google has announced increased counter-measures will be put in place to neutralise the practice of buying links which game the ranking algorithms.
For many years webmasters and SEOs have indulged in buying links to boost the rankings of their sites in Google’s SERPs. This practice became especially prevalent as Google increased the link relevance in their ranking algorithm.
Mountain Commerce Overshadows PPC
Pay-per-click advertising doesn’t always smile upon budget-minded businesses; even “clean” PPC campaigns (i.e., ones that aren’t plagued by click fraud) can be costly.
Live From Mountain View, It’s Google WiFi!
The search advertising company lit up its freely available WiFi network for its home city of Mountain View, CA, for citizens to try.
Google Unwiring Mountain View
Google has been installing the radios and equipment necessary for nearly two weeks. to provide its home base of Mountain View with wireless broadband access.
Google Details Mountain View WiFi Plans
The proposal from Google to the leadership of its home city of Mountain View would place 300 transmitters on lightpoles to make the city one big wireless hotspot.
AOL: The Next Great Mountain
By now, most people in the search engine biz know about Microsoft’s discussions with Time Warner over the future of AOL. In the original article by the New York Post, the newspaper also mentioned both Time Warner had talked to both Google and Yahoo but Microsoft was their primary choice.
Mountain Climbing Over Molehills
Someone has said that the greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over mole-hills! Is that the way you get your exercise? Many folks allow themselves to be thrown off course by minor or imaginary threats. Often they interpret these as life-or-death, or do-or-die situations. They put so much energy into their worries that there is none available for progress. Some even believe that worrying demonstrates caring. This is misguided, too.