Anyone who develops websites knows the importance of fresh content. Sometimes you may think content is fresh, but maybe someone wrote something for you and you did not check it with copyscape. You could have both a plagiarism and duplicate content problem. Search Engine land published an article today on how Google will now alert […]
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Google awarded patent on exact match domain, detecting commercial queries
Seo by the Sea posted about a patent awarded to Google for exact match domain. A Google patent, originally filed in 2003, and granted today (with Matt Cutts as one of the listed inventors) describes this problem in more detail and provides some ways that Google could potentially act to lessen the value of keywords […]
Continue ReadingGoogle launches pay per call in Adwords
Laurie Sullivan from MediaPost reported on Google launching pay per call for adwords. Taken from the article : Advertisers that see phone calls as a valuable source for leads will now have an option to bid for phone calls alongside clicks when targeting paid-search ads to searchers across computers and tablets. Google plans to roll […]
Continue ReadingGoogle using Privacy as a way to dilute the value of paid analytics
Google announced on their blog, http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-search-more-secure.html That they will now secure the searches of users logged into Google through ssl encryption. This will make it impossible to see the keyword in the referrer data. If someone is not logged in and searches the data will be received. This should bring about a greater usage of […]
Continue ReadingGoogle wins another adwords key ruling
In a significant victory for Google, a judge has ruled that the company won't have to face a class-action lawsuit about its policy of allowing trademarks to trigger search ads. Read the whole article
Continue ReadingThree new Google products coming ? Bargain, Knockout and Vendor fresh regs
On Friday 10/7, Google registered three domains that seem not related to existing projects. Google registered GoogleBargain.com on Friday. Google currently offers local bargains in a number of US cities, a program called Google Offers, and they acquired the German site DailyDeal. They also registered GoogleKnockout.com and GoogleVendor.com/net/org. Should be interesting to see what these […]
Continue ReadingGoogle wants to know who you are
Apparently some of the buzz from the Edinburgh International TV Festival was identity. Google Ceo Eric Schmidt was asked a question about the need for real names. He replied by saying that G+ was built primarily as an identity service, so fundamentally, it depends on people using their real names if they’re going to build […]
Continue ReadingGoogle changing search with expanded organic sitelinks
Google has introduced expanded organic sitelinks. So search for domaining.com for example: Now this is not under every search but it seems if the site is well known, you get these expanded organic listings. If this becomes the norm its going to get interesting.
Continue ReadingFairSearch.org going after Google
FairSearch.org is a coalition formed by Kayak, Expedia, Microsoft, Sabre Holdings and Farelogix that did not like the purchase by Google of ITA Software. ITA provides airline flight data. They put out a video to illustrate their point. Lemonade from FairSearch.org on Vimeo. Perhaps FairSearch.org would want the help of the domaining community to […]
Continue ReadingGoogle keeps above 65 % search share according to comScore
Eweek.com did a report on the latest comScore search results for July. Microsoft’s share of the U.S. explicit core search market remained unchanged between June and July, according to new data from research firm comScore. Overall, Google Websites led in July with 65.1 percent of the U.S. market, a slight decrease from 65.5 percent in […]
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