Google CEO Eric Schmidt, with Alan Murray of the Wall Street Journal, said that Google‘s largest competitive threat is Bing. Surprisingly though, Facebook and Apple however aren’t the largest threats.
Google‘s main focus since day one has been on “search.” With the merging of Yahoo, Bing is the only real major search engine outside of Google now. Facebook and Apple, though, are seen by many as competitive in other, “less focused” aspects of Google.
Nothing that can be publicly available on the internet will be private for long. In the end information that can be used will be used, and not necessarily for the most noble purposes.
Case in point: Google, one of the largest internet companies in the world today, has a policy: “don’t be evil.” However, one of their (now former) engineers, 27 year old David Barksdale, repeatedly took advantage of his position as a member of an elite technical group at Google to access user accounts, violating the privacy of at least four minors during his employment.
After receiving a complaint from Canada’s Attorney-General, GoDaddy, one of the largest Website Domain and Web Hosting Agencies based in Arizona, has recently shut down an extremest website used by Salman Hossain of Mississauga, Ontario. Among other things, this website called for genocide of the Canadian Jewish community, the National Post reported earlier. How SEO [...]
Yahoo recently confirmed they are testing Bing powered results “offline,” which we have already known since July 17th. But today for the first time, Yahoo has confirmed they will test Bing powered results in the live search results. SearchEngineLand received an email which wrote: “Though much of our testing is already happening offline, this month [...]
It’s official: Google has signed agreed to a deal where it will acquire ITA, a Cambridge, Massachusetts -based airline travel reservations software company. According to Google‘s blog, Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Search Products & User Experience, has noted that as a result of almost half of travel tickets being sold online today, and with flight search rapidly [...]
We finally found a surprisingly clever way to get people to listen about the importance of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The below rap video sums up Search Engine Optimization in a nutshell. The rapper’s site is on http://theseorapper.com, and the site has some other intriguing SEO rap videos worth watching. Enjoy…
It’s official: Google, the search engine giant, has now added site speed as a factor in improving page rankings. Site speed measures how quickly a web page loads based on certain requests. Matt Cutts said last year that there was “strong lobbying” inside Google to account for site speed as a new ranking factor. While this was [...]
As of yesterday, popular domain registrant GoDaddy has announced before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China today in Washington that it will stop registering “.cn” (China) domain names in light of China’s new restrictions that require more personally identifiable information from registrants. A recent article explained that “.cn” registry CNNIC (China iNternet Network Information Center) announced, [...]
As of yesterday, popular domain registrant GoDaddy has announced before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China today in Washington that it will stop registering “.cn” (China) domain names in light of China’s new restrictions that require more personally identifiable information from registrants. A recent article explained that “.cn” registry CNNIC (China iNternet Network Information Center) announced, [...]
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