Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) plus Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT): already a partnership made in heaven for the two, especially through Bing’s social search features that make search a sharable, social networking experience. Now, this relationship is taken a step further, with news of a possible ad deal. Although the possible Atlas acquisition by Facebook is still in …
Yesterday on the Google Developers Blog, Editor Scott Knaster posted an article about a fascinating new Google Developers Live (GDL) learning tool for absorbing not only tech, but language too. While everyone knows about Google translate, the work being done in applying the technology is less visible to most of us. Check out the potential of …
If you haven’t already heard, Google’s Matt Cutts and Bing’s Duane Forrester recently did a SXSW session with Danny Sullivan where they addressed questions from the audience. About 1/3 of the way into the audio though, Matt let slip a comment about an upcoming rankings change designed to target “Over Optimization” in an attempt to …
Google’s recent acquisition of Motorola Mobility seemed like buying patent protection. However, some theorize that the hardware end of the spectrum is just as important. The purchase may give Google the ability to offer free or subsidized phones, and at the very least would allow a “Google” lineup of phone models.
I am sure Googlers should be enjoying this: hardly can they say a word, there follows a wealth of guessed and speculations. This time Matt Cutts is said to have mentioned that their 200 variables in Google algorithm and already plenty of people started looking for them. Anyway, I stumbled across this forum thread and …
Last year tech sites were abuzz with rumors of the mythical Gphone – a mobile phone created by Google. Nothing came of it, and Google eventually squashed the rumors by instead announcing their involvement in the Open Handset Alliance and Android, their open-source mobile phone operating system. But now, comments made by the Google co-founders …
A short while ago, Chris Winfield of 10e20 called my attention to a story published by Henry Blodget on Silicon Alley Insider. In the article, Blodget covers a possible partnership between Yahoo and AOL / Time Warner, and argues that such a partnership would help extract a higher bid from search rival Microsoft. Since Microsoft’s …
Google launched without making much public fuzz about it, the beta tests of a new feature for Google AdWords called “Automatic Matching”. Dan Thies over at SEO Fast Start broke this just over one week ago on February 22, 2008 and warned advertisers not to “fall for this” and disable this option (which gets obviously …
According to TechCrunch, they’ve been tipped off that Yahoo! will be making an announcement sometime in the next day or so that they’ve acquired a video start-up company for somewhere around the $100 million range. Companies such as MetaCafe and Brightcove were initially speculated to be the targets, however, as it turns out, the company …
Matt Cutts wrote two weeks ago at his blog a post about selling links that pass PageRank. I wanted to comment at his blog, but 500+ comments made me shy away from it and write a full post here at SearchEngineJournal.com instead. Matt presented a number of (allegedly) paid reviews/posts (there is no absolute proof …
