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Google-Motorola Deal: Signaling “Free Phones”?

Rob D Young — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 01:23:03 +0000

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.

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Let’s Try to Find All 200 Parameters in Google Algorithm

+Ann Smarty — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:29:01 +0000

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 [...]

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The GPhone May Not be Such a Myth Afterall

Julie McCormick — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:23:49 +0000

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 [...]

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Yahoo Games: Google & AOL Partnerships to Increase Microsoft’s Offer?

Eric Lander, Associate Editor — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:27:05 +0000

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 [...]

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AdWords Automatic Matching – Lamborghini-Ad for: “reelect obama 2012″ Query, Right!

CarstenCumbrowski — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:23:55 +0000

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 [...]

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Yahoo Rumored To Announce Acquisition of Video Start-up Maven Networks

Julie McCormick — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:15:42 +0000

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 [...]

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Paid Reviews Examples by Matt Cutts and Paid Links

CarstenCumbrowski — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:23:45 +0000

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 [...]

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The Oracle of Mountain View

CarstenCumbrowski — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:27:31 +0000

The recent PageRank™ updates by Google stirred up quite some talk within and outside the search engine marketing industry and opened room for many more or less far-fetched speculations about what this could mean. There is in my opinion no need to panic just yet, but it also does not mean that you should do [...]

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SEO Bashing : First Pasternack then Calacanis and Now Scoble

CarstenCumbrowski — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:53:26 +0000

You can just sit there and wait and you can be sure that every now and then somebody will come along who has the urge to bash the whole SEO industry. First Mr. Pasternack who started a series of attacks against the industry last November to continue this year to go into round two and [...]

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Reign of Bread and Whip. The New Google Aristocracy II

CarstenCumbrowski — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:33:44 +0000

This is part two of the article: ”Reign of Bread and Whip. The New Google Aristocracy“. Now here is a misconception that I would like to correct. People that buy links do this to gain ranking for a term that is relevant for that page. Even links on sites about Linux that say “buy Viagra”, [...]

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