Archive for April, 2008
Google Launches Image Ads
Google, debatably, has the world’s main networked computer and thereby a capability to crunch a lot more data than most. Now, a piece of that horsepower is going to be applied to a more sophisticated image search algorithm.
Google: SEO could help discourage spammers
“Websites should enlist the help of search engine optimization (SEO) companies in their spam drop strategies”, a Google expert in the subject matter has claimed. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo in
Additional Proxy Material Available – Google
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) recently announced that additional proxy materials are now accessible for its stockholders in association with the 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held next Thursday that would be May 8, 2008. The additional proxy materials could be obtained at the following websites: www.sec.gov, http://investor.google.com/proxy.html, http://www.proxyvote.com/ (beneficial stockholders) and http://www.envisionreports.com/goog (only for registered stockholders). About Google Inc. Google’s ground-breaking search technologies thrive hard to connect millions of people across the globe with information every day. Google’s targeted advertising program offers businesses of all sizes with assessable results, while improving the on the whole web experience for users.
Microsoft/Yahoo cut-off date passes with No Pact
Yahoo failed to agree to an acquirement pact with Microsoft last Saturday, the deadline Microsoft had set for taking up such negotiations. Now Microsoft should decide whether to follow a hostile conquest via a proxy fight or to drop the bid and look for other acquirement alternatives.
Google faces another Lawsuit for "Unwanted Ads"
Lawyers representing an American private detective now claim hundreds of thousands of companies, which registered to advertise on Google, may have been hoodwinked into paying for unwanted ads. The private detective has further opened a legal action against the search engine giant, and his attorneys desires the proceedings to become a class action that could price the company millions of dollars if he becomes successful.
What is Yahoo gonna decide?
Yahoo! is soon going to disclose its first quarter profits that might show some financial constancy, which could advantage its situation, while Microsoft’s results are due out on coming Thursday. Of late, Yahoo! has exposed that it is testing an advertising sales contract with Google in an offer to deter antagonistic takeover by Microsoft. It is running an experiment of Google’s Adsense for search service that would deliver pertinent Google ads next to Yahoo!’s search results.
Google Remain No.1 Brand in the World
The search engine’s marque is merit more than $86.1 billion ($94 billion), up 30% on preceding year, according to the Brandz list from Millward Brown Optimor published yesterday that calculates the amount of sales determined by brand. Google, proprietor of the most well-liked search engine, topped the third annual ranking from Millward Brown that surveyed more than 1 million consumers about 50,000 brands.
Google’s iGoogle Expands
The new iGoogle would yet let people add the same gadgets they used to earlier, but it’s absolutely more geared toward ones, which use the fresh Open Social API. The sandbox border has two novel items — a sidebar, and an “update” list that lets you see what your friends are up to. Sound familiar? That’s right; it’s on the whole Google’s completion of the popular News Feed on Facebook.
Google exceeds its First Quarter expectations
“This is mostly a relief rally,” said Stanford Group analyst Clayton Moran. “People are relieved that things aren’t as bad as they thought.” Google’s worldwide appeal pushed the Mountain View-based company for more than half of its revenue that came from outside the United States for the first time in its nine-and-a-half-year history.
YouTube’s Geotagging now with Google Maps
