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Apr. 22, 2008 at 9:55am by Greg Sterling
Google Yet To Make Headway On Cookies Pledge In Privacy Debate
Google and the other major search engines have all been criticized in both the US and Europe over privacy issues and consumer data retention. More generally, there's an intensifying debate about behavioral ad targeting and privacy occurring on both sides of the Atlantic. The European authorities have been considerably more...
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Apr. 8, 2008 at 3:17pm by Greg Sterling
Google Rolls Out Chicago Transit, Defends Water Naming Policy In Earth
Google announced that it had expanded Google Transit to cover Chicago, the second largest public transit system in the US. That brings to 37 the number of cities in the US and abroad offered on Google Transit....
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Apr. 2, 2008 at 5:22pm by Danny Sullivan
Google Selling Performics -- Thanks, Google!
Last month, I did an open letter to Google wishing they'd quickly sell off Performics, to avoid the conflict of having a search marketing firm that works to improve results on Google's own search engine. Well, thank you Google! They've acted far more quickly than I would have hoped for,...
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Mar. 12, 2008 at 7:45am by Danny Sullivan
Open Letter To Google: Do The Right Thing, Divest Yourself Of Performics
At long last, Google owns DoubleClick. In doing so, the company has done something else that many people would have never believed possible. Become an SEO. That's right -- Google's in the SEO business now, selling services through DoubleClick's Performics to people who want to rank well on -- um...
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Mar. 10, 2008 at 9:24am by Greg Sterling
Google Pitches Media Buying "Dashboard" To Skeptical Ad Agencies
Many people think that Google is a search engine. That's true, but it's only part of a much larger story that Google is developing. Indeed, the company increasingly sees itself as a diversified media buying platform. Already print newspaper ad buying, radio and TV are integrated, to varying degrees, into...
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Mar. 4, 2008 at 8:42am by Barry Schwartz
Google: Not American's Most Admired Company (But Almost)
FORTUNE magazine released its America's Most Admired Companies of 2008 list, and guess what? Google was not rated number one. Hard to believe? Well, they did make number four. Apple took the top position, which doesn't surprise me since everyone I know is buying Macs, even oureditor-in-chief, Danny. Google ranked...
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Feb. 11, 2008 at 10:13am by Danny Sullivan
Google: We Didn't Censor Aboutrika's Gaza T-Shirt Photo
Google's Matt Cutts has lent his personal blog to the Google Images search team so they could debunk a rumor that Google censored an image of an Egyptian football player, Mohammad Aboutrika, stripping off his team jersey during the African Cup Of Nations to show a "Sympathize With Gaza" T-shirt...
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Feb. 4, 2008 at 6:26am by Danny Sullivan
Google Objects To Microsoft & Yahoo Wedding; Microsoft Responds -- Irony All Around
Not surprisingly, Google's not happy about Microsoft's overture to buy Yahoo. The company has blogged an official statement suggesting that the move will hurt what it calls the underlying principles of the internet: "openness and innovation." Microsoft responds to say it is open and that only the shotgun marriage...
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Jan. 21, 2008 at 11:09am by Greg Sterling
Google-DoubleClick Drama Moves To European Stage
Much of the discussion and debate in the U.S. over Google's proposed acquisition of DoubleClick was about the impact of the deal on consumer privacy, even though that wasn't technically part of the anti-trust analysis before the FTC. Accordingly, the FTC approved the acquisition with one commissioner dissenting largely on...
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Jan. 10, 2008 at 8:03am by Greg Sterling
Google Maps Gaining On Market Leader Mapquest
Mapquest arguably "owns" the mapping brand online. It has been the dominant mapping site for years by a wide margin. But that dominance may now be slipping under pressure from Google. Hitwise reports that "traffic to Mapquest has remained flat year on year and is down 20% in the past...
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Dec. 30, 2007 at 9:53am by Danny Sullivan
Deconstructing Google: Chapter 4, After The Google Breakup
Previous chapters have covered how the growth of Google and fears of how it was reshaping the communication landscape led to the application of existing anti-trust laws along with new ones to force a Google breakup in 2010. This chapter looks at the immediate aftermath: the "Baby Googles" or "Googlets"...
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Dec. 13, 2007 at 10:10am by Greg Sterling
Google And DoubleClick: The Saga Continues
The relevant issues swirling around the pending acquisition of DoubleClick by Google are little understood by the public, pundits, and even, it would seem, by Congress and the regulators charged with approving or disapproving the deal. Danny has written at length about the competitive implications of the deal. But privacy...
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Dec. 4, 2007 at 8:45am by Greg Sterling
Google Scores Poorly In International "Accountability" Report
The UK-based One World Trust issued a report ranking government organizations, civil groups, and private corporations in terms of their public "accountability" and "transparency." The report's findings are covered in The Register and Financial Times. The best performer in the report, the United Nations Development Programme, scored an 88 out...
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Nov. 27, 2007 at 10:08am by Greg Sterling
More Google Book Scanning Controversy
The Google Book Scanning project has been controversial from the start. There are a number of competitive efforts, including from Microsoft and the Yahoo-supported Open Content Alliance, which appear to replicate the competition among these companies in other areas online. Now Ars Technica explores a new phase of the debate...
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Nov. 20, 2007 at 10:00am by Danny Sullivan
Open Letter To Senators Hatch & Kohl About Google-DoubleClick
Today, US senators Herb Kohl and Orrin Hatch published a letter (PDF) urging the US Federal Trade Commission to carefully consider the proposed Google-DoubleClick deal. Sure, who doesn't agree with a careful review? But sadly, the letter gets a lot of things wrong, which is alarming coming out of the...
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Nov. 16, 2007 at 9:39am by Barry Schwartz
Google To Defend Against "Selling Top Spot" In June 2008
Australian court sets June date for Google case from Reuters updates us on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) suit against Google. The Australian watchdog sued Google over deceptive search ads back in July of this year. They then went to court to have their case adjourned to October...
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Nov. 7, 2007 at 9:08am by Greg Sterling
Newspaper Editor: Google Is 'Hugely Dangerous'
An editor at the UK's Times Online repeated to a newspaper conference the oft-told theme: Google was 'hugely dangerous' to the newspaper industry. She was apparently using Google as a bit of a stand-in for the Internet as a whole and its impact on the industry. Newspapers in Europe have...
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Nov. 6, 2007 at 10:24am by Danny Sullivan
Google: As Open As It Wants To Be (i.e., When It's Convenient)
In two weeks, we've had two "open" initiatives from Google: OpenSocial, to free social networking data from behind the Facebook walled garden and the Open Handset Alliance, to free cell phones from a myriad of complicated mobile OS platforms and carriers who want to restrict features. I've seen some people...
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Jul. 27, 2007 at 8:48am by Barry Schwartz
"Google Promotion" Box Found On Google Product Search
Philipp Lenssen reported that Google is now using the Google Promotion label within Google Product Search results, for a promotion of the Google Checkout service above listings. Ionut Alex. Chitu saw this for a product search on watch and sent Philipp a screen capture. I don't see the promotion box...
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Jul. 25, 2007 at 9:21am by Greg Sterling
UK Survey Shows Public Expects Google To Remain Search Leader
An online survey of approximately 1,100 people in the UK commissioned by bigmouthmedia found that 61% of respondents believed that Google would still be the leading search engine in five years. When asked "Do you want Google to be the leading search engine in five years time?" the response was...
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Jul. 19, 2007 at 11:12am by Greg Sterling
EU May Require Google To Expire Cookies Even Sooner
News.com reports on a positive but cautious response from the European Union to Google's previous announcement that it would reduce its data/cookie retention time to two years. A prominent member of the EU's Article 29 Data Protection Working Party told ZDNet that there would be discussion regarding whether Google had...
