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May. 5, 2008 at 11:10am by Greg Sterling
Changes To Google UK Trademark Policy May Result In Lawsuits
In the US marketers may use competitors' trademarks as keywords, so long as they don't appear in the ad text itself. Previously Google used a more restrictive policy in the UK, not allowing use of competitors' trademarks at all. Last month the company changed its UK rules to conform to...
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Apr. 24, 2008 at 8:45am by Barry Schwartz
Google Finally Hands Over Alleged Pedophiles' Profiles On Orkut To Brazilian Authorities
Google hands over data on suspected pedophiles to Brazil via the AFP reports Google has finally handed over profiles of suspected pedophiles to Brazilian authorities. As expected, Google did hand over 3,261 files with information about alleged pedophilia activities in Google's Orkut communities. A member of the senate commission, Demostenes...
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Apr. 22, 2008 at 9:40am by Greg Sterling
Google StreetView Sees Expansion In Europe, With Automation Of 3D
CNet speculates about expanded Google StreetView coverage in Europe and the coming automation of 3D mapping for Google Earth and, perhaps, the desktop. Google's StreetView project is definitely global and there have been sightings of the camera-equipped vehicles throughout Europe. It's thus only a matter of time before the major...
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Apr. 21, 2008 at 8:58am by Greg Sterling
China Now Number One Internet Market, Surpassing US
The Chinese Internet has surpassed the US in terms of overall users. According to BDA China (reported in USAToday), there are more than 220 million Chinese Internet users (17 percent of the population) compared with 216 in the US (71 percent). This is simply a function of the huge scale...
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Apr. 18, 2008 at 10:50am by Greg Sterling
Google Poised To Become Top UK Marketing Vehicle, New Report Shows Breakdown Of UK Search Spend
In its Q1 earnings report yesterday, Google announced that UK revenues were $803 million (£407 million), which was part of overall revenues from outside the US of $2.65 billion or 51% of Q1 total revenues for Google. These figures prompted an item on a BBC blog to project that Google...
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Apr. 15, 2008 at 9:04am by Barry Schwartz
Google Wants To Be Market Leader In China Within Five Years
Google Seeks a Leading Role in China from the Wall Street Journal reports that Google China's president, Kai-Fu Lee, wants Google to be a market leader in China in five years. Kai-Fu Lee said, "Certainly, we would like to aspire to be a market leader in five years." His plans...
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Apr. 4, 2008 at 8:34am by Barry Schwartz
Google To Allow Bidding On Keyword Trademarks In UK
The UK PPC Blog tipped me off to Google announcing that the UK AdWords trademark policy has been changed to work like the US AdWords trademark policy. What this means is that UK advertisers can now bid on trademark terms. Earlier, those trademarked terms were blocked from bidding on within...
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Mar. 19, 2008 at 11:53am by Barry Schwartz
Google Japan Adds Tabs In New Design
Google Blogoscoped reports Google Japan has a new design being pushed out to their users. The new design can be seen at this IP location and contains tab links to other Google properties. Here is a screen capture of the new design:...
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Mar. 11, 2008 at 10:27am by Barry Schwartz
EU Approves Google-DoubleClick Acquisition
The European Commission has approved the Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, valued at $3.1 billion. The EU started their investigation in November 2007. The commission found that the "transaction would be unlikely to have harmful effects on consumers, either in ad serving or in intermediation in online advertising markets."...
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Feb. 26, 2008 at 10:02am by Greg Sterling
Google Joins "Unity" Undersea Cable Consortium For More Transpacific Bandwidth
Google has joined a consortium of Asian companies, Bharti Airtel, Global Transit, KDDI Corporation, Pacnet, and SingTel, to build an undersea transpacific fiber optic cable that will provide much greater bandwidth capacity between the United States and Japan. According to the press release, the cost of the new "Unity" cable...
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Feb. 6, 2008 at 8:10am by Greg Sterling
Google Hiring In Africa
Google is reportedly starting to bulk up a bit in Africa. The company is doing some new hiring in its Nairobi, Kenya African headquarters and opening new offices in several countries. International revenues represented 48 percent of Google's earnings in Q4 2007....
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Feb. 6, 2008 at 8:03am by Danny Sullivan
Google To Fight Baidu In China With Legal Music Downloads?
One of the key weaknesses Google has seemed to face in growing market share in China has been the fact that many people turn to Baidu to download music. Now the company may be fixing this, reports the Wall Street Journal:...
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Jan. 23, 2008 at 8:53am by Barry Schwartz
South Korea To Google: Return Our Cities From North Korea
Google Under Fire for Flawed Korea Maps from the Digital Chosunilbo reports Google has labeled some of the regions in South Korea as being part of North Korea. Specifically, the city of Incheon and some islands in Ongjin County such as Baegryeong-do, Daecheong-do, and Socheong-do are labeled to be in...
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Jan. 4, 2008 at 8:38am by Greg Sterling
What Time Is It? Don't Check Google (At Least In Argentina)
This Flickr screen capture alerted us to the fact that Google hasn't yet accounted for daylight savings time in Buenos Aires, which began at midnight on December 30. Denizens of the capital of Argentina set their clocks forward but Google neglected to. Apparently the time is still off by an...
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Dec. 18, 2007 at 9:39am by Greg Sterling
Privacy Emerges As Major US, EU Issue In DoubleClick Acquistion Review
Despite the fact that regulators are supposed to scrutinize the potential anti-competitive dimensions of the pending acquisition of DoubleClick by Google, privacy has sneaked into the debate as a major issue on both sides of the Atlantic. It almost threatens to overshadow the antitrust considerations, which are the heart and...
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Dec. 11, 2007 at 9:32am by Greg Sterling
Canadian ISP Modifies Google Homepage, Raises Spectre Of Net Neutrality Again
The net neutrality debate has recently been revived by allegedly fraudulent activity by Comcast in restricting or trying to prevent use of heavy bandwidth sites like BitTorrent. (Here's a PDF of a lawsuit complaint). Now Canadian ISP Rogers has been accused of hijacking Google's homepage to send bandwidth-related usage information...
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Dec. 11, 2007 at 8:57am by Barry Schwartz
Google Launches Navigational Links Worldwide
Google's Navigational Bar Goes International reports Google has launched the navigational links interface that was launched in the US in mid-May, worldwide. Each country may have the navigational links in a different order and different options. For example, while one country may have a link for Orkut, another country may...
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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. 6, 2007 at 8:29am by Barry Schwartz
iGoogle Gets New Themes; Google China Gets New Home Page
Google has added five new themes to iGoogle. Google Blogoscoped and Google Operating System both have posts on the new themes, which include a Solar System theme, an Autumn theme, a Hong Kong theme, a JR The Monster theme, and an Aja Tiger theme. Google China is also testing out...
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Nov. 5, 2007 at 8:49am by Barry Schwartz
Google Releases G.cn For Chinese Users
Google China: What's Up G? from China Tech News reports that Google has launched their new domain in Google, G.cn. The domain name redirects to Google.cn, but is considered one of the "most important steps that Google has taken for localization in China," according to China Tech News. Google currently...
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Oct. 25, 2007 at 9:07am by Barry Schwartz
Google To Re-Design Products For Chinese Users
Google to focus on mobile Internet in China from Reuters reports that Google China will be re-designing their products for the Chinese user base. Lee Kai-fu, Google Inc's president for greater China, said: These mobile users have very different usage patterns from the American users. Most Chinese users who touch...
