Dec 14, 2011 at 9:20am ET by Barry Schwartz

Glassdoor.com, a job and career web site, announced their annual best places to work in 2012 study. Facebook tops Google with the number 3 listing, whereas Google moved up for their 2011 spot of 30 to number 5. In 2010 Google was rated number 14, and in 2009 Google was rated number 7. Glassdoor.com developed a 20-question company survey that captures employees' attitudes about: Career Opportunities, Communication, Compensation & Benefits, Employee Morale, Recognition & Feedback, Senior Leadership, Work/Life Balance, and Fairness & Respect. This survey is what makes up the final score f [...]

Google Announces Shutter Of Knol, Gears, Search Timeline & More

Nov 23, 2011 at 10:21am ET by Barry Schwartz

Google has announced the shutting down of several Google services from the Google Search Timeline to their knowledge site, Knol. Here is a list of services Google is closing in the near future or has already closed: Google Bookmarks Lists closing on December 19, 2011, which leaves searchers with no way to recoup their Google starred results. Google Friend Connect is shutting down March 1, 2012 and sending people to Google +. Google Gears will lose all support on December 1, 2011 but Chrome now has offline support. Google Search Timeline is currently not working anymore. Google Wave [...]

Study: Bing More “Biased” Than Google; Google Not Behaving Anti-Competitively

Nov 3, 2011 at 10:00am ET by Chris Sherman

Does Google favor its own sites in search results, as many critics have claimed? Not necessarily. New research suggests claims that Google is "biased" are overblown, and that Google's primary competitor, Microsoft's Bing, may actually be serving Microsoft-related results "far more" often than Google links to its own services in search results. In an analysis of a large, random sample of search queries, the study from Josh Wright, Professor of Law and Economics at George Mason University, found that Bing generally favors Microsoft content more frequently, and far more prominently, than Googl [...]

“Grand Theft” Android: Jobs Bio Reveals Intense Anger At Google, But Didn’t Block Search Deals

Oct 20, 2011 at 10:16pm ET by Danny Sullivan

We already knew that Steve Jobs felt betrayed by Google's launch of Android but wow, was he really mad. But oddly, despite vowing nuclear war against Google, as his forthcoming bio reveals, he kept Google as the search default in Apple products. The AP obtained a copy of the authorized Jobs bio that comes out next week. In its story, the AP details tidbits of Jobs being so angered by Android: Jobs was livid in January 2010 when HTC introduced an Android phone that boasted many of the popular features of the iPhone. Apple sued, and Jobs told Isaacson [his biographer] in an expletive-laced r [...]

Related Topics: Apple | Channel: Mobile | Google: Business Issues | Top News

IRS To Audit Google For Offshore Money Practices

Oct 18, 2011 at 10:36am ET by Barry Schwartz

IRS Auditing How Google Shifted Profits from Bloomberg News reports Google is undergoing a an audit with "more than typical scrutiny." The audit is reportedly specifically about how Google shifts profits to offshore subsidiaries to possibly avoid taxes in the United States. The Internal Revenue Service, IRS, has requested additional information from Google, specifically on Google's offshore deals after three acquisitions, including YouTube. No one is estimating how much liability Google is at risk with this audit but other companies in this position were subject to "hundreds of mill [...]

Will Google See $6.25 Billion In Mobile Ad Revenue Next Year?

Oct 17, 2011 at 3:58pm ET by Greg Sterling

During the earnings call last week after Google announced massive quarterly revenues ($9.72 billion), CEO Larry Page casually dropped the following remark about the company's mobile business: "We're also seeing a huge positive revenue impact from mobile, which has grown 2.5x in the last 12 months to a run rate of over $2.5 billion." Claire Miller over at the New York Times asks, "Can Mobile Search Be as Big for Google as Desktop Search?" Not in the immediate future, but longer term who knows? If Google were to grow current mobile revenues by that same 2.5x annual rate again -- there [...]

Google Earnings: GOOG Made Nearly $10 Billion Revenue For Q3 2011, Nearly $3 Billion Net

Oct 13, 2011 at 4:11pm ET by Danny Sullivan

Google has announced its third quarter earnings, with revenue of $9.72 billion, up 33% from the previous year. GAAP Net income was $2.73 billion, compared to $2.17 billion for the quarter before. Google+ was said to have 40 million users now. Here are some highlights: Revenues – Google reported revenues of $9.72 billion in the third quarter of 2011, representing a 33% increase over third quarter 2010 revenues of $7.29 billion. Google reports its revenues, consistent with GAAP, on a gross basis without deducting TAC. Google Sites Revenues - Google-owned sites generated revenues of $6.74 b [...]

Related Topics: Channel: Industry | Google: Business Issues | Top News

Does The FairSearch White Paper On Google Being Anticompetitive Hold Up?

Oct 11, 2011 at 9:36pm ET by Danny Sullivan

FairSearch, a group of search companies including Microsoft which lobbies that Google is too dominant, has sent a white paper outlining its anti-trust concerns about Google to the 50 state attorneys general in the US. Below, a review and some fact checking of the paper. You'll find the paper here, if you wish to read it directly. I've had a run through today (it's long, 44 pages) and some email exchanges with FairSearch spokespeson Ben Hammer. Here's my take so far. Google & The Monopoly Question The first 10 pages are generally devoted to saying that search is important and that Goog [...]

98% Of Mozilla’s $121 Million In Revenue Comes From Search Royalties

Oct 11, 2011 at 9:39am ET by Barry Schwartz

Mozilla released its annual report (PDF) yesterday and reports came in that 98% of the foundation's revenue comes directly from search partners, including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. Mozilla said it earned $121.1 million in revenue in 2010, up 19.3% from 2009's $101.5 million. Even with the growth of Google Chrome, Mozilla increased revenues through this model in 2010; will it in 2011? Mozilla said: The majority of Mozilla's revenue continues to be generated from the search functionality included in our Mozilla's Firefox product through all major search partners including Google, Bing, [...]

Schmidt: Hard To Beat Facebook, If Playing Exactly The Same Game

Oct 6, 2011 at 12:34pm ET by Danny Sullivan

Can Google beat Facebook in social media? Not unless Google changes the game, says Google chairman Eric Schmidt. Schmidt's comments on Facebook, search rankings and a possible joke about a teenager civil rights act to protect them from social media discrimination came during an interview this week with PBS correspondent Gwen Ifill. Change The Social Game To Beat Facebook Ifill asked Schmidt if Google could "beat Facebook at its own game," getting this response: It's very hard to beat a fast-moving incumbent in exactly same game in technology because it changes so quickly. What you hav [...]

Larry Page: Biggest Threat To Google? “Google”

Sep 27, 2011 at 6:08pm ET by Danny Sullivan

It's the Google Zeitgeist conference, Google's big event for major partners and advertisers. Last session of the event? A talk with Google CEO Larry Page and chairman Eric Schmidt. Here's my live blog, ending with the Page's answer that Google has nothing to fear but Google itself. Larry says he hopes everyone is inspired by the past two days (that's part of what Zeitgeist is about, inspirational panels). Thanks audience for business and partnerships. Talking about autobiography he was given at 12 about Nicola Tesla. "I thought I wanted to be an inventor when I grew up." Tesla was like a [...]

How To Watch Today’s Google Hearing On The Web & Television

Sep 21, 2011 at 1:16pm ET by Gary Price

The Google hearing in Congress is less than an hour away. It's scheduled to begin at 2:00 pm Eastern. Here's a guide where to watch (and listen) on television and online. Television The hearing will air on C-SPAN3. It's available on some cable systems (incl. FiOS and AT&T Uverse) and on Dish Network (Channel 212). Web Your best bets are either the C-SPAN3 web stream or a stream direct from the Senate Judiciary Committee. C-SPAN's Capitol Hearings website is where you can find an audio feed of today's hearing. After the Hearing After the hearing ends (give them an hour) [...]

EU Signaling It May Tolerate Google’s “Dominance” Of Search

Sep 16, 2011 at 10:06am ET by Greg Sterling

For quite some time European regulators seemed eager to crack down on Google simply because it was too big, too powerful. But now they may be signaling that bigness by itself may be legally acceptable, so long as regulators don't find Google has "abused" that position. Yet abuse of Google's search dominance is precisely what is being alleged by Microsoft and other parties that have filed complaints in Europe. According to a report in Reuters, EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia implied that dominance without more could be tolerated: "Google is the browser of choice for very many of [...]

Google Korea Raided By Korean Fair Trade Commission

Sep 7, 2011 at 9:48am ET by Barry Schwartz

Korean trustbusters raid Google offices from CNet News reports the Korean Fair Trade Commission raided Google's Seoul, South Korea offices yesterday. The raid was reportedly part of an investigation around Android. The Korean Fair Trade Commission was investigating if the Android platform unfairly made it hard for rival search engines to be found and used within the Android mobile operating system. A Google spokesperson told CNet News: We will work with the KFTC to address any questions they may have about our business. Android is an open platform, and carrier and OEM partners are [...]

Google Adds 100+ Domains, Signals Plans For National Small Biz Push

Aug 25, 2011 at 3:23pm ET by Matt McGee

Google appears to be readying plans to roll out its "Get Your Business Online" program across the U.S. That's based on Mike Blumenthal's discovery that Google has recently added more than 100 domains to its portfolio, with URLs such as coloradogetonline.com, dakotagetonline.com, getoregononline.com, getpennsylvaniaonline.com, newyorkgetonline.com, northcarolinagetonline.com, ohiogetonline.com, etc. Get Your Business Online is Google's outreach program for small businesses. It offers them a free website, free hosting, domain name, a business listing on Google Places and additional mar [...]

US Senate Schedules Hearing On ‘The Power Of Google’

Jul 28, 2011 at 4:43pm ET by Matt McGee

A US Senate subcommittee will conduct a hearing in September on Google's search/business practices. The hearing, titled "The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition?," will take place on September 21, 2011, at 2:00 pm ET. It appears that a webcast will be available via the Senate Judiciary Committee's website. The witness list hasn't been posted there yet, but this is presumably the hearing at which Eric Schmidt has agreed to testify. Senator Herb Kohl, chairman of the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, will preside over the hea [...]

Google May Be Outgrowing Their Home In Mountain View

Jul 28, 2011 at 9:51am ET by Barry Schwartz

Google's Growth Unsettles Mountain View by the Wall Street Journal reports on the tension growing between Google and the city they have grown up in, Mountain View. As Google continues to grow and require more space, Mountain View needs to expand with them. City council member Laura Macias told the Wall Street Journal "we may not develop as much as Google wants." Mountain View is a region that has lots of greener, wildlife and is not city-like. Google is interested in building bridges, recreation facilities, corporate housing and more offices. This will result in high density pop [...]

Google Reaches Out To Texas Businesses With Free Websites, Marketing Help

Jul 20, 2011 at 3:24pm ET by Matt McGee

Google's latest effort to increase small business adoption of its products and services is a program called Texas Get Your Business Online that offers a free website, free hosting, domain name, a business listing on Google Places and additional marketing help. The effort is being accompanied by an aggressive promotion campaign, like the heavy and impossible-to-miss advertising on the Austin-American Stateman's website today. The free website and services are good for one year. After that, the website will cost $5 per month and the domain name $2 per month. Google reps have been in Au [...]

Google Kills The Quarter: $9 Billion In Revenue

Jul 14, 2011 at 4:56pm ET by Greg Sterling

Google had a huge Q2, with revenues of $9.03 billion -- a new record. This represents growth of 32% over 2010. Net income was $2.5 billion vs. $1.84 billion during the same period last year. Here are some more highlights from the release: Revenues – Google reported revenues of $9.03 billion in the second quarter of 2011, representing a 32% increase over second quarter 2010 revenues of $6.82 billion. Google Sites Revenues – Google-owned sites generated revenues of $6.23 billion, or 69% of total revenues, in the second quarter of 2011. This represents a [...]

French Company Seeks $421M From Google For “Blacklisting”

Jun 28, 2011 at 10:08am ET by Greg Sterling

Perhaps sensing "blood in the water," a French company called 1plusV has sued Google in the Paris Commercial Court for the equivalent of $421 million. (The civil complaint was orginally filed on February 22, 2011.) An operator of vertical search sites, 1plusV is the corporate parent of legal search engine Ejustice.fr, one of three companies (including Foundem and Microsoft-owned Ciao) that filed formal antitrust complaints against Google with European Commission last year. Those complaints led directly to the EC's decision to pursue an antitrust action against Google, which is now in proces [...]

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