Google To Murdoch: Go Ahead & Block Us
Nov 9, 2009 at 2:17pm ET by Matt McGee
The long-running debate over Google and its impact on newspapers and journalism took another turn today when News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch said his company may makes its sites invisible to Google, and Google fired back by saying, in essence, bring it on.
It began with this interview on Australia's Sky News (which Murdoch owns), reported by the Australian site mUmBRELLA, in which Murdoch reiterated his belief that Google and other search engines "steal" their stories:
"The people who just simply pick up everything and run with it, and steal our stories. We say they steal our stories -- t [...]
Filed in: Google: Critics, Google: News, Top News
Google Acquires AdMob, Mobile Display Ad Company
Nov 9, 2009 at 12:28pm ET by Barry Schwartz
Google has acquired AdMob (www.admob.com), a popular mobile display ad company, for $750 million.
Google has already built their own platform for AdSense on Mobile devices, but this acquisition gives Google access to AdMob's more than 15,000 mobile Web sites and applications.
There are more details about this acquisition at google.com/press/admob.
Here is the email AdMob sent their publishers and advertisers:
Google to Acquire AdMob
November 2009
Today we announced that AdMob has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Google for $750 million. We are extremely excited about [...]
Filed in: Google: AdSense, Google: AdWords, Google: Business Issues, Google: Mobile, Top News
Google’s Home Page Promotes Motorola / Verizon Droid Phone
Nov 6, 2009 at 2:21pm ET by Matt McGee
Google really wants you to buy a Motorola Droid, the hot new phone that just hit stores today. In fact, Google is so enamored that it's advertising the Droid on its homepage: "The Droid is on sale now. Learn more."
Clicking the "learn more" link leads to this "mobile partners" page that touts the Google search capabilities available on the Droid.
The two links in the upper right -- the "Get" button and the "Learn more" text link below it -- point to verizonwireless.com and droiddoes.com, respectively.
It's hard to make the case that this isn't an ad on Google's home page, and [...]
Filed in: Google: Marketing, Google: Mobile, Google: Partnerships, Top News
Twitter Finally Begins Adding Search Relevancy Features
Nov 6, 2009 at 9:28am ET by Barry Schwartz
The Twitter Blog has a short blog post mentioning that they have added technology "to show higher quality results for trend queries by returning tweets that are more useful." Clearly, this is Twitter's first step in improving Twitter Search by adding relevancy and search quality factors to the search algorithm.
Currently, Twitter Search returns results based on keyword match and the most recent tweet. Trending Topics is the first of Twitter's search areas to get the relevancy filter, to reduce the "noise" that Twitter Search has. We knew Twitter was working on adding relevancy factors [...]
Search Month European Edition, October 2009
Nov 6, 2009 at 6:34am ET by Bas van den Beld
In Search Month European Edition we bring you a monthly update of European search news, with related links to full coverage. Here’s what happened in October.
Yandex and Google dominate in Russia. Numbers show the Russian search market is dominated by Yandex and Google. Both giants account for 96% of all search traffic in Russia in August 2009. Yandex takes the biggest share with 54,4% of all searches. To this number you can also add the 7,4% share Mail.ru takes because that is powered by Yandex. Google is the second largest search engine, still very much behind Yandex: 34,5%.
UK regula [...]
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