Google: Business Issues
What would it take for new search engines to succeed?
Neeva and You.com seek to pick up segments of users overlooked by Google, and with shifting user preferences and increased governmental...
New EU regulations compel more transparency for search rankings
Guidelines seek disclosure of major ranking factors by Google, Amazon....
COVID helped drive record ad revenue for big tech in Q3
Facebook, Google and Amazon all reported significant revenue growth during, and partly because of, the...
DuckDuckGo: Google’s mobile share would drop 20% with new search choice screen
The finding was based on user testing and an eye tracking study....
Top EU court blows up data transfer agreement relied on by Google, Facebook, Amazon
Privacy Shield is dead, what now for U.S. brands and marketers doing business in the European...
Google to see first U.S. revenue decline, including paid search, says forecaster
Google is predicted to see a 7% drop in paid-search revenue, driven primarily by a loss of travel ad spending....
Former Google ad boss Ramaswamy to launch new search engine Neeva
Neeva will be subscription based and won't have advertising....
Google Q1 earnings offer hope ad slump won’t be as bad as some expect
Despite 'significant slowdown' in March, Google still managed to post 13% overall revenue growth....
Google co-founders step down, Sundar Pichai to lead both Google and Alphabet
Page and Brin will remain as board members....
Video: Rand Fishkin on Google’s anti-competitive practices and more
In part two of this interview, we get down to business and talk about is Google being...
Google lets users delete search data & control ad settings from Google Search page
Users no longer have to go to their Google Account page to access privacy controls....
Google’s political ad transparency report & library offers more accountability around election ads
Announced in May, Google's political ad transparency report and the accompanying political ad library are now available....
How to prioritize SEO tasks by impact
How do you know if the SEO and content changes you're making will benefit your site? Contributor Casie Gillette looks at ways to prioritize...
How social networks usurp Google’s local search dominance
Google may dominate most results, but not local search. Contributor Wesley Young looks at how Facebook and other social networks take a...
Google axes political ads in Washington state, LinkedIn does it globally
New campaign finance rules require near real-time disclosure of data....
Report: EU about to fine Google billions in Android antitrust case
The first antitrust fine was roughly $2.8 billion; this one could be larger....
IAB: Search, the largest category of digital ad spending, generated $40.6B in 2017
Mobile was responsible for 54 percent of paid-search ad revenue last year....
Google posts $31.1B in total revenue, beats top- and bottom-line expectations
The company reported nearly $27 billion in ad...
Updated: Google’s Ben Gomes expands role to head all of search as John Giannandrea moves to Apple to head AI
Role previously held by John Giannandrea to be split between Jeff Dean and Ben...
Europeans again raise the specter of breaking up Google
More of a bargaining position, it's extremely unlikely to actually happen....