This day in search marketing history: February 3
How Google uses AI in search, plus: an unconfirmed Google algorithm update, Amit Singhal leaving Google, bad ads and more.
Topic: Alan Eustace
After Nine Years, Google’s Udi Manber Moves On
Executive had been at Amazon and Yahoo before Google.
SearchCap: Google Bad Ads, Google Mortgage Calculator & Google VP Leaves
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google’s Senior VP Of Knowledge, Alan Eustace, To Retire Google loses another senior vice president and world record holder, Alan Eustace. Free Trip To SMX – Win The Biggest Search Geek […]
Google’s Senior VP Of Knowledge, Alan Eustace, To Retire
Google loses another senior vice president and world record holder, Alan Eustace.
DeepMind Buy Another Google “Moonshot” Of Sorts
Re/code offers some additional insight into the $400+ million acquisition of artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepMind that was reported last week. The people at DeepMind will apparently work with the search team at Google but not exclusively: Or as search is known at Google today, the “Knowledge” group, so-called because it no longer just finds […]
Google, Mozilla Renew Firefox Search Deal For 3 More Years
Google and Mozilla have struck a deal that renews their agreement making Google the default search engine in Firefox browsers. No financial terms were announced, but Mozilla’s blog post says the agreement extends the companies’ agreement “for at least three additional years.” The renewal comes about three weeks after the previous contract expired. The two […]
Live Blog: Google Unveils Voice Search & Search By Image For Desktop, “Google Instant Pages”
Everyone ready? Because the big day has arrived! Google’s “Inside Search” event begins today at 9:30am Pacific Time. OK, reset your expectations. It might not be that big. But I’ll be live blogging it, so stay tuned. The event was only announced a few days ago, and it’s anyone’s guess as to what’s happening. I’m […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 4, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: New Google Analytics Feature: Load Time Measurement Since the beginning of last year, Google Analytics has been pushing a faster load time by pushing the new asynchronous tracking code to being […]
“Knowledge” Replaces “Search” For Google
Google’s no longer in the “search” business — it’s now in the “knowledge” business. OK, not exactly. TechCrunch points to a April 11, 2011 SEC filing that discloses a job-title change for Alan Eustace, Google’s Senior Vice President, Engineering & Research. He has become Google’s Senior Vice President, Knowledge. It was widely believed that Eustace was […]
Google’s Executive Reorg: Does It Matter?
As we and others reported yesterday, Google CEO Larry Page is shuffling the deck with his executive team, with a reassertion of engineering across the board it appears. Here’s the Google roster of top executives as it still reads on the site: Larry Page, CEO Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman Sergey Brin, Co-Founder Nikesh Arora, Senior […]
Reports: Google CEO Page Ties Bonuses To Social Success, Reorganizes Google Mgmt. Team
2011 bonuses for Google employees are reportedly being tied to how well the company fares in its efforts to integrate social elements across Google products. That’s according to two reports from Silicon Alley Insider — reports that say the news first spread in a company-wide memo last Friday from co-founder (and now new CEO) Larry […]
Google’s Top Paid Bonuses For Executives Of 2011
Business Insider reports on a recent Google SEC filing showing the top bonuses paid to Google executives in early 2011. The top bonuses do not list Google’s co-founders or current CEO, but here is what they do list. Nikesh Arora, chief business officer: $20 million in stock and $2.7 million cash. Patrick Pichette, CFO: $15 […]
Google To Hire 6,000 Plus, While Yahoo Cuts Additional 1%
Google announced they are hiring. Last year they hired about 4,500 new Googlers. This year they are expected to hire over 6,000 new employees, according to the Mercury News. Eric Schmidt, Google’s current CEO, said 1,000 will be hired in Europe. Google’s latest earnings report had Google’s headcount at 24,400 full-time employees as of December […]
Google’s $100 Million Gift To Outgoing CEO: Unusual
On Friday Bloomberg reported that outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt (now “executive chairman”) was receiving a “$100 million equity award” from Google. According to executive compensation experts quoted by the Wall Street Journal it’s “unusual” for a sitting CEO to receive such a big award. However is a larger version of equity awards given to other […]
Google Execs Get Millions In Equity Awards For 2011; Brin, Page, Schmidt Keep $1 Salary
Four of Google’s highest-ranking executives will soon pick up equity awards valued at more than $50 million total, as well as 30% pay raises for 2011. Co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, along with CEO Eric Schmidt, will continue to collect $1 salaries, as they’ve been doing for many years. According to a new SEC […]
Google Appoints Privacy Director & Adds New Privacy Measures
Google has announced they have increased their privacy controls within Google to better secure user privacy. Google has done this in response to them collecting data over wifi via their street view cars. Google has added three broad changes to help secure private data going forward: (1) They appointed a director of privacy, Alma Whitten […]
Search Biz: Google News Courting Legal Trouble?, Bold Predictions About Behavioral Ad Targeting & More
Will the recent introduction of paid ads on Google News lead to legal issues for Google? That question is discussed today on ClickZ, where Sandra Baron of the Media Law Resource Center says publishers will be looking at what Google is doing: “A significant issue for content providers is whether or not what Google provides […]
Megachart & Analysis: Google Executive Management Changes, 2000-2008
With two high-ranking Google executives leaving the Big G within a month’s time, I thought it would be interesting to go back through Google’s executive management page over the years and see how it reflects changes among the higher-ups. Below, there are a series of tables and commentary that hopefully let you understand the shifting […]
Google Founders Take $1 Salaries Again; Tell Investors To Say No On Anti-Censorship Proposal
Google founders: $1 salaries, $13B in stock from CNN Money reports Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, along with CEO Eric Schmidt, renewed their contracts again at a $1 per year salary, in 2007. You would think that with the falling stock price, the founders might want some extra cash? But the $8.5 billion […]
Google Seattle Celebrates A Birthday And Opens A New Office
Steve Yegge, an engineer at the Google Kirkland office, recently posted to the Google blog about the Kirkland office’s third birthday. He also announced the opening of an engineering office in Fremont. Both locations are in the Seattle area — Fremont is just north of downtown and Kirkland is across the floating bridge on the […]