Topic: San Francisco Chronicle

Searcharazzi Saturday Spectacular: The Larry Page Wedding Details

Now that the “who attended which conference this week” gossip chatter is over, we have a bigger question: Who is attending Larry Page’s wedding today? As previously reported, Larry is getting married today, and Searcharazzi is reporting to you live from an undisclosed location at the island location, if only in our minds. In any […]

Live Blogging: SMX Social Media – Social Media Marketing Essentials

I’m live blogging Search Marketing Expo Social Media. I see that Kim Krause Berg is also live blogging this session for Search Engine Roundtable, so now I feel all this competition with her. (Eric Lander at Search Engine Journal also live blogged it, as did aimClear Blog, so the competition is really heating up now.) […]

Your Guide To The Google Jet

It’s now confirmed that NASA has granted Google’s cofounders landing rights for their private jet at Moffett Field. That’s a NASA-run airport practically next door to Google, now making the founders the envy of other Silicon Valley execs who could only dream of the same. With the news out, it seemed a good time to […]

Google Jet Lands At NASA’s Moffett Field

Valleywag reported that the Google Jet was spotted on the tarmac at Moffett Field, which is operated by NASA. Moffett is a very convenient location for jet owners Larry Page and Sergey Brin to land at, since it is the closest runway to Google’s headquarters. Can we expect the Google cofounders land their private jet […]

Privacy Group Amends FTC Complaint Over Google/DoubleClick Acquisition

Groups want limits on Google from the San Francisco Chronicle reports that privacy groups have amended their complaint with the Federal Trade Commission over the Google & DoubleClick acquisition. The amendment (PDF format) requests that Google first obtain permission from their users before collecting any information about them. In addition, the privacy group would like […]

Revealing The Sources Of Google News

American journalists and news reporters never reveal their sources. Google News follows suit, nowhere providing a list of the more than 4,500 English language news sources it claims to track. However, Henk van Ess, an investigative journalist from the Netherlands, offers a service that reveals the names of 1,256 news sources used by Google News […]

Google Passes Microsoft For Most Visited Site In The World

Google surpasses Microsoft as world’s most-visited site from the San Francisco Chronicle reports that Google is now more popular than Microsoft, in terms of worldwide visits. According to comScore, Google had a million visitors more than Microsoft in March 2007. Google had 528 million unique visitors, while Microsoft had 527 million visitors in March. Not […]

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Yahoo Announces Evolution Of Newspaper Consortium With Search Distribution

Yahoo has expanded its newspaper partnerships to 12 newspaper publishing companies, with 264 newspapers across 44 states. Out of mutual necessity, the relationship originally coalesced last November around a partnership with Yahoo HotJobs, but there was clear expansion potential. Yahoo now becomes the exclusive paid-search provider to the participating papers, and both sides will apparently […]

Search Engine Land: Top Stories & Stats, Jan. 9, 2007

Earlier I did a review of traffic stats for Search Engine Land in December 2006. Today, I’m looking at what happened on the site yesterday, in terms of most popular stories. I can’t promise to do this every day. But doing a daily stats review is part of my regular routine, and it helps me […]

Of Disappearing Sex Blogs & Google Updates

Last week, Barry Schwartz reported there seemed to be a Google update going, based on forum activity he was seeing. Google’s Matt Cutts quickly followed up with a short refresher on the difference between algorithm updates, data refreshes and index updates. The purpose was to explain that any changes some people were seeing were likely […]