Google Web History now shows you where you've surfed, if you have the right things enabled in the Google Toolbar. Cool or not? Google's revenues are up, as are payments to Google's network partners. Is Google fighting a losing war against paid links? Nine reasons to attend Danny's upcoming SMX Advanced conference in Seattle. Stephen Colbert is the greatest living American. So says Google, thanks to a new Googlebomb. And more in today's episode. UPDATED TO FIX PROBLEM WITH FILE.
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- Google Search
History Expands, Becomes Web History
Google's Search History feature, which was switched on as a default option for many Google searchers in February, has now been renamed Web History to reflect how it has expanded to track what Google users do as they surf the web. It's a huge move for Google and raises anew... - DaveN Hates Google .. Not, Dave Naylor
- Google's Q1
2007 Profit & Revenue Rises Over 60%
Google announced first quarter earnings for 2007 showed revenues of $3.66 billion, an increase of 63% compared to the first quarter of 2006 -- and an increase in profits of 69%. You can see the financial tables for the first quarter of 2007, plus the earnings call is archived, and... - Google rises at Yahoo's expense, News.com
- Lower taxes loom large in Google earnings surprise, Reuters
- Google AdSense (Publisher) Revenue Share Highest Ever - Maybe, Search Engine Roundtable
- Complaint Over
Google-DoubleClick Acqusition Expected To Be Filed At FTC Today
Google draws privacy complaint to FTC from News.com reports three organizations are going to file a joint complaint today with the Federal Trade Commission over Google's proposed acquisition of DoubleClick. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), along with the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and the U.S. Public Interest Research... - Battelle Chats
With Microsoft's General Counsel On Google/DoubleClick Antitrust Allegations
News Analysis: Microsoft General Counsel on DoubleClick and Antitrust from John Battelle documents some of his conversation with Microsoft's general counsel Brad Smith today.... - Performics:
"Business As Usual," Despite Google's Planned Purchase
Many have wondered if it's a conflict for Google to keep the search marketing-focused Performics division of DoubleClick as part of Google's planned DoubleClick acquisition, since it would seem odd for Google to own a firm with an interest in helping people rank well on Google. Kris Jones of Pepperjam... - Google Ranked
"Most Powerful Brand" By BRANDZ
Gary Price reports that Millward Brown Optimor's BRANDZ Top 100 has ranked Google the most powerful brand. The top 10 global brands are:... - Google
Security: Google Mac Blog Hacked & Google Calendar Users Not Being Safe
The Google Mac Blog was hacked this weekend, at least the second time an official Google blog has been hacked. It was restored fairly quickly. In somewhat related news, Chris Pirillo noticed Google Calendar users storing their private passwords in their public calendars.... - Click Fraud On
The Rise, Says Click Forensics
Click Forensics, the company that maintains the Click Fraud Index, a network that monitors and reports on data gathered from more than 3,500 online advertisers and their agencies, has released its most recent quarterly report on click fraud. The company found that the overall industry average click fraud rate was... - SES NY: Click
Fraud Remains A Contentious Issue
Yesterday, Click Forenics released its quarterly Click Fraud Index showing a purported increase in click fraud from 14.2 percent in Q4 '06 to 14.8 percent in Q1. By contrast, Google argues that "click fraud" constitutes less than 0.02 percent of all clicks. Chris Sherman earlier summarized the Click Forensics findings.... - Utah Search Law Could Aid State's Auto Dealers and Pharma Brands, ClickZ
- Time For
Google To Give Up The Fight Against Paid Links?
The Paid Links Economy from Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped is a nice, thoughtful follow-up to last week's paid links debate that erupted after Google's Matt Cutts featured a new way to report paid links. There's plenty of the history of link buying and assorted comments, though Philipp's article doesn't... - New SEO Tools:
Robots.txt Builder, Term Targeting & Crawl Test
Three new SEO tools came out this week that are worth a look. Dave Naylor released a robots.txt builder tool, while SEOmoz released term targeting and crawl test tools. Some more about the tools, below:... - Google To
Integrate News With Web Search Results
Soon, Google will quietly begin changing the way it blends news results and standard web search results, co-mingling links to news sources and web pages if your search terms are relevant to current news events. The new format will replace OneBox news links that have normally appeared at the top... - Google Earth
Gets Darfur Crisis Info, But Ban Prevents Downloads In Sudan
Oh the irony: Google Earth ban in Sudan is due to US export restrictions from Ogle Earth reports that Google Earth can't be downloaded in Sudan to to US export restrictions. Knowledge of the ban comes right after a new layer has been added to Google Earth to illustrate and... - Google, Ask.com & Yahoo! Earth Day Logos, Search Engine Roundtable
- 9 Reasons To
Attend SMX Advanced
This is a special message for our SearchCap newsletter readers and anyone who visits Search Engine Land, about Search Engine Land's first conference: Search Marketing Expo Advanced. It happens in Seattle this June 4th and 5th. As the date approaches, I've had some people ask me for more about what's... - Just Sign Up to SMX, Dave Naylor
- Search In
Pictures: Easter; Search Fun, Google Power, Art & Signs
In this week's Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more.... - 2004 Holiday and Events -- Google style
- Flag of Wales
- The Case Of
The Missing White House Cached Page On Google
In my story about Google's new content removal tools, I highlighted the fact that anyone can potentially wipe out the cached copy of a page, even if they aren't the page's author. To illustrate this, I was going to use as an example how the official George W. Bush page's... - Google
Declares Stephen Colbert As Greatest Living American
It's official. Stephen Colbert is the Greatest Living American, or at least now ranks tops for that phrase at Google. It's all come from the latest Google bombing campaign sparked off in part by Stephen himself. The backstory on this, plus the "I thought Google bombing didn't work anymore"...' - Google Releases Improved Content Removal Tools, Search Engine Land
- Google Webmaster Central Provides More Detailed Anchor Text Reporting, Search Engine Land
- Google Now Reporting Anchor Text Phrases, Search Engine Land
- The Kids Boxing On The Wii, Daggle
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Um, love the show, but today's mp3 file is only 3 minutes long. Goof?
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