Just how open is Google in the wake of two "open" announcements. Alibaba brings in big bucks for Yahoo through its IPO. IAC splits into five companies; five ways link builders hurt themselves and more, in today's episode.
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- Google's
Android Day Two: Here Come The Bears
Yesterday I wrote (with myriad contributions from Danny) a largely bullish overview of Android and the Open Handset Alliance (which sounds like a JK Rowling title I admit). Now, on day two, the bears are coming out. The Wall Street Journal blogs that the "Google Phone" is "A Business-Tech Nightmare... - Google: As
Open As It Wants To Be (IE, When It's Convenient)
In two weeks, we've had two "open" initiatives from Google: OpenSocial, to free social networking data from behind the Facebook walled garden and the Open Handset Alliance, to free cell phones from a myriad of complicated mobile OS platforms and carriers who want to restrict features. I've seen some people... - Why Google chose the Apache Software License over GPLv2 for Android, Ars Technica
- Report: AOL To
Acquire Quigo For $300 Million
There are rumors and reports circulating that AOL is about to add Quigo to its now pretty full roster of online ad networks and technologies, which includes Tacoda, Advertising.com, Third Screen Media, Lightningcast and AdTech. These entities are the backbone of AOL's "Platform A" integrated online (and mobile) advertising, er,... - Alibaba IPO
Reportedly As Big As Google's
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both report on the IPO and first day of trading for Alibaba.com. The offering was the biggest IPO by any Chinese company and raised an estimated $2 billion. The market capitalization of the company is now nearly $26 billion. Yahoo owns... - IAC To Split
Up, Extends Google Ad Deal Worth $3.5+ Billion
Today is a big day for IAC, Ask.com's parent company. First they announce they are breaking the company into four publicly traded entities, and then they announce they have extended their search ad deal with Google.... - The Google
Drive Domains Find New Home: GDrive Coming Soon?
Gary Price reports that Google has recently moved MyGoogleDrive.com and MyGoogleStorage.com from third party domain name servers to Google domain name servers. Is this a sign that the GDrive (Google Drive) is coming soon? Back in September, we reported that GoogleDrive.com was moved to Google's name servers and anticipated that... - Website SEO
Health Check Tool
Aaron Wall has released a new tool named the Website Health Check Tool. The tool reviews a site's title tags, descriptions, URLs and page status codes. Then it returns problems the site may have with missing title tags and descriptions, any duplicate title tags or descriptions, www versus non-www issues,... - Why Many Web
2.0 Developers Are Search Morons
Web 2.0 sites have caught on because they offer slick user interfaces, with cool AJAX effects and lots of user-friendly controls and really useful mashups of content. But many Web 2.0 developers are apparently clueless when it comes to search engine optimization—often to the point where they're actively harming... - Five Ways Link
Builders Hurt Themselves
In the wake of the mass hysteria over Google's recent PageRank decreases, devaluing of certain links, and the resulting rankings drop many people experienced, I'd like to offer some perspective and advice. First, my rankings at EricWard.com didn't drop one spot. And remember that my site is 100% devoted... - Survey Says:
No Sites Gained & Many Lost PageRank
SEOmoz reports that after reviewing the PageRank scores of over 30,000 web sites, none of them showed any PR gains and about 4 percent registered a drop.... - SMX London: A
Sneak Preview
Last week's inaugural SMX Sweden was a great success—excellent speakers and great buzz made for a worthwhile couple of days (don't just take my word for it—check out a Cracking start for SMX Stockholm, SMX Stockholm, having a blast!, and this great collection of photos from the event). If you... - Join The Microsoft adCenter & Live Search Teams at SMX London, adCenter Blog
- iGoogle Gets
New Themes; Google China Gets New Home Page
Google has added five new themes to iGoogle. Google Blogoscoped and Google Operating System both have posts on the new themes, which include a Solar System theme, an Autumn theme, a Hong Kong theme a J. R. the Monster theme and a Aja Tiger theme. Google China is also testing...
