Is Google tanking, or is it just the stock crash in general? Google -- officially the best place to work. Is the position six penalty real, and if so, has it gone away? What's with ten listings in those Google Local boxes? And more, in today's show!
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& The Stock Crash: GOOG, YHOO & MSFT
Hitting John Battelle's blog today, he noted what a plunge Google took on the stock market yesterday and in general through the current year. I thought it would be fun to look at Microsoft and Yahoo as well. The chart above covers the past month and shows Google (GOOG),... - Google Best
Place To Work; Says Fortune Magazine
Fortune Magazine rated Google the best place to work in 2008. Google secured the top spot for a second year in a row because, as Fortune explains, "Google continued to mint millionaires as the stock cracked $700. The company gives stock options to 99% of employees." Microsoft made the list... - Publicis &
Google In Technology, Media-Planning Partnership
Paris-based Publicis Groupe is one of the four largest ad agencies in the world, with a portfolio of subsidiary brands that includes Leo Burnett Worldwide and Saatchi & Saatchi, among many others. In late 2006, the firm also bought online ad agency Digitas. Reuters is reporting that Publicis and Google... - Google's
Mysterious Position Six Penalty
One of the most recent Google theories floating through the forums is the "position six penalty." The signs of being hit by a "position six penalty" is when you see your number one or two rankings shift downwards to position number six in Google. Many people first started noticing this... - Google Maps:
From "OneBox" To Ten Local Links
For ages -- though OneBox results and its successor of Universal Search -- Google Local results have sometimes shown on regular Google search pages, with three local listings and a prompt for more results. Except now that seems to be changing, with 10 results showing. Last week Paul Jahn at... - FTC Complaint
Filed Over AskEraser: "Unfair & Deceptive"
Photo adapted from one by Hans Engel Some felt Ask.com won the privacy oneupmanship that went on last year, when it rolled out Ask Eraser, a tool promising to stop recording any information about someone doing a search. But questions quickly came up, including whether the tool helped at... - Will The
European Union Decide IP Addresses Are Personal?
The head of an EU group looking into search privacy issues said yesterday that Internet Protocol addresses assigned to computers should be treated as personal information. Below, more about that plus a look at some comments about how the search engines have been reported to the European Parliament to be... - Baidu
Relaunches In Japan
Baidu aims to take on Google and Yahoo in Japan from Reuters reports Baidu has relaunched in Japan at http://www.baidu.jp/. The press release called the launch a "formal launch of its Japanese language search engine." As part of this launch, Baidu revamped the Japanese home page and added blog search.... - South Korea To
Google: Return Our Cities From North Korea
Google Under Fire for Flawed Korea Maps from the Digital Chosunilbo reports Google has labeled some of the regions in South Korea as being part of North Korea. Specifically, the city of Incheon, and some islands in Ongjin County such as Baegryeong-do, Daecheong-do, and Socheong-do are labeled to be in...
