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We have learned that Google is planning to re-brand (change the name) of its popular Picasa photo management service to Google Photos, and its Blogger blog platform to Google Blogs. This is not a big surprise, as Google is not the best at coming up with cool names for it’s services anyway. Google acquired Picasa [...]
Alibaba Buys Yahoo… well wouldn’t this be interesting. I’m sure Jack Ma would love to get his mitts on Yahoo, a bell-weather US company. Sure profits are down a bit and Yahoo is essentially on the way down. I wouldn’t count them out. They still have tons of subscribers, traffic, and revenue, which is what [...]
In a rare public speaking appearance, Google CEO Larry Page addressed the search engine king’s business partners at the annual Zeitgeist conference in Paradise Valley, Arizona, along with Chairman Eric Schmidt. Page, obviously not the most comfortable public speaker, shared his enthusiasm for Google’s plans for the future in the key araes of: Search Social [...]
The Google Webmaster‘s Master, Matt Cutts gives his take on Linking. While it is an essential component to Google’s web site ranking algorithm, most people overlook the importance of incoming links. As always a great resource for anything to do with Google Search, in this video Matt offers several great Link Building tips for anyone [...]
The mighty Google’s U.S. search engine market share has dipped below 65 percent for the first time since September 2009, according to latest report released yesterday by, digital intelligence service, comScore. Another major rating agency Hitwise, still shows Google’s market share at just over 65 percent, while Bing continues to make modest gains. According to [...]
Alibaba Enters The Search Market with eToa. Last month the Alibaba Group was part of an investment group than entered into an agreement with Sohu, a Chinese Internet portal operator, to acquire a combined 32% stake in Sogou, its search business. The deal would have Alibaba Group and a fund co-founded by Group Chairman Jack [...]
Yahoo! makes it official, Carol Bartz is history. All Things D‘s – Kara Swisherwas the first to break the news late yesterday. But things may not be looking so bad for Carol Bartz, as the CEO of Yahoo, the former chief executive is now eligible for a hefty $10 Million Dollar severance package. The company [...]
Expanding in it’s Local Search initiative, Google has rolled out Google City Pages. Local is the future in Search, and Google is working to make their mark in the Local Markets. City Pages combines Google Places and Google Offers, with a user friendly dashboard for business owners to manage their listing. First Rolled out in [...]
Baidu is developing a cloud-based Smartphone platform they call Baidu YI. (Translates to “Easy”). The Baidu YI platform looks to compete other services like Google Android and Apple’s iOS, and put Baidu solidly in the Mobile game. China’s Mobile Internet users approached 233 million in 2010, and is projected to reach 957 million by 2014. [...]
Beijing’s Central Television (CCTV) took aim this week at Internet search giant Baidu Inc. with an expose that highlights how they run their Search Ad sales, even going so far as to send undercover reporters into Baidu offices, with hidden cameras. CCTV blamed Baidu Tuesday, for allegedly allowing libellous comments to appear on its social [...]
