Google is saying goodbye to sexually explicit images and videos on their Blogger platform. The news has been covered by quite a few places obviously, I found the discussion in the comments on Engadget to be a bit entertaining. From the article: Many X-rated Blogger accounts might cease to exist in the near future, as Google will no longer allow anyone to post sexually explicit or nude videos … [Read more...]
How Committed Is Google To The New gTLD Program? Applied For 101; Now Lost 29 Out of 34 Auctions
Google was the 2nd largest applicants of New gTLD's applying for 101 of them and spending $18.6 Million dollars in application fees catching the eye of many publications outside of the domain space Here, Here, and Here Non-domainer publications wrote about how Google would basically get everything they applied for basically because they could afford to. Wired.com called Google's support of … [Read more...]
Google Wins the .Moto New gTLD Beating Rightside.co (NAME) For Its Motorola Division
Google has won the rights to operate the .Moto new gTLD beating United TLD Holdings which is now Rightside.co (NAME) in what we can only assume was a private contention auction. The new domain extension .Moto was scheduled to go to a ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Google of course owns Motorola and applied for .Moto to use as a closed extension as a .Brand application more than … [Read more...]
Larry Page and Sergey Brin To Sell $4.4Billion Worth of Google Shares
Business Insider published a piece tonight that Larry Page and Sergey Brin are going to be selling $4.4billion worth of their holdings in Google. This was supposedly in place as part of a liquidation plan that expired in January. In 2014 Google did participate with the overall upswing to the market as the shares were lower by $32.24 or 5.8%. After the stock sales they will still control 52% of … [Read more...]
Google vs the Mississippi A.G. Could Set A Precedent for a State’s Right to Regulate Online Content
Matt Schruers wrote an article yesterday on an upcoming legal battle that could set a precedent for content censorship. This is Google going up against the Attorney General of the State of Mississippi. Schruers makes the point that this is like SOPA at the state level. From the article: Far from Washington or any other place associated with Internet policy-making, a federal district court in … [Read more...]
Google To Get Access To The Twitter Firehose – Tweets To Get Indexed Again
Google will get access to the Twitter firehose once again and tweets should become indexed in Google right after they are posted. This could maybe be beneficial to those tweeting domains for sale if those tweets get indexed under the targeted keyword. Bloomberg Business broke the story. From MarketingLand: Twitter and Google have reached a deal to make tweets easier to find online, according … [Read more...]
SearchMetrics.com “The Rising and Falling Stars in Google US
Search Metrics takes a look each year at who fell in the rankings and who saw their website rise on Google. In addition to just looking at winners and losers they look into why some sites succeeded while other sites took a dip. If you are interested in SEO the article is very much worth reading to see their analysis and what affects ranking trends both short and long term. From the article: As … [Read more...]