Conor Bond published a piece on Google that is worth reading and bookmarking. A thorough look at several Google statistics. Things like a breakdown of Google search queries by length. From the article the first 10: General Google Search Statistics 3.5 billion Google searches are made every day. (Internet Live Stats) The volume of Google searches grows by roughly 10% every year. … [Read more...]
Google wants to analyze your health records
Google wants to analyze your health records Project Nightingale is a collaboration between Google and Ascension and it will give Google access to personal health data. The Next Web covered the story: Interestingly, the partnership was mentioned in Google’s July earnings call, but it came under scrutiny only on Monday after the Wall Street Journal reported that Google would gain detailed … [Read more...]
Got a slow website? Google might start giving you a badge of shame
Google just continues to want to show the world that when it comes to the Internet, "We run this bitch!" In a blog post on the Chromium blog Monday they posted that they are looking at ways to warn users about your slow website. Not a site containing malware or any other security risk, it's just not as fast as Google would like it. From the article: We are building out speed badging in close … [Read more...]
Google parent Alphabet misses on Q3 earnings – stock down in after hours trading
Alphabet Inc the parent of Google ( NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) reported earnings after the close and earnings missed expectations. Shares of Alphabet hit a new all time high at $1,299.31 during the trading day. CNBC reported Google missed earnings expectations in Q3 2019, earning $10.12 per share vs $12.42 expected.Otherwise, the company’s earnings report was pretty much as investors … [Read more...]
Facebook and Google a tale of two European rulings
Two recent rulings have come out of Europe that have one Tech giant (Google) happy and another (Facebook) with potentially a lot of extra work to do to comply with European law. Facebook has now been told that EU courts can now force them to remove ‘illegal comments’ worldwide. The Next Web wrote: “EU law does not preclude a host provider like Facebook from being ordered to remove … [Read more...]
Answers to queries right in the address bar?
I read an article on Search Engine Journal with regards to an upcoming update of Google Chrome. Forget about Zero search clicks and go straight to zero query answers. From the article: “Now on both desktop and Android, answers will show up inside the address bar where you type your query—whether you’re looking for results about sporting events or instant answers about the local … [Read more...]
Subdomain leasing – another potential revenue source?
I read an article on subdomain leasing that I thought was kind of interesting. I can't say I read anything on this topic before. The article was published on SearchEngineLand.com. The author on SEL was of course interested in the SEO ramifications and what Google thought on the topic. Apparently Google replied awhile back to a question with a series of tweets. Google also addressed the … [Read more...]