Posts tagged with 'Google'
Various reports indicate that Myspace-owner Rupert Murdoch will meet up with Google later this week -- a sign that the media mogul no longer wants to destroy YouTube. At least for now.
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by Richard Maven
12 October 2006 13:16pm
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Danny Sullivan has fired off a few rounds at the authors over at Google Blog, who habitually use non-descriptive headlines such as ‘Greetings, Earthlings!’ and, our favourite: ‘Yes, you can have a pony’.
As an expert in SEO you’d think Danny’s beef would be linked to a lack of keywords in titles, but this isn’t in fact the problem...
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by Chris Lake
11 October 2006 15:16pm
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Google has increased its dominance of the UK’s search market this year, according to new figures that also show almost 1m searches are being conducted per hour by British web users.
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by Richard Maven
11 October 2006 12:27pm
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I have been thinking a lot about search lately, not only due to my reliance on Google that we all now share, but also because I currently reading an excellent book,
The Search by John Batelle
, about all things search and Google.
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by Chris Rourke
11 October 2006 11:20am
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So we know that YouTube is being bought by Google, for a whopping $1.65bn, but what did the Google founders have to say about the YouTube acquisition?
Read choice snippets from today's conference call after the jump...
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by Chris Lake
10 October 2006 15:39pm
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Google is to acquire YouTube for $1.65bn in an all-stock deal, in a move that may spark a flurry of M&A activity across the internet sector.
YouTube will remain a distinct, standalone brand, with the founders and all 67 employees remaining with the company.
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by Chris Lake
10 October 2006 15:09pm
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Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP has made a series of investments in the online space this year, most recently the purchase of a 10% stake in Spot Runner, the US-based online ad agency which had also attracted the attention of Google.
He told us why...
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by Chris Lake
10 October 2006 12:21pm
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This weekend Google discovered the hard way that Blogger had an undiscovered bug, after a hoaxer managed to publish an announcement on the official Google Blog.
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by Chris Lake
09 October 2006 13:50pm
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Former Google France boss Franck Poisson has hooked up with Yahoo!, which will provide advertising and search services on Webwag, his new customisable homepage venture.
The deal will see Webwag displaying sponsored links from Yahoo!, as well as launching what it claims is the sector’s first ‘personal wide web’ search feature – through which users can sift through their chosen content as well as the web as a whole.
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by Richard Maven
09 October 2006 11:24am
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Michael Arrington has reported a rumour that Google “may be in the final stages” of a US$1.6 billion deal for video sharing behemoth YouTube.
If the rumour is true and the deal goes through it could be another coup for Google, though it might yet turn out to be a big headache for the search giant, as YouTube has some significant issues with regards to copyright and content control.
Nonetheless, YouTube is now a real A-list website among the world's internet users and surely it is just a matter of time before the founders accept an offer. The mooted valuation reflects the company's meteoric growth.
Google, for obvious reasons, told us that it couldn't comment on the rumour either way, as is company policy. YouTube is being reported as keeping schtum too.
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by Chris Lake
07 October 2006 02:23am
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