The U.S. Trade Representative's Office has listed China's leading search engine Baidu as a key member on its list of global counterfeit-assisting services. Today Baidu reacted to some of these complaints by issuing anti-piracy tech for its e-book system.READ»
In a blog posting late yesterday Google announced it had tweaked its search algorithms--trying to improve its ranking accuracy, and affecting trillions of search queries. It's good for Google, but it may actually be terrible for a number of other businesses.READ»
Google is alleged to have abused its position as king of searchengineland, and the European Union has just announced it's launching a large inquiry.READ»
The workplace of your average Internet company is like, a totally fun, super-awesome, big-kid dorm room. Bean bags mandatory! Unless, of course, you’re talking about Russia, in which case it’s about as quixotic as Soviet public ...READ»
You may worry about Google's use of your private data, but Google would remind you it's how the government (here or abroad) uses that data that's important. Hence the search giant is launching new tools today to improve transparency on these matters.READ»
After being bought three times in ten years, Lycos is a shadow of its former self. Take our quiz and match the optimistic company statement to the purchase date.READ»
Google's CEO Eric Schmidt thinks that soon his company will resolve its differences with the Chinese government over their ongoing operations in the censor-happy nation. Is he right? Or merely hopelessly optimistic?Schmidt was ...READ»
Ever wondered the significance of the Like button? It's Facebook's portal that will take it into Google territory. The social media giant, half a billion users strong, has just announced the arrival of its Open Graph search feature, ...READ»
Turkey has long blocked Google's YouTube service, but now it's announced an indefinite ban on Google search and other services, citing "legal reasons." Is it a sign that Turkish-U.S. relations have got sourer, or a mistake? The ...READ»
Search companies like Google, Bing/Yahoo, will never voluntarily disclose how their servers determine exactly why, and how their search engine ranking systems work they way they do. The understood reason, suggested by most seo ...READ»
Paid SEO Marketing is best known as pay-per-click (PPC) or pay-per-lead (PPL), and SEO Advertising often takes the form of Google's adwords.google, Bing's advertising.microsoft and Yahoo's advertising.yahoo. While Yahoo and Bing have ...READ»
Organic SEO Marketing or search marketing, in short, is the function of driving sales through a marketing effort online, and the only real, true competition to driving online traffic versus paid-advertising or pay-per-click campaigns. ...READ»
The slow drip of the Google backlash has started, it seems. China Unicom, the country's second largest cellphone operator behind China Mobile, is to remove the search engine from its Android smartphones. The cell-phone provider, which ...READ»
The face-off between Google and China is entering its final phase: Rumors are building that Google may announce its pull out of the country as soon as today. Meanwhile, China's netizens are desperately trying to make their voice ...READ»
The spat between Google and the Chinese government has been rumbling along for weeks, but just now it's been elevated to "fist fight" status: The inevitable strongly-worded Chinese warning about "consequences" has arrived.
The ...READ»
