Consumers use the internet every day. Accessing search engines such as Google from their desktops or mobile devices to search for anything from road side assistance to which bakery will sell the best muffins in town. Search engines have changed the way we live. We don’t pick up the Yellow Pages if we looking for [...]
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Google Gets $660,000 Fine, Because Google Maps Is Free
Google faces a $660,000 fine after a French court ruling that the company is abusing its dominant position in mapping by making Google Maps free. According to The Economic Times, the French commercial court “upheld an unfair competition complaint lodged by Bottin Cartographes against Google France and its parent company Google Inc. for providing free [...]
How Google has grown
Google is one of the largest companies in the world, not just online but offline as well. The internet titan has come a long way since it started as a research project way back in 1996. When Larry Page and Sergey Brin met, I wonder if they could have dreamed that their little college project [...]
Google+ and Social Networks
There seems to be a lot of discrepancies going around regarding Google’s management of searches done in relevance to social Networks and video streaming. Is Google being biased in favouring their own endeavours excluding major competitors such as Facebook and Twitter from relevant search results, or are they just playing the field as healthy competitors? Although Google+ is [...]
What Next Google? LIGHTBOX POP UP ADS!!!!
We just noticed a new ADwords placement on Google – within the pop-up of Google Places! What will they do next? Introduce LIGHTBOX POP-UPS when we first go onto their search engine and then show us what they think we want to see or what people are prepared to pay for. We have seen over [...]
Google Selling First Page Results?
Google have always said that they will never sell first page searchresults. We did a search recently for “Web Designer Company” on a 1024 resolution screen and the results we got are below. they are quite scary! This makes one think if the consumers are getting the most accurate results or just the results from [...]
Google SSL Queries held back
What has been the impact of the SSL (not provided) query that Google said would only account for less than 5%? We have seen an ever increasing graph that really concerns us. How can we track things when Google is holding this back? I believe that Google has done this to PUSH people towards AdWords [...]
Eye Tracking shows value of Ranking First in Google Places
A new eye-tracking and click-tracking study from Mediative shows the value of having the top spot in Google’s local results, but also suggests that social content and signals can boost rankings further down the page. Early last month, Mediative did eye tracking on 12 participants and online click tracking on another 90 people as they [...]
Google+ Open For Businesses, Brands, Places & More
Finally, Google is now allowing businesses, brands and any non-human entity to participate in its Google+ social network, through new Google+ Pages that are launching today, promised to be available to everyone shortly. Businesses Weren’t Allowed, Initially Businesses have wanted to be part of Google+ from the start. In fact, many businesses and brands made [...]
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