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August 20, 2007
Google launches Click-Fraud resource centre
Link: Google launches Click-Fraud resource centre
Filed under: AdSense News, Google News, Internet News
by Jan Harris
Google Inc has launched a new site providing information about 'click fraud', a serious threat to pay-per-click advertising, the company's main revenue stream.
Google developed the new Ad Traffic Quality Resource Centre to address the increasing problem of click fraud - ...
August 16, 2007
Customers less satisfied with Apple, Dell and Google
Link: Customers less satisfied with Apple, Dell and Google
Filed under: Hardware News, Dell News, Apple News, Yahoo! News, Google News, Internet News
by Jan Harris
According to the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index, published by the University of Michigan’s National Quality Research Centre, customers of Apple, Dell and Google were less satisfied with the companies' products and services.
Overall customer satisfaction with the PC industry fell 3% ...
August 15, 2007
Google and Microsoft plan online health initiative
Link: Google and Microsoft plan online health initiative
Filed under: Google News, Microsoft News, Internet News
by Jan Harris
According to the New York Times, Google and Microsoft both have early-stage plans to enter the online health care market, with initiatives that could help people make better choices about their health care.
The New York Time article included screen images of ...
July 31, 2007
Google adds copyright protection to YouTube
Link: Google adds copyright protection to YouTube
Filed under: Google News, Internet News
by Jan Harris
Google has revealed plans to use sophisticated copyright protection technology to prevent the unauthorised posting of copyright video on YouTube.
The search engine hopes to have the content filtering software running on YouTube by September.
The plans were revealed by Philip Beck, ...
July 16, 2007
Google cookie cut unlikely to satisfy privacy concerns
Link: Google cookie cut unlikely to satisfy privacy concerns
Filed under: Google News, Internet News
by Brian Turner
An announcement by Google that it will auto-delete cookies after two years is unlikely to satisfy privacy campaigners.
Google have already agreed with the EU to ensure user data is anonynimised after 18 months. The latest move in stating that cookies storing user information will ...
Google to launch new webmaster tag
Link: Google to launch new webmaster tag
Filed under: Google News, Webmaster News, Internet News
by Brian Turner
Google have revealed that they are introducing a new tag for webmasters to use, to prevent Google displaying temporary webpages.
Dan Crow, director of crawl systems at Google, while speaking at a presentation in New England, revealed that Google planned to launch the new tag ...
Chinese company sues Google over brand name
Link: Chinese company sues Google over brand name
Filed under: Google News, Internet News
by Jan Harris
Google's subsidiary in China, which was launched in 2005, is being sued by a Chinese company who says the search engine's registered Chinese name is too similar to its own.
The company, Beijing Guge Science and Technology, claims that similarities between the names ...
July 13, 2007
Google tops list of 10 leading e-commerce developments
Link: Google tops list of 10 leading e-commerce developments
Filed under: Google News, Technology News, Internet News
by Jan Harris
The Software & Information Industry Association has published a list of the top 10 most significant developments in e-commerce over the past decade.
The list recognises the importance of e-commerce in the growth of the global economy. The listed developments have acted ...
July 6, 2007
Probe into Google’s DoubleClick deal
Link: Probe into Google’s DoubleClick deal
Filed under: Google News, Internet News
by Jan Harris
A European consumer group, the Bureau Europien des Unions de Consommateurs, has written to the European Commissioning requesting an investigation into how Google Inc.'s proposed acquisition of online ad broker DoubleClick Inc would affect consumers.
The group believes the takeover could ...
June 28, 2007
Google launches Desktop for Linux
Link: Google launches Desktop for Linux
Filed under: Linux News, Google News, Internet News
by Jan Harris
Google has launched a beta version of Google Desktop search for Linux.
Google Desktop was launched in 2004 for Windows machines and there is also an enterprise version, but it has never before been available to Linux users.
It is a desktop ...
June 27, 2007
Google Adsense offers rounded corner ads
Link: Google Adsense offers rounded corner ads
Filed under: AdSense News, Web Development News, Google News, Webmaster News, Internet News
by Brian Turner
Google has announced that it's Google Adsense contextual advertising program now offers ads in a rounded corner box.
Previously, ads were served up as squares or rectangles with sharp angular corners. However, now ads can be selected to have rounded corners.
The aim is to ...
June 26, 2007
Google to add mail migration to Google Apps
Link: Google to add mail migration to Google Apps
Filed under: Software News, Web Development News, Google News, Business News
by Brian Turner
Google is rumoured to be ready to release mail migration to Google Apps this week - in order to help encourage companies to integrate more of their data over to Google's servers for storage.
Email clients which support an IMAP interface will be able ...
June 25, 2007
Google aims to be carbon-neutral by 2008
Link: Google aims to be carbon-neutral by 2008
Filed under: Google News, Internet News
by Jan Harris
Search engine Google has partnered with international environmental organisation The °Climate Group, in order to take forward its aim to become carbon neutral by 2008.
Google, with help from The °Climate Group, plans to reduce its energy consumption, increase its use of ...
June 22, 2007
Google extends Pay-Per-Action ad engine worldwide
Link: Google extends Pay-Per-Action ad engine worldwide
Filed under: AdSense News, Google News, Internet News
by Jan Harris
Google has opened its Pay-Per-Action ad beta, an optional extra to AdWords, to non-US advertisers.
Pay-Per-Action, which was launched in the US in March, doesn't charge an advertiser unless an ad generates an action on their website, such as a sale or ...
June 21, 2007
Microsoft to enable Vista for Google search
Link: Microsoft to enable Vista for Google search
Filed under: Google News, Microsoft News, Internet News
by Jan Harris
In a filing with the Justice Department, Microsoft has agreed to allow both computer manufacturers and individual users of its Vista operating system to select the default search application. At the moment it is locked into Vista's instant search function.
Microsoft will ...
June 19, 2007
Searchboth.com brings together Google and Yahoo!
Link: Searchboth.com brings together Google and Yahoo!
Filed under: Yahoo! News, Google News, Search Engine News, Internet News
by Jan Harris
Searchboth.com, a new site from IdeaLabz and the Toll Free Yellow Pages, delivers search results from both Google and Yahoo! in split-screen format.
When a query is typed into the site's search box, the site displays results from Yahoo! on the left side ...
June 14, 2007
Openads secures $5m to compete with Google
Link: Openads secures $5m to compete with Google
Filed under: AdSense News, Open Source News, Google News, Internet News, Venture Capital News
by Jan Harris
London-based Openads, a provider of opensource advertising software which enables web publishers to generate advertising revenues from their websites, has secured $5 million funding.
The funding will help the compare prepare for increasing global competition with Google's Adsense service.
The financing round ...
EU approves Google’s data retention plan
Link: EU approves Google’s data retention plan
Filed under: Legal News, Google News, Internet News
by Jan Harris
The European Union has approved Google's agreement to dispose of user data when the information becomes 18 months old. The company previously retained data for 24 months.
The move was called a 'good step' by the European Union's Justice and Home Affairs ...
June 13, 2007
Tech companies launch green computing initiative
Link: Tech companies launch green computing initiative
Filed under: Dell News, Hardware News, Google News, Technology News
by Jan Harris
A group of organisations including technology companies such as Google, PC manufacturers such as Dell and environmental organisations such as the Environmental Protection Agency, have launched the Climate Savers Computing Initiative to promote energy efficiency in PCs.
The group hopes to develop a strategy ...
May 23, 2007
Google launches universal search
Link: Google launches universal search
Filed under: Property Market News, Google News, Internet News
by Jan Harris
Google has launched a universal search facility, which will provide a more integrated way to search for information online and display search results from a variety of media together in one place.
Universal search is designed to make it easier to find relevant information ...
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