By Kim Zetter February 12, 2010 | 3:34 pm |
TED Conference LONG BEACH, California —
Google appears to be content to remain in China doing business as usual while it finds a way to work within the system, according to one of the search giant’s founders. This despite a strong statement 30 days ago that it would stop censoring search results in China and possibly pull its business out of that country.
Google founder Sergey Brin discussed the recent hack attack against Google at the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference here Friday. He was invited to the stage by TED curator Chris Anderson to discuss the hack against dozens of companies that targeted intellectual property and Gmail accounts of human rights activists. Google stated at the time it announced the hack that it would seek to negotiate with the Chinese government to find a way to continue to operate there without censoring its search results.
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Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago at 12:57 pm. Add a comment
Answers will Show Up in Search
Aardvark Supplies Details About Future Under Google
Friday, February 12, 2010
By Chris Crum
Yesterday, news broke that Google was acquiring social Q&A site Aardvark for about $50 million. Aardvark sent its users an email today saying:
Dear friends,
Aardvark has just been acquired by Google!
Aardvark will remain fully operational and completely free, providing quick, helpful answers to all of your questions. For more information about how the acquisition affects Aardvark users, check out the FAQ that we’ve put together….
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Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago at 12:28 pm. Add a comment
The coolest search engine you’ve never used got snapped up by Google Thursday for a reported $50 million.
Aardvark, a company that lets you use IM, Twitter and e-mail to ask full-text questions and then get answers from people in or close to your social network, confirmed it signed a deal with Google. TechCrunch, which first reported the news, put the figure at $50 million, but Wired.com could not confirm the purchase price.
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Posted 3 weeks, 5 days ago at 2:32 pm. Add a comment
Poor MySpace.
First, the audience it stole from Friendster left for Facebook. Now, Owen Van Natta, the former Facebook executive Rupert Murdoch hired less than a year ago to reverse the site’s declining fortunes, has also left, MySpace announced late Wednesday night.
The bell has been tolling for MySpace for years, with users leaving the site pretty much as they found it: as a place to hear what a band sounds like and see what they look like in a matter of seconds, rather than as a place where they establish an online identity and communicate with friends.
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Posted 3 weeks, 5 days ago at 2:28 pm. Add a comment
The first and most common question a search engine marketing company may hear concerning an SEO campaign is how long it will take to achieve results. Naturally, clients want to be able to see the investment almost immediately.
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Posted 3 weeks, 5 days ago at 2:18 pm. Add a comment
Some clients are strictly interested in kicking off an SEO campaign, usually for a few basic reasons. They often have tried pay-per-click and decided it didn’t work, so they aren’t interested in trying it again in the foreseeable future (whether the initial campaign was set up effectively and the channel should be revisited is a subject for future discussion). They also often feel that since they themselves ignore PPC ads on the right hand side of the page, everyone else must do the same.
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Posted 4 weeks ago at 11:36 pm. Add a comment
This approach calls for both SEO and PPC initiatives running at full speed. These types of clients are generally those that consider these two efforts as separate ‘beasts’ and frankly believe that showing up highly in both channels is a good thing … as long as the return justifies the spend.
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Posted 4 weeks ago at 11:30 pm. Add a comment
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