Google News Posts

Google Penalizing Directories

WebProNews editor and writer, Jason Lee Miller reports on the likelihood that Google is penalizing some web directories.
As many as 60 directories, according to this report, suddenly dropped in rank, leading to suspicion that Google has begun aggressively (and likely, manually) targeting paid link directories deemed to be in violation of the search engine’s quality [...]

Google Unavailable After Meta Tag

SearchEngineLand.com reports via Jill Whalen’s HighRankings.com that Google will create a new meta tag which will allow people to inform Google when a particular page will no longer be available for crawling. The “unavailable_after” meta tag will allow webmasters to create expirations for pages with time-sensitive data. Some expect this tag to be welcomed by [...]

Google Premieres Mapplets Solution

Mountain View, California - (The Hosting News) - July 12, 2007 - Google Mapplets, a new tool developed for customizing Google Maps, has been developed, to enable users to layer valuable third-party information directly on Google Maps, in order to save customized maps to individual personal libraries.
The [...]

Google to Acquire Email Security Firm

Mountain View, California - (The Hosting News) - July 9, 2007 - Google Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire on-demand communications security and compliance solutions firm, Postini, which serves over 35,000 businesses and 10 million users worldwide. Postini’s services include message [...]

Tool for Concurrent Yahoo, Google Search

London, United Kingdom - (Website Hosting Directory) - June 15, 2007 - Internet search firm, SearchBoth.co.uk, has launched a website that searches both Google and Yahoo, simultaneously, by placing both websites on a split screen, enabling side by side comparisons.
The company has also [...]

Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Tops in Click-Thrus

Reston, Virginia - (Website Hosting Directory) - June 13, 2007 - According to comScore digital world measurement company, e-commerce websites dominate the paid search advertising industry, with the top ten sponsored link positions, in the retail and comparison shopping web site sector.
It is probably no surprise, that comScore [...]

Glam Media Taps Google AdSense

New York, New York - (Website Hosting Directory) - June 12, 2007 - Lifestyle web destination, Glam Media, has entered into a multi-year deal under which Google will [...]

Google Mapping Solutions, at Where 2.0

Mountain View, California - (The Hosting News) - June 11, 2007 - At the Where 2.0 Conference in San Jose, California’s Fairmont Hotel, John Hanke, Director of Google Earth and Maps, announced new innovations for Google Maps that offer a new perspective on search: Street View [...]

Google Language Tool Debuts

San Francisco, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - June 8, 2007 - Google has added new features to convert search results into twelve different languages, including a cross-language search feature, designed to allow users the ability to find, view and search results on foreign language web pages in [...]

Google, Yahoo!, MSN, in McAfee Study

Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - June 7, 2007 - McAfee Inc. has updated its search engine safety study, one year after releasing its inaugural study of the safety of search engines, which reports that while the overall safety risk to [...]



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