Google Keeps Printing Money: Up 23% YoY & Search Up 17%
Google announced impressive earnings last night showing their revenue was up 23% year-over-year. If you just look at the Google Search category, Google earned $31,903M in Q4 2020 compared to $27,185M in Q4 2019, that is a 17% increase. Overall revenue…
Google Employees Start A Union: The Alphabet Workers Union
A couple hundred Googlers got together to start a rare union in the tech industry. It is called the Alphabet Workers Union and the union said “our company’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” An organized work force will help us live up to it.”
Google Antitrust Lawsuit Over Advertising Practices
You all know I hate writing about legal topics in search but I need to at least document these big ones here. And there is a lot going on. A lot of it is around alleged anti-competitive practices, with Facebook, hurting the advertisers on their platf…
Search Revenues: Google 14% Increase & Microsoft Bing 10% Decrease
Microsoft (Bing) reported earnings on October 27th and Alphabet (Google) reported earnings on on October 29th. Microsoft said that its earnings on search, i.e. Bing, saw a 10% decrease year-over-year. Alphabet (Google) said its revenue was up 14% ye…
DOJ Sues Google Over Monopolistic Actions In Search & Search Advertising
The big business news in our industry yesterday was that the DOJ, US Department of Justice, sued Google alleging that Google acted anticompetitively to preserve monopolies in search and search advertising. Google shouted back that this is a “deeply fla…
House Judiciary Subcommittee Antitrust Findings On Google & Others
The big news yesterday was that the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust has released its findings and recommendations on how to reform laws to fit the digital age. This was a 16-month investigation into competitive practices at Google and Apple,…
Googlers Working From Home For Another Year – Through July 2021
Google announced it will allow its employees to work from home for another year, through July 2021. The company pushed its work from home policy out from March 2020 through July 2021. John Mueller from Google said on Twitter “It sucks. But also, the …
Prabhakar Raghavan New Lead Of Google Search; Replaced Ben Gomes
Prabhakar Raghavan, who has been running the Ads and Commerce teams since 2018, is replaced Ben Gomes as the head of Google Search and Assistant. Ben Gomes is still with Google, he is just moving to Google Education. Ben took over as head of Google Se…
Not Going To Happen – Google Won’t Give Up Ranking Algorithm Secrets To SEO
The Register has a story that is headlined UK judge gives Google a choice: Either let SEO expert read your ranking algos or withdraw High Court evidence. This is around a case going on since 2006 with Foundem, where Foundem says Google favors those wh…
Larry Page & Sergey Brin Hand Sundar Pichai CEO Role For Both Alphabet & Google
Big news came out last night from the Google blog where Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the co-founders of Google, are stepping down from their roles as CEO of Alphabet. Sundar Pichai, the person they put in the CEO spot for Google when the two formed Alp…
Rand Fishkin’s Mention In Congressional Hearing On Google
Congressman David N. Cicilline questioned Google on the Google’s mission on getting people to go off of the search results page and on to a different site as quickly as possible. He then referenced a study Rand Fishkin published on SparkToro…
Genius: We Caught Google Red Handed Stealing Our Lyrics
The Wall Street Journal reported that Genius, the lyrics web site, has said they caught Google literally red handed stealing lyrics from their web site without any attribution or payment. Google denies it and says they license the lyrics from a third…
DOJ May Investigate Google Again Over Antitrust Issues
The Wall Street Journal reported (WP link) that the Department of Justice may open up an antitrust probe against Google again. Let me directly upfront that I know very little about legal issues, little about the DOJ and government politics and law. I…
Eric Schmidt To Step Down As Google Board After 18 Years
Google/Alphabet announced last night that Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO and long time board member of 18-years, is stepping down from his role on the board. He will continue as a “technical advisor” to the company but it seems he is moving on to “he…
Google Earnings Show Paid Click Growth Declining With Cost Per Click
Most Google earnings report show how the cost-per-click, the amount an advertiser pays when someone clicks on their search ads, have been getting less expensive. But most of those earnings have shown growth in terms in the number of clicks ads in gener…
EU Fines Google $5 Billion Over Android Antitrust
Less than 20 minutes ago, the whopping news broke that the European Union has fined Google $5 billion â’¬4,34 bn over antitrust and competitive laws around Android…
Google News Drops Editors’ Picks & Standout Meta Tag
The new version of Google News has launched last night and with that, Google has ended support for the Editors’ Picks feeds and the standout meta tag in Google News…
John Giannandrea Leaves Google To Join Apple
I didn’t see this coming but it seems the reason Ben Gomes is now head of Google search is because John Giannandrea who replaced Amit Singhal a couple years ago was not necessarily fired or demoted but rather he is going to Apple…
Ben Gomes To Take Over Search At Google, Giannandrea Steps Down
News broke last night that Google’s current head of search, John Giannandrea, was stepping down and replacing him are two Google veterans Jeff Dean will lead Google’s AI efforts…
Google Launches Subscribe With Google For Publications
Google announced yesterday in NYC their “Subscribe with Google” feature to help news publications get users to subscribe to their paper online…