Category: Google News & Finances

Google and Getty Images have not really seen eye to eye for probably over a decade, since Google shows their images in image search and people just take those images and do what they want with it. Greg Sterling sums up the relationship pretty well……

Hyper local news and stories is nothing new, there have been many platforms that tried it out or are currently live that try to bring really local news stories more…

So Google announced the other day, as I covered at Search Engine Land, that they are keeping their “current practices regarding the AdWords API Terms and Conditions and the domain-by-domain opt-out following the expiration of the voluntary commitments….

Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and current Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alphabet, the parent company of Google…

Three years ago, Mozilla dropped Google as the default search provider in their popular web browser, Firefox…

A few years ago, Apple dropped Google and replaced them with Bing results on iOS and Mac. Well now…

Not sure if you saw this news where a top Canadian court ruled that the lower courts can force Google to remove content from their search engine globally…

Google has been officially fined by the EU $2.7 billion over their shopping search results and how the company gives an “illegal advantage to own comparison shopping service.” Meanwhile Google said they “respectfully disagree” and will consider an app…

The other day I reported that Google Crawls 404s After Other Pages So No Crawl Budget Is Sacrificed…

The news broke yesterday morning that the EU is going after Google again for antitrust issues on their AdWords and AdSense programs. This is the third of such in about a year. This one says Google’s advertising products had restricted consumer choice…

Back in 2011 Google was being no search bias by the FTC and the charges were dropped.
But now, the Wall Street Journal published documents that were “inadvertently disclosed” about the probe showing how the FTC really wanted to give it to Google.
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Udi Manber is leaving Google after joining the company back in 2006 and becoming Google’s vice president of search quality. He has written for Google about search quality in the past and was fundamentally involved in the caffeine update…

Searchers are reporting in the Google News Help forum that the RSS feed located at the bottom of the Google News page no longer shows your custom news personalizations you made to your Google News feed…

Last week, Google promised to shut down Google News in Spain after a new Spanish law required them to pay licensing fees for content included in Google News.

Google has changed the Google News home page in Spain…

Last night, Google announced that in response to the new Spanish law, Google will have to shut down Google News within Spain.

Spain’s new law forces Google to pay a fee for showing snippets of news results in Google News…

Remember we reported that the EU wanted to break up Google…

Let me quickly catch you up on the timeline on this story. The European Parliament wants to draft a proposal to force Google to break the company up into multiple parts because of its alleged anti-trust practices, according to Reuters…

Gigaom reports Google has won a US court case in San Francisco court saying Google has the right to arrange the search results as they see fit.

Clearly…

Everyone here saw this coming. You had a bunch of German publishers upset Google indexed their content, forced Google to remove their snippets from the search results…

If you had to guess who is Google’s biggest competitor, would you say Amazon…