Official: Google Compare For Auto Insurance Launches
Rolling out in California to start, Google is getting into the car insurance business with lead generation.
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After Nine Years, Google’s Udi Manber Moves On
Executive had been at Amazon and Yahoo before Google.
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As Apple-Google Deal Expires, Who Will Win The Safari Default Search Business?
Will it be Bing, Yahoo or Apple itself that supplies Safari’s search engine?
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Google’s Senior VP Of Knowledge, Alan Eustace To Retire
Google loses another senior vice president and world record holder, Alan Eustace.
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Google Suggesting Firefox Users Change Their Search Engine & Home Page
Yahoo won the deal to be the default search engine in Firefox in November; now after losing some search share, Google’s fighting back.
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Google Results For “Car Insurance” Could Look Different Very Soon
As Google prepares to get into the car insurance business, those search results will get a shake up seen in other verticals
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Report: Google-Apple Safari Search Deal Expiring, Yahoo & Bing Want In
According to The Information Google’s default Safari search deal with Apple is up in 2015. Microsoft and Yahoo are reportedly separately competing for the Safari business across devices. The Information says that both companies are pitching to Apple’s Eddie Cue and that his decision…
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German Publisher Axel Springer: Loss Of Snippets Caused 80 Percent Traffic Drop
Axel Springer, Germany’s largest publisher and the owner of Europe’s largest newspaper, has said it wants back in to snippets. According to Reuters the German publishing giant revealed that traffic to its four largest online properties from Google search results “had fallen by 40…
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Following Germany’s Lead Spain Passes Misguided “Google Tax” Anti-Piracy Law
Given the saga of Germany’s ill-conceived and poorly implemented “ancillary copyright law” one would have thought that another European government wouldn’t immediately duplicate the mistake. But that’s exactly what’s happened in Spain. Spanish…
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German Publishers To Google: We Want Our Snippets Back
German publishers want their snippets and thumbnails back. A consortium of roughly 200 companies, together known as “VG Media,” have said that the loss of traffic from the disappearance of these elements could cause some of their members “to go bankrupt.” The publishers have been…
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Google’s Eric Schmidt In Berlin: “Really, Our Biggest Search Competitor Is Amazon”
The attitudes of European policy makers toward Google seem to have hardened of late. On various regulatory fronts, Google faces vocal critics and well-organized opposition. Google’s Eric Schmidt gave a speech earlier today in Berlin seeking to change some of those hardened hearts and minds….
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EU Antitrust Endgame Looking More Murky, Risky For Google
The Wall Street Journal added more color to the unfolding story of the collapse of the Google-European Commission antitrust settlement. Notwithstanding denials by outgoing competition czar Joaquín Almunia, it’s clear that pressure from major European publishers, rivals and politicians…
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Publishers To EC: We Want More From Google Or We’ll Sue
As we discussed last week, the current Europe-Google antitrust settlement is dead. This is a surprising turn of events considering that it was once described by European regulators as essentially a done deal. Outgoing European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia confirmed last week in a talk…
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Google Management Lessons Book Coming From Eric Schmidt
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and former Google SVP Jonathan Rosenberg have written a new book called How Google Works. Not yet published but available for pre-order, it’s a wide-ranging discussion of corporate management drawing upon the lessons the two men learned over a decade at…
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Why Google’s Reported CPC Declines Can’t Tell The Story Of “A Mobile Advertising Problem”
It’s still happening. Google reported on Thursday that the average cost-per-click (CPC) was down again in Q2 from the prior year, marking the eleventh consecutive quarter in which the average CPC fell year-over-year. Some analysts and news outlets have been pointing to this as evidence of…
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Supreme Court Rules Street View “Wiretapping” Class Action Can Proceed Against Google
According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Supreme Court will not review a U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision allowing a class-action lawsuit that argues Google violated the federal “Wiretap Act” when it intercepted private email and other personal data. The appellate court decision…
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YP Joins Google’s Premier SMB Partner Program
YP is the largest of the major US yellow pages publishers (and local search providers), with roughly 4,000 sales and support reps and 575,000 (mostly small business) advertisers. The company has now joined the ranks of the Google AdWords Premier SMB Partner Program. Also on the list are fellow…
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Google Partners With ESPN To Deliver 2014 World Cup Video Highlights
Recode.com reported today that Google has partnered with ESPN to deliver video highlights for World Cup related searches. According to Recode.com, Google’s “in-line” search results for World Cup queries will include a screen shot of ESPN’s World Cup video footage and link…
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New “Google My Business” Simplifies Local Marketing For SMBs
For quite some time since the introduction of Google+ Local, managing local listings and content across Google properties has confused many local SEOs and local business owners alike. Now Google has launched a new and more integrated approach called Go…
Mac “Spotlight” Search Drops Google For Bing; Becomes More Siri-Like In OS X “Yosemite”
It looks like Bing has gained another win with Apple, becoming integrated into a new version of Spotlight in Apple’s forthcoming Mac OS X “Yosemite” operating system. Spotlight will also tap into a wide-range of search resources similar to how Siri works on iOS. During…
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