Google Keeps Quiet About Legal Victory
As Google prepares to defend itself against click fraud charges in two separate lawsuits, the search engine has quietly posted a victory in a click fraud case of its own.
Google Faces Click Fraud Charges
Dominant search engine Google has been sued in federal court for failing to prevent click fraud in its AdWords and AdSense programs.
Feds Want Google, Yahoo to Beef Up Filtering
Search engines and peer-to-peer networks aren’t doing enough to prevent underage surfers from accessing adult content, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Google Poised to Offer Electronic Payment Service
Google, looking for new revenue sources, is reportedly about to launch an online payment system that might compete with eBay Inc.'s PayPal electronic payment system.
Google to Offer Video Preview Service
Search engine Google is planning to release a video preview service that will broadcast 10-second clips on its website and then redirect surfers to content sites to pay for the full version.
Google Is the World’s Largest Pornographer, Said Perfect 10’s Zada
Perfect 10 founder and publisher Norman Zada says Google and other search engines are costing adult companies millions of dollars every year, and now he wants them to pay up.
Google Vows to Hasten Page Loads
As Google continues to churn out new technologies and enhanced features for its search empire, the company's incubation site released the beta version of Web Accelerator, a new technology designed to make web pages load faster.
My Google Search Sparks Privacy Fears
Privacy advocates are worried that My Google Search, a new service that keeps a detailed history of a surfer’s search activities, will make users’ online behavior available to too many prying eyes.
Google Video Goes Live; No Porn Allowed
Just days after Google co-founder Larry Page indicated that the company’s upcoming video submission service would welcome adult content, the company has changed its position.
Is Google God? Part 2
In Part 1, we looked at the power of Google and its Googlebot. Today, we'll examine PageRank more closely, plus the role of optimizers, and The Google Dance:
Is Google God? Part 1
"Is Google God?" That's the question that Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Thomas Friedman posed in a June 29, 2003, column for The New York Times.
Google to Accept Homemade Hardcore Videos
Google has devised a novel way to test its recently launched video search service: by asking users to send in home videos, including those of the adult variety.
Google, Others Face Click Fraud Charges
A group of online merchants has filed a class action lawsuit accusing search engines Google and Yahoo as well as several other web companies of click fraud.
Google Sued Over Alleged Copyright Infringement
Agence France Presse has sued Google for $17.5 million, claiming the search engine is displaying photos, headlines and story leads on www.news.google.com without authorization or compensation.
Google Cloaking and Stuffing Its Own Pages?
Rumors that Google may have been engaging in a cloaking and keyword stuffing activities, forbidden by the search engine’s own policies, have gained more credence, as examinations of Google HTML code seem to point to the search giant displaying different results for surfers than it does for its own spidering tool.
Google Loses Third French Trademark Suit
In another blow against Google’s AdWords program, a Paris court ruled on Friday that the search engine giant must pay 200,000 euros to Louis Vuitton for breach of trademark.
Google Debuts AdWords Programming Interface
After weeks of speculation, search engine giant Google has released an application program interface for its PPC AdWords service. The new API will allow developers to create applications that directly interact with the online advertising service.
Google Advertisers Get a Grammar Lesson
Advertisers trying to profit from Google's AdWords program have more than their Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) to consider; there's an editorial style guide that is being increasingly enforced, and non-compliant advertisers could see their ads pulled until they are reworded.
McAfee Releases Google Hacking Tool
McAfee’s Foundstone division this week shipped SiteDigger 2.0, a tool that uses Google to automatically search websites for security flaws.
New Worm Searches Google For Victims
A new Internet worm discovered today uses popular search engine Google to find potential victims and has caused what antivirus firm Kaspersky calls an “epidemic.” Net-Worm.Perl.Santy.a, which targets the phpBB bulletin board software.