(The Inquirer) – Google has registered the g.co domain name to use as its official URL shortcut. Google had been previously using the goo.gl domain name as its URL shortcut, however it seems that a three letter domain name was not short enough. Yesterday, Google announced that g.co will become the official URL shortcut used [...]
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If Google does buy Groupon, the company’s early investors will hit the jackpot. One of those investors, Battery Ventures, has played and won the Google lottery before. The venture capital firm, along with Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, plowed $135 million into Groupon this April, in an investment round that valued the company at [...]
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Google is prepared to pay $5 billion to $6 billion for Groupon, the daily deals site, people familiar with the deal said Monday. Groupon could approve the deal as early as this week, but the talks could still collapse, said these people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. At that price, Groupon would be [...]
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Google was accused of spying on households yesterday after it admitted secretly copying passwords and private emails from home computers. The internet search giant was forced to confess it had downloaded personal data during its controversial Street View project, when it photographed virtually every street in Britain. In an astonishing invasion of privacy, it admitted [...]
Mozilla has released the prototype and documentation for an open Web apps store, which will let users install apps via the Web browser. Open Web Apps will feature a directory of paid and free Web apps where you can search for, download and install apps onto a special dashboard within your mobile phone or Web [...]
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Last week, the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report stated that U.S. online advertising is thriving. In fact, it is up 11.3% in from the first six months of 2009. Approximately $12.1 Billion was spent on web advertising from Jan-June of 2010, and up 13.9% from the second quarter of 2009. Not surprisingly, this is the [...]
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The market share results for September 2010 have come out and there was a bit of a surprise in store. The Bing Yahoo alliance celebrating their first full month of collaboration actually lost a little ground during the month of September. The two search engines, both powered by Microsoft Bing engines lost a total of [...]
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Google has launched an optimization course for its search engine. The tutorial is also available on DVD. The four-hour course covers several topics, including identifying test pages and analyzing reports. “Advanced topics like sample size calculation, Google Analytics integrations and dynamic page testing are also covered among a wide variety of conversion optimization and testing [...]
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