July 5th, 2011 
admin The new social network of Google, Google +, has become the victim of a hacking group sending out bogus invites to the service.
The bogus invitation instead directs users to a Canadian pharmaceutical website selling Viagra.
From Telegraph.co.uk:
A Canadian group of hackers called Partnerka, have been sending out fake invites to join the new service, which is [...]
May 17th, 2011 admin According to a report published on Thursday, Google Inc has set aside $500 million for covering a possible settlement of a U.S. government investigation into the Internet search leader’s distribution of online ads from illegal pharmacies.
The U.S. Attorney’s office in Rhode Island and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have been leading the criminal probe [...]
April 22nd, 2011 admin The search engine giant, Google, has defended changes to its search system that lowered the prominence of some popular websites.
Ciao.co.uk, a Microsoft-owned company, was one of the worst hits and is presently leading an EU competition case against Google.
From BBC.co.uk:
Such updates are often done to weed out “content farms” – websites that copy material from [...]
April 20th, 2011 admin The Internet giant, Google, has reported a sharp rise in earnings for the first quarter, the first figures with co-founder Larry Page back at the helm as boss.
Google reported $6.54bn (£4bn) in net revenue in the first quarter, up 29% from $5.06bn the same time a year ago.
From BBC.co.uk:
Announcing the results, Patrick Pichette, Google chief [...]
March 9th, 2011 admin The way in which Google ranks web pages has been amended by the search engine giant as it has been struggling to combat websites that have been able to game its system.
Google has been under fire recently over the quality of its results.
From in.news.yahoo.com:
Last month, Google acknowledged it ‘can and should do better” to beat [...]
January 19th, 2011 admin Google and Facebook have decided to switch their websites to a new system amid expectations that web addresses will run out as soon as November.
The Telegraph reported that a whole bunch of web giants, including Google, Facebook, Yahoo, will turn on a new way of running web addresses on June 8.
From in.finance.yahoo.com:
Vint Cerf, one of [...]
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3 Comments » August 31st, 2010 admin Orkut, social networking site of Google, will delight its users with new features in order to provide more control over data sharing. Orkut recently lost the number one ranking in India to Facebook, its global competitor.
Facebook registered a growth of 179 percent in July with 20.9 million visitors in India, while Orkut registered only 16 [...]
June 17th, 2010 admin David Beckham, former Captain of the England football team, has been signed by Yahoo as its first “global sports ambassador” to provide exclusive content and front an international ad campaign ahead of the World Cup.
This campaign is part of the latest extension of the $100m brand marketing push unveiled by Yahoo last September against rivals [...]
May 25th, 2010 admin This YouTube video talks about the role, importance, and benefits of market research with Google Trends. The free video helps one and all, especially those involved in marketing and critical decision-making, to make right decisions without putting too much at stake.
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