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“Google Inc. is now Alphabet Inc. In a letter to shareholders on Monday, Google’s current CEO Larry Page spelled out what seems like a seismic change in the Internet search giant: The incorporated company now falls under a new holding company, called Alphabet, run by the two co-founders, Page and Sergey Brin. Omid Kordestani, Google’s … Continue reading Google Renames Self ‘Alphabet’
“Google Contributor invites began arriving in email inboxes this week. The company’s paid subscription service reduces the number of ads an individual sees on a Web page when visiting participating publisher sites. … Mashable, the Onion, Imgur, ScienceDaily, wikiHow and Urban Dictionary have signed on to participate. In fact, Google tells us, millions of sites … Continue reading Google’s Subscription Ad-Blocking Service Arrives In Beta 04/24/2015
As we’ve reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they’ve decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm… Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), so … Continue reading A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Monday, April 25th
This is part of our series of posts highlighting the new Google Analytics. The new version of Google Analytics is currently available in beta to a number of Analytics users. We’ll be giving access to even more users soon. Sign up for early access. And follow Google Analytics on Twitter for the latest updates.Real Analytics … Continue reading The New Google Analytics: Events Goals
Here’s a funny thing about Google’s new +1 tool, which lets users vote up search results. At launch, Google is keeping recommendations from its new +1 voting tool out of its ranking algorithm, even though it does consider shares on services like Twitter as a signal in its core search results. Plus-one-ing (or however you … Continue reading For Now, Twitter Shares Count More Than 1′s in Google Search Ranking [NetworkEffect]
Krystalo writes “Google employees have begun testing Google Music internally. Talks with at least some of the top publishers and the four largest record labels are still ongoing. The delays are largely due to the fact that Google is negotiating for cloud music rights and not just the authorization to distribute the songs themselves. The … Continue reading Google Starts Testing Google Music Internally
Google yesterday in a blog post announced that it is launching a new extension to its Chrome browser that will allow users to block specific sites from their Web search results. “We’ve been exploring different algorithms to detect content farms, which are sites with shallow or low-quality content,” the company said.Google yesterday in a blog … Continue reading Google Cracks Down On Content Farms
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