“President Obama has picked Nicole Wong, Twitter’s legal director, to be the White House’s first chief privacy officer. Wong previously was a vice president and deputy general counsel at Google at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters.” Read Full Article >
“Google has published new numbers that show how governments around the world are asking to remove more content from services like YouTube than ever before.” Read Full Article >
“Cost per click fell 4% compared with the same quarter a year ago and the fourth quarter of 2012, Google announced today. The search engine’s revenue was up 31% from the first quarter of 2012 to nearly $14 billion and profits rose 16% to $3.35 billion.” Read Full Article >
“In a sweeping proposed deal with European antitrust regulators, Google has agreed to increase the prominence of links to competitors like Yelp and TripAdvisor in its search listings, and to clearly label in-house services such as Zagat.” Read Full Article >
“Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt, the company today reported in an SEC filing, plans to sell about 3.2 million of the Class A common stock he currently owns through a stock trading plan, which would reduce his share in the company by about 42 percent. At Google’s current stock price, this transaction would be worth about $2.5 billion.” Read Full Article >
“Rewind to the late 90s. Almost everything you needed – email, news, sports, stocks, maps and more – was conveniently on one site: Yahoo!. Yahoo! was the ‘portal’ to the Internet that strived to deliver everything you could ever want on its own properties. The crazy thing is how successful Yahoo! was at this. Few, if any, have ever done content or media online at that scale.” Read Full Article >
“When Tom Telford helped found a vacation rental management company, Blue Creek Cabins, in 2001, he wanted a quick and easy way to connect with people looking to rent the 20 cabins he and his partner managed in and around the mountains of picturesque Helen, Ga. That is when he heard about a program called AdWords being offered by a new company, Google. Finding the system relatively easy to use, Mr. Telford selected a few keywords, like ‘Helen GA cabin rentals,’ and agreed to pay Google 60 cents every time someone performed a search and clicked on his ad.” Read Full Article >
“Here is an unintended dark side to a search engine that only provides the information we want to see: it cocoons us in an echo chamber of political information that confirms our pre-existing opinions. Google competitor, DuckDuckGo, released a tiny study showing how Google’s personalized search yielded wildly different results on abortion and gun control, even for users that weren’t logged on to a Google service. ‘You search for raw information, but you’re getting more of what you already agree with,’ says a clever advertisement from the company.” Read Full Article >
“Worldwide paid search spending increased 33% in the third quarter this year compared to the same period last year, with the strongest growth in the Americas—led by the U.S. and Canada—at 39% year over year, according to an analysis of client data by search marketing agency Covario Inc. A similar report released yesterday by Kenshoo showed its clients spent 24% more in the third quarter.” Read Full Article >
