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Texas Attorney General Investigating Google & Antitrust Issues
Sep 3rd
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is conducting an investigation into Google’s business practices as they relate to search listings, in particular whether Google is manipulating its paid and editorial results in a way that violates antitrust laws.
We received a tip about the investigation this week, and Google confirmed today that an investigation started in July. [...]
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Google Responds To Detailed Questions On Pagination SEO Issues – Search Engine Roundtable (blog)
Aug 26th
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Google Responds To Detailed Questions On Pagination SEO Issues
Search Engine Roundtable (blog) The Google Webmaster Help thread was started by Branko Rihtman (aka @neyne) from the SEO Scientist blog and Googler JohnMu came in to help. … |
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Google Issues 15% Faster Update to Chrome Beta Build
Aug 13th
Google has just released a new version of its Chrome Browser beta build – this time with some nice new features that makes the Chrome experience even better. If you’re using this Beta build of the Google Chrome browser, your installation will be automatically updated to the new version. Those of us who are using the official, more stable version of Google Chrome will have to wait awhile before these new features are added.
The most important new feature of the latest Chrome Beta build is its speed which according to Google is now 15% faster than the previous release. Both speed improvement were tested on V8 benchmark and SunSpider benchmark.
Other new features of the new Google Chrome beta include – autofill for filling up web forms, additional synchronization features which now include Chrome extensions and autofill data, and an streamlined interface particularly the upper toolbar, a more approachable Omnibox and condensed options into a single menu.
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Google Issues 15% Faster Update to Chrome Beta Build
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Facebook Under U.S. Judiciary Committee Scrutiny Over Privacy Issues
Jun 1st
It looks like Facebook’s efforts to assuage users fears on private data protection did not do too well with U.S. authorities as the company now faces scrutiny by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.
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Brand Security Issues With Geo-Listings
May 27th
Local business listing hijacking is a real situation that can and will have an impact upon a business brand name. If the business is reliant on the local consumer for revenue, local business listings have evolved into a good local marketing tool. In order to tap into this business marketing tool you have to claim, update and manage your local listing at multiple local listing websites.
Local business listings are in five major categories of websites. They include search engines, social communities, 411 websites, GPS websites and business directories. They have existed for a number of years and the primary data source starts with the phone companies.
Security with local listing websites leaves much to be desired at a variety of levels. Examples include post cards that are easily identified with pin codes; creating new accounts easily without verification; duplicate listings causing security confusion and the list goes on. Considering these security problems exist with tier 1 websites, you can only imagine how easily someone can fraudulently impersonate another business with tier 2 websites. Tier 2 websites that later feed into the Internet system incorrectly.
The importance of protecting your brand stems from local consumers performing a significant volume of searches for businesses, products and services in their local area. They look up local information through web searches and through mobile searches. As they look up this information, they get to see pictures, videos, consumer reviews about your business, products or services. If this information is not appealing to the local consumer they will avoid your business.
If your geo-listings are hijacked, the listing can be used against you by having wrong information entered or it can be used to drive business away from you. Thus you run into the problem that local consumers will begin to have an impression about your business based on what they find online. This includes having too many negative reviews being placed into your geo-listings by competitors or the hijackers. Reviews that consumers use and will use to make a decision to come to your place of business or not.
If you are a business and believe that you will passively wait for “the system” to fix the problems, then I think you are going to be waiting a longer time than you would like. The best example we have for brand security concerns lies with Twitter-jacking that had been going on before celebrities went to court. Brand name protection and brand security are a very real problem with local listing websites. These websites that are not prepared to adequately provide the security necessary to avoid fraudulent criminal behavior by your competitors or from another country. Local listing websites by the very nature of their service do not have security as a primary capability.
Are the local listing websites working on security? Yes, I would say that based on news coverage and other writings, this area is being addressed, however, still not at a level that can avoid hijackings. Business directory websites certainly are not showing any level of security to “get listed”. These directories are much too easy to be hijacked with an existing listing or a new account.
Passively waiting for appropriate levels of security is not going to help with brand name protection and brand security. The answer to this problem is to claim, update and manage your business local listing at multiple local listing websites as soon as possible. You will be able to use this as a positive business marketing tool to the local consumers in web searches and mobile searches. You will also be able to manage your reviews, engage in new technologies like QR Codes and evolve with this business marketing tool over the next three years.
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Brand Security Issues With Geo-Listings
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg Responds To Mounting Pressure Over Privacy Issues
May 24th
The privacy issue ghost haunting online companies is once more back to the forefront of the news today as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in an op-ed in the Washington Post, that his company “just missed the mark” on its privacy settings and pledged to implement changes “as soon as possible”.
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Privacy Issues Make Google Reconsider Product Strategy
May 20th
Still smarting from the privacy furor over Buzz and then the inadvertent collection of personal data from WiFi networks by its Street View cars, the Financial Times reports that Google is reconsidering how and whether it should use facial recognition technology:
Eric Schmidt, chief executive, said a series of public disputes over privacy issues had caused the [...]
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SEO – Google Supplemental Index Issues – Domain Age
Mar 17th
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