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| 841: |  Europe Clears The Way For Microsoft's Acquisition of SkypeThe European Commission said that its investigation of the takeover showed that the firms' activities mainly overlapped for video communications, where Microsoft is active through its Windows Live Messenger.[br][br]"However, the Commission considers that there are no competition concerns in this growing market where numerous players, including Google, are present," it said in a statement. | Microsoft Corporate | Oct 7, 2011 | ||
| 842: | WebmasterWorld Weekly Roundup October 6 WebmasterWorld's weekly roundup of hot topics and discussions you may have missed in the last few days. (-Subscription required) | WebmasterWorld Supporters | Oct 7, 2011 | ||
| 843: | Steve Jobs 1955-2011 Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. | The Macintosh Webmaster | Oct 6, 2011 | ||
| 844: | Google's Purchase Of ITA Software Approved By Federal Judge U.S. District Judge Robert Wilkins in Washington today approved a consent decree between Google and the Justice Department that allows the acquisition as long as Google makes travel data available to search-engine rivals and lets the government review any complaints it's acting unfairly. Wilkins said he found the agreement to be in 'the public interest.' | Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | Oct 5, 2011 | ||
| 845: | Senior Google Execs Not Using Google+ Strong management support would seem to be key for a new product's success. After all, if the company behind it doesn't demonstrate an interest or confidence in the product, why should anyone else? | Google Desktop Tools and Google Labs Projects | Oct 5, 2011 | ||
| 846: | Amazon Invites California Affiliates to Return Only Californian Associates whose accounts were closed by Amazon as a result of the now-repealed earlier law (AB X28 1) are eligible to re-enroll. | Affiliates | Oct 5, 2011 | ||
| 847: | Adobe Acquires Typekit If you're one of our customers, this announcement means things will only get better. Typekit will remain a standalone product, as well as become a vital part of Adobe's Creative Cloud. Our team will stay together, and we're excited to start working on even easier ways to integrate web fonts into your workflow. | Webmaster General | Oct 4, 2011 | ||
| 848: | The Best Way to Keep All Spiders/Bots Out Of A Site WebmasterWorld Members discuss the issue of stopping bots from crawling a site, and keeping them out. It seems it's tougher than you might think. | Search Engine Spider and User Agent Identification | Oct 3, 2011 | ||
| 849: | Google Starts Experimenting To Make Ads Look More Like 'Circulars' The online search giant is working with advertisers such as Best Buy Co. and Macy's Inc. to create Web-based circulars, similar to the ad inserts included in newspapers. The new service will be available starting tomorrow, Mountain View, California-based Google said. | Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | Oct 3, 2011 | ||
| 850: | Google "Trusted Store" (pilot) Rating Service for Ecommerce Sites Today we're announcing the launch of Google Trusted Stores, a new pilot program that helps shoppers identify online merchants that offer a great shopping experience.[br]br]The Google Trusted Store badge is awarded to e-commerce sites that demonstrate a track record of on-time shipping and excellent customer service. When visiting a qualifying store, shoppers can hover over the Google Trusted Store badge and see metrics on the store's shipping and customer service performance. | Ecommerce | Oct 3, 2011 | ||
| 851: | New Panda Related Update - September 27 When asked if an iteration of Panda was implemented this week, a Google spokesperson told us, "yes." She also provided the following statement: [br][br]"We're continuing to iterate on our Panda algorithm as part of our commitment to returning high-quality sites to Google users. This most recent update is one of the roughly 500 changes we make to our ranking algorithms each year." | Google SEO News and Discussion | Oct 1, 2011 | ||
| 852: | Google Analytics Real-Time Today we're very excited to bring real time data to Google Analytics with the launch of Google Analytics Real-Time: a set of new reports that show what's happening on your site as it happens. | Website Analytics - Tracking and Logging | Sept 30, 2011 | ||
| 853: | Chrome poised to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox Google's Chrome is on the brink of replacing Firefox as the second-most-popular browser, according to one Web statistics firm. | Google Chrome Browser | Sept 30, 2011 | ||
| 854: | WebmasterWorld Weekly Roundup September 29 WebmasterWorld's weekly roundup of hot topics and discussions you may have missed in the last few days. (-Subscription required) | WebmasterWorld Supporters | Sept 29, 2011 | ||
| 855: | Yandex Invests $15 Million In Blekko, and $15 Million From Others Yandex, the most popular search engine in Russia, is expressing its affinity with a $15 million investment in Blekko and a commitment to share some of its computing power and other technology with its new U.S. partner. Blekko is getting an additional $15 million from another group consisting mostly of its earlier investors, U.S. Venture Partners, CMEA Capital and PivotNorth Capital. | Alternative Search Engines | Sept 29, 2011 | ||
| 856: | Amazon Introduces Silk Web Browser Today in New York, Amazon introduced Silk, an all-new web browser powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and available exclusively on the just announced Kindle Fire. You might be asking, 'A browser? Do we really need another one?' | HTML | Sept 28, 2011 | ||
| 857: | Larry Page Says Google Biggest Threat Is Google "There are only companies that have good fast decisions. As companies get bigger, they slow down decision making, and that's a big problem." | Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | Sept 28, 2011 | ||
| 858: | Retailers Find Consumers Using Tablets Are More Likely to Buy Retailers have found an interesting characteristic of consumers who browse their websites using tablets: They're much more likely to pull the trigger on purchases than other online shoppers.[br][br]That discovery is making retailers focus on tablets ahead of the all-important holiday season ...[br][br]Tablets still account for only a small percentage of overall e-commerce, but they are punching above their weight. | Ecommerce | Sept 28, 2011 | ||
| 859: | Microsoft Takes Down Kelihos Botnet Kelihos, also known by some as 'Waledac 2.0' given its suspected ties to the first botnet Microsoft took down, is not as massive as the Rustock spambot. However, this takedown represents a significant advance in Microsoft's fight against botnets nonetheless. | Microsoft Corporate | Sept 28, 2011 | ||
| 860: | Facebook Cookies Tracking Your Moves Causing Anger Facebook's cookies appear to be gathering more information about your web surfing than many would like. After much discussion, Facebook is moving to change the cookie status. | Facebook Marketing | Sept 27, 2011 | ||
| 861: | Regular WordPress Updates Often Break Plugins The webmaster's dilemma: WordPress updates often end up breaking plugins, so is it best to wait before updating? | Content Management | Sept 27, 2011 | ||
| 862: | Happy 13th Birthday Google Google is celebrating its 13th Birthday, today, 27th September. | Google SEO News and Discussion | Sept 27, 2011 | ||
| 863: | Microsoft Launches Bing Deals Instead of building another program, we're harnessing deals from major providers and retailers, including Groupon, LivingSocial, Nordstrom, Target and many others, to help you cut through the clutter and find the best deals in one central location. | Bing Search Engine News | Sept 26, 2011 | ||
| 864: | AdWords Gambling Ads Being Allowed In Specific Countries A Google AdSense discussion over the announcement of gambling ads now being enabled in certain countries. | Google AdSense | Sept 26, 2011 | ||
| 865: | Analysing Google AdWords CTR Of Two Ads And CPC WebmasterWorld Members are in an interesting discussion over AdWords CTR and CPC for two similar ads. | Google AdWords | Sept 26, 2011 | ||
| 866: | Analysing Optimal Reading Level in Google SERPs WebmasterWorld Members assess the Optimal Reading Level in Google SERPs. What does it mean for you and your site? | Google SEO News and Discussion | Sept 25, 2011 | ||
| 867: | The Impact on SEO of Changing IP Address from US to UK WebmasterWorld Members discuss the impact on positioning by changing the server IP from US to UK. | Google SEO News and Discussion | Sept 24, 2011 | ||
| 868: | 79% Americans Favor FTC's Investigation of Google The survey, which was fielded from September 15-18, polled 1,005 adults aged 18 and older across the United States. It found that most Americans are uneasy with Google’s dominance of the Internet in general and the search advertising market in particular. | Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | Sept 23, 2011 | ||
| 869: | U.S. Net Neutrality Rules Take Effect November 20, 2011 The regulations covering so-called Net neutrality, published in the Federal Register on Friday, are sure to trigger legal and congressional challenges. | Webmaster General | Sept 23, 2011 | ||
| 870: | Google Responds To The Senate Anti-Trust Hearing WebmasterWorld Members discuss Google's response to the hearing. | Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | Sept 23, 2011 | ||
| 871: | Facebook Launches Timeline With timeline, now you have a home for all the great stories you've already shared. They don't just vanish as you add new stuff. | Facebook Marketing | Sept 23, 2011 | ||
| 872: | WebmasterWorld Weekly Roundup September 22 WebmasterWorld's weekly roundup of hot topics and discussions you may have missed in the last few days. (-Subscription required) | WebmasterWorld Supporters | Sept 22, 2011 | ||
| 873: | Google Doesn't Cook Anything Google's executive chairman has denied that the company fixes its search results to promote its own websites and services.[br][br]Eric Schmidt told a congressional hearing in Washington: "May I simply say that I can assure you we're not cooking anything."[br][br]The Senate Judiciary subcommittee on anti-trust is looking at whether Google abuses its market position. | Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | Sept 22, 2011 | ||
| 874: | Facebook to Launch Ad Credits For Small Business The company plans to offer free $50 advertising credits for up to 200,000 small businesses. | Facebook Marketing | Sept 22, 2011 | ||
| 875: | Google+ To Start Showing +1 on Display Ads If you're running display ads through the Google Display Network you may begin seeing the +1 button and personal annotations with your ads. With a single click, people can recommend the ad's landing page to their friends and contacts.[br][br]Incorporating personal recommendations into display ads has the potential to change the way people view advertising. A display ad becomes much more powerful when people can see which of their friends and contacts have chosen to endorse it. | Google AdSense | Sept 21, 2011 | ||
| 876: | Yelp Responds To Senate Committee Over Google Antitrust Hearing We have responded to these requests and told officials that we believe Google has acted anti-competitively in at least two key ways: by misusing Yelp review content in their competing Places product and by favoring their own competing Places product in search results. | Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | Sept 21, 2011 | ||
| 877: | Microsoft's Plan For Bing: It's Not Going To "out-Google" Google Lu said Microsoft could not and would not try to "out-Google" Google. Instead, it must "change the game fundamentally." | Bing Search Engine News | Sept 21, 2011 | ||
| 878: | SSL Encryption Broken By Hackers Researchers have discovered a serious weakness in virtually all websites protected by the secure sockets layer protocol that allows attackers to silently decrypt data that's passing between a webserver and an end-user browser. | Webmaster General | Sept 20, 2011 | ||
| 879: | Google Panda Interation Sept 16-18 or so? I'm hearing some reports of site-wide ranking demotions over the weekend that have a similar pattern to what we saw with Panda. That is, lots of keywords affected, but the demotions are not at all uniform the way we often see in a site-wide penalty. | Google SEO News and Discussion | Sept 20, 2011 | ||
| 880: | Google Wallet Launches on Sprint and working with Visa, American Express and Discover Today we're releasing the first version of the app to Sprint. That means we're beginning to roll out Google Wallet to all Sprint Nexus S 4G phones through an over-the-air update. | Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | Sept 19, 2011 | ||
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