Rumor already had it: Google swallowed YouTube for $1.65 billion. They bought 5% of AOL and have a long term agreement in place with MySpace where Google provides the advertising.
Google is spinning a very tight net around many (if not all) social marketing websites. Their war-chest is still well filled and they [...]

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Somehow I am starting to feel about Google the same way I felt about Microsoft some seven or eight years ago. I once thought of them as a great addition to my professional life but then the relationship started to turn sour. Microsoft started the browser war with Netscape which wasn’t really nice and showed [...]

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Here is my thing with PPC. The system invites people to cheat. There is money involved with every click, sometimes a few pennies, sometimes as much as $80 per click.
We all know about the classic click fraud behaviors:

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I just came across a little excerpt of Google’s IPO filing:
“Don’t be evil. We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served - as shareholders and in all other ways - by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is [...]

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Are you amongst the crowd that uses pay per click to boost site traffic?
Are you wondering if all the clicks you get charged for are valid?
Have you filed click-fraud complaints with your search engine(s)?
We’d like to shed some insight into the whole pay per click game.

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Mike McDonald at WEBPROWORLD made an interesting posting talking about the future of search.
Google constantly tries to improve the relevance of the results it delivers. One of the possible approaches is to add more weight to the local component. It is fairly easy to determine where the IP address of a website is located. Google [...]

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Google is most probably the most powerful web conglomerate of our time. It influences peoples business and private lives in numerous ways. Google has launched a ton of services beyond its search engine in the last few years. Here are some of them:
Google Mail - Without a doubt the best free email service out there
Google [...]

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