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Google Donates $2 Million To Wikimedia Foundation

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

According to a Tweet just sent from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Google has donated $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation. Wales says the official announcement will be made tomorrow.

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Will Social Networks Kill Google?

Monday, October 26, 2009

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When I wrote a post a month ago detailing why I thought Facebook could really hurt Google (GOOG), lots of readers scoffed at my logic. So I was relieved to see that Sean Parker agrees with me. Parker, a babyfaced wunderkind tech enterpreneur, played key early roles in Facebook and, before that, music filesharing site Napster. He gave the most provocative presentation at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco last week -- laying out, in broad brushstrokes, how and why he thinks Facebook will kill Google.

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt On Newspapers & Journalism

Monday, October 5, 2009

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Is Google a newspaper killer? Not by a long shot, says Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Nor does he want it to be. In a long interview about his company’s relationship with newspapers and the print journalism industry, Schmidt made it clear he wants established players to survive. In fact, he thinks Google has a “moral responsibility” to help. But help doesn’t mean a handout.

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New Yahoo Display Tool May Compete with Newspaper Partners

Thursday, June 25, 2009

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New DIY display tools launched by Yahoo and Google present big opportunities for small-to-medium sized retailers, but they could add insult to the already injured newspaper business.

Advertising, Google, Yahoo

Eric Schmidt: Why Google won’t put money into newspapers

Monday, May 25, 2009

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In contrast to Yahoo, Google has always had a long-standing resistance to describing itself as a media company. It always seemed unlikely, then, that Google might bail out a newspaper by buying it. Chief executive Eric Schmidt has put an end to any industry fantasies that Google might rescue any one of the beleaguered newspaper companies in an interview with the Financial Times, saying that the firm considered an acquisition or - and this is telling - charitable support through Google.org - but decided against it.

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Twitter and Local Search: A Status Update

Saturday, May 16, 2009

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The online media world today is mostly divided between those who "get" Twitter and those who don't. These groups are further subdivided between those who think it has legs and those who don't. While some of my colleagues fall in the latter bucket, I'm somewhere in between when it comes to local search. Whether or not you personally use Twitter, or think the "statusphere" is a flowing river of dribble (there is some truth to that), Twitter Search is where the potential lies.

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Hitwise Stats Put Google On Top Yet Again

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

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Please understand that we're not advocating actual violence. At the same time, Hitwise has released a new report on the search market, and it's starting to look like the only way Yahoo, Microsoft, and Ask can hope to catch Google is through the detonation of some explosives.

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Google Gets Even Better at Reading our Minds

Monday, April 6, 2009

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For engineers at search engines such as Google and Yahoo, the holy grail is what's known as "user intent." This means being able to figure out what kind of search results the user wants, even when they don't specifically spell it out in their query.

Google, Search, technology

Google to Buy Twitter?

Friday, April 3, 2009

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The rumor mill is in full gear today over speculation that Google may acquire Twitter. The news comes from two separate and unnamed sources that claim talks between Google and Twitter are in the late stages, according to TechCrunch's Michael Arrington.

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Web Ad Revenue Keeps Growing, But Slower Than in Past

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

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US internet advertising revenue climbed in the fourth quarter of 2008 in spite of the poor economy, but the growth rate was sluggish compared to previous years, according to new analysis.

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Google Searches Its Future

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

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Is Google, by virtue of its visibility and the success it’s already achieved, destined to dominate the Internet era? Business columnist Randall Stross offers fresh insight in his recent book, Planet Google: One Company’s Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know.

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Google Ad Exec Tapped to Head AOL

Saturday, March 14, 2009

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After AOL has become the widest-reaching online advertiser with its Platform-A, who better to become CEO than a Google advertising guru?

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Newspaper Classifieds: Inefficient Print

Monday, March 9, 2009

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We already knew that newspapers’ classified business was as good as gone, but even so I found these stats from the Wall Street Journal Monday morning devastating:

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Google to Test Surfers’ Tolerance for Blow-Up Ads

Saturday, March 7, 2009

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Google is taking a few more strides on the online advertising tightrope — attempting to balance advertiser interests against the potential of irritating the Web surfers they hope to reach. Its latest experiment involves expandable ads — small ads that enlarge when interested users click on them. Search engine powerhouse Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) More about Google [...]

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Is Google Ramping up Classifieds?

Monday, March 2, 2009

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I noticed that a “Google classified specialist” is slated to speak at an international classifieds conference in May. Russ Cohn, Industry Leader – Careers, Classifieds and Local Markets, Google, UK, is slated to speak at the ICMA (International Classified Media Association) conference in Estonia. (The head of eBay Classifieds Group, USA, is giving the keynote [...]

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