Google has bowed to global pressure from regulators and lawmakers and agreed to pay some publishers for news content in a major strategic shift by the search advertising giant. The $US978 billion ($1.4 trillion) company, which has long resisted paying publishers for news, announced a new licensing program in a blog post late yesterday afternoon and revealed it had signed … [Read more...] about Google to pay NEWS Publishers: new licensing deal
Google Cookies Obsolete
Google is planning to "render obsolete" a key tool advertisers use to track people around the web, increasing user privacy but also disrupting the marketers and publishers who rely on the search giant’s ad products. Over the next two years the company intends to stop supporting third-party cookies in its Chrome browser, Google said in a blog post on Tuesday. Cookies are … [Read more...] about Google Cookies Obsolete
Google Algorithms
The article below highlights the issue publishers have with Google's Algorithm: Panda, Penguin, and Hummingbird. Google may reject and deny publishers claims but there are countless cases worldwide. Just as Google blankly rejects ALL claims, it can be argued the algorithms blankly affect ALL results. DIRECTORY The most obvious claim would be Google's Penguin … [Read more...] about Google Algorithms
Google Chrome: Security Warnings
Sorry, but I've been banging on about this issue for sometime. Google has decided it wants to be big brother. Through it's Chrome browser, it is forcing web site owners to add SSL (server-side security certificate) to their web sites. It started warning us in 2014. With each new Chrome update, the criteria has increased with more and more warnings. The warnings … [Read more...] about Google Chrome: Security Warnings
Doodles | Google Logo
Doodles are the fun, surprising, and sometimes spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists. Doodlers (Google employees) are illustrators, engineers, and artists who design Google Doodles. Google has it's own Doodle web site. Initially, Doodles were simple images, … [Read more...] about Doodles | Google Logo