Most of the time, if you ask someone about their agenda, it turns out that it involves doing what’s on someone else’s agenda. I need to do this for my boss, this for my husband, that for the PTSA and…
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for: ‘October, 2011’
Google Lobbying Spend Hits New High
Google is spending more money on lobbying than ever before, as legal woes continue to plague the search giant.
By September 30, Google had already spent $5.9 million on lobbying. For all of 2010, Google spent $5.6 million on lobbying. This quart…
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Groupon Sues Ex-Employees Who Now Work For Google Offers
Groupon filed a civil complaint October 24 in an Illinois court accusing two former sales managers of taking trades secrets with them when they quit Groupon to join Google.
Michael Nolan, who worked for Groupon for two years, and Brian Hann…
Google Subtracts Advanced Search + Operator
Google has made a change to the way advanced searches are done, much to the annoyance of numerous power users. Seems Google no longer is allowing use of the plus sign to indicate mandated inclusion in the search result offerings. In Query Refineme…
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Should SEOs Prepare for the End of Google as We Know It?
I’m not usually one for a conspiracy theory, unless it’s contained within a decent yarn like “The Da Vinci Code”, but over the last year in particular, I’m becoming increasingly convinced that Google wants to get rid …
How to Launch an English Only Global Search Marketing Campaign
All of us in international search will tell you that if you want to go international, then you’ll have to be international. In other words: don’t skimp out on localization and translation.
Several businesses would like to implement s…
Google+ Blogger Integration, Circles in SERPs & Larry Page Steals Zuckerberg’s Thunder
Blogger users now have the option to switch their Blogger profiles over to Google+. Google is also testing a one-touch Add to Circles button in selected users’ search results, as well. Google is trying to get more users onto the Google+ plat…
Linking Is Not Libel (This Time), Supreme Court of Canada Rules
The Supreme Court of Canada’s widely anticipated ruling on the Crookes v. Newton case found that hyperlinking does not constitute publication, unless a number of circumstances are satisfied. The decision to dismiss the appeal of Wayne Crooke…
How to protect your trademark online
In the quaint old offline world, things move slowly. If you have a good name for your business or your product, you know exactly what to do. You do a trademark search to make sure that no one else is using the name (at least within your industry), you add a the trademark symbol™ to your more »
Memories of bitterness
"I don’t like that guy," she said. "Why not," I wondered… It turns out that she had done some business with him years ago and it hadn’t gone well. When pressed, though, she couldn’t actually recall what the problem had…
