According to a Sunday report from the Wall Street Journal, Google is developing a new suite of services and tools aimed squarely at small business marketers. The new service, which was once known as Business Builder, could be launched as soon as July, according to a “person familiar with the matter.”
Hot on the heels’ of Matt Cutts’ announcement of Penguin Update 1.1, a search algorithm refresh to a major Google update largely targeted at reducing webspam and the rankings of sites that trade in it, search marketing firm iAcquire has announced that it will stop purchasing links for its clients.
Ever since Google shook up the internet with its Penguin update over a month ago on April 24th, bloggers and site developers have been speculating about a “new Penguin update” every time they suspect even a mild alteration to Google’s search algorithms.
Today marks the third day of live trading for Facebook shares after the company’s historic IPO last Friday. The initial public offering itself was plagued with technical problems that prevented the actual shares from becoming available for purchase as scheduled.
It’s been approximately one month since the Google Penguin release shook up the internet with its controversial updates to several key ranking algorithms, which were intended to reduce the visibility of webspam but apparently dragged a lot of worthwhile websites and blogs down along with it.
Sources including AllThingsD and VentureBeat are reporting that Google could be on the cusp of purchasing Meebo, a popular social media platform, for the tidy sum of $100 million. Such a deal would represent the biggest acquisition in the tech world since Facebook purchased Instagram for $1 billion just over one month ago.
The official comScore data regarding April 2012 search engine market share was just published and released a few days ago. One piece of information gleaned from the publication is that, as expected, Yahoo loses search market share in April.
A few months ago, we reported that Google was covertly bypassing Safari privacy settings for the primary purpose of installing tracking cookies in their users’ browsers. The purpose of the alleged hack was to circumvent Safari’s default settings in order to secretly place web forms in online ads.
