An odd line item appeared on Google’s Q-10 form this week. As is turns out, the eyebrow-raising $500 million has been earmarked for a potential impending settlement with the Department of Justice.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google “is close to settling a U.S. criminal investigation into allegations it made hundreds of millions of dollars by accepting ads from online pharmacies that break U.S. laws.”
It is not unprecedented for search engines to be held liable if they are found to be profiting from illegal activity. It remains to be proven to what extent Google knowingly allowed this activity to occur however. But, with a settlement that equates more than 20% of their bottom line, you can be sure that this is one case that Google’s stockholders will be watching closely.
How does the 2nd most trafficked site in the world plan on becoming #1? By hiring a PR firm to plant negative stories about the competition!
The Mac has always been a distant second to Windows-based computers. But, the Mac has always been a great platform with a steadily growing and wildly loyal user base. And, Apple has always been a computer manufacturing company. At least until a couple of years ago when Steve Jobs declared that Apple is a mobile company.
There’s a lot to like about previously mentioned DuckDuckGo, and there’s even more to like about its mobile app.
That picture of a cat licking a lollipop you found on Google Images may be infected. SANS guesses there are over 5,000 hacked sites, with Google referring about a half million visits to these fake sites each day.
The Facebook “Like” and “Send: buttons have been added to all posts.
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From today forever forward however, Athar will become known as the guy who live-tweeted a series of helicopter flypasts and explosions; unwittingly covering the US forces helicopter raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound. Live.
As a consumer, you are blasted with the same request over and over: “Follow Us on Twitter, Like Us on Facebook.” Why should I? What’s in it for me? These are questions of which a significant number of businesses cannot genuinely answer.
The SEO model has changed with Panda in that, rather than getting as many URLs as you can indexed, you now want only your highest-quality, most important URLs indexed.