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blogoscoped.com - 2/12/2009
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It looks like Google penalized one of its own websites. Recently , Google Japan was caught buying blog posts in a promotion campaign for one of its features. At least as far as integrating PageRank-passing links would go, Google gave pretty strong indicators in the past that paid-posts ...
google-tmads.blogspot.com - 2/12/2009
Traditional Media: Let's Take it Offline: Google Exits Radio but Will Explore Online Streaming Audio
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google-tmads.blogspot.com —
At Google we've never shied away from high-risk,
high-reward projects. We believe that making big bets is...
not only in the best interests of our users and partners, but also important for our long term success. In 2006, we launched Google Audio Ads and ...
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Traditional Media: Let's Take it Offline: Google Exits ...
techcrunch.com - 2/11/2009
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techcrunch.com —
Last October, Google signed a $125 million settlement
with the Author’s Guild to pay authors for copyrighted...
works it has scanned and made available on the Web through its Google Book Search project. More than 7 million books have been ...
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Google Book Settlement Site Is Up; Paying Authors $60 ...
pcworld.com - 2/10/2009
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pcworld.com —
Google is testing software that will let consumers
get detailed information on how much electricity they're using,...
which could help households reduce consumption by as much as 15 percent, the company said Monday. The software, Google PowerMeter, ...
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Google's PowerMeter Lets You Know If the Lights Are on
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Google penalizes itself for paid-blog promotion
Webware.com —
... in search results and can boost the prominence of other sites to which it links.
Through Google's PageRank algorithm, a site to which many other sites link gets higher placement in search results, and Google works hard to ensure its search results aren't skewed by sites with inappropriate paid links. That would let sites simply pay for higher search results; Google wants the quality and relevance of the site's content to determine such placement.
(Via Google Blogoscoped.) ...
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