Stories about ‘Google’


By Brett Bumeter

Here is a great little video put together by Google that demonstrates how to create a Google My Map.  A My Map is a customized Google Map that can include your own journal of places you have been, paths or routes you have traveled, sites you have seen, pictures or video you have taken and more.  It can be kept private or published...

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By Brett Bumeter

Microsoft this week unveiled an agreement with Hewlett Packard to have Microsoft’s Live Search Engine set as the default search engine on new HP machines.

Under the agreement, Microsoft’s search engine will also be the default on Internet Explorer, which is preloaded with HP machines.

Microsoft did not disclose the terms of the agreement, which will begin...

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By Brett Bumeter

It is ironic that Google one of the largest providers of blogging software is unfriendly to bloggers.  Google suffers the common bloggers of the world as a means to an end for serving up more Google Adword/Adsense ads across the internet.  They privately also use the writing of bloggers to help index the internet for their search engine.

However, Google looks at bloggers like...

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By Brett Bumeter

I was going to reply on a discussion forum thread about the Google – terrorist Connection.   This was sparked by an article titled, “Is Google the New Terrorist?“  The thread was locked prematurely, and the concept was not fully covered, so I thought I’d open it up some more as I do find it very...

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By Brett Bumeter

This is a discussion touching off a thread in the PPP forumThe TLA community has been hit here as well.  Andy Beard mentions how long he has been tracking the attack, which I blogged about earlier with some of his shared and great stats...

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By Brett Bumeter

Quick WordPress Tip about deleted Tags Creating 404 errors in Google Webmaster Tools

If you delete a wordpress tag, it will create a 404 error if a visitor or possibly as important, Google Bot comes through to re-index your site.

Sure you can redirect that deleted tag link, but if you later create it again on the fly with a new post, your redirection...

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By Brett Bumeter

I have a confession to make.  I love the childish images that many so-called news organizations use to suck in traffic from Google News.

google news gamed with goofy images

This type of thing used to be a...

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By Brett Bumeter

Today, I noticed a large rise in traffic on many of my sites.  As I have many political sites it was not surprising as today is Super Tuesday and people are looking for information and sharing information like crazy.

However, my adsense earnings for the day were off, by like 98%!

I was trying to figure out what was going...

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By Brett Bumeter

 

 example-philadelphia-redlining-as-portrayed-on-wikipedia I came across a great tool on a website called Advertising for Success.  Unfortunately, the website advertising for success has to move because they found themselves in a bad neighborhood.  It would appear that Google participates in a practice known as read more

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By Brett Bumeter

Google has been attacking publishers for the last couple months.  The attacks are coming as a result of an advertising industry that helps web site owners advertise in search engine ranking placements (SERP).

Google has a growing monopoly in search some investors think they may hit a 100% monopoly level soon.  That could send their stock up to $900 per...

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