Google Q1 Results & Recent Developments
Filed under: News, SEO, Updates — Tags: &cd=, /url?, Google, one line sitelinks, referring URL — AL Wright @ Friday, April 17th, 2009
It was interesting to see the first quarter revenue announcement that Google published yesterday. Thankfully the analysts seem to see the 3% decrease, from $5.7 billion reported in Q4 of 2008 to $5.51 billion in Q1 of 2009, as slightly better than expected. Ok, not that interesting but a good indication that the world’s situation might not be quite as bad as all that.
Of real interest, to us Search Marketers anyway, are Google’s announcements on the new referring URL format and one line sitelinks. (more…)
Google’s Vince Update
Filed under: News, SEO — Tags: algorithm, brand, Eric Schmidt, Google, Tim Berners-Lee, update, Vince — AL Wright @ Tuesday, March 24th, 2009Google’s Matt Cutts is brushing Vince’s update off as one of 300-400 per annum but webmasters and SEOs have turned their attention to Google CEO Eric Schmidt who publically stated in October 2008 that the internet is fast becoming a “cesspool” where false information thrives and “brands are how you sort out the cesspool.” It’s also been noted that the net’s founder, Tim Berners-Lee, has been making similar statements of late which leads everyone to believe that Google is giving brands a helping hand in the search results by creating an algorithmic brand element. (more…)
