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Search Revenues: Google 14% Increase & Microsoft Bing 10% Decrease
Microsoft (Bing) reported earnings on October 27th and Alphabet (Google) reported earnings on on October 29th. Microsoft said that its earnings on Microsoft Advertising, i.e. ads on Bing and other properties, saw a 10% decrease year-over-year. Alphabet (Google) said its revenue was up 14% year-over-year. From the Microsoft earnings “search advertising revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs decreased 10% (down 11% in constant currency)” Google overall […]
House Judiciary Subcommittee Antitrust Findings On Google & Others
The big news yesterday was that the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust has released its findings and recommendations on how to reform laws to fit the digital age. This was a 16-month investigation into competitive practices at Google and Apple, Amazon, and Facebook. Some of these hearings you watched on YouTube or your favorite online video platform. In short, the report did not find much […]
Googlers Working From Home For Another Year – Through July 2021
Google announced it will allow its employees to work from home for another year, through July 2021. The company pushed its work from home policy out from March 2020 through July 2021. John Mueller from Google said on Twitter “It sucks. But also, the whole situation sucks for everyone. It’ll get better again, but it’s going to take quite a bit of time.” Here is […]
Prabhakar Raghavan New Lead Of Google Search; Replaced Ben Gomes
Prabhakar Raghavan, who has been running the Ads and Commerce teams since 2018, is replaced Ben Gomes as the head of Google Search and Assistant. Ben Gomes is still with Google, he is just moving to Google Education. Ben took over as head of Google Search in 2008 when he replaced John Giannandrea, who replaced Amit Singhal. It seems some folks in the SEO community […]
Not Going To Happen – Google Won’t Give Up Ranking Algorithm Secrets To SEO
The Register has a story that is headlined UK judge gives Google a choice: Either let SEO expert read your ranking algos or withdraw High Court evidence. This is around a case going on since 2006 with Foundem, where Foundem says Google favors those who advertise in the organic results. So the UK judge tells Google either drop your defense citing your algorithm doesn’t do […]