The Growing Portrait Of Google As A Big, Scary, Expanding Everywhere Copy Monster (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:The Growing Portrait Of Google As A Big, Scary, Expanding Everywhere Copy Monster — Twice this year, Google’s been fairly frank and vocal about something competitors have done that it feels is unfair. Twice, I’ve watched the technosphere largely react by beating the company over the head with a …
Apple still trying to land films, TV shows for iCloud (Greg Sandoval/CNET News)
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:Apple still trying to land films, TV shows for iCloud — Feature films could be part of Apple’s iCloud launch next week. — In the past several weeks, Apple executives have stepped up their attempts to convince some of the major Hollywood film studios to issue licenses that would enable Apple [...]
Turning The Tables On The Google Toolbar & Disclosure Claims (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Turning The Tables On The Google Toolbar & Disclosure Claims — Part of this week’s debate over whether Microsoft’s Bing search engine is learning from Google involves data that Bing gathers through Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Google has suggested Microsoft isn’t giving fair disclosure.
Eric Schmidt Stepping Down, Cofounder Larry Page To Be Google CEO (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Eric Schmidt Stepping Down, Cofounder Larry Page To Be Google CEO — Wow. Just announced, Google CEO Eric Schmidt is stepping down from that position, to become “Executive Chairman,” with Google cofounder Larry Page stepping into the CEO role. — The Announcement — From Google’s press release on the news:
Q&A: Google’s Sengupta On The Chrome OS Cr-48 Laptop (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Q&A: Google’s Sengupta On The Chrome OS Cr-48 Laptop — Yesterday, after writing my review of the Google Chrome OS Cr-48 notebook, I had a chance to catch up with Google product management director Caesar Sengupta about the machine. Below, answers to question like dealing with external monitors …
Google’s “Gold Standard” Search Results Take Big Hit In New York Times Story (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Google’s “Gold Standard” Search Results Take Big Hit In New York Times Story — The New York Times has a great, detailed story out today about a merchant with an unusual marketing strategy: be mean to customers. Any publicity, even negative publicity, means a win with Google’s ranking algorithms.
Google Announces Can’t Be Missed Press Event On Search – What’s Up? (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Google Announces Can’t Be Missed Press Event On Search – What’s Up? — Google’s announced a special press event for next Wednesday on search that “you won’t want to miss.” What big news could there be? Let’s speculate — but I wouldn’t get too excited. — Here’s what the invite [...]
Demand Media’s IPO: The Google & SEO Aspects (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Demand Media’s IPO: The Google & SEO Aspects — Demand Media has filed for an IPO. The company, known as a content farm to some, produces much of its content on sites like eHow and others in direct response to what it determines people are searching for on the web.
Google Lists Top 1,000 Sites On The Web & Then Lets You Advertise On Them (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:Google Lists Top 1,000 Sites On The Web & Then Lets You Advertise On Them — The Google AdWords blog announced new features for Google Ad Planner and AdWords content network today. — The big news is that Google publicly released a list of the top 1,000 sites by unique [...]
What is the path to land a job in information assurance / computer security?
I have a degree in computer science and have worked 6 months with the title of “software engineer”, but am considering an information-security focus.
