Another Court Affirms Google’s First Amendment Control Of Search Results

Europe and the US are moving farther apart on Google. As European regulators seek ways to restrain Google’s discretion and control over search results US courts continue to affirm Google’s First Amendment right to do whatever it wants with search results. A California state court in San…

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Google Slaps Another Guest Blog Network: PostJoint

Google’s Matt Cutts somewhat confirmed on Twitter that Google has taken action on another guest blogging network. This network is named PostJoint and claims “there’s no footprints.” Someone tweeted to Matt that PostJoint was penalized. In fact, if you check out Google for a…

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Report: Google Running Another Test To Map In-Store Sales To AdWords Ads

When Google introduced Estimated Total Conversions in AdWords last September, the company made clear it was working on ways to measure the impact of online advertising on in-store sales as it outlined the initiative to give advertisers a complete view of the effect their search advertising has on…

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Google Gets Another Street View Privacy Fine — In Italy

It seems like each European country is taking its turn fining Google for some privacy infraction. This time, it’s Italy and involves Street View. Google has reportedly paid a roughly $ 1.4 million (1 million EUR) fine. According a story in Reuters, the issue this time was the failure to…

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Google Busts Yet Another Link Network: Anglo Rank

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, just confirmed on Twitter that Google has targeted another “private link network” – this one is named Anglo Rank. Matt’s tweet was pretty direct, he wrote: “There are absolutely NO footprints linking the websites…

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Google May Have Penalized Another Major Link Network: Ghost Rank 2.0

Google has significantly penalized another underground link network over the weekend and we believe that one of the link networks targeted by Google is named Ghost Rank 2.0. A few weeks ago, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, tweeted “Thinking of ghost-related puns for a spam…

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