Google Buys More Patents Off IBM
6 Jan 2012 11:15am GMT IP-short Google has gone back to the Big Blue well again for another 217 patents and patent applications. The transaction turned up in a search of the US Patent and Trademark Office’s patent assignment database the other day by SEO by the Sea, the blog that has been keeping tabs on the IP transfers that have been going on between IBM and Google for at least the last eight months. The PTO’s records show that Google has bought over 2,300 patents from IBM on undisclosed terms. The...
Google Confirms FTC Investigation
5 Jul 2011 8:00am GMT Google has confirmed in a regulatory filing that the Federal Trade Commission means to investigate its search and advertising business for abusing its dominance like the European Commission is doing. It got the subpoena last Thursday, the day the Wall Street Journal reported that the shoe was about to drop. Subpoenas to competitors and customers will follow. Observers like the Journal immediately drew comparisons to what happened to Microsoft and suggested that Google could be defending...
Google Sued for ‘Suffocating’ French Rival
29 Jun 2011 12:00pm GMT Google’s been sued in Paris for anti-competitive behavior by 1plusV, a French specialty search firm that also complained to the European Commission last year and again this year about the search giant’s alleged habit of blocking rivals and depriving them ad revenues by manipulating search results. It’s asking for €295 million (~$424 million). Its beef goes back four years. It claims Google blacklisted 30 of its search engines from 2007-2010 and pushed its own services...
FTC to Investigate Google for Antitrust: WSJ
24 Jun 2011 10:00am GMT The shoe that’s been dangling at the end of Washington’s toe for ever so long has finally dropped, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly ready to serve Google with civil subpoenas, kicking off what the paper says will be a “wide-ranging, formal antitrust investigation into whether the search giant has abused its dominance on the web.” Google should get served with demands for information in days. Competitors and customers will...
The Importance of a Link Building Service in SEO
13 Jun 2011 11:33am GMT Those who are into search engine optimization typically do a lot of activities to enhance the web visibility of the client’s website. They will change the meta tags, particularly the title, description, keywords, and the alt tags. They will change the HTML coding of the page to make it easier for the search engine robots to spider through it. Some SEO professionals will even remove tables, frames, and flash files to better the prospects. There are those who will write a lot of content...