Circle to search: Google rolls out AI-driven search tech on mobile phones

Posted by DomainGang on January 22, 2024, at 7:11 pm

Google unveiled new methods of haptic search on mobile phones and it’s rolling out the feature on its Android OS: Today we unveiled Circle to Search, a new way to search anything on your Android phone screen without switching apps. With a simple gesture, you can select images, text or videos in whatever way comes […]

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Google ad clients aren’t paying and that affects your Sedo PPC revenue

Posted by DomainGang on October 4, 2023, at 2:45 pm

For the second month in a row, Sedo, an advertising partner of Google, has issued earning adjustments. The underlying cause: Google ad clients are “in default” which means that they aren’t paying for services rendered. Also, there is potential fraud involved, which Google refers to as “invalid clicks.” In turn, Google goes back to its […]

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Google generics: Anguilla no longer linked to .ai domains

Posted by DomainGang on June 1, 2023, at 10:25 am

Google has added dot .ai, the ccTLD of Anguilla, to its growing list of “generic” TLDs, an indication that there are not many domains representing the small island. Dot .ai domains are being used as a reference to “artificial intelligence” or AI, technology, crypto, and other uses that are not linked to Anguilla. As such, […]

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Google ranking no longer cares about being mobile-friendly

Posted by DomainGang on April 24, 2023, at 9:40 am

In 2015, Google pushed hard for establishing mobile-friendly content as a means of gauging ranking with its search engine. That feature, whether it was actively enforced or not, is now obsolete. No longer does mobile-friendly content become a requirement for Google ranking, although having mobile-friendly content can be a plus for some. New guidelines released […]

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Very evil: Google keeping 90% or more of ad revenues according to multi-state lawsuit

Posted by DomainGang on April 4, 2023, at 9:10 am

Washington is the latest US state to join an antitrust lawsuit targeting Google and its ad business. Washington state attorney general Bob Ferguson joined the lawsuit against Google that was filed in January by the US State Department and eight other states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Virginia. The […]

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Stadia.com: Google drops service built on 1994 domain name

Posted by DomainGang on September 30, 2022, at 10:46 am

Google, operators of the gaming platform Stadia, announced that it’s terminating the service. Built on the acquired domain name Stadia.com, Google’s Stadia is a cloud gaming service developed and operated by Google. It is accessible through Chromecast Ultra and Android TV devices, on personal computers via the Google Chrome web browser and other browsers. Not […]

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Iron Mountain: Why is Google using it as a “domain escrow?”

Posted by DomainGang on August 17, 2022, at 9:35 am

Google operates an ICANN-accredited domain registrar, among its many ventures. Domain investors using Google to register and manage domain names often go there not because of discounted pricing, but because of the expected level of security. That might not work out in the end as Jay Westerdal found out. Google’s online help contains an entry […]

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Google takes Googled.com 21 years later

Posted by DomainGang on July 21, 2022, at 11:33 am

Google, the 800 lbs search engine gorilla, has taken over the domain Googled.com. It took 21 years and the use of the UDRP process to bring this 2001 registration home. Googling is the act of using Google to search for and find related results and “Googled” would be the past tense, however, this is a […]

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TrustedContacts.com: HugeDomains sale in the hands of Google

Posted by DomainGang on May 27, 2022, at 1:49 pm

Trusted Contacts has an interesting story shared by both Facebook,—now Meta—and Google. In 2013, Facebook (Meta) opened “Trusted Contacts” publicly, renaming it from a closed-beta “Trusted Friends.” The Facebook version of “Trusted Contacts” is as follows: Choose people you trust, like friends you’d give a spare key to your house. Choose people you can reach […]

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Military gear: Google ads spread out thanks to war in #Ukraine

Posted by DomainGang on April 11, 2022, at 10:20 am

The ongoing war in Ukraine has created a massive interest in military gear and related supplies. While gun ads are more or less banned from Google, other tactical “defensive” gear is not. For example, when viewing an article on CNN with updates on the Ukrainian crisis, the following add appears: On the left, one can […]

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Performed “domain rebranding” recently? Google needs the old #domain up for a year!

Posted by DomainGang on March 21, 2022, at 10:48 am

Performing any type of domain rebranding, the process of pointing a domain, subdomain, or other online content to a new domain, requires some maintenance for SEO purposes. If you want Google to “move over” your content from the previous domain name to the new one, you’d better be prepared for some long haul redirection! That’s […]

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