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Were you wondering why I hadn't posted on this yet? Wonder no more. Online Marketing has the final, or so we think final, scoop on Google's standoff with the Chinese government. I am sure that you've all heard by now – Google is ending its Communist-mandated censorship of search results and directing queries to its [...]

A ruling on Tuesday from the European Union's highest court will stop Google Inc. from selling their brand names as advertising keywords to unauthorized sellers and counterfeiters in Europe. French companies, led by LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA, want to limit the sale of their trademarks on Google's automated Adwords program. They are afraid [...]

Facebook, due to its 400 million status-updating asparagus-farming, link-sharing, party picture-posting denizens, has risen to the top of the Internet heap once again, surpassing — at least according to one ranking, Google, in total U.S. visitors for the third time this year. Facebook accounted for 7.07% of all U.S. Internet visits for the week ending [...]

The European Union reported on Tuesday that some 100 million Europeans using Microsoft Corp. software will be asked to choose among rival Web browsers by mid-May. This comes under a deal which the EU struck with the firm in order to settle the latest antitrust action. Microsoft, this month, is starting to send updates to [...]

Twitter is announcing that they have got a new plan to make money from their ultra-popular micropublishing system. The New Plan: copy Google’s money-spinning search ads. Twitter will let advertisers sign up to have their ads show up as tiny 140-word posts when users search through Twitter or through other search engines that use its [...]

TopRank ran a survey of journalists, reporters and editors on their use of search and social media in 2008; they found that 91% use search engines like Google to do their job and 64% use social networks. Published in Jan 2010, a George Washington University and Cision survey of journalists reported that 89% use blogs [...]

You could put it that way or you could inquire, "Does Google make us stupid?" This interesting question splashed across the cover of the Atlantic Monthly last summer, headlining a story written by controversial technology analyst and pundit Nicholas Carr, whose argument was that the climate of instant information and supreme distraction which so permeates [...]

Microsoft and Yahoo have received all-systems-go to launch their search agreement from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission, and they will soon begin implementing their scheme. The process will involve porting Yahoo's algorithmic and paid search platforms to Microsoft and making Yahoo the sole relationship sales force for both companies' premium [...]

Q: Why can't I see my ads? A: Well, did you trust Google's Traffic Estimator when you set up the campaign? Big no-no. It says that you will be in third position from the top on such–and–such a price, when you'll actually be back on page 3. Set your bids small at first, and check [...]

Some Gmail users noticed yesterday that a new tab popped up in their Gmail toolbox called Buzz. They want to know, what exactly is up with that? Those who gave the new application a shot learned that it is a social networking tool which allows the sharing of status updates, images, and videos. These features, [...]

Well as you might have heard,Microsoft and Yahoo have finally reached an agreement to merge their search services in hopes of finally being able to compete with Google. Under the new 10-year, $275 million agreement, Microsoft's Bing search engine will power Yahoo Search, while Yahoo Search Marketing will be powered by Microsoft AdCenter. So what [...]

"Google Google Google, you're just too big" say its rival bookworms in the electronic book industry. The former former former's bid to secure the digital rights to millions of books remains under attack. Google is shooting at a legal settlement that would unlock to the search and ad genius, a vast electronic library. The opposition [...]