News Byte
Peter Kafka in News on January 3 at 2:47 pm PT
Google, which says it had no idea it was paying bloggers to promote its Chrome browser, is punishing itself for doing so. The search giant tells Danny Sullivan it will penalize the “pagerank” of www.google.com/chrome for “at least 60 days.” Google has blamed the pay-per-post campaign on ad network Unruly Media, but says “Google should be held to a higher standard, so we have taken stricter action than we would against a typical site.”
Peter Kafka in Media on January 3 at 6:11 am PT
No big deal, says Unruly Media CEO Scott Button — we do this stuff all the time.
Kara Swisher in News on December 22, 2011 at 10:57 am PT
The search giant will pony up close to $1 billion to hipcheck Microsoft’s Bing from the pole position on the Firefox browser.
Liz Gannes in News on December 20, 2011 at 10:49 am PT
Mozilla is about to announce that it has signed a new three-year agreement for Google to be the default search option in its Firefox browser.
Liz Gannes in News on December 5, 2011 at 10:00 am PT
Mozilla today responded to public scrutiny of renewal of its key revenue deal with Google by replying that it is “in active negotiations” with its major partner and competitor.
Kara Swisher in Social on November 25, 2011 at 10:34 am PT
Sharing via incessantly sorting all your relationships is apparently now a marketing plus.
Drake Martinet in News on November 10, 2011 at 10:57 am PT
Google has acquired contextual search start-up Apture and will integrate the team and features into Chrome.
Kara Swisher in Mobile on November 9, 2011 at 10:15 am PT
Looks like Apple’s Steve Jobs was right (as usual).
Kara Swisher in Mobile on November 9, 2011 at 9:30 am PT
Why Apple put the popular software technology out to pasture.
Drake Martinet in Mobile on October 10, 2011 at 10:00 am PT
In the next move of a massive pivot away from Flash, Aviary, the New York-based media editing start-up, released a new SDK for iPad developers today.
