Emily Steel, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Commerce on October 25, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Visa has filed several patent applications that provide a blueprint for using credit-card transaction data to target digital ads and personalize other content, such as search results.
Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 13, 2011 at 11:32 am PT
Since Google in February began changing the way its search engine ranks sites in order to weed out “low-quality” content and “article vomit,” thousands of negatively affected website publishers have scrambled to recuperate. HubPages.com says it may have found a solution.
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Voices in News on March 10, 2011 at 2:02 pm PT
Google today started rolling out
a new feature that allows users to block any site they choose from appearing in their search results. The feature aims to further personalize the search experience by letting users eliminate sites they find offensive or useless. Google said it won’t be factoring that data into its search rankings–for now, at least.
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Beth Callaghan in News on December 2, 2010 at 12:22 pm PT
Google today announced four changes aimed at making copyright protection easier: Copyright takedown requests will be acted upon within 24 hours, AdSense anti-piracy review will be improved, terms “closely associated” with piracy will be prevented from appearing in autocomplete and the company will endeavor to make authorized preview content more available in its search results. The changes will take place over the next few months.
Peter Kafka in Media on March 12, 2010 at 7:57 am PT
Google and Apple may be fighting each other on multiple fronts, but they’re deeply linked, too. Another example: Apple is filling up Google search results with the contents of its iTunes store.
John Paczkowski in News on March 8, 2010 at 4:02 am PT
Like so many of its services, Google’s so-called “New Approach to China” appears to be in perpetual beta. Though Google has said repeatedly that it is in discussions with Chinese officials about its plans to end censorship of search results in the country, the Chinese govenment claims Google hasn’t yet initiated talks.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 5, 2010 at 7:24 am PT
Here’s an interesting side note to GPhone (a.k.a. “Nexus One”) day–Google is still experimenting with its “click-to-call” program for advertisers on “high-end mobile devices.” Coincidence?
Peter Kafka in Media on December 21, 2009 at 8:08 am PT
Publishers love to gripe about Google. But they almost never, ever, do the one thing that could put their money where their mouth is: Tell the search giant to leave them out of its results.
