In a move that could harm its own businesses, the German government is targeting Google on privacy issues again — this time over Google Analytics. German privacy officials are concerned that Google Analytics tracks web users’ IP addresses, and that could violate an individual’s... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Google Analytics does a great job of allowing you to analyze your web traffic through a very important metric: top exit pages. This metric, along with bounce rate and time on site, is valuable as it allows you to measure the impact of changes to your webpages. Did exit rate go up or down? You can choose to optimize pages with high exit rates to try to keep your visitors longer or help them convert, or -- if the page is a logical exit point, you can monetize outgoing traffic on high exit pages by ...

USA Today announced it was adding 250 Top Ten Places articles to its FourSquare account and its intention of adding more, "Foursquare has been reaching out to media companies and inking partnerships over the past year, landing big-name publishers such as The Wall Street Journal. Foursquare Founder Dennis Crowley said last summer that the company has employees focused on reaching out to blogs, magazines and newspapers to encourage them to put content archives on Foursquare," Editor and Publisher ...

Google debuted a new look for AdSense back in November, and today announced some more updates and new features. They are: Click to read the rest of this post...

Language barriers can be incredibly frustrating.  There's nothing quite like facing another intelligent human being and realizing you'll both have to mime things for the next five minutes in order to have any chance of understanding each other.  But Google's attempting to fix that with a new "Conversation Mode" in Google Translate for Android. A word of caution: don't first try out Conversation Mode when money, a legal matter, or food is at stake.  Google - which is usually happy to ...

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Extreme Email Experiment: How Much Is Too Much? With some simple analytics in place, you can pretty easily establish the ideal frequency of your B2B email... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

With some simple analytics in place, you can pretty easily establish the ideal frequency of your B2B email campaigns. Based on the results from this experiment, we confirmed that we should be sending email more frequently. You will probably come to a similar conclusion. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

While there are plenty of markets that Google enters for the sake of spreading word, increasing market share, or gaining additional income opportunities, there are at least a few that are incidental. This is the case with Goo.gl, a shortener akin to bit.ly or moo.url that trims down long site addresses to a simple 12-character [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Goo.gl Shortener API Released to Devs

Google started so successfully because the company was made up of two brilliant innovators who clung to some unrelenting dreams.  The story of the company’s success since then may just be more of the same, since so much of what drives the company — including the new fields Google is able to enter — stems [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Google Actively Addressing Android UI Issues

When looking at the amount of control that government exercises over businesses, the U.S. Government is comparatively lenient when contrasted with European countries. This has made visible impact on technology in these different sections of the globe, with browser functioning, search site popularity, and even available services changing based on the laws of the region. [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.German Officials Fight Google

If you don’t know who Larry Page is: Wake up! You haven’t been paying enough attention. This Google co-founder is one of the biggest names in technology, and at age 37 is worth over 15 billion dollars. Not knowing Page in America is the equivalent of a citizen of the UK not knowing the name [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Google Founder’s Latest Toy

Whenever we refer to the various application lineups from the current players in the smartphone industry (Apple, Android, WP7, RIM), we refer to the storehouse of apps as the “app store” or “app marketplace.” The term “app store” was first coined by Apple, and the term “app” served there as a shortened version of both [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Microsoft Fights Down App Store Trademark

When we discuss Android phones, we inevitably talk about the iPhone as well. After all, the iPhone is currently running neck-and-neck with Android phones (25% to Google’s 26%). We discuss many of the reasons for Android’s growing success, as well as how Apple is pushing the limits on their end. One we’ve failed to cover, [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Study Shows Google Android as More Vulnerable than iPhone

What is the “one real threat to Google”?  If you answered Facebook, well, you probably already know my opinion. Still, there’s no denying that Facebook and Google are two of the biggest giants in the field, and their business plans, while not directly competing, aren’t exactly friendly to each other. Now, however, it seems that Facebook and [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Android and Facebook : Teaming Up?

Google has long had a policy of “release early, iterate often.” However, the different product lines have very different update schedules. While Google Android gets a major update a couple times a year, the search engine gets more than one update to its algorithm each day. Residing somewhere in the middle is Google Chrome, which [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Google’s Chrome Update Acceleration

Rumors are soaring around the Web about the upcoming Google operating systems.  Whether it’s the release date of Gingerbread to current Froyo phones, the introduction of Honeycomb on the market, the release of Froyo to phones that Samsung hasn’t been paying enough attention to, or — more recently — the release of Android’s 2.4 operating system. [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.New Name for Android 2.4 OS

One of the technology battles that’s happening well under the surface, and out of the eyesight of many users, is the battle of the video codecs. There are many codecs on the market today, ranging from the H.264 (Apple’s preferred codec), WebM (Google’s open-source initiative with a VP8 codec), Theora (the Firefox alternative), and several [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Google Drops Popular Video Codec Support

In a world where Google is already the reputed source for searching, competitors must find niche doorways into the habits — and attention spans — of their users.  It’s for this reason that Yahoo abandoned its search to focus on side services, and it’s for that same reason that Bing sprung into existence — replacing [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Bing : Your Source for Playoff Tickets

If there’s one electronics show that stands out more brightly than the others, it’s definitely the Consumer Electronics Show. This show, who’s 2011 rendition just finished, drew over 140,000 visitors this year, all coming to see presentations from big names like Google, Microsoft, Samsung — and on and on, since most of the major names [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Google Android: The Shining Star of CES

The term "austerity" was almost omnipresent in British culture last year, with budget cutbacks being discussed on a regular basis by just about everyone.  Only it seems the search industry came out more than okay, as a new report from Econsultancy indicates the UK marketplace for SEO came to be worth roughly $680 million. Indeed, Econsultancy's 2011 SEO Agencies Buyer's Guide in part stated, "Econsultancy estimates that the UK marketplace for SEO was worth 376m [$587 million] in 2009 and that ...