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Google+ Users Are Nearly All Male

Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Here’s an interesting tidbit from the Google+ stats trackers: Three quarters (or more) of Google+ users are male. SocialStatistics, a thi…

Google+ Users Share 1 Billion Items Per Day, Says Larry Page

Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Already using Google+? Follow Mashable News for the latest about the platform’s new features, tips and tricks as well as our top social me

Google Shares Soar On Record-Breaking Revenues

Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Google set a new record for revenue in the second quarter of 2011, beating Wall Street estimates and boosting its share price by double digits.…

5 Chrome Extensions That Improve Google+

Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Google+ has launched to great aplomb, but its “project” status means some tools have yet to be developed. While Google works on add…

Google Adds +1 Button Data to Google Analytics, Webmaster Tools

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Google announced the addition of +1 button data to Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools. These new metrics can show you how the +1 button actually affects the traffic to your site. In WMT, there is a Search Impact report, which …

Google investors fear long battle against feds – msnbc.com

Saturday, June 25th, 2011
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Google Extends Ad Targeting Based on Browsing History. Good or Bad?

Saturday, June 25th, 2011
Remember Google’s interest-based advertising? You know, where they serve you ads based on your browsing history, and allow advertisers to behaviorally target users? It has now rolled out on a mass scale after a two-year beta run. All advertisers …

GoDaddy May Get Purchased for $2.5 Billion

Friday, June 24th, 2011
GoDaddy might be transferring ownership soon. The Wall Street Journal is reporting, citing “people familiar with the matter,” that private equity firms KKR & Co. and Silver Lake Partners, along with Technology Crossover Ventures (as a …

Should Google and Facebook Be Filtering Our Content For Us?

Monday, June 20th, 2011
Is the personalization of the Internet a step backwards? Is the wealth of information that is accessible to us being reduced because the products we use are filtering it all so heavily? This is a discussion that has been gaining …

Google Panda 2.2 Update Suspected to Be Live

Monday, June 20th, 2011
Update: A Google spokesperson tells WebProNews, “We’ll continue to iterate on returning high-quality sites to Google users as part of the roughly 500 changes we make to our ranking algorithms each year. We have nothing more specific to anno…