After my previous post about Google’s experiment at auctioning newspaper print ads, Google has now officially begun open auctions to sell magazine / newspaper / journal print space. As always, the highest bidder wins.
Did Sergey or Larry Page start out working in a real estate office or something? Google is looking as much like an

Don’t be alarmed by the title of this post, I’m merely referring to one of the wackier projects that I have seen a Google staffer do with their “personal project” time. Fans of Warner Bros’ Looney Tunes cartoons may like it. Just plain weird.

Today we received an email from Google about changes to the Google Adwords Professionals Qualification.
Found Agency was the first Australian company to receive this qualification, with one of our staffers among the first 10 people worldwide to pass the Adwords Pro exam (another staffer made the top 100 - cheers for the special gift Google).

So Google reports its Quarter 4 profit tomorrow. For internet companies, that number can represent an important bellwether for their fortunes over the coming weeks. When Google ’s profit rises, many online companies’ expectation of ongoing internet growth also rises with it (but not obviously by the same exponential. I know I’m a little premature

Were you lucky enough to get shares in the Google IPO? Still holding them? Given the recent slide in the share price, you might like to know about the new Google Podium where you can read transcripts and see webcasts from presentations made by the top of the Google management team.
Might give you some insight

If you weren’t at the cricket or the tennis or having an Australia Day barbecue yesterday then you might’ve noticed something interesting on every TV news broadcast in the country: a mini-furore about Google’s decision to cede to the Chinese Government’s “restricted information” internet censorship rules. In case you missed it, Google has decided to

You know you’re truly hot tamales when The Economist decides to run a feature piece on your company. This week’s feature in the mag’s Business section? Google. Of course.
One particular paragraph in the article - which was glowing in its overall review of Google’s progress - particularly caught my interest. It resonates with a growing

Here’s an article about the French solution to Google’s growing power - subsidise a French company to create yet another search engine … albeit in the French language.
Personally, I understand the French Government’s concern about Google’s monopoly-like power in search. Whether this is a smart solution to increase competition though is very questionable.

For search engine afficianandos this is old news. But for those who hadn’t already heard, Google has now formally partnered with Chicago’s Sun-Times newspaper to trial a new print advertising scheme.
Under the deal, Google is currently filling what’s known as “unsold inventory” in the Sun-Times — essentially ad spots in the newspaper that the

Can someone please tell me: is this Google or is this Dell? The answer confounds me.