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Google Buys More Patents Off IBM

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:15:00 GMT

IP-short Google has gone back to the Big Blue well again for another 217 patents and patent applications. The transaction turned up in a search of the US Patent and Trademark Office’s patent assignment database the other day by SEO by the Sea, the blog that has been keeping tabs on the IP transfers that have been going on between IBM and Google for at least the last eight months. The PTO’s records show that Google has bought over 2,300 patents from IBM on undisclosed terms. The latest deal includes patents related to wireless phones and JavaScript widgets. Bill Slawski, who writes SEO by the Sea, says the 188 patents and 29 patent applications cover a “broad range of topics, such as presentation software, blade servers, data caching, server load balancing, network performance, video conferencing, e-mail administration, and instant messaging applications. A number of the patents cover specific Internet, phone and mobile phone technologies as well.” Florian Mueller, who’s been following Google’s patent travails, figures Google, with IBM’s connivance, may be building up to file suit against Oracle using IBM’s database and enterprise software IP in retaliation for Oracle’s Java suit and its recently revised (upwards) demand for $2.7 billion in patent damages alone and that’s before trebling. No figure has been put on its copyright claims. For a selected list of patents in the latest cache see www.seobythesea.com/2012/01/ibm-assigns-patent-filings-to-google/ . The December 28, 2011 deal was recorded by the PTO on December 31.

Google Seeks Nortel Replacement

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:15:00 GMT

Having blanched at spending more than $4.5 billion for the 6,000 Nortel patents that were supposed to help it build a fortress against infringement claims – even if some of the money was Intel’s – patent-short Google is reportedly talking acquisition with InterDigital, whose wireless IP could reportedly help protect its litigation-attracting Android franchise. InterDigital reportedly holds and licenses 8,800 mostly handset-style patents on things like transmitting wireless data and canceling noise interference.

Google Confirms FTC Investigation

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:00:00 GMT

Google has confirmed in a regulatory filing that the Federal Trade Commission means to investigate its search and advertising business for abusing its dominance like the European Commission is doing. It got the subpoena last Thursday, the day the Wall Street Journal reported that the shoe was about to drop. Subpoenas to competitors and customers will follow. Observers like the Journal immediately drew comparisons to what happened to Microsoft and suggested that Google could be defending itself for years, condemned to distraction while facing a nemesis like Facebook.

Google Confirms FTC Investigation

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:00:00 GMT

Google Sued for ‘Suffocating’ French Rival

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:00:00 GMT

Google’s been sued in Paris for anti-competitive behavior by 1plusV, a French specialty search firm that also complained to the European Commission last year and again this year about the search giant’s alleged habit of blocking rivals and depriving them ad revenues by manipulating search results. It’s asking for €295 million (~$424 million). Its beef goes back four years. It claims Google blacklisted 30 of its search engines from 2007-2010 and pushed its own services instead. Besides the EC probe, Google is now being investigated by the Federal Trade Commission for the same thing. Google owns at least 80% of the European search market.

Cloud Computing: Google Sued for ‘Suffocating’ French Rival

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:39:00 GMT

Opera Founder Out

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:17:00 GMT

Opera founder Jon von Tetzchner is leaving the company because of differences with the board. He wrote in an e-mail to Opera staff that “It has become clear that the board, management and I do not share the same values and we do not have the same opinions on how to keep evolving Opera. As a result I have come to an agreement with the board to end my time at Opera. I feel the board and management is more quarterly focused than me.” He told Reuters that “I’m probably more ambitious and would like to move faster in all areas than the board and the current management do.”

FTC to Investigate Google for Antitrust: WSJ

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:00:00 GMT

The shoe that’s been dangling at the end of Washington’s toe for ever so long has finally dropped, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly ready to serve Google with civil subpoenas, kicking off what the paper says will be a “wide-ranging, formal antitrust investigation into whether the search giant has abused its dominance on the web.” Google should get served with demands for information in days. Competitors and customers will get theirs later.

Cloud Computing – FTC to Investigate Google for Antitrust: WSJ

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:09:00 GMT

The Importance of a Link Building Service in SEO

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:33:00 GMT

Those who are into search engine optimization typically do a lot of activities to enhance the web visibility of the client’s website. They will change the meta tags, particularly the title, description, keywords, and the alt tags. They will change the HTML coding of the page to make it easier for the search engine robots to spider through it. Some SEO professionals will even remove tables, frames, and flash files to better the prospects. There are those who will write a lot of content because content always does well with the search engines. Some people will even try to spam the search engines by including the keywords deliberately. There are other issues too such as social media marketing, viral marketing through YouTube and other channels, and others like this. But among them all, link building service probably remains as the most important.

The Importance of a Link Building Service in SEO

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:33:00 GMT

Google Introduces "Best Guess"

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:05:00 GMT

Try searching for “The capital of Oman”. What do you expect to see? Couple of sponsored link followed by ten resultant pages – right? When did Google introduce this feature? It was done quietly. There is a news item on 23rd March, 2011 in Realwebseo talking about this feature. When did IBM Watson win Jeopardy! – 16 February, 2011. Do you see the connection? In the post How intelligent are the Computers of 2011 I had asked the question “Why has Google not attempted something like this?” Now we know that the option (2) to be right answer.

How IBM Watson Has Influenced Google

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:05:00 GMT

Texas Jury Duns Google $5 Million in Linux Case

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:30:00 GMT

Google has been ordered to pay $5 million by an East Texas jury that found for Bedrock Computer Technologies LLC in an almost two-year-old Linux-related patent case. The jury found the patent valid. Patent watcher Florian Mueller, who broke the story, says the case has “major implications for the IT industry in general and for Linux in particular…Many companies using Linux have already been required by the patent holder to pay royalties, and many more will now, based on this jury verdict, elect to pay.” Mueller says the decision also has “ramifications for Google’s Linux-based Android mobile operating system.”

Why You Won’t Care that the Net Isn’t Neutral

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:18:00 GMT

It’s very simple. Once we have lost Net neutrality and the access providers are given a free hand to charge Internet companies for delivering their bits faster and more reliably than their competitors’ bits, we will experience this simply as how the Internet works, not as an artificial constraint put in to benefit the access providers. With so little competition, the access providers will be able to jack up fast lane prices as high as the richest players in the market can bear. So, let’s say Google decides to pay the access providers for “fast lane” service, but Bing does not. You’ll notice that Google results fly in, while Bing seems to be having trouble digesting its oatmeal. You won’t know if that’s because Bing’s search engine is slower or because it didn’t pony up for fast lane service. All you’ll know is that you’re not going back to Bing.

Why You Won’t Care that the Net Isn’t Neutral

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:18:00 GMT

Google Gets ITA & Maybe More Trouble

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:00:00 GMT

Google got its way. The Justice Department isn’t going to oppose its $700 million acquisition of ITA Software, which provides the data for airline tickets to airlines and online travel companies, a purchase the agency has been reviewing since last July. But unlike Google’s equally opposed $3.2 billion acquisition of DoubleClick, the display ad house, in 2008 or its $750 million acquisition of AdMob, the mobile ad company, last year, the DOJ put strings on this one.

Google Gets ITA & Maybe More Trouble

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:00:00 GMT

The Internet's Midlife Crisis

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:05:26 GMT

Remember way back when the Internet first became popular? Its main use seemed to be downloading videos of monkeys doing weird things and people having accidents on their skateboards? The Internet was young and it was fun. Then things got serious. The Internet had to get a job, move out of its parents house and be an adult. Well, maybe its time for a mid life crisis for the Internet. Sure, the Internet is a great tool for large companies to show off and sell their wares. It's a great tool for small business to compete on a local scale. It's also a great tool for people to share online and to communicate with others. Etcetera etcetera. But, it's also a great tool for just having fun and goofing off.

Google Could Face FTC Antitrust Investigation: Bloomberg

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 06:00:00 GMT

Already under investigation for antitrust in Europe, Google could face a broad parallel investigation of its dominant search business in the US by the Federal Trade Commission, Bloomberg said Monday quoting two unidentified people “familiar with the matter.” A heck of a way for Larry Page to start his run as Google’s new CEO. Looks like Eric Schmidt stepped down just in time.

Google Could Face FTC Antitrust Investigation: Bloomberg

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 06:00:00 GMT

Microsoft Complains to EC About Google

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:14:00 GMT

Microsoft filed a formal complaint with the European Commission Thursday charging Google with unfair practices in search, online advertising and smartphone software, a broader raft of charges against the search giant than the EC is believed to be currently investigating. It is the first time Microsoft has ever complained to the EC about anybody. Historically the complaints have been made against Microsoft and its chief lawyer Brad Smith took note of that fact saying, “Having spent more than a decade wearing the shoe on the other foot with the European Commission, the filing of a formal antitrust complaint is not something we take lightly.”

Google Accuses China of Playing Dirty Pool

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 14:45:00 GMT

Google accused the Chinese government Monday of screwing with Gmail and making it look like it was Google’s problem. It said China has been making it hard for Chinese users to access the e-mail system and send e-mails or IMs since the end of January. “There is no technical issue on our side,” it said, “we have checked extensively. This is a government blockage carefully designed to look like the problem is with Gmail.” Google also complained about “highly targeted and apparently politically motivated attacks against our users. We believe activists may have been a specific target.”

Baidu Planning Its Own OS: FT

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:59:00 GMT

Baidu, China’s dominant version of Google, is building its own Chrome OS-like lightweight mobile operating system, the Financial Times said Tuesday after a chat with Baidu’s CEO Robin Li. It appears to want Baidu to open a “web search box” within a second of turning on a smartphone or tablet. “Right now,” Li told the paper, “when you power on an iPhone, it takes 45 seconds before you can do anything. In the future, one second, you turn on the device, and you can start using the box. That’s our mission for the future of the Internet.” Gee, apparently people in China turn their phones off. And apparently Baidi’s not in a rush. It seems to imagine obviating operating systems taking three to five years. Here’s something Google can relate to: “The goal is to let people become increasingly dependent on the Baidu box,” Li is quoted as saying.

Amazon Gives Virtual Private Clouds Internet Access

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:00:00 GMT

The Amazon cloud got fitter for the enterprise Tuesday, creating a hurdle for rivals. Its 19-month-old Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) – which involves infrastructure off in a secure, private part of its cloud – no longer requires a secure virtual private network (VPN) connection. It can now be gotten to through the Internet. Users can specify which Amazon VPC resources they want to be directly accessible over the Internet and which they don’t. That means they can set up public-facing EC2 and S3 subnets by setting up virtual networks in the Amazon cloud and keep their back-end databases and application servers sacrosanct.

Google Trashes Gears

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 14:15:00 GMT

Google is dumping Gears, the widgetry used to let Google Apps work offline. The functionality has been moved to HTML 5. The company said in a blog that there will be no new Gears releases, newer browsers such as Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 9 won’t be supported with plug-ins, and Gears will be removed from Chrome in Chrome 12. In its place it’s implemented support for application caches to replace Gears’ offline features, replaced Gears Database API with an IndexedDB API that its “friends at Mozilla and Microsoft” – yeah, it really said that – collaborated on, substituted a File API for Gears’ Blob functionality and implemented the geolocation, notifications and web worker APIs in Gears natively in Chrome.

Friendly URL Redirection Scaling via iRules

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:06:00 GMT

The concept of a friendly URL is a pretty simple one. Basically you want to make things in your application, on your website, etc. easier to access. This stems from the fact that most applications these days make use of increasingly complex paths for a multitude of reasons. Whether it’s user specific content, auto generated pages or otherwise, typing in a URL that looks like “http://domain.com/a7391/users/0928179/events/live/release/20110403/regions.php?region=atl” isn’t something that’s easy or frankly even realistic for a user. I’m not going to remember that URL, and if I’m an 8 on the geek scale, certainly the 3s and 4s of the world won’t be able to manage that kind of a URL either. Nevertheless, these sort of paths are common amongst robust applications.

Friendly URL Redirection Scaling via iRules

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:06:00 GMT

VCs Write $10m Check to Hybrid Cloud Storage Start-up

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:45:00 GMT

Five-year-old Egnyte and its hybrid cloud file server – a mix of cloud and on-premise NAS storage larger accounts are finding attractive although the start-up meant to focus on SMBs – have closed a $10 million B round led by Kleiner Perkins’ Apple-partnered iFund. Existing backers Floodgate and Polaris kicked in. The money should pave Egnyte’s way into international markets and pay for engineering and domestic sales and marketing efforts. The start-up says it quadrupled its customer base in 2010. It reportedly has five billion files stored in its cloud network and says more than two million files are uploaded and downloaded a day. That’s 3,000 files a minute.

DOJ Could Scotch Novell Patent Sale: NY Post

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:30:00 GMT

The New York Post claimed Wednesday to have a disinterested source “close to the situation” telling it that the Justice Department could scotch the $450 million sale of Novell’s patents to the Microsoft-led consortium that includes Apple, Oracle and EMC, a sale that’s integral to Novell’s $2.2 billion acquisition by Attachmate. Of course it’s hard to imagine anybody “close to the situation” who doesn’t have a dog in the race – and the paper is still saying it’s 882 patents when Novell has already corrected that initial number downward to 861 in an SEC filing – but let’s give the devil his due. Anytime the DOJ asks for seconds on information, it can spell trouble.

Kryptonite and SAT Analogies

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:15:00 GMT

I was listening to the most recent TWiT where there was discussion about the recent algo change at Google. During the conversation, there was an off-hand comment about whether or not the following relationship held water. That one kind of bent my mind around a bit. There isn’t any new thought here. Social is presenting all kinds of problems for Google, and despite their success in South America and some other locales with Orkut, they really haven’t made much of a dent in social. A fact made more known by the recent additions of the talents of Marissa Mayer to the task. Some have argued that social isn’t in the DNA at Google, and that’s the source of their problems. It’s not too hard of a stretch to make the same claim about Microsoft: that we never had search in our DNA.

Kryptonite and SAT Analogies

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:15:00 GMT

Combination of SEO Strategies Is Required for a Website

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:24:47 GMT

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Combination of SEO Strategies Is Required for a Website

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:24:47 GMT

Is SEO a Simple Thing?

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:20:14 GMT

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Is SEO a Simple Thing?

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:20:14 GMT

Google Integrates More Social Search Features

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 05:57:00 GMT

Google has overhauled its social search functions and now integrates Twitter, Flickr and Quora results throughout the page. An annotation system will mark specific links that a friend has shared if you are logged into your respective social media accounts. Unlike Bing, Facebook “Like” data is surprisingly missing from the results, but the new features [...]

Google Integrates More Social Search Features

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 05:57:00 GMT

JCPenney's Search Engine Optimization Debacle

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:00:00 GMT

No doubt by now you would have heard of the black hat search engine optimization (SEO) tactics JCPenney’s pursued in order to be ranked well for various search terms particularly in planning for the 2010 holiday season. The news was uncovered by the New York Times in quite a bit of detail. Their investigation found thousands of unrelated web sites in the retail industry were linking JCPenney.com. The process was done by linking very specific keywords and based on the detail of these links someone planned this process. While JCPenney’s SEO company was apparently fired for this incident, I find it difficult to believe that someone at JC Penny would not have known about this strategy.

JCPenney's Search Engine Optimization Debacle

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:30:00 GMT

Google Prepared to Change Its Algorithms

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:45:00 GMT

Google is trying to sweet talk the European Commission out of declaring Google an abusive monopolist but has yet to put a concrete proposal on the table according to Reuters. The EC has been investigating the company since three European concerns, including a Microsoft subsidiary, filed complaints about its Google-preferring searches. A decision could take months. Out-going Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Britain’s Sunday Telegraph that he’d be willing to change the company’s search algorithms to avoid an antitrust finding.

Google Prepared to Change Its Algorithms

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:08:00 GMT

The Magic Formula of Great SEO

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:30:00 GMT

This weekend I looked back at SEO related statistics for a B2B website I launched in November of 2009. A full year has passed and I wanted to see the progress this company made over a twelve-month period. After launching the new WordPress website, the client retained me to work on their internet marketing efforts. It helped ...

The Magic Formula of Great SEO

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:30:00 GMT

Twenty Companies Join Microsoft’s Fight to Change Patent Law

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:15:00 GMT

Twenty companies have filed an amicus brief backing Microsoft’s position in its i4i appeal to the US Supreme Court. Microsoft is asking the high court to change the 25-year-old “clear and convincing” standard of evidence for proving a patent invalid in favor of what is called a “preponderance of the evidence,” which is supposed to make it easier to get a patent declared invalid. “Preponderance of the evidence” is the standard a patent holder uses to prove infringement. Microsoft’s friends-for-the-moment include Red Hat, Google, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, HTC, Verizon, Rackspace, the Consumer Electronics Association, Comcast, Intuit, L-3 Communications, LinkedIn, Lockheed Martin, Mastercard, the New York Times, Shutterfly, the Software & Information Industry Association, Time Warner, Wal-Mart and Zynga.

Oracle Database to Hit Amazon

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:15:00 GMT

Amazon – with Oracle’s blessings – is planning to add Oracle’s Database 11g Release 2 to its cloudware next quarter as part of its Relational Database Service (RDS). It says folks with Oracle licenses will be able to run the thing without incurring additional software licensing or support charges. Those without an Oracle license will pay hourly licensing with no upfront fees or long-term commitments. The hourly rate depends on the Oracle Database edition and the size of the DB Instance. The widgetry will also be available as Reserved DB Instances, which offers a discounted hourly usage charge in exchange for a one-time up-front fee for each DB Instance. Both one-year and three-year reservation terms will be available.