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Google officially terminates AdSense Referrals

I never thought this would happen know that Google is trying to move away from CPC and slowly pushing the CPA model but today, it announced that they will be retiring the AdSense Referrals program during the last week of August.

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Google Trends for Websites

Google Trends introduces a new measuring tool for websites and everybody else is calling it an Alexa-killer or Compete-killer. There’s only one big problem though — something’s missing in their graphs.

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Yahoo: Now Serving Better Ads… by Google

Yahoo! and Google today announced a non-exclusive AdSense for Search and AdSense for Content agreement. Omid Kordestani, Senior VP, Global Sales and Business Development spend a lot of time explaining on their blog what this deal is not about.

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YouTube: Why is it hard to monetize videos?

YouTube’s head of monetization, Shashi Seth, has now left Google to join a new start-up named Cooliris. He’s been working on YouTube as early as February 2007 but since then, there’s not much success with making money off the video sharing site.

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Google Servers Overloaded

Google needs to add a couple more thousand servers on its racks. Been getting a lot of these 502 Server Errors lately. This time, it’s the Ad Manager I can’t access for several hours now.

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Icahn vs. Yahoo, Facebook vs. Google

Carl Icahn, an erstwhile Yahoo shareholder wants to fire the entire Yahoo Board. In his letter to Yahoo, he claims buying $2.5 billion worth of Yahoo stocks to push his agenda. On the other hand, Facebook is accusing Google for invading user privacy with its Friend Connect.

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MeasureMap converts to Google Analytics hybrid?

After years of waiting for the guys from MeasureMap to update their awesome blog analytics service, they’ve actually done something there. This, according to a email they just sent a while ago.

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Testing Google Ad Manager

About a week ago, my application for Google Ad Manager was approved. I immediately studied how the system works and I must say that it was something I had a hard time learning. Here are my observations so far:

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The Poor uses Yahoo; Rich ones use Google

A set of data recently released by HitWise suggests a trend on the economic status of people using either Google or Yahoo search engines. The results revealed that those financially well-off are likely to use Google while the lower class ones gravitate to Yahoo.

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Google Data Center in Malaysia; why not the Philippines?

Drew points us to a brewing discussion at Slashdot over a possible new Asian Data Center being planned by Google. Rumor is that it’s going to be Malaysia though reports indicate Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, India and Vietnam to be ideal candidates as well. Wait, why isn’t the Philippines even in the picture?

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Google to divorce Wikipedia for Knol?

Since time immemorial, Google has always had a love affair with Wikipedia. Tons of Google search results has Wikipedia on top of them and it has been estimated that 96.6% of Wikipedia pages rank on Google’s first page results.

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Google Reader Recommends

One new feature that Google Reader has just rolled out is the Top Recommendations, an automated feed recommendation feature.

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GMail hits 5GB

Not that anybody noticed it, GMail storage has reached 5GB. It used to be really slow and the incremental count seemed stuck at 3GB.
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Luckily, Yahoo!Mail jumped the gun and offered unlimited, prompting Google to bump up the count a little bit. Competition really speeds things up nowadays.

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Updates from the Plex

Some noteworthy updates from the Googleplex. The rumored GPhone ain’t real, some Western Union problems for Google AdSense, the Google OpenSocial goes live and a little disappointing plus more news from Mountain View.

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GMail opens up IMAP Support

This just in — Google Mail (GMail) is now officially supporting IMAP, or Internet Message Access Protocol. And people thought Google would not give in to the popular demand.

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A new breed of GMail Phishing Scams

I thought I have a really good eye for phishing scams but this one almost got me. Who wouldn’t be tempted with a free 100GB GMail upgrade?

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Google SMS Search arrives in India

SMSAnd I thought everybody knows that the Philippines is the SMS capital of the world. Still, Google chose to launch its SMS search in India. Now, search has truly landed on the mobile phone.

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Google launches Powerpoint clone

It’s out and the entire online productivity suite is complete — Google Documents, Spreadsheet and Presentation. Here’s a rundown of what it can and cannot do as of this moment:

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