Google May Be Forced To Pay $1 Billion To Patent Troll

A New York-based “patent troll” called Vringo, through its subsidiary I/P engine, successfully sued Google, Microsoft, AOL and others using two patents related to search advertising. The plaintiff won approximately $30 million at trial in 2012. Google was asked to pay $15.8 million of…

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Seattle Seahawks Take The Lead In 33 States For Bing Super Bowl Searches

In an anticipation of the big game Sunday night, Bing has tallied searches for both Super Bowl teams across the country and found the Seattle Seahawks won the largest share of search volume in 33 states. The search engine was quick to note the percentage of searches are “generally evenly…

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How To Optimize Database-Driven B2B Websites

Database-driven websites are very common in the B2B sector. This is because many companies want to have a catalog of products available on their site for distributors, but it would not be cost-effective to manually build out those pages as they are mea…

Google Takes Down Another Link Network, France’s Buzzea

Google’s head of search spam, announced on Twitter earlier this morning, that Google has taken action on another “link network” named Buzzea. Matt Cutts tweet read, “Today we’re taking action on a French link network that violates our quality guidelines…

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