SEL: Google: Size, Geico, MSN, Maps, AdWords

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August 18, 2005

Google: Size, Geico, MSN, Maps, AdWords

Here's the day's news and views on Google. I promise that if anything big breaks I will write about it first thing tomorrow.

Google: "hey guys we have uh, well, a very slightly larger index now"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! The size story won't die. Gary Price reveals that Google contacted them before Yahoo's size announcement with a now drop-in-the-bucket-seeming increase of 110 million pages.

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Google: "GEICO Got Nada in the Ruling Y'all"
Google's VP and General Counsel's take on the Geico ruling: the judge "stated that GEICO's own evidence 'refutes the allegation that the use of the trademark as a keyword, without more, causes a likelihood of confusion.' That is a clear signal that Google's policy on trademarks and keywords is lawful." Yeah biaaatch!

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Google Dancing Across MSN Stage
Gartenberg on Google making nice with the MSN platform to extend their reach. He asks, pointedly, "Where is the MSN Spaces tool for Word?"

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Google Maps: Where the Love's at
Top 10 Google Maps hacks. Man I love APIs. Also see the GoogleMapsMania blog.

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AdWords Changes
Greg Ives brings us third position Google ads screen shots and some thoughts on optimizing your PPC campaign in the new AdWords Quality Score System.

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