Google Seeks a Leading Role in China from the Wall Street Journal reports that Google China’s president, Kai-Fu Lee, wants Google to be a market leader in China in five-years. Kai-Fu Lee said, “Certainly, we would like to aspire to be a market leader in five years.”
His plans to achieving that goal is not [...]

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If Hakia were using an automotive analogy, the site might be saying to Google, “We’re BMW, you’re Chevrolet.” The Hakia blog explains how the engine is taking a “quality” approach, trying to assess the credibility of sites in ranking them, together with the help of professional librarians. Hakia specifically discusses this in the context of [...]

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One of the challenges link builders face is pursuing links that will differentiate one site from competing sites in a way that still produces a natural ILP (inbound link profile). Backlink forensics is a method I use to see who already links to who, and part of that process, perhaps the most important part, [...]

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Don’t Be Evil or don’t lose value? from The Sydney Morning Herald interviews Google’s vice president, Marissa Mayer on Google’s famous company motto, “Don’t Be Evil.”
In that interview, she explains that the motto “wasn’t like an elected, ordained motto.” She added, “It [the motto] is good PR but really it’s empty because it’s questionable [...]

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According to the Google Earth Blog, Google Earth version 4.3 (free) is coming later today. Among the upgrades and improvements are faster load times for 3D buildings, day/night lighting, new navigational options and StreetView images. (Google has also just started to let StreetView on to third party sites.)
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