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Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often dubbed the “Google Guys”, while the two were attending Stanford University as PhD candidates.
It was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. At that time Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt agreed to work together at Google for twenty years, until the year 2024. The company’s mission statement from the outset was “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”, and the company’s unofficial slogan – coined by Google engineer Amit Patel and supported by Paul Buchheit – is “Don’t be evil”. In 2006, the company…

Online Testing Leads To TV Ad Success For Dotcoms

Here's a weird tangential story about how online testing of ads leads to success on TV. Ace Metrix just released a report stating that top 10 and bottom 10 television ads for Dotcoms. The main deciding factor? Is it a Google ad or not. No, seriously, the main factor was online testing, but Google did ...

No Contests Allowed On Google Plus Business & Brand Pages

An interesting follow up to yesterday's huge announcement that Google Plus for businesses and brands had finally opened: Google Plus doesn't want your contests. That's right, according to TechCrunch, there's explicit language in the Google Plus Pages terms of service prohibiting businesses from running contests, promotions, sweepstakes, offers, or coupons. No Contests Allowed on Google ...

YouTube Suggesting Videos From Google Plus Friends On Homepage

Late last week I brought you the story that Google Plus had finally integrated YouTube into the Google Plus experience. There's a search function that's pretty handy, and you can watch your favorite YouTube videos or share them easily with friends and circles through your Google Plus stream. And now a part of Google/YouTube's motivation ...

Google TV Gets Adult Video Channel From Vivid Entertainment

Let's all be mature adults about this topic, okay? After all, I think there are some interesting implications for the video industry as a result of this news. What news, you ask? The news that Google TV is getting a dedicated adult video channel from adult video production company Vivid Entertainment, giving existing Vivid subscribers ...

Introducing Google Plus Pages, Google Plus For Businesses & Brands

Well, they said they were working on it, and now it's finally here. Google Plus for businesses and brands is now a reality with the introduction of Google Plus Pages. Pages is basically the Google Plus version of Facebook Fan Pages, and gives businesses a chance to claim a profile on the social network so ...

Did Latest Google Panda Update Really Improve YouTube Ranking?

According to Searchmetrics, YouTube.com was the biggest winner of the recent Google Panda Update, dubbed Panda 2.5.  Supposedly, this means the “SEO visibility of the domain” improved 10% on Sept. 28, 2011. But, before you do anything, you might want to take a look at the Discovery feature in YouTube Insight, which helps you understand ...

Google Plus Integrates With YouTube - The Reel Web #12

This week's look at the Reel Web highlights several news stories surrounding YouTube's $100 Million investment into new premium content channels and the perspectives and opinions that go with it. Will the investment into contracting celebrities, athletes and hollywood stars be a good thing for amateur content creators on YouTube, or will it be a ...

Plex Available on Google TV, Brings Your Media With it

The Plex Media server and client are available for all manner of devices including Mac, iOS, Windows, Android and now, Google TV. That means you can pretty much set up one media server and then access it on just about any device you might have and want to get that content on.

50% Of All In-Stream YouTube Video Ads Are Skippable

Wow, talk about an abundance of video ads. First, Google announced that it's TrueView, a family of formats that give viewers choice and control over which advertisers’ messages they want to see and when, is now pushing 18 years of video ads per day. On top of that impressive number, YouTube has also announced that ...

Google Indexing JavaScript Comments From Facebook, Disqus, & More

This isn't exactly video-related in and of itself, but the news itself could have far reaching implications for anyone trying to rank video and other content on Google. Why? Because the Googlebot has evolved. Google can now crawl and index AJAX & JavaScript comments like the Facebook & Disqus comments systems used by millions of ...

Charter Creating Online Video Directory Of Content From Hulu, Netflix, & Amazon

Here's an interesting tidbit I came across today. Charter Communications is encouraging its users to watch online video by creating a new searchable directory of online video content. Hopefully, this doesn't mean that they will later then charge for video separately, you know the old give 'em a taste, get 'em hooked, charge an arm ...

YouTube TrueView Video Ads Serve 18 Years Of Video Every Day

TrueView is growing like a weed. And for good reason: everyone benefits from the TrueView experience. At the core, TrueView is about letting advertisers pay only when consumers choose to watch their video ad. So the consumer benefits by having some voice in the advertisements they're served. And the advertisers benefit too, because they only ...

Google Halloween Logo Video Celebrates With Pumpkin Carving

Google has done it again. They've replaced their home page logo with a special Google Doodle logo. Once dominated by images, the specialized Google Doodle logos are more often videos these days. The logos typically involve celebrating or honoring a particular person's memory or a holiday, and today the world is treated--not tricked--to a special ...

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Lollipop Edition

Allow me to apologize for the very tardy nature of this online video news round up article. I've been dealing with an unexpected illness, and couldn't get it completed until now. We'll be back on our normal schedule for the article next weekend. Well, last week was yet another big week for online video news, ...

Google TV Gets Massive Overhaul, Streamlined UI, More Content

It's been quiet for some time in the Google TV camp, however, yesterday they released the all new, fully updated version of the interface. In a blog post at the Google TV site they talked about all the new changes and features and what it means for consumers. So you read on, I'm going to order ...