This Is Why Your Newspaper Is Dying. Creepy Old Guy Pretended to Be a Pretty Young Girl on Facebook to Solicit Child Porn. Google’s Schmidt Agrees To Testify Before Senate Committee About Search Competition. It turns out that Google will testify in September before the Senate Judiciary Committee Antitrust subpanel, according to The Hill. Before the formal initiation of the FTC’s antitrust investigation Google had declined to send Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt or new CEO Larry Page to testify following an informal request by the Senate subcommittee.
Utah Senator and senior committee member Mike Lee issued the following statement in reaction to the earlier, perceived snub: I’m very disappointed in Google’s response to the request to have Larry Page or Eric Schmidt testify at our subcommittee hearing. I’m committed to work with Senator Kohl and others on the committee to ensure we have the opportunity to investigate these issues thoroughly and receive adequate responses from Google. This voluntary appearance now avoids a subpoena for the Google testimony and some potentially negative press coverage as a result. Related Topics: Channel: Industry | Google: Critics | Google: Legal. Google Delists USA.com Over July Fourth Weekend. Besides for Google leaving out the American flag on their July Fourth logo, which I honestly don't feel is a big deal anyway, Google has delisted usa.com from the search results over the Fourth of July weekend.
A search for any pages on the usa.com domain returns nothing found in Google. The owner of USA.com posted a complaint about the site being penalized in the Google Webmaster Help forums over the July Fourth weekend. Truth is, the site was originally not in Google's index because it was a parked domain site. Then these guys took over the domain and put up some public content that is available on other sites. The webmaster is seeking advice as to why and he did this over the July Fourth weekend. Personally, to me the site looks like a site designed specifically to rank well in search engines. Initially, we thought that it was because travel.usa.com had duplication content. He is not sure what the issue is but hopes to get an answer over America's birthday. To Catch A Predator's Chris Hansen caught by hidden cameras cheating on his wife | TV | Newswire. PR agency loses biggest account with a single tweet. PR agency Redner Group got sacked by its biggest client, video game publisher 2k, after it tweeted that it would punish bad reviews of the game ‘Duke Nukem Forever’ by withholding future releases from reviewers.
For a PR agency it was insanely stupid thing to do and although an apology was quickly offered it was too late. The tweet was out and the agency lost its account. The tweet from the @TheRednerGroup account read: “too many went too far with their reviews. We r reviewing who gets games next time and who doesn’t based on today’s venom.” Everyone knows that tweets are a little too easy to write and easier to send, but really why would you ever send that tweet? Redner told Ad Age, “I used a public forum to voice my complaints and I know better. As the tweet spread around the Twittersphere games publisher 2K reacted and fired Redner.
Careless tweets really do cost. WebmasterWorld Thread Gets Overstock Penalized In Google. Another one bites the dust! Google Penalizes Overstock for Search Tactics from the Wall Street Journal reports on Google's latest victim. Overstock.com is now penalized by Google for linking schemes. It has been a fun month, first we had J.C. Penney and then Forbes and now Overstock. What is with Google going after big sites with big brands so publicly? Well, J.C. It lead to Amir Efrati from the Wall Street Journal to take notice and ask SEOs like David Harry to dig deeper into what was going on. According to David and the Wall Street Journal, Overstock.com was offering customers discounts for adding links to their site to Overstock.com. Here is an excerpt from the WSJ article: In Overstock's case, the retailer offered discounts of 10% on some merchandise to students and faculty. David Harry captured screen shots of the link pages and the email link exchange offer.
EDU Links: Email Link Request: WebmasterWorld learned a lesson, as Tedster, WebmasterWorld's administrator said: