Google has no real date for smacking down your PageRank nowadays. The PageRank kick can come any day Google feel for it if they feel you break their rules. Most people that get kicked down break the rule of selling links for money or blogging for money.
People reporting in different forum and blogs about the PageRank update and downgrade but now Google does not really have a date it happen all the time.
The only thing you can do is to resubmit the site to Google Webmaster pages if Google find you guilty of selling links.
But if you not care about PageRank anymore then PPP still pays the most money for blogging for money.
Want $ 30 million in cash?
Google and the X PRIZE Foundation offers 30 million dollar cash to the first team to build a spacecraft financed by private funds, to land on the moon, to roam for at least 500 metres and send photos and video to Earth .
All by 31 December 2012.
To be sure, this is not your father sweepstakes. But, 10 teams of engineers, former employees of NASA and aerospace experts have already registered to compete, and revealed their prototypes and plans for Google in Mountain View headquarters today.
“The traditional industry is doubtful that anyone can do it and that’s fine,” said Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation. “But we have a great faith in the entrepreneurship and really believe someone will win the X Prize Lunar Google
Google has bought Adscape Media a company that place advertising in video games. You do not have to be a genius to figure out why Google want to do that. In a short while you will have animated Google ads on your milk package.
So soon you will see that the Monster you trying to slain has a t-shirt with a Adword advert that says “Uncle Joes Car Repair†or a when you win kill a monster Adword will give 1 free dollar.
Google paid about 30 million dollar the company so they must have some plans for it.
Urchin was a web site analytics solution used by web site owners to oversee content and track marketing performance. Urchin tools are available as a hosted service, a software product and through large web hosting providers. These products were used by thousands of popular sites on the Internet. It has been purchased by Google in 2005 but the terms and price was not disclosed to the public.
Google changed the name to Analytic and included it in Google Adword and from the start only invites could use the site. Now you are allowed to track 50 domains inside your Adword account.
Measure Map was acquired by Google since February 14, 2006. I think Google might thought it’s good day to acquire the new business to Google group. The feature of Measure Map is to help the bloggers have easy connection with their audience.
Since the acquisition of Google on Measure Map, the feature of this company is still the same which directly offer the service to the blogger. Since the join of Measure Map with Google, its feature is expanding more and more and becoming very successful.
Measure Map provides the best benefit for the bloggers to understand and know what they should influence the audience to read their blogs more and more. Or you can also say Bloggers use Measure Map service to make their blogs more interesting and more successful with more traffic. The bloggers will have more fun to invest their time with their blogs which means the content across the web is getting better as well.
The bloggers use the Measure Map service to navigate the number, tracks link to see who sends you traffic, find out what people do at your blog and help the bloggers to do quick setup without taking time.
So Measure Map is such a great service for all bloggers, if any bloggers haven’t taken the service from them, I suggest you should do as you can see from the list of the advantages i mentioned above.
Dodgeball is a social networking software provider for mobile devices. Users text their location to the service, which then notifies them of crushes, friends, friends’ friends and interesting venues nearby. From the beginning it was just a friendship meeting service like let’s meet for lunch and thing like that if you are in the area. The company was acquired by Google in May 2005.
There are two main services of Dodgeball which are Location- based services and mobile dating. First, Location-based services are about helping people find the nearest business or service, such as ATM or restaurant by wireless carriers and their partners which provide information specific to a location. The Second mobile dating is a great service when people can meet people outside the computer room.
Anyway, Dodgeball is in Google groups in financial term of undisclosed until now.
Picasa is a software application such as word processors, spreadsheets, and media players for organizing and editing digital photos, originally created by Idealab. The company was acquired by Google since July 13, 2004.
Since the acquisition by Google, Google start gaining money from acquiring Picasa by offering Picasa for free download as a photo editor and organizer. Picasa has very unique feature which can satisfy the users with the best because the customers can use the same image in the multiple albums without copying the file, so it can help the users save a lot of time. Also the users can make the private collection of photos by setting the password to open the photo collection.
With its unique feature many users feel more as a great photo organizer than a photo editor because it’s extremely easy to use with the neatest design with all features to fix the mistakes of the photos such as crop, brightness, color, contrast, red eye and any other mistakes you have on your photos, Picasa program can fix all.
Feedburner A.K.A Google have bought the Word Press script FeedSmith leaving all other feed scripts to Feedburner way behind base.
If you using WordPress and want to submit your blog post to Feedburner you should also use this script since it’s not secure and works 100 % with Feedburner.
They have also updated the latest version to work with 2.3 WordPress.
http://www.feedburner.com/
Keyhole, Inc, founded in 2001, was a pioneering software development company specializing in geospatial data visualization applications and was acquired by Google in 2004.
Its major product lines are Google Earth and Earth stream which is a product for car navigation. The truth is the war in Iraq between Iraq and America can make the Keyhole Google Earth boost its size because it’s totally useful for the military in the war to search for the location.
Keyhole’s marquee application suite, Earth Viewer, emerged as the highly successful Google Earth application in 2005; Google Earth was to the peak of itself with this successful. According the popularity of Google Earth, other aspects of core technology can be survived in Google Maps, Google Mobile and the Keyhole Markup Language. They all connected and help each others which they are all boosted according to the successful of Google Earth.
The base customer for Keyhole Google Earth are from many different sectors including real estate, media, urban planning, state and federal governments, defense, homeland security, and intel.
In the meanwhile, there are only five customers shown in its acquisition which were US Army CECOM, the United States Department of Defense, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency and the Middlesex County Sheriff’s office.
But since the acquisition all those customers are the customers of Google as well.
The Deja News Research Service was an archive of messages posted to Usenet discussion groups. Its powerful search engine capabilities won the service acclaim, generated controversy, and significantly changed the perceived nature of online discussion. Since there was a big change for Deja news Research service in 1999, the site sharply changed direction and made its primary feature a shopping comparison service. During this transition, which involved relocation of the servers, many older messages in the Usenet archive became unavailable.
By late 2000 the company, in financial distress so the service had shut down one year later in 2001. Then the company was acquired by Google since that time. It was reintroduced as Google groups.
The acquisition of Deja’s significant assets will enable Google to offer an important new source of information to both Deja and Google users. Google continues to build and acquire the necessary technologies to provide the best search experience to millions of Google users worldwide. Once the full Deja Usenet archive is added, users will be able to search and browse more than 500 million archived messages with the speed and efficiency of a Google search. In addition to expanding the amount of searchable data, Google will soon provide improved browsing capabilities and newsgroup posting.
