Google I/O, which took place earlier this month, was packed. Not surprise there! Tickets sold out in under an hour. Nevertheless, the million-plus viewers who either attended live or watched the live web-broadcast of the events should be sufficient to turn heads

If anyone had doubts that politics is involved in search engines, then the $5 million plus that Google spends on lobbyists each year should be enough to make the picture clear.

Over the years, our good friends over at Google (largely through the input of Matt Cutts through his webmaster Q&A videos), we’ve heard a lot of information about the best ways to optimize sites for Google. While there are plenty of other opinions (even those contradicting data provided by Cutts and other Googlers), these official statements give a good demonstration of Google’s priorities; even if there’s a way to avoid the concept presented in these videos, the alternatives are usually “gamed” results, and short-lived. That doesn’t mean there’s no room to question, however.

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Google runs a lot of the electronically stored data for people these days. Beyond file storage in the new Google Docs, users get their email, schedules, to-do lists, and a wide field of other information from Google’s servers

Google runs a lot of the electronically stored data for people these days.

The Daily Beast uncovered that it was Facebook, not Microsoft, as the company behind much of the recent smear campaigns against Google’s brand and image. Supposedly, Facebook hired a PR company

The Wall Street Journal reports the reason for Google documenting them putting aside $500 million was to pay a settlement to the Department of Justice over allowing illegal activity within their ad network…

A month ago there was a bug with the Facebook Like button. It was reported to have an impact on some user’s analytics packages but I didn’t hear much from AdSense publishers on this topic…