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WGHubris on October 19th, 2011

Recent Senate hearings focused on whether or not Google was abusing its power as a de facto monopoly in internet searches. Google executives testified that they do not cook the search results that the Google algorithm generates to favor their own internet properties, nor do they punish those with competing web services. While Google’s hands [...]

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WGHubris on September 11th, 2011

I occasionally publish a page or “hub” on the free content publishing platform called HubPages. There is no editor to submit to for approval. On the other hand, there is no payment, although you can collect a revenue share from Google Ads via an existing Google AdSense account. Also, HubPages now has an in-house advertising [...]

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WGHubris on July 19th, 2011

There has been a ton of sound and fury regarding Google’s social networking website, Google+. I’m Brian Nelson on Google Plus if you are interested. Well, actually, there has been a lot of noise in the echo chamber of the techie dome. It turns out that none of my family members, nor any of my [...]

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WGHubris on May 27th, 2011

I’ve been micro-managing which Google certified ad networks have been allowed on my websites. However, lately, I remembered that there was a time when I allowed them all and saw my earnings go up. I did not click the AdSense publisher option to automatically allow new third-party AdSense networks. The idea is that by enabling [...]

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