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Google Remixes Search Results, Leaving Rap Genius Out

Music lyric website Rap Genius says it “effed up” by manipulating Google’s (GOOG) SEO rules to gain more traffic — a practice that might have spurred Google to remove it from most search results. The startup’s executives have penned an open letter to Google, saying their site will stop promoting bloggers in return for their linking back to rapgenius.com. The executives’ letter is part mea culpa, part accusation. The company alleges that other

Google Product Listing Ads Seen Strong Vs. Amazon.com

As the holiday shopping season nears an end, Google ‘s (GOOG) Product Listing Ads are getting good marks from analysts, who say ad firms are willing to spend more on those ads. Google in 2012 switched Product Listing Ads, or PLAs, into paid advertising from free listings. Retailers are the main PLA buyers. The ads feature photos of products for sale and are displayed next to organic search results for those products. The ads are Google’s first

Google Taps Chipmaker Ambarella For Wearable Cameras

Video chipmaker Ambarella (AMBA) announced Friday that it will demonstrate a new wearable camera that it developed with Google (GOOG) during the January Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Ambarella said the wearable camera will be used with Google’s Helpouts application and service, which the search leader unveiled last month. Helpouts is a live how-to service at which businesses and individuals can offer advice or expertise to others, for