Godfathers of Adsense Leaves Google

This post is taken from GoogleLady. I encourage you to read other quality posts on her blog.

Some of you already know the news about the Godfather of Adsense (adsense developer) left Google. CNN has this article published on Nov 15 and is really interesting to read it.

AdSense developer leaves Google

Gokul Rajaram, a high-ranking Google product manager who helped launch one of the search giant’s most profitable ventures has left to start his own company.

“I’ve been having the itch to do something entrepreneurial for awhile now,” says Rajaram, 33, known by Googlers as one of the “godfathers of AdSense.” “I’m in my early 30s and I have some experience and financial security, so the time felt right.”

“I have some ideas on the consumer Internet side,” he adds. “I’m still trying to flesh that out in the next few weeks. Right now, I’m just trying to get used to not going to work.”

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Google Scrubs SubDomains

This post is taken from WebProNews .

by Mike McDonald

A couple of weeks ago, Google made a change in their algorithm. Prior to the change, a subdomain was considered more or less like a separate URL. Matt explained the reason that presented a problem was due to the fact that multiple subdomains and main domains had a tendency to dominate search listings for some queries – specifically, for example, elaborate long tail query strings.

We did hear complaints that for some types of searches (e.g. esoteric or long-tail searches), Google could return a search page with lots of results all from one domain. In the last few weeks we changed our algorithms to make that less likely to happen.- Matt Cutts

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