Blogger.com Goes To The Phones
Sony Ericsson and Google have made a deal that will place Google's search and its Blogger software on upcoming mobile phone models.Read More → ^ TOP
Google Enables Buying On Base
A handful of sellers have been granted the ability to sell items on Google Base to other users with a Google Account and a credit card.Read More → ^ TOP
Google Video Charging Admission For TV Ads
To heap on one more thing to screw with your head this Friday, Google is selling vintage commercials through its Google Video search. You heard right, if you want to view the commercial, you'll have to pay a dollar. Anybody else hear Gabriel's trumpet?Read More → ^ TOP
Google Creates Web Pages
Any minor excitement over Microsoft's Office Live beta and its free page-hosting option just evaporated, as Google now offers an easy-to-use web page creator and 100 MB of storage space.Read More → ^ TOP
Google Makes Brilliant Choice For Charity
The Well co-founder Larry Brilliant has accepted the position as the executive director of Google's philanthropic endeavor, Google.org. Larry Brilliant brings a combination of medical background and technological savvy to his new job... Read More → ^ TOPThe (Un)Importance Of PageRank
Another Google PageRank update appears to be underway or near completion. What that means for search engine optimization is a matter of debate inside the industry. But along PageRank toolbars, ranking has increased for lower ranked sites while it has decreased for previously higher ranked sites.Read More → ^ TOP
Google Censurs Not Just China
I was searching through some sites to find interesting internet News and found myself at BoingBoing. I usually search through their "Wonderful Things", a very different approach to internet news as well as other things. As many of you may know Google has been highlighted in the news lately for its Censorship issues in China. Read More → ^ TOPGoogle China License Questioned
In China, sites are required to obtain an Internet content provider license from the government to operate; Google.cn shares a license with another Chinese site, and that could be a problem.Read More → ^ TOP
Google Blasts "Uninformed" Justice Department
A legal brief filed with the US District Court in San Jose by Google's attorneys criticized the Department of Justice prosecutors involved in the federal government's grab for Google's search records.Read More → ^ TOP
Google says no to US gov
Google on Friday rejected US government demands that it give up search information claiming that its customers' privacy, as well as its own business secrets, should be protected.Read More → ^ TOP
Google BearingPoint For Search Services
A partnership of Google and BearingPoint means corporate purchasers of Google's hardware can contract for assistance installing and configuring Google for the enterprise.Read More → ^ TOP
Activists Plan V-Day Breakup With Google
The old saying that begins "there's no love lost" won't be finished with "between Google and the latest Google protestors." There is love lost. NoLuv4Google.com is littered with breakup notes to Google after the search company conceded to Chinese censorship demands. The broken-hearted boycott is scheduled for Valentines Day.Read More → ^ TOP
Barron's Shooting Down Google
The online version of the venerable financial publication led off its free week of online access with a cover story about Google, a brand that can draw a lot of readers to a website.Read More → ^ TOP
Fahrvergoogle?
The American arm of Volkswagen has teamed up with Google and graphics chipmaker nVidia to produce an in-car navigation system prototype using Google Earth software. Google and VW say the 3D display is more real looking than anything currently available.Read More → ^ TOP
Google Copies Your Hard Drive - Government Smiles in Anticipation
Google today announced a new "feature" of its Google Desktop software that greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy. If a consumer chooses to use it, the new "Search Across Computers" feature will store copies of the user's Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other text-based documents on Google's own servers, to enable searching from any one of the user's computers. EFF urges consumers not to use this feature, because it will make their personal data more vulnerable to subpoenas from the government and possibly private litigants, while providing a convenient one-stop-shop for hackers who've obtained a user's Google password.Read More → ^ TOP
Gmail Hints At Managed Domain Service
An intrepid blogger delved deep into the JavaScript underpinning Google's Gmail service, and found a snippet of code pointing to a potential feature.Read More → ^ TOP
Dell, You're Getting A Google!
Google software could be pre-installed on PCs from Dell, which could place a lot of Google's alternatives to Microsoft on millions of personal computers by default.Read More → ^ TOP
Google Challenged Again On Keyword Buys
The payday loans provider Check N' Go has objected to Google's practice of selling its trademark to competitors and filed suit against the search advertising company to stop the practice.Read More → ^ TOP
Google Guys Almost Become Dish Guys
It's nice to hear this can happen to the unfathomably wealthy also. Sergey Brin and Larry Page reportedly had their credit cards rejected in a Brazilian restaurant. Their bill: approximately $53.Read More → ^ TOP
German BMW Banned From Google
BMW.de as seen from Google:PageRank zero and a “sorry” page.
From what it looks like, the German websites of car maker BMW have been kicked out of the Google index. BMW.de at this time has a PageRank of 0. A search for BMW Germany, which only days ago yielded BMW.de as a top result, now doesn’t show any sign of BMW.de at all. Instead, BMW.com – BMW’s international site – is on top for this search.
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Google Testing PayPal Killer GBuy
Several retailers have been quietly testing a Google payment system called GBuy, and users will see a GBuy icon next to AdWords paid search ads. PayPal has dominated the online payment field for some time. It has been a profitable business, one which eBay purchased in October 2002.Read More → ^ TOP
Google Tax Issue Needs Another Look
Executives from the search advertising company blamed a higher than anticipated tax rate for most of the gap between its actual earnings and annual estimates, but some now claim taxes were only responsible for half of that difference.Read More → ^ TOP
Gonzales V Google Delayed Two Weeks
Instead of the February 27th showdown between the Department of Justice and Google over federal subpoenas taking place, the sitting judge has moved the date back two weeks.Read More → ^ TOP
Google Pre-Announces New Dell Notebooks
A user found on Google pricing and model names for new dual-core laptop computers from Dell and excitedly posted them to an online forum, sending Dell officials scrambling to get the unannounced products off the Internet.Read More → ^ TOP
Search Engines To Congress: Buzz Off
Given the opportunity to serve as targets for Congressional outrage and grandstanding, Google and Microsoft declined the invitation, as did Cisco, while Yahoo has yet to respond.Read More → ^ TOP
