Google looking for answers
The current financial situation has seen many changes in the way that people and businesses are run, no longer is there the long term security of a job for life.
For businesses, it has been an exercise in cost cutting and trimming down. However, as a business attempts to save cash and create a [...]
YouTube to turn a profit with Googles help
Google have insisted that they will make YouTube into a profitable enterprise, although the CEO Eric Schmidt was careful enough to keep clear of saying exactly when and how this is likely to happen, although it was suggested that it would be losing hundreds of millions of dollars this year alone.
In fact, the current estimates [...]
Apple takes 10% of browser market
February is always a strange month for most things, it could be that winter is coming to an end or that we are all just recovering from the expense of the festive season, but one thing that stood out last month was the browser sector.
February has been the month of the Beta, for some reason [...]
Google win Street View case
It has been nearly a year since a couple from Pittsburgh in the US decided that the Street View feature by Google was a step too far. The couple started a lawsuit against the search giant claiming that Google Maps was an invasion of their privacy.
They are not alone because all around the country and [...]
Remember Knol
When Google announced that Knol was going to be the next and best wiki type venture on the net, there were some ripples of fear appearing, yet that was 2007 and when it would not be until July 2008 when Knol finally appeared.
It promised to be better than other knowledge communities for both the reader [...]
Treasure hunter uses Google Maps
Google maps are great for finding directions from one place to another. However, could this be the first time that this service from the search engine has been used to find lost treasure?
The case comes up because of a legal battle, which has started, between a 39 year old musician and filmmaker and the representatives [...]
Alcohol always sells, Google updates AdWords
There is one thing that always sells when the world is experiencing a global credit crunch and that is alcohol, this is good for the producers of beers, wines and spirits as they know that their profits are not going to be affected that much.
It also seems to be good for Google, as they have [...]
Microsoft signs deal with Dell
Two giants of the computing world have signed an agreement, which will see Microsoft’s Live Search toolbar preinstalled on new Dell machines.
There has been no official confirmation that a deal has been done between the two firms yet, but it is believed to be coming very soon, if there is deal at all that is.
A [...]
Google nearly charged as a monopoly
Some people are still wondering why on earth Google stopped at the last minute from completing an advertising deal with another search engine, Yahoo.
The very thought of a partnership between Google and Yahoo makes the hairs stand up on the back of your neck.
This is exactly what the Justice Department thought too and in order [...]
Germans not to use Chrome
The German Government have made a surprise announcement telling their citizens not to use Google Chrome, the latest edition to the browser collection.
The advice is coming from Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security no less, who say that the new browser from Google should not be used to surf the internet, this is because if [...]
Google in trouble over parked domains
If you have ever found a parked domain, have you noticed the Google Adwords on the page?
This has become the basis of an accusation from a law firm in California; they have been paying the site to be promoted through the search engines scheme. Only to find that instead of the adverts appearing on [...]
Google increases day care costs
You can always tell when company means business, when they start looking to the costs of the benefits that they providing their staff with. Google of course no different to any business now and they too have been looking into the costs of the perks which their staff love so much.
But instead of looking at [...]
Adsense referrals RIP
For users of Adsense who have not updated their accounts recently, may wish to pay the account pages a visit, especially before the end of August as this will be the time when Adsense referrals will be closed for good.
Google said that this part of their continuing work to improve the services that they provide [...]
Coloured labels
Google are forever moving forward to get more features out on their products and services, this time we are talking about gmail, now this is a service that people either love or hate, fortunately for Google there is a lot of love out there.
In return Google will be looking at beefing up the features and [...]
Cheap food is no more in the UK
Despite all of the warnings, the food crisis still grows. But we have seen this type of problem arise before, but the difference is now that the food crisis could soon be hitting countries closer to home.
We have since the end of the war had the luxury of cheap food, and recently over the past [...]
Google is top of the brands
It seems that it is not only search that Google is dominating these days, as far as a brand names go it seems that apart from all of those famous brands out there like Coke Cola, McDonalds, Marlboro and so on, it would seem that Google takes the number one spot.
But being on the top [...]
Could search be finished?
For some people search is probably already finished, ever since the introduction of social networking it would seem that many people who just lurked around the internet searching for something interesting, would have used a search engine to find what they were looking for.
But ever since the likes of FaceBook, MySpace and Second Life took [...]
Google’s and Doubleclick get Euro approval
The merger between Google and the online advertising business Double Click has been given the all clear by the European regulators, stating that there would be no harmful effects on consumers. Originally the proposed merger had been opposed by Google’s rivals Microsoft and Yahoo, as they were concerned about the advertising.
However it was decided that [...]
Google unhappy with Microsoft/Yahoo deal
It was inevitable that at some stage a partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo would be going ahead, however what was not clear was how this would happen. But the cat is out of the bag now and Yahoo will be going under the very large umbrella that is known as the Microsoft organisation.
Almost immediately after [...]
Microsoft goes for FAST
Microsoft is making a move on the search engine FAST (Fast search and Transfer) it is said that the figures being put around are something I the region of $1.2 billion in cash, the deal will make things in the enterprise search industry which has been dominated by FAST, but there are other players too, [...]