Archive for the 'Google' Category
Helping Buyers Find Your Product On Google Base
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008Google has recently introduced a ‘Data Quality’ tab within Google Base to provide suggestions to sellers to improve the way their products are presented or described in their product feeds. (more…)
Sponsored Links On Google Image Search Results
Friday, November 28th, 2008Google Image Search is now testing Sponsored Links at the top of the results page. The tests are currently being shown only to a handful of users when they are signed in to their Google Accounts. (more…)
Google To Market Chrome Strategically
Thursday, November 27th, 2008Now that the beta testing period for Google’s browser, Chrome, is due to end early next year, it is obvious that Google will do everything in their power to market their product and make it as popular as Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. If sources are to be believed, Google is planning to forge deals with various computer manufacturing firms, to pre-install Chrome on all their new personal computers, just as is currently being done for Internet explorer. (more…)
Google Voice Enabled Search On iPhone
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008In an attempt to keep up with the latest technology, and provide it to their users, Google has introduced a new service on the Apple iPhone - free voice-enabled search. (more…)
Google Friend Connect Getting Ready For Launch
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008The latest technology that Google is about to launch is known as ‘Friend Connect’. Although they have been talking about it since May, it now looks as though it is finally ready to be launched publicly. (more…)
Google - Yahoo! Ad Deal Will Never Take Off
Friday, November 7th, 2008In June this year, Google and Yahoo! had announced a paid search deal, which had raised a lot of eyebrows and objections. The deal has now been officially called off due to opposition from government anti-trust officials. (more…)
Google Launches Banner Design Tool
Thursday, October 16th, 2008Google launched a new tool today that allows customers to create professional-looking display ads for their products and services on their own, without having to spend money hiring the services of a professional designer. (more…)
Google Blog Search Becomes Content Aggregator
Monday, October 6th, 2008Google Blog Search has a new homepage that makes it look more like a memetracker. Rather than being a pure search page, the service now resembles the Google News page, where search is combined with content aggregation. (more…)
Google Improves Internet Access In Developing Nations
Thursday, September 18th, 2008In keeping with their goal to make information available easily, all over the world, Google has decided to invest in a O3b Networks, an organisation that aims to provide Internet connectivity all over the world, especially to people in developing nations. (more…)
Google Showing 2 Videos On Single Listing
Saturday, September 13th, 2008Google seems to be capitalising on its results pages real estate by now showing two video listings side-by-side in the space normally occupied by a single search result. (more…)
One Week On - User Reviews Of Google Chrome
Friday, September 12th, 2008As first impressions go, most people seem to be satisfied with Google Chrome, the browser launched by the search giant only last week, which they claim now accounts for 3-6% of browser market share. (more…)
Google Launches Map Maker
Thursday, September 4th, 2008Google is trying very hard to improve the data available on Google Maps for various regions of the world. In order to do this, they have launched a new tool called Map Maker, which uses a Wiki-like approach to mapping. (more…)
Google Maps Making Political Statements On Conflict In Georgia?
Monday, August 18th, 2008The unhappy chain of events that have occurred in Georgia lately, due to which the country has been in the limelight, has no doubt triggered a lot of interest, among people all over the world, about that country and its neighbors. This sudden interest has induced users to look up Georgia on Google Maps. (more…)
Google Launches MP3 Search In China
Monday, August 11th, 2008A post on the Music 2.0 blog mentions that Google has launched a legal MP3 (music) search service in China under the URL www.google.cn/music. (more…)
Googler Proposes Via New Street Views On Google Earth
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Google has been adding new Street Views on their Google Earth and Google Maps sites. Last month, they added the entire Tour de France route, and now the feature is also available in parts of Australia and Japan. The latest location to have its street view added was Mountain View, California where one of the local residents got photographed doing something rather unique. (more…)
Google Search Customisations Made More Transparent
Monday, August 4th, 2008In their continued efforts to improve the search experience for the users, Google recently added new features to their Web Search that will allow customers to realise how their search results are customised, thus making the process more transparent. (more…)
Google - Digg Deal Called Off
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Only a few days ago, Google was deep in discussions with Digg, regarding a possible acquisition of the site. It is believed that the term sheet stage had already been cleared. However, sometime last week, Google decided not to go ahead with the deal, and Digg was notified accordingly. (more…)
Google To Spread Knowledge Through Knols
Monday, July 28th, 2008Google launched project Knol last week. A Knol, according to Google, is a unit of knowledge. Knols are articles on any given subject, written by someone who is an expert on that subject. Google Knol is destined to be compared with and perhaps compete against Wikipedia. (more…)
Google Is U.K.’s Most Popular Brand
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008The Superbrands Council, which is a consortium of experts in various fields such as marketing, advertising and media carried out a survey to judge which are the most popular brands in the U.K. They compiled a list of over 1,000 well known brands in the market, and then conducted a survey across 2,200 consumers, to rate these brands. (more…)
Google Keyword Estimator Shows Real Search Volumes
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008Last week the Google AdWords keyword tool started showing approximate search volumes. AdWords advertisers and everyone else in the world can now see the approximate number of search queries carried out on Google for any keyword. (more…)
