Recent ‘google’ News Stories

Google Testing TV Search

Thursday, 11th March 2010

The Wall Street Journal has reported that Google is testing a new TV search service in conjunction with Dish Network. (more…)

Tags: google, search, tv, video
Posted in google, search | 3 Comments »

Google Launches Public Data Visualisation Tool

Tuesday, 9th March 2010

Almost exactly 3 years ago, in March 2007, Google acquired Gapminder’s Trendalyzer software. They have now put this technology to use and released it in the public domain. (more…)

Tags: data analysis, gapminder, google, google maps
Posted in google | 5 Comments »

YouTube Revenue Estimated $1 Billion

Monday, 8th March 2010

Google’s studied secrecy about the revenue generated by their video site, YouTube, only fuels further curiosity and speculation on the subject. The latest to offer an opinion and some estimated figures on the topic is Mark Mahaney of the Citigroup. (more…)

Tags: ad, advertising, google, video, video-ads, youtube
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Google Takes Picnik Away From Yahoo!

Tuesday, 2nd March 2010

Google announced yesterday that they have acquired the photo editing site Picnik right from under Yahoo!’s nose, while Yahoo! seems to have done nothing about it! (more…)

Tags: flickr, google, mergers-and-acquisitions, picasa, picnik, yahoo
Posted in google | 1 Comment »

Are Google Employees Responsible For YouTube Content?

Thursday, 25th February 2010

Three executives of Google have been convicted by a court in Milan, Italy over the screening of a video in 2006. The video in question was of an autistic teenager being bullied. (more…)

Tags: google, italy, politics, youtube
Posted in google, video | 3 Comments »

Google Building Experimental Broadband Network

Thursday, 18th February 2010

Google has recently announced that they are planning to build a new experimental high speed broadband network across a few locations in the U.S.A. (more…)

Tags: broadband, google, internet
Posted in google, internet | 1 Comment »

Google Creates Store Views (To Help Burglars?)

Wednesday, 10th February 2010

Not satisfied with the success and controversy raised by Street Views on Google Maps, the search engine is now rumoured to be in the process of developing a feature called Google Store Views. (more…)

Tags: google, google maps, street-views
Posted in google | No Comments »

Google Planning App Store

Friday, 5th February 2010

Undisclosed sources at Google have revealed to the New York Times that Google is planning to set up their own online store, to sell business applications. (more…)

Tags: apps, google, microsoft, online-applications
Posted in google | 8 Comments »

Google Offers Glimpse Of Chrome OS For Tablets

Wednesday, 3rd February 2010

Since Apple launched the iPad last week, their newly-turned rival, Google, certainly cannot afford to be far behind. There has been a lot of speculation lately about what the tablet version of Google’s Chrome OS will eventually look like when it is released. Google has now offered a first-hand look at it. (more…)

Tags: apple, chrome, google, ipad, nexus one
Posted in google | 1 Comment »

Click To Call On Mobile Local Ads

Tuesday, 2nd February 2010

Google mobile advertising has for a long time included the option for advertisers to run pay per call campaigns where users can click to call a number. Google AdWords has now added the ability for advertisers to run pay per call campaigns via local search ads on mobile. (more…)

Tags: google, google-adwords, mobile, pay per call, ppc
Posted in google, mobile | 5 Comments »

Google Docs Launches File Storage Facility

Friday, 15th January 2010

Over the next few weeks, Google will start rolling out a new feature to enhance the online file storage capacity on Google Docs. (more…)

Tags: data-storage, google, internet
Posted in google | 3 Comments »

Google China Backtracks On Censorship Decision

Thursday, 14th January 2010

Following a spate of highly sophisticated and targeted attacks on Google’s infrastructure, which originated from China, Google has decided to review their business operations in that country. (more…)

Tags: censorship, china, google
Posted in google, internet, multilingual | 1 Comment »

Nexus One Already Showing Google’s Weakness

Monday, 11th January 2010

Less than a week after Google released their new phone, the Nexus One, customers are already having trouble with it and Google’s customer support is failing. (more…)

Tags: google, mobile, nexus one
Posted in google | 6 Comments »

Google Facilitates Searches For AdWords Professionals

Thursday, 7th January 2010

Clients looking for Google AdWords management services no longer need to rely on third-party websites and Google search results to fnd suitable professionals and agencies. (more…)

Tags: google, google-adwords, ppc, search-engine-marketing
Posted in google | 3 Comments »

Google Caffeine Readying For Launch

Monday, 4th January 2010

While everyone has been talking about how Google is integrating more and more real time search results with the help of sites like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, there is the less visible algorithm that powers search results, which Google has been working on making more real time. (more…)

Tags: google, google cafffeine, real time, search, seo
Posted in google | 19 Comments »

Google Doesn’t Practice What They Preach For Open Source

Thursday, 24th December 2009

Just this week Google’s V.P. of Product Management Jonathan Rosenberg published a memo declaring that Google is an open source company. An insightful article on the Silicon Alley Insider points out how all Google’s talk about opennes is really just “empty posturing”. (more…)

Tags: android, chrome, google, microsoft, mobile-search, search-engine-marketing, seo
Posted in google | 12 Comments »

Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal

Monday, 21st December 2009

Last week it looked almost certain that Yelp would sign a deal with Google. However, sources now reveal that Yelp has decided to back out of the deal. (more…)

Tags: google, local-search, mergers-and-acquisitions, yelp
Posted in google | 4 Comments »