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Archive for the 'Google' CategoryGoogle announces yet another shrewd acquisitionAs the year progresses and we get ever closer to summer it would seem that competition in the online world is really hotting up. Perennial innovators Google are leading the pack with the announcement that they are set to purchase their third company this year.
Read the rest of this entry » Google admits its SEO needs improvingTo many this news will come as a shock, but it would seem that the Google Empire is not perfect after all. Just this week a detailed 49 page report has been published by Google that takes an in-depth look and rates its SEO on its various properties which includes the homepage.
Read the rest of this entry » Google set to launch ISP serviceIt never comes as a surprise to hear that Google are putting their fingers into yet another pie as they gather pace in their quest to take over the online world. Back in 2005 it was reported that Google had bought up a huge stock pile of fibre optics, this sparked mass rumours that they were planning to release some sort of ‘GoogleNet’ service that was sure to be better then any other Internet Service Provider, five years later and there would appear to be rumblings of this actually coming to fruition.
Read the rest of this entry » Twitter benefits from traffic boost thanks to Google deal2010 seems as though it’s to be a year of collaboration and co-operation amongst the big players on the web. After seeing positive deals between Microsoft and Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft and Yahoo and Nectar the first evidence of positive results has arisen from the Twitter/Google deal.
Read the rest of this entry » Google snap up AardvarkYes you read the headline correctly, Internet search engine giants Google have snapped up Aardvark. Not in the way that you may think though, they have not purchased a nocturnal mammal as an office pet. I’m talking of course about the social-search provider.
Read the rest of this entry » Google Suggest accused of favouring IslamThe Google Suggest function, that generates a list of search queries you might be looking for as you type in a search, has generated some controversy this week, after Google were accused of programming it to favour Islam over other religions.
Read the rest of this entry » Google loses Copyright Case to ‘Groovle’Google has (for a change) lost a court case that it filed against a small Canadian search engine called Groovle.com. The search engine giant had claimed that the name resembled theirs closely enough to confuse people. Google had asked that 207 media, the company in question, hand over the domain to them, however this claim was refused by the arbitration panel appointed by the National Arbitration Forum.
Read the rest of this entry » Chrome Beaten on SpeedThe conventional logic in the browser world is that Chrome is the fastest gun in the west. Whilst it may lack the myriad add-ons that firefox offers, its signature benefit has been that it boots quicker and loads pages quicker, and that has convinced a steady stream of people to switch over, since its inception earlier in the year.
Read the rest of this entry » Google Pushes ChromeSince the release of Chrome OS earlier this week, Google have begun heavily promoting their new product to the masses. The key, some would say only, point they’re making thus far is that Chrome OS is a ‘seven second wonder’, i.e., it boots in 7 seconds or less which, as any PC owner will tell you is one hell of a selling point. To be fair to PC operating systems like Windows, it’s not exactly a fair test, seeing as Chrome OS is really just a very fancy web browser, in that all applications etc., are web based, and therefore contained within the ‘cloud’ and not taking up space on your PC.
Read the rest of this entry » Google Announces SPeeDY ProjectGoogle has purchased an Internet Phone company called gizmo5 with a view to integrating the service with the embryonic Google Voice. The sale took place for an undisclosed sum and was described on the Google blog thus, “Gizmo5’s engineers will be joining the Google Voice team to continue improving the Google Voice and Gizmo5 experience.”
Read the rest of this entry » Google acquires VoIP CompanyGoogle has purchased an Internet Phone company called gizmo5 with a view to integrating the service with the embryonic Google Voice. The sale took place for an undisclosed sum and was described on the Google blog thus, “Gizmo5’s engineers will be joining the Google Voice team to continue improving the Google Voice and Gizmo5 experience.”
Read the rest of this entry » Murdoch threatening to remove NewsCorp Content from GoogleIn typical style Rupert Murdoch has poured petrol on the free vs paid news content debate – a conversation that that was already pretty fiery to be honest – by claiming that he is fully prepared to remove all NewsCorp content from Google possibly even ‘within months’. The comments were elaborated on in a statement from Jonathon Miller, NewsCorp’s Chief Digital Officer…
Read the rest of this entry » Chrome OS out Next Week?Okay, so this is kind of a big one. The Washington Post has it from what they call ‘a reliable source’ that the Google Chrome OS will be ready to go live within a week. If true, it’ll be very interesting to see the uptake, particularly since Windows 7 has only just hit the shelves and many companies and individuals are still nervous about upgrading, preferring to stick with the devil they know in Windows XP or Vista. The Google OS free download may be a feasible alternative.
Read the rest of this entry » Practical Applications of Google WaveGoogle Wave, the application that promises to revolutionise collaborative work and communication between friends and colleagues, has received a practical endorsement from members of the scientific community, who are already using it to work together on collaborative projects.
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