Posts Tagged with ‘Google’

Given how huge Google is and the giant’s reputation in the online business world, it is no wonder that everything that Google chooses to launch as a new product never stays unnoticed and gets tons of coverage in the blogosphere and in traditional media.
The latest addition of Google Buzz is no exception, of course, as [...]

Some of you may remember that late last year the blogosphere was engaged in an animated discussion over decision of Mail.ru, one of the leading online portals in Russia, to replace search technology by local Yandex with that of Google.
Yandex (which is the leading search engine in Russia with a market share much higher than [...]

Today the news agencies, mainstream media and the blogosphere are all abuzz about Google’s decision officially announced earlier today regarding the company’s intention to stop censoring search results on Google.cn, the search giant’s destination site in China. Back in 2006 Google was heavily criticized for their decision to agree to implement censorship on the site [...]

Due to some urgent work I had to finish over the week, I have left my email inbox unattended for a few days - which normally results in a huge overload and a few hours to sort everything out as a result. This time is no different other than it is Christmas day today on [...]

Earlier this month a leading Russian email provider and portal Mail.ru made huge international news due to rumors about the company abandoning Yandex search engine for Google. As of now, web search on the portal is powered by Yandex, the local Russian leader in online search. But rumors everywhere had it that the company would [...]

I’ve been working in the startup and entrepreneurial online community long enough to notice one trend: almost every startup wants one of two things - either be acquired by Google or become the next Google themselves. Of course there are some realistic guys who know that any of these two things happens so rarely that [...]

Russian information agency RIA Novosti (RIAN) is well known here in Russia as one of the major fighters against copyright infringement as they try to support their own positions (and revenues) online in competition with those online resources that basically do nothing but republish RIAN’s own materials. In fact, I have a feeling that they [...]

Of course there’s nothing 100% stable and reliable in the online world as so many services tend to experience downtimes that prevent their users from doing what they want or need to. This is particularly true for smaller and newer services, especially those wearing the “beta” tag near their logos. But in this world that’s [...]

When it comes to technology products, there are often situations when people are very upset with the products they use or try to use. Reasons can vary from lack of experience or knowledge to overall lack of usability of the product. But no matter whose fault it actually is, users rarely want to admit that [...]