Posts Tagged with ‘Google’

We in Russia are pretty much different from the rest of the world when it comes to our holidays. For example, we celebrate Christmas on the 7th of January and New Year is way more respected here than Christmas. And I don’t even want to mention the Old New Year that we still celebrate based [...]

Google is well known for its passion to various doodles to celebrate tons of global and local events – quite frequently the company changes its logo on the pages of all the local domains or only on specific ones depending on the event of the day. As some of you may know, yesterday Russia had [...]

Sometimes when I start typing a new query in the Firefox search field that will initiate search on Google for something useful for me, I watch the autosuggestions in fascination wondering exactly how and why people would search for all sorts of crazy things that Google claims we search for. I guess that full access [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]