Posts Tagged with ‘Google’

Today comScore released a press release detailing its statistics on online display advertising in June - both largest publishers and largest advertisers. The data is quite predictable and I believe many of us (I mean, those that choose not to enable any ad blockers in their browsers): Microsoft is the largest advertiser followed by University of Phoenix (advertising its online aducation programs), Experian Interactive (advertising its sites LowerMyBills and FreeCreditReport), United Online (owner of Classmates which pushes ads to web [...]

This week Google will be rolling out to all users its “Google Suggest” functionality that has only been available to opted-in users until now. From now on once you start typing the word you want to search for, you will get a drop-down list of suggestions with the popular search terms along with the number of results you will get for each of them. To generate the suggestions Google identifies the words or phrases you may be looking for based [...]

It is invariably funny to watch people’s reaction when I mention that in addition to having a Russian name I actually happen to work from Russia. People seem to actually want to ask if we actually have any broadband connection here. I believe this is the same for many people outside of the US working in the social media blogging or launching their own startups. And this is why I actually have to admit I am a bit internationally biased [...]

Recently I have noticed an interesting thing in the traffic stats for Profy. Specifically I have started to notice people arriving from Google (mostly) and some other search engines after they do a search for a single word - “internet”. And since I always find it amusing when people google “Google” to get the same link they are actually on (and yes, Google is quite a popular search term) I thought that googling “internet” was equally amusing. After all, what [...]

I can’t help but envy people who are lucky enough to get some new unannounced features from Google when browsing this or that service from the internet giant. Today the lucky one is Harry McCracken from Technologizer who has been served a totally new Google News and blogged about it to describe what we probably should expect to be rolled out in the near future. Actually the team of Google News promised that they would test the new interface by [...]

It seems that everyone has already grown accustomed to the idea of search engines market completely dominated by Google. But at the Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo Satya Nadella, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Search, Portal and Advertising Platform Group, has made a statement showing that at least the software giant sees a possibility to change the situation. And the change is in the field of better user experience based on behavioral targeting and semantic search technologies. Currently the [...]

Google seems to need an extra power in Russia to increase and protect its market share. In Russia this power is not in money or quality of products offered - Google is looking to hire a “policy counsel” to work with governmental authorities and lobby the internet giant’s interests in Kremlin and Russian government.
Description of the position is available on one of the leading Russian job search engines intended specifically for top managers. For an undisclosed amount the Moscow office [...]

Today we are watching an extraordinary move from Google. The internet giant seems to be exhausted in its pursuit for unlicensed use of unused airwaves (”white spaces”) between broadcast TV channels for internet access and decided to call for support from general internet users. Instead of continuing to try to reach the solution that it wants on its own Google has decided to invite all the internet users it can access to sign a petition that this unused spectrum should [...]

I actually hoped there was nothing to sue Google for any more because everyone who wanted to must have already filed their lawsuits but today’s news proves that I was wrong. Today GraphOn announced that the company had filed a lawsuit against Google in the Eastern District of Texas for patent infringement.
GraphOn claims that Google infringes 4 out of the company’s 23 patents. The patents in question cover GraphOn’s “unique method of maintaining an automated and network-accessible database” and are [...]