Posts Tagged with ‘Google’

You Do Believe in Google, Right?

Svetlana Gladkova

I have recently received a very interesting comment on one of my post about Google where the reader compared Google to religion as there are definitely many similarities between how we believe in God and how we have learned to believe in Google (in fact, every time I try to type “God”, I invariably end [...]

Adding Languages Is Not Always Enough to Add Countries, Google

Svetlana Gladkova

I sometimes can’t help but wonder how carelessly some of the largest companies in the online world tend to treat their international users, looking like they don’t care about these users at all and like these users don’t generate any advertising or other revenue for them - and don’t deserve attention because of this.
As someone [...]

Why I Still Think It Was a Bad Idea to Make Google Squared Public

Svetlana Gladkova

After Google Squared officially became public last week, the entire blogosphere has been full of various examples of how strange its results can actually be. Of course we were all told that this is merely an experiment and only the first step of making the web structured instead of surfing through multiple web pages to [...]

Google Turns Celebrities into Social Celebrities. Well, Maybe Half Social.

Svetlana Gladkova

To tell you the truth, I have never even wondered about what a celebrity would do when he or she has some spare time online to surf the web for whatever purpose it may be. But I know that many people are interested in every step of their favorite actors or singers and numerous online [...]

Imagine That Wave Does Not Come From Google…

Svetlana Gladkova

The blogosphere has been abuzz over the new product announced by Google named Wave for the last few days. I myself have somewhat mixed feelings because judging by the screenshots Wave is not exactly what we love Google for - minimalism and style. To be 100% honest, Wave looks like a complex application with a [...]

Google Further Improves Search, Does The Competition Have Any Chances?

Svetlana Gladkova

We can think everything we want about Google and we can be paranoid all we want about how it collects all the information about every single user it has, but there’s no denying to at least one fact: Google Search is still their best product.
True, in the recent years Google has offered us numerous other [...]

Google Wants To Know How It Has Changed Your Life. Now Has It?

Svetlana Gladkova

Honestly, I can’t imagine my life without Google. I use Gmail for all my personal emails and I use that account for Google Talk where I have more contacts than in ICQ even though I’ve been using ICQ for 8 years and GTalk - for less than 3 years now. After many failed attempts to [...]

Cashing In On Swine Flu: How Ethical Is That?

Svetlana Gladkova

If you are a blogger, you must know a very simple principle of blogging when you do it for eyeballs (and ad impressions obviously): whatever your actual topic is, whenever there is something huge (positive or negative - does not matter) happening in the world that everyone wants more and more information about, think hard [...]

Another Local Victory for Google: Google.by

Svetlana Gladkova

Good news for Google from the former Soviet Union space - in Byelorussia Google has finally launched its search engine intended for the people in the country on the Google.by website. The domain is located in the official first level domain zone for Byelorussia and is an obvious thing for many internet users from the [...]

Minimalism Is For The Young, Baidu Thinks. What Will Google Think?

Svetlana Gladkova

If there is one country that invariably fascinates me in terms of how internet operates over there, it is China. At least to me it is totally amazing how internet works in that huge crowded country with people mostly immune to international invaders and choosing their own internet players like they choose Baidu over Google. [...]