Posts Tagged with ‘Google’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

If there is one thing that I totally don’t understand about the blogosphere, it is our usual attitude that our voices can change everything – and easily. And while we have seen examples of good and even great things happening because of someone raising a voice in some part of the world on a small [...]

Yesterday Russian anti-monopoly authorities informed us about the fact that they intend to officially include Microsoft in the register of monopolies doing business in the country. To be listed as a monopoly, a company needs to hold more than 35% market share in any market segment and while there has been no official investigation of [...]

Usually when Google does something – whatever it is – it inevitably attracts tons of attention from public and media. But the problem is that we have not seen actually groundbreaking announcements from the internet giant recently as they usually come up with things like new features added to Gmail Labs. Yet it looks like [...]

This afternoon I’ve spent a few minutes offline rebooting my machine after that. After the reboot I’ve had the Twhirl windows open, one of them with Twitter stream from my friends – and to my surprise it was populated with countless messages from my network about Gmail being down. A quick check proved that Gmail [...]

Some of the loyal Profy readers may remember the story of Google trying to acquire Begun, Russian contextual advertising network. The acquisition price amounted to quite nice $140 million and the technology blogosphere admitted at the time that this was a nice investment for Google with Begun reporting amazing growth rates: only during the first [...]

I have already complained once that Google seems to be totally determined to do everything the internet giant can for us not to have to think about our emails a lot: Gmail reminds us we should attach the file we have forgotten to attach and it can even encourage you not to send that email [...]