Posts Tagged with ‘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 today [...]

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 [...]

It looks like Google model - build the most popular search engine and sell contextual ads alongside search results and everywhere people will want to put them - works perfectly for the Russian search engine Yandex, even if it seems to be less magnificent for Google itself these days.
Today Yandex has reported (in Russian) quite [...]

So yes, now we really know that things are really bad in the internet industry with the most certain proof of all being the fact that even the almighty Google is hit by the crisis as its advertising-generated revenue is shrinking. On Wednesday via a series of posts on various blogs Google officially announced some [...]

China is well-known for its strict approach to dealing with websites, blocking everything that the country’s government does not consider to be appropriate for the eyes of its citizens and demanding websites to comply if they want to remain in the huge Chinese internet market. But today’s news is even more extravagant than usually as [...]