Posts Tagged with ‘Google’

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 [...]

I really would not want to talk about this sad topic today as it is the day when Christ was born yet the world financial crisis seems to be difficult to avoid – holidays or not. The thing is that according to statistics of Yandex, the leading Russian search engine, the crisis has impacted many [...]

We have already covered the Russian search engine (which happens to be more popular than even the almighty Google in Russia) Yandex on Profy, including the company’s NASDAQ IPO plans. The thing is that the company promised to go public on NASDAQ quite a number of times but at the time we criticized the idea [...]

Yesterday the Newsweek magazine introduced its traditional list of top 50 most influential and powerful people in the world. Of course the majority of the people on the list are politicians with the US presidential elections determining how the list looks like a lot. First of all, very quickly Barack Obama turned into the most [...]

It is invariably fascinating for me to watch how people arrive to this blog from search engines and I have already published my thoughts on why people might google “google” or “internet” but now that Google has launched a browser of its own – Chrome – there is an additional interesting trend with people arriving [...]

It is no wonder that given our mostly online lifestyle we begin to care more and more about our privacy: after all, when you give so much information about yourself away, you can’t help but wonder how people who have access to this information will use it (or rather will they use it at all). [...]

It took the team over at Google only 100 days to bring Google Chrome from the initial release day to the version 1.0. The irony is that Chrome seems to be one of the most highly-criticized products ever made by Google – criticized for its lack of stability and frequent crashes. Yet it is this [...]

Earlier today Google made public their usual year-end Zeitgeist 2008 which reveals the search terms that have been rising quickly in popularity during the year. And of course it was difficult not to notice (and not to focus on) one fact: rather surprising top position of Sarah Palin. Quite understandably, it could not leave the [...]