Posts Tagged with ‘Google’

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 [...]

Today marks an important day for the world wide web with Google finally deciding that international users of the internet are as important (well, almost as important) as US users so the statistics about what people in these countries are interested in may be as interesting as the same stats for the US users only. [...]

There was an interesting story on Financial Times yesterday about an Argentine actress Isabel Macedo who decided to google her own name after someone let her know that her name appeared on porn sites. The actress was horrified to actually see links to porn content right on the very first page of Google search results, [...]

Recently Google has introduced to the world its latest and biggest change to the way we see search results - SearchWiki. This functionality allows any logged in Google user to vote sites up and down in search results, add notes (or comments) about certain sites and even add the results that are not there yet [...]