Posts Tagged with ‘Google’

In addition to increasing its internet power, Google has decided now is a good time to help save the Earth until it is too late. So yesterday Google has come up with a $4.4 trillion Clean Energy 2030 plan. The plan is intended to solve many of the acute energy and environmental problems in the country. Google suggests this plan for the public discussion which could eventually make the US government implement some of the plan’s ideas.
According to this plan [...]

A few hours ago Google updated Google Blog Search functionality with some very profound changes. When up until now the Blog Search represented mainly a usual search page dedicated to searching within a particular group of websites (blogs in this case), today the homepage of the blog search by Google is completely revamped to showcase the most popular topics right upon arrival.
The homepage now shows the most discussed stories in all topics (a total of 11 categories are present). Stories [...]

Sure, Yahoo-Google advertising deal to put Google ads right in search results pages on Yahoo Search has been one of the most discussed topics lately. Anti-trust authorities both in the US and Europe are investigating the deal to determine if it will damage competitive environment both in the online advertising industry (where two ad networks will start to cooperate instead of competing) and in search since for Yahoo it will be more and more difficult to compete with its own [...]

Earlier today things got absolutely crazy with Google stock traded on NASDAQ. Throughout the day the price was quite strong and even gaining after Monday’s drop and suddenly 5 minutes before the closure it first jumped from $413 to $470 and then fell to $249 (see the graph on the left based on the minute-by-minute breakdown by Silicon Alley Insider).
It is quite understandable that many traders must have felt at the very least uncomfortable watching this plummeting but then NASDAQ [...]

There’s a very thought-provoking article in the Guardian today about the dangers of cloud computing that resulted in quite an animated discussion in the blogosphere making people forget the tech companies stock valuations for a moment and try to figure out if we are really locking ourselves up in a trap of the much-hyped cloud computing.
True, cloud computing is obviously one of the most hyped terms these days and everyone thinks it is kind of hip and cool to rely [...]

There’s been quite some talk around the blogosphere and mainstream over the weekend related to Apple’s iPhone App Store - the good and the bad sides, prospects it offers to applications developers and alternative ways for developers to distribute their apps when not admitted by Apple. And since the next week will be sure to become the week of big Android news with Tuesday’s T-Mobile announcement I have decided to summarize a few conclusions we can arrive to after a [...]

There is a growing fear of what we should expect for online industry now that the entire world economy is facing a recession. The major concern is that real-world companies will spend less on advertising, thus online businesses will face revenues falling since the majority of web companies rely heavily on advertising. But even if we should probably expect cut in advertising expenses everywhere, there is one company that is positive it will do well even in a recession - [...]

There’s an interesting announcement today by Google Mobile team - Google Maps street view is now available on mobile phones. This announcement definitely presents a whole range of new capabilities to users, like helping people find the right location with the directions based on actual buildings and landmarks along the streets.
Google maps when viewed on a mobile device will provide the same level of imagery that you get on your desktop - but this time you can access it anywhere [...]

Back in June Google and Yahoo announced an advertising deal that was supposed to help Yahoo resist Microsoft takeover by adding a very substantial revenue stream. The idea is to display Google ads on the search results pages in Yahoo. It is obvious that while Yahoo is supposed to receive a revenue boost, Google is supposed to further strengthen its monopoly in search advertising.
It is exactly this monopoly that has been so controversial about the deal and the reason for [...]