Posts Tagged with ‘Google’

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 [...]

Last week Google rolled out the SearchWiki functionality for its flagship product – Google Search. The functionality allows every registered Google user to customize the search results for every search query – and get exactly the same results next time this user performs a search for the same term. SearchWiki involves voting links appearing in [...]

Rumor of the day today is that even Google is not as immune to the recession as we used to believe with 500 people already laid off and a total of 10 thousand to be affected as well. And while the blogosphere is actively engaged in a conversation about the huge number of layoffs, everyone [...]

I think everyone has been thinking for a while now about how the entire internet industry is flawed and how it will face even more serious problems in the future unless something is changed in terms of how businesses make money here. Recently every time a new startup sends me a pitch about their new [...]

Today Google is finally rolling out its long-promised and long-tested by a large group of randomly-selected users SearchWiki functionality – this time for everyone to see and use. The functionality allows any Google user to customize search results for any search query by moving results up or down according to their relevance (as viewed by [...]

We have recently reported on a Russian company Era Vodoleya that expressed its intentions to sue Google for a huge amount of $3 billion (which is 15% of Google’s revenues) because of Google allegedly infringing a patent with its contextual advertising technology – the one that turned Google into a multi-billion company. In the post [...]

Have you ever thought about doing some really quick search on your cell phone when on the go to find some place or store nearby but thought it was too difficult (and not really quick) to type all the letters to get the answer to your quick question? I do believe the answer will be [...]

It has looked for quite a while now that Google actually wants to be everywhere whenever we do just about anything online. Today we have yet another functionality introduced by Google to Gmail to make the Gmail experience even more all-inclusive: voice and video chat for Google Talk. Quite logical, of course, because “talk” should [...]