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Okay, the latest news is that GOOGLE has bought social games start-up SocialDeck, the latest in a series of acquisitions that it is currently collecting so that it can compete against Facebook. It’s on a not-so-secret mission to build an enormous social networking service. Sorry to rain on the parade, fellas, but yer going to [...]
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Fact is, for many businesses, the Internet is all about local search. That’s because for many small businesses, the majority of their revenue is generated from a local catchment area. (Let’s face it, no-one is going to drive halfway across town to a supermarket, especially when there’s almost certainly one that’s closer to home.) So [...]
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Jon Stewart Addresses Google and Net Neutrality. “It’s kinda like creating a carpool lane on the Internet, except instead of high occupancy vehicles, only rich a**holes will be able to drive in it.” An oldie but a goodie. Click on the image to take a trip to the video. Bookmark It
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GOOGLE has revealed it is under investigation in Spain over its Street View mapping feature. A Madrid judge has issued a subpoena for an October 4 appearance by a Google representative. Spain is the latest country to take on the internet search giant over Street View, which provides detailed photographs of neighbourhoods. More in The [...]
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“When you are part of a company that is trying to digitize all the books in the world, the first question you often get is “Just how many books are out there?”” says Leonid Taycher, Google software engineer working on the Google Books project. They counted 129,864,880 titles, or almost 130 million. As you would [...]
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It was going to be bigger than Google Maps. Now it’s deader than, well, a dead duck. Google has announced on its blog that Google Wave, a web app that allows realtime communication and collaboration, is no more. According to Google, the problem is that not enough people were using it. The demand wasn’t there [...]
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Google set to reassess China Operations, following mid-December attacks on its corporate infrastructure and theft of intellectual property from Google.
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Browser Wars: Chrome bites into Apple. Microsoft retains leadership, but it’s under threat as the browser battle continues.
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Real time news – How Google fixed its delay problem. In its desire to stay relevant, the Internet giant has been forced to improve its real time news capability. Here is what it’s done.
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