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For an outfit like Google, $50,000 isn’t much - this is, after all, the corporation that bought a full-size SpaceShipOne replica for…
Social networking site Facebook is about to make things interesting. The company is expected to announce this week that it will open up its site to developers and Web services companies who want to connect on a more intimate basis with Facebook users.
Google’s no wimp, but it never hurts to have help when doing battle with a company like Microsoft. A rumored partnership with Salesforce.com would provide just that, although the financial details (or even any information about the resulting products) are still unknown.
The rumor that Google is eyeballing FeedBurner for a cool $100 million has folks talking about what that could mean for Google's search result relevancy, and the company's ability to identify splogs, differentiating them from legitimate blogs.
Google may not always let Chinese citizens search for terms like “democracy,” but it’s apparently got no problems with things such as housing, work, and train tickets; a new Life Search engine available through Google China is tailored to deal with precisely these types of classifications.
America, France, Belgium . . . these are the countries in which some news services have received payment in return for having their content carried by Google News, and now the UK has reportedly joined the gang. But don’t tell anyone - the arrangement is supposedly being kept quiet so that other organizations don’t request the same deal.
