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Showing an example of how developers can do some really cool stuff with the Google Earth API, Google Earth iPhone Engineer David…
Remember Ask? You know, the search engine with the Butler. While the company doesn't get brought up in the discussion as much as it once did, it has not surrendered to Google and it's other competitors just yet. Ask has now announced some advances in its semantic search technology. If you're unfamiliar with the concept of Semantic Search, Wikipedia explains it:
LinkedIn puts its current user base at about 33 million, and as such, it's easy to believe that the odds of finding professionals with even remotely common names are beyond slim. The site's trying to keep this from happening, though, with some interesting new search upgrades.
Below overview checks which Google products directly make money for Google in terms of being paid for by the user, or having ads or affiliate links. Indirect effects on revenues (as well as some other things) are disregarded for this purpose, but not because the effects are necessarily neglible.* The table is just an estimate – if you see ommissions or misses please comment and…
Indicators that times are tough shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, and a new report from eMarketer suggests that some advertisers will respond by making cutbacks. The research and analysis company took a close look at a few social networks, though, and believes advertisers in the UK won't turn their backs on them too much.
Covering industry news, naturally I read a lot of press releases. Sometimes they're sent directly to me or our news team as a whole, sometimes I find them online through PR wires, and sometimes I will find them on the companies' websites.
