Google has shown itself to be the strong, silent type, and quick, too – in about two days’ time, the company cleaned up what one individual called “massive amounts of malware redirects” without bothering to say a word about it.
Big Holiday Deals from PayPal & Google Checkout
Google’s Checkout and eBay’s PayPal unit are showing off their big holiday offers, designed to get you to use their services when making your holiday purchases online.
French Google, Yahoo Alike (& Loving Wikipedia)
It is (I think) becoming public knowledge that Google has crushed all of its opponents in France – the company has a search market share of around ninety percent. A new study is surprising, then, in that it reveals large similarities between the French versions of Google and Yahoo.
Google Lets (Some) Users Adjust Search Results
If you’ve ever thought, “Hey, I could give better search results than that,” here’s your chance: one of Google’s experiments is allowing users to vote sites up (or off) results pages. They can also add completely new sites to the list.
Changing Search Results with Google Experimental
Some users are reportedly seeing a new experiment in Google Experimental: the ability to re-order and even hide specific items in web search results.
Google Applauds Chinese Talent Pool
In America, much of Google’s success is attributed to its brilliant employees. In China, there’s no reason that the situation would be any different, but as a bonus, the company could gain a competitive edge by hiring locals.
Google Maps For Mobile Gains My Location Feature
This announcement was determined to find people wherever they were; in different forms, it popped up on the Official Google Blog, the Google LatLong Blog, the Google Mobile Blog, and in a formal press release. And interestingly enough, the announcement was about Google gaining a sort of location-seeking ability.
Problems with Google Blog Search
Lisa Barone writing in the Bruce Clay Blog was kind enough to mention a thread I started over at the Cre8asite Forums suggesting that the Ask.com Blog Search was filling a Google vacuum.
Why No Google Credit Card?
The following is a transcript of a recent conversation between Google and me:
Google Street View Gets More Accessible
Most people are pretty good at blocking out distractions. Unfortunately, this talent can also let them ignore new features, so Google is making its Street View more prominent than ever before.