Google isn’t the only company that has to determine the best way to protect copyrighted video; the movie and TV studios have to come to grips with a way to let people share content, or forever kill the ability to monetize it online.
Google Still On a Hiring Binge
I support Google’s relaxed dress code. But given all the hiring the company’s doing, I’d recommend one tweak: name tags. Google added over 2,100 employees this last quarter, making it seemingly impossible for anybody to keep track of anything.
Google Webmaster Central Takes History Lesson
What’s old is new with the tools Google makes available to webmasters, with their latest update that brings more historical data to the service.
Google Earnings As Expected, Revenue Up 57%
Google shares have been up and down in after-hours trading, but largely have hovered around the closing price of $639.62 soon after Google released its earnings report for the third quarter of 2007. Google beat analyst expectations by a slim margin.
Google Trends Reveals What Unites Manchester
In celebration of Reuters’ discovery of Google Trends, we thought we’d revisit for an update. Like last year (when Google Trends was launched) Birmingham, England still has the world’s largest concentration of porn searches.
Google News Now Featuring YouTube Videos
Two months ago, we reported that some people had seen video clips appear on Google News. Not us, mind you – a sort of regional test may have been taking place – but some people. Now we’ve seen one for ourselves, and the clip came straight from YouTube.
Google’s Blogging
Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land interviewed Karen Wickre, “mother of Google’s blogs”, on her work as editor & “gatekeeper” of the official Google blogs.
Google Health Announced for Next Year
Google’s Marissa Mayer, who replaced now ex-Google employee Adam Bosworth as manager of the Google Health product team, said Google Health will officially appear in early 2008. (Screenshots of the product already circulated.)
Google Ads on Facebook (Via Developers)
It’s no secret: Facebook’s platform might be the social networking development of the year.
Google Book Scans Gain Harvard Appeal
Three thousand people may not sound like a lot, but it is relatively early in Google’s book scanning endeavor, and that number of Harvard students may be the vanguard of scanned book readership.