Google releases their Q2 earnings today. It will be interesting to see how their results will be received on Wall St. for a number of reasons. Google is one of those companies that people measure the economy as a whole against to some extent. As such, today has sort of a groundhog day kind of feel to me. I don’t typically spend a lot of time watching economic news – even in good times, but i’ll be paying a little more attention to it today.
Google Sued By Rosetta Stone Over Trademarks
Update
Murdok spoke to Eric Goldman, Associate Professor, Santa Clara University School of Law and Director of the High Tech Law Institute about the latest trademark case brought against Google.
Google Improves Universal Results for Locations
Google is now showing images in universal search results for location queries. They have shown maps for some time, but the addition of images enriches the results that much more.
Blackberry and Android Get Google Voice Mobile App
Google Voice just became much easier to use for Blackberry and Android owners as a new mobile app has been released.
Will you be downloading the new Google Voice app for Blackberry or Android. Tell us.
Google Captures Nearly Three-Quarters Of Searches
Microsoft’s Bing accounted for 5.25 percent of all U.S. searches for the month of June, according to the latest data from Hitwise.
Google continued to hold on to its dominant position growing 7 percent year-over- year capturing 74.04 percent of the U.S. search market for the month.
Yahoo landed in the second position with 16.19 percent of the search market, but saw its growth drop 17 percent year-over-year, while Ask received 3.15 percent of searches with its growth slipping 22 percent year-over-year.
Is Bing Making Google Better?
Since Bing’s launch, the search engine has garnered quite a bit of attention. This is no surprise since Microsoft invested so much money into marketing it. It may still be too early to tell, but it seems to be paying off so far. Bing’s numbers have edged up since its launch.
Google Voice: The New Coolest Thing Ever
What would you say if a company asked you if you’d like to have all of your home, work and cell phone calls, all your text messages, all your conference calls, all your voicemail — pretty much anything you say or type into a phone — ALL of it — go thru their 3rd party service? You, like me, would probably say; Thanks but no thanks.
Matt Cutts Discusses “Google’s Microsoft Moment”
As just about everybody knows, Google takes great care of its employees, has been something of a media darling, and uses "don’t be evil" as the first three words of its official Code of Conduct. However, Google’s not perfect, and Matt Cutts recently discussed a few potential problems related to its image.
Google Warns Users Of Google Scams
Google is warning users about an increase of spammers promoting Google scams.
"We’re seeing disturbing cases in which websites, emails and advertisements claim that you can make large amounts of money from home with very little effort using Google products and services," the company said on the official Google Blog.
The Google Shuffle?
Has your website recently sunk to "Davy Google Jones Jr’s Locker"?