Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, a Russian mystic born in the 1800s, supposedly survived being poisoned, shot, and beaten (though a subsequent drowning did him in). Now Google Answers is also proving hard to kill, and it has resurfaced in the same part of the world.
British Man Pushes Google On Defamation
Brian Retkin of domain registrar Dotworlds had been criticized for offering .USA domains for sale and spamming people with sales pitches after September 11, 2001. He has claimed Google’s links to this criticism amounts to defamation.
Google’s Better, But They Like Yahoo
Another clue that perception, not truth, is what you can expect from people comes out of Penn State today. A study reveals that Web searchers prefer Yahoo over Google; the only problem is, they chose a logo, not a search engine.
Earthmine May Outshine Google Street View
Taking on Google is, to understate the matter, usually a foolish proposition. Taking on Google and Microsoft . . . well, that could be even less wise. Yet a company called Earthmine appears ready to make a successful challenge to both Google’s Street View and Microsoft’s Live Local.
Does Your Facebook Profile Show up on Google?
I had no idea, but apparently Facebook’s walled garden has a public directory. I had just assumed that everything in Facebook was behind a login prompt, but I found out via a FaceReviews post that a large number of Facebook users, depending on their privacy settings, have public profile pages, and have had so for the last six months. Here’s what one looks like:
Bluewolf Forms Pact With Google
Google hasn’t yet mentioned the deal on its Official Enterprise Blog, but luckily for us, Bluewolf issued a press release. It turns out that the company “has joined the Google Enterprise Professional program to help organizations more efficiently and effectively implement and deploy Google Apps.”
Walter Mossberg Prefers Ask Over Google?
Allow me to be blunt: Ask.com has run some really crappy advertisements in the past few weeks, and there’s no telling how much money the company wasted on that nonsense. Yet Ask has now received a positive review in a very public place: Walter Mossberg’s column.
Google Gets Mentioned A Lot In Social Media
As “Brands in Social Media” go, Google, Yahoo, Apple, and Microsoft stand head and shoulders above the rest. Indeed, Google appears to receive more than ten times as much attention as Amazon. But even within these four leaders, there are some big differences.
Google Hardware To Go Through Ingram Micro
If you want to get the Google Mini or Google Search Appliance, talk to Ingram Micro – even as sales surpass 9,000 units, the company has been selected to distribute Google’s hardware.
Wikipedia’s Google Penetration
Via ThreadWatch, this study of where Wikipedia pages appear in Google results for a search for that phrase, and found that in about 580 out of 600 randomly chosen Wikipedia pages, the Wikipedia page appeared in Google’s top 10. That’s just incredible, a number we can pretty much point to and show how much power Wikipedia has in Google, with 96.66% of those pages surveyed making it into the top 10. The only ones that didn’t make it: