Google’s various geography-oriented services, like Maps, Earth, and Local, have a new blog to discuss those services, and they swear they aren’t trying to engage in buzzword proliferation.
NY Board Seeks Google DoubleClick Delay
Concerns about privacy have prompted the New York State Consumer Protection Board to ask the Federal Trade Commission for a delay in approving Google’s proposed purchase of DoubleClick.
MeasureMap Behind Google Analytics Redesign
I suspected that either MeasureMap was a wasted acquisition, or they were being tasked with fixing the overcomplicated and user-unfriendly interface that Google Analytics bore. As recently as yesterday, I asked “What happened to MeasureMap”? Well, turns out that yesterday’s redesign of Google Analytics, while something most people haven’t seen yet, is a success, was done by those same MeasureMap guys. Why am I not suprised?
Life Without Google Gets Thumbs Up
It’s common knowledge that quitting smoking is hard, and I’ve even known a couple people who had a tough time cutting back their caffeine intake. But James Thomas did the unthinkable: he gave up Google.
New Version of Google Analytics Launched
Google today is launching a much-improved interface for Google Analytics, according to Andy Beal. Andy has screenshots of the new interface (which I cannot access as of this writing), which has much bolder graphics to enable clearer to understand graphs, email reports, customizable dashboards so you get the data you want, and plainer language used to describe part of the interface.
Google Analytics Receives Upgrade
Google has rolled out a new version of its Google Analytics. The new version was announced today at the EMetrics Summit in San Francisco.
Google May Employ Simply Hired
This week has seen one eBusiness rumor after another come to light, and the latest nugget indicates that Google may be interested in buying Simply Hired. If an acquisition occurs, this job search engine would fill in an obvious blank in Google’s arsenal.
Google Finance Cashes In Updates
Some new features arrived in Google’s Finance site, with the big addition being content from events like earnings announcements and analyst calls.
Marketers Step Into Google FOG
It wasn’t too long ago that a possible Microsoft purchase of Yahoo would have spooked the living daylights out of everybody. Not anymore, not even close. Fear of Google, the FOG, rolls in so thick the folks enveloped within are looking to Microsoft for daylight.
Google Patent Defines The Sandbox
If there were any doubt new sites may be spending some time alone on part of the playground, a recent Google patent application seems to define a place where new documents go in their index.