Yahoo was quick with a blitzkrieg of press releases this morning and Samsung is for sure double dipping. Included among a host of major mobile phone manufacturers in bed with Yahoo, Samsung later was seen leaving the Googleplex a little extra smiley. Whadda hound.
Google Foes Shifting Tactics
Topix.net’s Rich Skrenta said that Google is the environment and not the competition in search; Yahoo, Ask, and Microsoft have been working to define a new environment where the top of the search results delivers what a person wants to know.
Is Google Going to Start Marketing?
Marketing often gets a bad rap. It sometimes is described as ways of manipulating customers so that they buy products they don’t really need.
Google,Stopbadware Make Mistakes
A service call Stopbadware.org that is supposed to warn users of sites containing malware was recently involved in some confusion along with Google. It seems Stopbadware flagged the site misterpoll.com as a potentially dangerous site to visit. Then the Google search results for misterpoll.com had the warning:” Visiting this Web site may harm your computer!”
Fortune Names Google Best Place to Work
Grab you morning coffee and settle down for a long, envy-inducing read as to how Google made it to the top of Fortune’s list of Best Companies to Work For.
Google Buys Stake in Xunlei
Google announced on Thursday that it would purchase a small state in Chinese web site Xunlei.com. The company, located in Shenzen, allows users to download music and video from the Internet.
MapQuest Upgrades; Google, Yahoo Sigh
In a market where Yahoo’s stake trails Google’s by just one percentage point, a third company is beating them both by a solid 30%. Even worse (from the search engine companies’ perspectives), that margin could soon increase. On Thursday, MapQuest announced plans to enhance its wireless offerings.
Google is The Top Brand of 2006
Landor Associates, a New York based design agency, conducted a survey of the most popular brands among consumers.
Google Search Appliance New Features
Google’s added a slew of new features to its Search Appliance, making it even more attractive to companies.
Google Takes Up Stargazing
Google will be teaming with a consortium of 19 universities, national labs and private foundations to build the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). The LSST is scheduled to commence operation by 2013.