comScore released a list of the top fifteen Web properties earlier today, and there are some very familiar search-related names in the first three positions. Microsoft’s sites lead the way, with both Yahoo and Google trailing behind, according to these September rankings.
Google Releasing New Blogger Version
Google engineers suffered the wrath of bloggers last week when “a significant number of unplanned outages” of the search company’s Blogger blogging platform. Google decided to try the transparency in PR blogging concept at the Blogger Buzz blog (that’s a lot of blogging for one intro, isn’t it?) by apologizing and announcing a new beta version of Blogger.
Google Maps Eliminates Usability Mistake
Gogole Maps had one incredibly annoying feature: Click the name of your search result in the balloon on the map, and get transported to a new page with more info on the result, including a mini-map and search results. While the more info page was very useful, the fact that it was a new page and appeared in the same tab made it very annoying, since you had to go Back to the map, and hope it reloaded correctly.
Racist Blogs Land Google In Hot Water
Google is becoming involved in yet another battle that may test its dedication to “free speech”: an Australian group has accused the company’s Blogger site of hosting what it describes as “racist and neo-Nazi content.” The group has requested that the offensive blogs be removed, but Google hasn’t budged.
Google Keeps Fretting Over Googling
Merriam-Webster’s and the Oxford English Dictionary’s addition of “Google” to their multitude of pages as a verb has given Google fits, and the company has been desperately trying to fight the genericizing of their trademark name.
Google Named 3rd Most Valuable Tech Company
Google’s moving up in the world, and it just passed IBM. The search engine giant now holds the title of “world’s third most valuable technology company,” and is only about $2.5 billion behind Cisco. Microsoft is still the far-and-away leader of the pack, with a market capitalization of $279 billion (compared to Google’s $145 billion).
Use Google As a Verb, You Must Get Spanked
Google’s stepping-up its efforts to stop people from using “google” as a verb. They’ve posted a correct useage guide on the official Google blog, in an attempt to gently persuade people to not use Google incorrectly.
Google Leaks Or Google Plants?
More supposedly secret information has emerged from Google as a leak to a prominent blogger. Considering the company’s penchant for secrecy, especially in light of their fight with the Department of Justice, how could data escape from Google unless it has been permitted to do so.
Revisiting Google Borg or Google Brain
Originally and with much enthusiasm I wrote about Google seen becoming the next Borg, where in our collective consciousness we tried to see what was available to us using the Google search engine.
Google Censorship (What we can no longer find)
I am a big fan of Google, for all the things that Google stands for, and for all the amount of content that I generate about the company, I really do like them.