Search and advertising services from Google are part of the China.com experience for visitors to the portal site.
Google, Yahoo Profiting In China
Search advertising has become a booming market in China, a result that will hearten executives at search engines who have been criticized over their involvement in the country.
Brazil Barks Up Wrong Google
When pressuring a major corporation to comply with a major government mandate, it’s a good idea to commence communications with said company’s legal department. The sales team is generally clueless about these matters. The Brazilian government couldn’t care less who they talk to at Google, but Google thinks they should try.
Google Base Releases GData API
Google released its Google Base data API, GData for short, that allows developers to write dynamic and interactive applications for Google Base. This opens up the possibility of Google Base mash-ups that combine content with other services.
Google Pitching Jobs To SciFi Geeks
When the World Science Fiction Convention, best known as WorldCon, starts up in Anaheim today, some Googlers will be in attendance. One would think Google’s presence at a well-known international conference would be enough to justify sending this writer out to Anaheim to cover the event.
LibreDigital Answers Google Books
Google’s dustup with publishers around the globe last year over its plan to digitize every book in its path, sans permission, gave someone an idea. What if we do that with their permission? LibreDigital general manager Craig Miller says his company’s digitization service isn’t in direct response to Google, but a “natural extension” of what they were already doing.
Google Audio Player Comes To Light
Google has entered a new market yet again, although the company isn’t doing its own press on this one. Intrepid bloggers found, while exploring Gmail, that there is a new feature present – an MP3 player. This is probably not going to replace any other player you use, but it’s a nice bonus.
Salesforce.com Buys Into Google AdWords
The online CRM software company picked up a three-person software company whose expertise in tracking sales leads arriving from Google advertising will become part of the Salesforce software.
Seeing Perl In Google Code
Google’s release of a code repository for open source projects has a number of languages represented, including Perl.
NetRatings Gives Google A Lift
July’s search market share reported by Nielsen//NetRatings pegs Google at just under 50 percent, given their methodology; the top five looked the same as those featured in comScore’s report on search share in the US as well.