Yet another new service from Google, this one aimed at anyone who wants to create a web page (not a blog) with the minimum of fuss and absolutely no exposure to anything techie:
Google Users Display Biggest Brand Loyalty
For years, the major search engines have been building membership lists by offering a diverse range of services to registered users.
Find A Soprano On Google Maps And Whackim
HBO is planning to promote the new season of “Sopranos” by using Google Maps. Time Warner’s cable network plans to form interactive maps of New Jersey to keep track of the characters and where events occur, as well as a way to help viewers remember old storylines.
Google Makes Brilliant Choice For Charity
The Well co-founder Larry Brilliant has accepted the position as the executive director of Google’s philanthropic endeavor, Google.org. Larry Brilliant brings a combination of medical background and technological savvy to his new job…
Google Loses Thumbs To Perfect 10
Google suffered a setback in court last Friday as US District Judge Howard Matz ruled that thumbnail displays retrieved by the company’s image search feature were a likely violation of copyright law. Links to third party sites and the practice of “framing” the image above those sites, however, were not considered to be in violation.
Why Google and Yahoo Both Love eBay
eBay Inc. is the number one and number two sponsored link advertiser for both Google and Yahoo!, reports Nielsen/NetRatings. Dwarfing other advertisers in the top five, eBay and eBay’s Shopping.com have spent more on search marketing than Target and Interactive Corp. combined (and then some).
Google Research Steps Up To Blogging
Google breaks out the Ph.D. Googlers, equips them with titanium slide rules, and sends them out to throw down with Mensa.
Google Answers Enterprise Desktop Concerns
After Gartner Research published the opinion that Google Desktop users in a business setting should use the Enterprise version of the product, Google released an updated edition of that product.
Your Favorite Google Employee Blog?
There have been a lot of official Google blogs and some not so official, yet they all tend to focus purely on the business-end of the company.
Google China License Questioned
In China, sites are required to obtain an Internet content provider license from the government to operate; Google.cn shares a license with another Chinese site, and that could be a problem.