Either London’s Heathrow Airport will soon be replaced by one of Google’s fabled space elevators, or the Google Space project at Heathrow is just an elaborate testing ground.
Google Jamming For Code In China
The Summer of Code will spend the autumn and early winter in China, where Google will offer valuable prizes to Chinese participants who win the competition.
Google Starts Click-To-Call Ads
Users who find a green phone icon in the sponsored search results on Google can click on it to call the advertiser, as Google begins testing the pay-per-call advertising method.
CBS Querying Google On Video Search
Video on-demand and video search scenarios marked talks between CBS and Google executives as they will build on the successful showing of “Everybody Hates Chris” on Google Video.
Giggity-Giggity Google Base
Yin and yang, man. If one were to accept the task of indexing the world’s information, it would seem right and proper to index the good, the bad, the ugly and the pornographic-as long as it’s not illegal. As par for the Internet course, Google Base has become an online porn store in record time-or maybe a bad neighborhood directory.
Google Mini Needed Big Security Patch
The search appliance that has been part of a recent Google hardware promotion contained a “highly critical” flaw leading to the presence of several exploitable bugs.
No Google Analytics For You
A crush in demand for the now-freely available Google Analytics service has led Google to turn on the “No Vacancy” sign and set up a waiting list.
Google Searching For Korean Opportunity
Interviews are taking place at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View to fill several roles in Seoul, including product managers, marketing managers and finance managers, and a CEO.
Google, Your Long Tail is Showing
Reuters is reporting that Google is opening up its “advertise on this site” feature to everyone by re-branding it “On-site Advertiser Sign-Up.”
Cringely Sees Google Trucking Along
Pundit Robert X Cringely, who recently keynoted WebMasterWorld’s PubCon in Las Vegas, claims to know what Google wants with all the dark fiber it’s reportedly purchased, but we think there’s another reason.