We live in an age of great communication. The world is literally at our fingertips at the click of a mouse or the stroke of a key, and that puts the companies behind the products we use everyday right within our reach.
Chatting from Your Google Homepage
Gmail chat has come to iGoogle. This means users will be able to chat with their friends and associates without leaving the comfort of their Google homepage.
The feature is not a gadget like most of your iGoogle features. The chat feature comes in the form of a sidebar and resides below the left-hand navigation menu.
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Google Trends, SEO Create Hacker Perfect Storm
It used to be one was at most risk of getting a computer virus via spam or frequenting bad Internet neighborhoods (places one probably shouldn’t be hanging out in the first place, picking up just any old download they come across). These days malware pushers have come out in the open where the masses collect, and places like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are starting to resemble the Time Square of old—with peril and vice all around.
Do Backroom Deals, Secrecy Make Google A Fallen Hero?
On its way up, Google rarely talked about anything—especially its algorithm. The more the company let fans into its world (that is, once the company learned of the power of branding), the more carefully the Googtopia narrative was built, a narrative with a kind of Justice League ring to it—Don’t be evil, be good, be transparent, be groovy, man. With recent maneuvers one wonders if those days are over.
Get Your Photos on Google Maps Street View
Google has introduced a new feature for Street View on Google Maps. This allows users to submit their own photos for places Street View has on display.
Google Latitude Bug Looks Into Future
Barry Schwartz recently shared an interesting story about his brother-in-law showing up at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida on Google Latitude, although he was in Newwark Airport in New Jersey. The interesting part is that he was getting ready to go to the Florida airport.
Google Latitude is a feature in Google Maps for mobile and iGoogle that allows you to share your location with your family and friends in real time.
Google’s Matt Cutts on Canonical Again
Matt Cutts is getting in the habit of posting helpful videos along with accompanying slideshows. He has continued this tradition today with one of each on the recently announced Canonical Link element introduced jointly among Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft (Cutts notes that Ask has gotten on board as well).
Google Shared Stuff Given Death Sentence
What do Newbold Harris, DeWitt Wallace, and Google Shared Stuff have in common? Well, to put it politely, all three have rather low recognition factors, and unless someone in Mountain View has a change of heart, it looks like all three will share a death date of March 30th.
Google Talk Hit By Scammers
The old X Files adage aptly applies to the Internet these days: Trust no one. Some Gmail users, already miffed about previous service outages, were invited through Google Talk to watch a video by clicking a link. Of course, bad news awaited.