On Monday, Google announced that Dr. Larry Brilliant from Google.org was changing positions and becoming the Chief Philanthropic Evangelist for Google itself.
Google Gives Microsoft A Little Antitrust Payback
Business is war, and payback is hell, but corporate trustbusting is more of a sport. Like basketball players insisting the ball bounced off the other guy’s foot, Microsoft and Google are at it again. This time Google returns the antitrust volley by announcing its intention to apply to become a third party in the European Commission’s investigation into Microsoft’s “unfair” bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows.
Google App Engine Goes Beyond Free Quotas
Google announced pricing for the Google App Engine on Tuesday. It was released last April as a free service, but apps were limited to fixed resource usage quotas. There are still free quotas, but the following prices have been set up for going further:
Google Transitions Map Maker Info To Mainstream
Google Maps just got a lot more accurate, and as PBS likes to say, "this . . . was made possible, in part, by . . . viewers like you." Or to put it another way: maps of 16 countries have been transferred from Google Map Maker to Google Maps.
How to Notify Google About Content Theft
If you’re a blogger who has been at it for a while, you’ve probably run across other blogs stealing your content at one point or another. These are commonly referred to as scrapers, and will often use your content to post Google AdSense ads and make money off your work.
Google Earth Looks At CO2 Emissions
It’s probably fair to say that the average person doesn’t know a lot about CO2 emissions; news stories don’t go much beyond "humans are responsible for them." If you want to learn, then, a certain green-minded search giant has made some information available through Google Earth.
TV Ad Estimates from Google
It appears that television advertising is following a different trend than many have expected. Advertising Age is citing data from a recent study (due out soon) from Nielsen indicating that its doing better than ever. Some may find this a bit surprising with the increasing popularity of DVRs and online video.
How to Build Display Ads with Google
Google has crafted several new videos to help users better understand the process of creating display ads using Google AdWords. They’ve had two videos on the process since October, but have now released four more.
The first one is simply on accessing the feature in AdWords in the first place:
Compete Confirms Tiny Chink In Google’s Armor
Due to the recession, the idea of a 0.3 percent drop sounds like nothing at all; plunges of 5, 10, and 20 percent are the norm now. Still, Compete has released its description of the search market in January, and the report’s sure to turn a few heads with that exact figure.
Google Makes Map Maker More Accessible
Google announced today that Google Map Maker is now available in 27 languages with more to come. They can’t translate the interface itself into every language, so they have opened up Map Maker in "Google in Your Language" so users can translate it into their preferred language.
The current available languages include:
* Bengali
* Gujarati
* Brazilian
* Portugese