My ex-boss, John Furrier, goes after Facebook after Facebook blocked Google’s Friend Connect from using its API to inport friends from Facebook into Google’s Friend Connect.
Buyout The Best Sites, Beat Google
Mark Cuban suggested Yahoo or Microsoft could payoff the top five sites for each of the top 25,000 queries on Google, have those sites leave the Google index for good, and bring Google’s normal traffic for those sites into the rival fold.
Earthquake In China Unnoticed By Google?
This article was going to be a quick roundup of Google’s response to the earthquake in China – mention a donations page here, a map there, done. As it turns out, though, the company didn’t provide much material.
Google Starts Blurring Faces On Streetview
Last month, Google had incorporated a new feature in Google Maps, called ‘Street View’. Besides fetching directions for a destination, this feature enabled users to view images of their destination and its routes as well.
Google Analytics Admits Errors, Data Loss
Human nature being what it is, people often find a way to complain about excellent free products. Yet following an admission that Google Analytics experienced errors for most of a week and permanently lost some data, users are taking the news rather well.
Google Inching Toward 70%
Whatever happens in Google’s peripheral industry dabbling, the search giant lives up to its core reputation by grabbing 67.9 percent of US searches in April, a 4 percent increase year-over-year, according to Hitwise. The usual rivals are present in the top four with a noticeable decline for third-place breath-holder MSN. Microsoft’s confusingly branded search engine dropped from 6.65 percent in March to 6.26 percent in April, down from 7.77 percent a year ago, and down significantly from search share once hovering around 12 percent.
Google Maps Offers Real Estate Listings
Realtors have had a hard time these past six or so months; as the housing market crashed, the competition for buyers grew fierce. Now Google’s making things even more interesting by introducing a real estate search option on the main page of Google Maps.
Google Salutes iPhone Users With New Reader Interface
Although the uninitiated might imagine that iPhone users only use their devices to listen to music and surf social networks, Google knows they can be quite literate, too. And a new version of Reader plays up to this characteristic.
Google Becoming Too Big For Itself?
Fortune magazine has one of the most comprehensive "Google’s starting to fall apart" articles, I’ve seen in a long time.
Google Describes How They Print Money
The auction-based process used by Google and other search advertising companies sets the keyword price for ads, in a way that Google’s chief economist described as an efficient and equitable process.