After visiting Google’s Search Blog this afternoon, one begins to understand how the rumor mill works. It would seem the all the hubbub surrounding the possibility (pretty much a sure thing) of the Google Base seems to be attracting a slight amount of attention.
25 Wi-Fi Proposals, And Googles Too
San Francisco could become the outdoor version of Google Labs if it accepts the search engine company’s offer to bring free wireless Internet to the city.
Googles Stock In The Stratosphere
So you think you’ve got a decent earnings report. You hit your predictions, you planned conservatively and you paid your stockholders. You saw a bit of a climb on the market and then you get sick. You just saw Google’s numbers. Whoa boy.
Googles Blogger Going To China
Google finally got the Blogger through and now the Chinese will have access to Google’s Blogger. Chinese Googlites will also have access to the cached web pages from Google’s search engine.
Are Googles Content Spiders Being Duped?
Google is reported to have experimented with an algorithmic tweak creating a more aggressive duplicate content filter, much to the chagrin of webmasters who operate in-depth and content-rich websites. The fear is that not only is duplicate content being penalized across sites, but also within sites.
Thoughts On Googles Thoughts
Companies have a mission statement and most of them have a philosophy on how they and their business approach the world. Google is no different in that respect. They’ve had both those in place for some years now but sometimes, companies must adapt statements to suit necessary changes. Google is also no different there either.
Googles Been Screening For Chefs Job
Reading Google’s blog entry today made my mouth water. It seems they’ve been interviewing chefs who sent in rsums for their open chef listings a few weeks ago. They posted some of their menu choices the interviewees presented.
Googles Blog Search: Where Does Technorati Go?
Google put out their blog search function today and while it looks to be a great tool, where does this leave existing blog search engines like Technorati? This has been a topic of conversation on a number of blogs today and it’s something that needs to be considered.
Educators Think Googles Doing Evil
A group of educators created a petition holding Google to task for some of their customers in the ad programs like AdWords/AdSense. The petition accuses Google of undermining education because of a number of advertisers showing up in AdSense market prewritten essays and term papers and in so doing, promotes academic fraud and plagiarism.
Googles Flipping Through the Classifieds
It looks like Google’s getting into the want-ads business adding to their already lucrative online advertising line. Google pays for just about everything through advertising so it stands to reason they’d look for ways to expand.