Public transportation doesn’t seem too tempting when you’ve got a car in the garage. But if you’re on vacation in another country, those sorts of systems start to look quite nice, and so we welcome the introduction of Google Transit trip planner for Europe.
Aniboom To Toss Itself At YouTube
Last week, we learned that (in terms of search queries) YouTube has become synonymous with “funny videos.” Now Aniboom.com, which describes itself as “the home of animation,” will launch a channel on Google’s video-sharing site.
Google Explains Itself, BS-Detectors Wail
It’s not often Google publishes 1,200 words-worth of defense for making an acquisition. Though I’m not positive, I don’t remember a time in the last two plus years. Maybe Microsoft’s antitrust and sour-grapes opposition to Google’s purchase of DoubleClick was enough incentive to get Google talking.
MySpace Brands Itself With Premium Video Content
When News Corp. entered the Internet world with its acquisition of MySpace, the I-World looked at Rupert Murdoch like they were "a-smellin’ onions." Nearly two years later, News Corp. is proving to be one of the Web-savviest companies around.
Baidu Loses Itself In Japan
Baidu is China’s top search engine – the king, or, because or its relative youth, the prince. But the search engine company is experiencing some difficulties in Japan, where another corporation has laid claim to the domain baidu.co.jp. This pauper calls itself the “CBC Company.”
Jobster Web 2.0’s Itself, Joins Up With Facebook
Jobster.com took a giant leap into Web 2.0 this week, first announcing that employers can post jobs on the site for free on a new more LinkedIn-style platform, and second confirming that the company will be the exclusively working with social networking site Facebook.
“We spent the last twelve months designing the new Jobster to meet the needs and expectations of the digital generation," said Jobster CEO, Jason Goldberg.
Videopinion: Yahoo Exposes Itself Sundancing
Well, that’s a better title than “Sunning Your Yahoo At the Dance” right? On to business. Yahoo is adding two new channels to its video platform: the Sundance Channel for the latest outrage over creepy Dakota Fanning scenes; and Expo TV, a consumer-generated product review channel featuring “videopinions.”
Is Your Site In Harmony With Itself?
Earlier today I came across the article, Should Writers Be Held Accountable for Web Page Performance?.
Google Advertising Itself
It’s an occurrence nearly as old as AdWords; Google advertises its own sites on top of Google web search results.
AOL Forks Itself, Leaks User Search Data
AOL’s public relations nightmare just turned into a night terror. On the heels of months and months of bad news, AOL Research flubbed on a scale so massive that New Coke rears its head back and laughs. Hundreds of thousands of users’ formerly private search queries were made public.