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Twitter inks deal with Russian Google rival

, Feb 21st 2012 Discuss [0]

Google may have abandoned Twitter integration in its search results, but the short message service has inked a new deal with Russian search engine Yandex. The agreement will see a "firehose" of real-time tweets into Yandex searches, with the promise being indexing from the microblogging platform "in a matter of moments." There'll also be a new Twitter search engine available at twitter.yandex.ru. Read The Full Story

Consumer Watchdog calls on Google to testify on your Privacy

, Feb 17th 2012 Discuss [0]

Over the past few weeks Google has found itself in some hot water over its Privacy Policy changes on its wide range of websites, today being called by Consumer Watchdog to testify on the matter. Consumer Watchdog has called Google CEO Larry Page to the House Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade Subcommittee Committee as they hold hearings on the new Google privacy and data policies. Both subcommittee Chair Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) and Ranking Member G.K Butterfield, (D-NC) have been called in a letter sent today. Read The Full Story

Yahoo launches search engine for iOS, Android apps

, Feb 3rd 2012 Discuss [3]

Yahoo launched a new category for its search engine this week that makes it easy to browse and find either iOS or Android apps. You'll notice the addition of an "Apps" filter option above Yahoo's search bar and a new portal that makes it easy to sift through apps by various categories and ratings lists. Read The Full Story

Twitter, Facebook and MySpace team tells Google “Don’t Be Evil”

, Jan 24th 2012 Discuss [6]

Engineers at Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have joined the protests against Google's search integration of Google+ results, crafting a browser add-on called "Don't Be Evil" that adds a far broader range of social into search. The tool, distributed at a site called Focus on the User, argues that rather than just pull Google+ profiles and topics into the search engine, Google would better serve actual users by integrating far more social networks: Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr and more. Rather than see exactly what Google wants you to see through its forced Google+ promotion, you can be shown what the company's pure algorithm believes is relevant. Read The Full Story

Google Earnings show lowest quarter of 2011

, Jan 19th 2012 Discuss [0]

The fourth quarter earnings for the 2011 season for Google have been reported this week, results showing up as a slightly less impressive jump than analysts suspected. Google's fourth quarter earnings rose by 6.3%, but as this did end up being the slowest revenue increase of all four quarters of 2011, estimates jumped the gun - meanwhile shares in Google today fell 9.7% amid news in after-hours trading to $577.92. Perhaps its time to buy then, said those who wished they'd invested in Google when they had the chance all those years ago, as a 34% increase was seen over last year's Google ad clicks overall, this being also a 17% increase over the 3rd quarter of 2011. Read The Full Story

Google blames marketers for Chrome paid-link blunder

, Jan 3rd 2012 Discuss [14]

Google has stumbled into an embarrassing sponsored marketing blunder, with campaigns for Chrome ironically contravening the very paid link rules that saw thousands of sites penalized in the Panda cull last year. Over 400 pages were spotted with the text "This Post Sponsored By Google" by Search Engine Land and SEO Book, but not using the "nofollow" link attributes Google itself demands, in an apparent attempt to buoy the search giant's own rankings for Chrome-related content. "Not us!" Google has cried, however, blaming a third-party marketing firm that, it says, stepped outside of its bounds. Read The Full Story

Firefox Google deal renewed, 84% revenue loss avoided

, Dec 20th 2011 Discuss [6]

Not that we ever though Google would really abandon its best buddy in the world Mozilla, but the news that Firefox would lose 84% of its revenue certainly came as a shock to us as it was reported earlier this month - it appears now though that this disaster for the big red panda was a false alarm, Google renewing their contract for a further three years. Kind of reminds you of Jurassic Park, doesn't it? Financial terms were not disclosed, but the Silicon Valley nonprofit software makers whose most famous product is the web browser itself are certainly high-fiving one another today as Google remains the default search engine for the browser. Read The Full Story

Microsoft So.cl official: Study group killer not Facebook killer

, Dec 15th 2011 Discuss [5]

Microsoft has officially unveiled So.cl, and contrary to Facebook-challenger expectations it's a hybrid system pulling together social networking and search and targeted at students. Found at so.cl, the new tool allows "montages of visual web content" including photos, video and text to be constructed and shared for collaborative editing and discussion, as well as "video parties" for real-time conversation. Read The Full Story

Google Zeitgeist 2011 details top searches

, Dec 15th 2011 Discuss [1]

Rebecca Black, Steve Jobs, Adele and the iPhone 5: not a group you might expect to necessarily find together, but they're all among the top ten in Google's Zeitgeist 2011 roundup of how the world searched. Each year the search giant tots up the most frequently searched-for topics in the hope that it might give some insight into the collective consciousness: we can only assume 2011 was dominated by iOS-lovers desperate for Friday to come around. Read The Full Story

Microsoft socl social network seen and denied

, Nov 15th 2011 Discuss [4]

Today it would appear that there's a new social network in town by the name of Microsoft socl, one where having the same basic bone structure as Google+ doesn't seem to bother the developers behind the project - is it real or is this just an internal design project as Microsoft Research claims it is? What we've got here are two opposing sides of a coin. One has http://www.socl.com/ noting that the site was published by mistake by Microsoft Research, the other has Thomas Houston of The Verge showing off screenshots of the site describing it as a project that will indeed be moving forward soon. Read The Full Story

Google+ Pages announced for businesses [Video]

, Nov 7th 2011 Discuss [1]

This week brands, businesses, bands, and more are being welcomed back to Google+, provided they didn't get offended after having gotten kicked out several weeks ago, in an initiative known officially as Google+ Pages. As Bradley Horowitz, VP of Product for Google+ notes, "As most of you know, we "kicked out the brands" in the early going on Google+... Not because we don't love them (we do!) but because we wanted to create the right experience for users, as well as the brands themselves." Will the Google-based social networking powerhouse be able to gather the brands to its bosom? Read The Full Story

Google Mary Blair doodle honors legendary animator

, Oct 21st 2011 Discuss [0]

Though this particular Google doodle doesn't necessarily do anything all that fantastic when it comes to Web 2.0, it was and continues to be the utterly engaging artwork that Mary Blair had mastery over that continues to be the center point on this, the 100th year since she was born to this earth. If you don't recognize the style of the work that Google has replicated here, you'll certainly know the background illustrations from these classic Disney films: "Cinderella," "Peter Pan," and "Alice in Wonderland." Once again Google hits on a reminder of what was certainly a gift from beyond in this lovely artist. Read The Full Story
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