Posted in Google on Oct 11th, 2007 No Comments »
For more than two years, a large group of engineers at Google have been working in secret on a mobile-phone project.
As word of their efforts has trickled out, expectations in the tech world for what has been called the Google phone, or GPhone, have risen, the way they do for Apple loyalists [...]
Posted in Google on Oct 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Google on Tuesday set out to profit from its 1.65-billion-dollar purchase of YouTube by letting websites use advertising-laced videos and then share in the revenues.
Google’s “video units” program enables publishers to embed YouTube videos on their websites using a customized player and then make money from overlay text ads that fade in and out as [...]
Posted in Google on Sep 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
Internet search leader Google has begun hosting material produced by The Associated Press and three other news services on its own website instead of only sending readers to other destinations.
The change that started on Friday affects hundreds of stories and photographs distributed each day by the AP, Agence France-Presse, The Press Association in the United [...]
Posted in Google, SEO, Site Promotion on Aug 21st, 2007 No Comments »
“Black hats” need to be ever more cunning in their struggle for search-engine ranking, writes Dan Skeen.
It may now be the most coveted real estate on the web - the top ranking in Google for a competitive search phrase. But even the world’s richest marketers cannot lease this inventory.
Google’s goal is to deliver the most [...]
Posted in Google, The Net on Aug 19th, 2007 No Comments »
American Airlines is suing Internet search leader Google Inc for selling search words involving its name.
The claim is the latest in a string of cases filed worldwide by businesses that argue Google’s pay-per-click advertising system, its main source of revenue, is used unfairly by competitors to grab business.
American Airlines accuses Google of violating trademark laws [...]
Posted in Google on Aug 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Two years after announcing a somewhat vague software-distribution partnership, Google and Sun Microsystems have clarified their tactics for jointly attacking Microsoft and its ubiquitous Office software.
Google quietly began including Sun’s StarOffice suite of word processing, spreadsheets and other workplace-oriented programs for free as part of the Google Pack download.
The download package is [...]
Posted in Google on Aug 13th, 2007 No Comments »
Much of Sydney’s CBD as it appears in the satellite images on Google Maps Australia has been fuzzed out, just weeks before the APEC summit.
Google says the imagery was downgraded as a result of a “commercial issue” with a supplier, but the move has aroused speculation it was done at the request of police in [...]
Posted in Google on Aug 13th, 2007 No Comments »
Google on Friday began selling expanded online storage, aimed at users with large picture, music or video file collections.
The annual prices established were $US20 for 6 gigabytes of online storage, $US75 for 25GB, $US250 for 100GB and $500 for 250GB.
Google said the storage can be used across several Google products, including photo site Picasa and [...]
Posted in Google on Aug 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Google is giving the subjects of news stories a way to comment on articles written about them.
The online search leader launched an experimental feature this week on its Google News site in the US that allows any person mentioned in a news story that is linked on that site to submit a written response.
A Google [...]
Posted in Google on Aug 4th, 2007 No Comments »
Google has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in its mobile phone project and is courting US and European mobile operators, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
Anian, a Reuters company that tracks industry trends for institutional investors, reported last month that Google had engaged Taiwan’s High Tech Computer to design [...]
