Oct
19
What do those people do?
October 19, 2007 | 1 Comment
Elinor Millis is asking what all those 16.000 people who work at Google actually do. Turns out that Google doubled it’s headcount within the last year and that has some analysts worried:
The fast pace of hiring at the search giant is the one concern Jordan Rohan, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets, mentioned in an […]
Oct
9
Looks like Google is getting into the Twitter game. Congrats to Jaiku. I am sure Google could do a nice job integrating them into the new Google Phone software, GTalk, GMail etc.
I don’t know many people on Jaiku, unlike Twitter, but Leo Laporte seems to be their biggest fan.
I always wonder, though, why does Google […]
Oct
9
Google’s AdSense Video Units Block AdBlock Plus
October 9, 2007 | 1 Comment
Google, in a move to make some money out of YouTube is allowing publishers to embed videos with integrated ads into their sites.
At the same time, though, if you have adblock+ installed on your computer, Google will only say: “We’re sorry, no videos were found.” I guess that was to be expected. Though this would […]
Oct
7
Google Problems?
October 7, 2007 | 3 Comments
Both the Google Reader and the regular Google search seem to take forever to load tonight. A comcast or a google problem?
Sep
20
Unexpectedly, Google has released a new product called “Shared Stuff.” It’s a slightly weird name for a social bookmarking product.
It’s still rather basic, as you can’t really tag the pages, just add comments. There is, however, a lot of potential in this product. It could become a reddit/digg competitor in the long run. So far, […]
Sep
18
Congrats Google Reader - you are now out of beta and a grown-up, unlike your older, yet less mature brother Google Mail.
Sep
5
Google Reader Gets an Update Too
September 5, 2007 | 2 Comments
After all the Apple announcements today, Google must have felt envious and hence updated the Google Reader.
A search function now graces the screen, with an option to only search in specific folders.
Nice little update, though I am not sure I will use it much.
Here is the real kicker, though. Instead of the nice, reassuring number […]
Jun
27
Google just upgraded the Docs and Spreasheets products with a very nice, Windows Explorer like feature to browse documents. It almost looks as if the focus is now more on organizing documents than producing them.
Sadly, with all the upgrades, there is still no support for footnotes or endnotes. Here is my dream version of D&S: […]
Jun
25
Mike Arrington reports that Google might be in talks to acquire GrandCentral or possible has already closed the deal.
GrandCentral has a great service and Mike thinks it would be a good compliment to Google’s GTalk and GMail:
GrandCentral was recently pitching a second round of financing to Silicon Valley venture capitalists, but broke off discussions abruptly […]
May
23
From the BBC:
Google’s forthcoming ban on adverts for “academic paper-writing services and the sale of pre-written essays, theses, and dissertations” means that essay websites join a blacklist of “unacceptable content” including adverts for weapons, prostitution, drugs, tobacco, fake documents and “miracle cures”.
The move has been applauded by universities which have struggled with the […]
May
18
The rumor today is that Google is about to acquire Feedburner. TechMeme is going pretty wild with the idea. Valleywag says it’s going to be a $100m deal.
It seems like a good plan to me. Google, the advertising company that it is, kills two birds with one strike here. It gets the RSS metrics that […]
May
2
(Via the Scobleizer) Google Reader, Google’s RSS reader, now features an nice function that allows users to easily email stories to those who haven’t jumped on the RSS bandwagon yet.
The mail function uses the address book from your Gmail account.
Clearly Google’s idea here is to increase the number of people using RSS and the Google […]
Apr
13
$3.1 Billion. From the New York Times:
Google reached an agreement today to acquire DoubleClick, the online advertising company, from two private equity firms for $3.1 billion, according to people with knowledge of the deal.
The sale gives Google access to DoubleClickâs advertisement software and, more importantly, its close relationships with Web publishers, advertisers and advertising […]
Mar
22
There is a good discussion about the use of Google Books in academia going on in the blogosphere today.
Tim O’Reilly is referencing a Berkeley grad student who is doing researching on what I assume to be the cultural history of roads. While he has to fight his quaint little specialized library and the librarian […]
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