Feb

13

Google’s Statement on the Belgian Court Ruling

February 13, 2007 | Comments

Google has issued a statement by its European Director of Communications and Pulbic affairs about the Belgian Court ruling in favor of the Belgian newspapers and against Google’s News service.
I think this was a short-sighted reaction by the Belgian press, which doesn’t understand that it stand to gain a lot by making its content easily [...]

Sep

28

Google Reader Just Became Useful

September 28, 2006 | Comments

Bloglines, Feedemon, Newsgator etc. Watch out. Google Reader has just re-launched with a completely new layout and setup. It now looks very much like Newsgator or Bloglines.
This might be a game chaging event in the RSS space. Google definitely has the power to push a lot more people to using RSS than anybody else.
From the [...]

Nov

14

Google Analytics Now Online

November 14, 2005 | Comments

Another week, another free Google tool. This one looks like a winner: Google Analytics. Measure your website’s traffic with what used to be Urchin 5 - now bought by Google and available for free (their website is now re-rerouted to Google Analytics).
Quite possibly, this is the best free tool to analyse user behavior on any [...]

Oct

31

Google and OpenOffice

October 31, 2005 | Comments

Remember the puzzling Google/Sun announcement a few weeks back. Nobody could really figure out what it was all about. Beforehand, pundits were wondering if an office suit in your web browser was going to be announced, but nothing of that sort materiazlied. Now, though, at least Google [...]

Oct

27

Google Now Does Flight Search

October 27, 2005 | Comments

Google keeps adding new features. CNet reports that one can now type in two different airport codes and the search then returns a box to enter dates and the option to search Expedia, Hotwire and Orbitz. Would be nice if they added Kajak or Mobissimo to the mix, but an interesting new function nevertheless.
Update: You [...]

Oct

26

Chris Pirillo on Google Base and Google in General

October 26, 2005 | Comments

Some very interesting comments from the Lockergnome himself:
The very thing we feared Microsoft would try to do with the Internet, Google is doing. Do you understand what’s happening - truly?
We’re potentially giving the Internet to Google, people. With great power comes great responsibility. I just hope that someone does not set us up the bomb.
Definitely [...]

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