Posts Tagged ‘google’
Google Wave….Bye Bye!
According to Google, Google Wave will be saying adios in the next few months. In a post filled with examples of Wave's innovations and strengths, they acknowledge that the real-time messaging and collaboration tool hasn't caught on the way they thought it would. However, the code and tools used for / by WAVE will remain open source, so if any [...]
Google helps you find a parking spot, maybe not!
Over the years a number of companies have tried, most unsuccessfully and so m e with limited success, to provide services that will help you locate a parking spot on the street. Well, the folks at Google, you know the ones with access to all of our data, are now trying their hand at it. The application has the original name of "Open [...]
Google Voice…. I like it!
I have been using Google Voice for about the past three months, and even though the tool seems to still need some work, I have to say that I like it a lot. There are a number of reasons to like Google Voice (GV), such as the single number that I can give out to ring all my numbers. It integrates well with the nexus one phone, and can be used [...]
Can you add this to Google Apps!
Want to see more applications and features in Google App's! Well so does Google, and whats even better they are letting us decide which ones to include. Visit the Google Product Idea page and look at what is up for consideration and vote on the ideas you would like to see added to Google Apps!
Apple Buys Voice Technology Start-Up
The war between Apple and Google continues to heat up. The question is has Apple just taken the first steps into the search business? Apple recently acquired Siri, a mobile “assistant” app maker, as confirmed by a Siri representative. Siri allows users to perform web searches using voice commands such as "You can ask Siri to find a [...]
Friday Blurbs…. April 16th, 2010
They have Ruined Mecca - Scores of Carlsberg workers walked off their jobs in protest Thursday after the Danish brewer tightened laid-back rules on workplace drinking and removed beer coolers from work sites, a company spokesman said. The warehouse and production workers in Denmark are rebelling against the company's new alcohol policy, [...]
How Google uses site speed in ranking!!
Google made an announcement last week about site speed and how it effects Google's search ranking algorithms. you can find more information at Webmaster Central blog . Google also has a number of free tools that you can use to increase the speed of your website.
Traditional Search + Banana Slug = Dis-associative Creativity
For those of you who do not know, Banana Slug is a search engine, and not your normal search engine. No Banana Slug is not like Google, Yahoo, Ask or any one of a number of other clone SE's. Banana Slug is a search engine that works with what I call dis-associative creativity. Before I elaborate on the dis-associative creativity of Banana Slug [...]
Google Moves out of Mainland China!!
Posted from Google Blog... 3/22/2010 12:03:00 PM On January 12, we announced on this blog that Google and more than twenty other U.S. companies had been the victims of a sophisticated cyber attack originating from China, and that during our investigation into these attacks we had uncovered evidence to suggest that the Gmail accounts of [...]
Why China has more to lose than Google
March 16, 2010, 05:07 PM — The Associated Press pointed out the obvious today in a piece headlined "China without Google: 'a lose-lose scenario'." The piece says losing permission to operate in China means Google won't be able to take Street View pictures, and its partnerships with cell phone companies and others would suffer. There are [...]
A broadband catapult for America
3/15/2010 11:57:00 AM (Cross-posted from the Google Public Policy Blog) Power. Clean water. The Interstate highway system. It’s easy to forget that the advantages of modern American life result from basic infrastructure investments made by earlier generations. Tomorrow the FCC will release a national broadband strategy. The plan [...]
Google ‘99% certain’ to shut China engine
Google has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine and is now “99.9 per cent” certain to go ahead as talks over censorship with the Chinese authorities have reached an apparent impasse, according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking. In a hardening of positions on both sides, the Chinese [...]
Google and YouTube @ SXSW
3/11/2010 11:02:00 AM Like many of you out there, we’re gearing up for the SXSW Interactive Festival, which starts tomorrow, March 12 in Austin, TX. In just a few short hours, dozens of Googlers and YouTubers will be descending on Austin for a packed weekend of panels, demos and parties. Of course, we’ve also got a few fun things up our [...]
Google gives city bikers bum steer
In an effort to be"fair and balanced".... A helmet may not be enough to protect cyclists from Google Maps' latest feature. The search engine rolled out a "bicycling directions" option yesterday that is filled with potentially fatal flaws, including routes that cut across Central Park's treacherous tranverse roads and steer cyclists to [...]
Google Tests TV Search Service
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google Inc. is testing a new television-programming search service with Dish Network Corp., according to people familiar with the matter, the latest development in a fast-moving race to combine Internet content with conventional TV. The service, which runs on TV set-top boxes containing Google [...]
