Thu 11 Feb 2010
Posted by Admin under Google: Acquisitions, Google: Business Issues, Latest Info
TechCrunch reports Google has acquired Aardvark, a help engine, for $50 million.
Aardvark allows you to ask questions, which then pushed the question out to a network of people who may be able to answer them. The answers are then sent back to you via instant message, email or even Twitter.
Aardvark was created [...]
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Mon 8 Feb 2010
Posted by Admin under Google: Business Issues, Google: Maps & Local, Google: Outside US, Latest Info
Cambodia blasts Google map of disputed Thai border from Reuters reports Cambodia is the latest country upset with Google over how they draw the border on Google Maps. Cambodia’s prime minister, Hun Sen, wrote a letter saying Google was “radically misleading,” “professionally irresponsible” and “devoid of truth and reality.”
Cambodia and Thailand have military [...]
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Mon 8 Feb 2010
Posted by Admin under Google: Business Issues, Google: Outside US, Latest Info
Google warns Chinese copycat website: report via the AFP reports Google has sent a warning to the Chinese Google knockoff, Goojje to stop using their logo.
Google said the Goojje logo is infringing on its trademark since the logo could be mistaken as an authorized Google web site. The Goojje logo is still live as [...]
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Fri 29 Jan 2010
Posted by Admin under Google: Business Issues, Google: Outside US, Latest Info, Legal: Trademarks
The Chosun Ilbo reports a new Google China has launched, a knockoff, named Goojje.com. It was made in response to Google saying they may have to shut down their Google.cn search engine a few weeks back.
It is a basic search engine, not affiliated with Google in anyway. It does however play on the [...]
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Mon 25 Jan 2010
Posted by Admin under Google: Business Issues, Google: Critics, Latest Info, Legal: Censorship, Search Engines: China Search Engines
Bill Gates doesn’t get the fuss everyone’s making over Google’s recent threat to stop censoring search results in China.
“They’ve done nothing and gotten a lot of credit for it,” Gates said Monday during a visit at The New York Times.
“What point are they making?” Mr. Gates asked. “Now, if Google ever chooses to [...]
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Fri 22 Jan 2010
Posted by Admin under Google: Business Issues, Google: Critics, Latest Info, Legal: Censorship, Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Business Issues, Search Engines: China Search Engines
At a conference in Houston on Thursday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke critically of Google’s recent decision to stop censoring its search results in China. Paraphrasing some of Ballmer’s statements, Forbes says Ballmer called it an “irrational business decision” on Google’s part.
Ballmer suggested that Google’s decision to no longer filter out internet searches objectionable to [...]
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Fri 22 Jan 2010
Posted by Admin under Google: Business Issues, Google: Employees, Google: General, Latest Info, Top News
According to an SEC filing late this afternoon, Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin “each intend to sell approximately 5 million shares” — over a period of five years. This is not a reaction to any particular development in the market or perception of the outlook for Google; rather this is part of a [...]
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Thu 21 Jan 2010
Posted by Admin under Google: Business Issues, Latest Info, Top News
Google posted a very strong Q4, given the recession, with $6.67 billion in revenues. This beats financial analyst general consensus estimates. Here are some top-level highlights from the earnings release:
Revenues – Google reported revenues of $6.67 billion in the fourth quarter of 2009, representing a 17% increase over fourth quarter 2008 revenues of $5.70 billion.
Google [...]
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Wed 20 Jan 2010
Posted by Admin under Google: AdWords, Google: Business Issues, Google: Critics, Google: Images, Latest Info, Legal: Censorship, Search Engines: China Search Engines, Top News
The Wall Street Journal noted that Google has purchased search ads for queries done on Google.com for “Google Leaves China” or “Google vs. Baidu.” Clearly, Google wants people to read their position on the recent move for them ending the censorship of Google China.
Here is a picture of the ad:
Google, on occasion, will buy [...]
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Mon 18 Jan 2010
Posted by Admin under Google: Business Issues, Google: Partnerships, Latest Info, Microsoft: Partnerships
A BusinessWeek piece named Apple vs. Google discusses much of the recent competitive business products the two companies have. On page three of that article, there are some analysts who suspect Apple may drop Google, as the default search provider, to Bing.
Jonathan Yarmis, research fellow with the consulting firm Ovum, was interview by BusinessWeek, [...]
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Thu 14 Jan 2010
Posted by Admin under Features: Analysis, Google: Business Issues, Google: Docs & Spreadsheets, Latest Info, Top News
Over the past year, I’ve moved more and more of my data over to the cloud — in particular, to being stored with Google. I’m rethinking that, in the wake of Google’s statement that it was the target of a sophisticated hacking attack. Further, I’m wondering if this entire episode — GoogleHack, for want of [...]
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Wed 13 Jan 2010
Posted by Admin under Google: Business Issues, Google: General, Google: Outside US, Google: Security, Google: Web Search, Latest Info
Google’s decision to potentially pull out of China if it cannot operate without censorship is a remarkable story. The statement was made after Google discovered a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack” on GMail. Google didn’t say the Chinese government was behind the attacks but that’s the clear implication. The attacks involved more than just Google [...]
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Tue 12 Jan 2010
Posted by Admin under Features: Analysis, Google: Business Issues, Google: Critics, Google: Gmail, Google: Security, Latest Info, Legal: Censorship, Search Engines: China Search Engines, Top News
Google has revealed that the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists were targeted last December in a hacking attempt. That, along with other issues, has convinced the company that it will no longer censor results China as the Chinese government wishes.
In particular, Google has willingly allowed self-censored its search results since January 27, 2006, [...]
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Mon 11 Jan 2010
Posted by Admin under Google: Business Issues, Google: Critics, Google: Legal, Google: Outside US, Latest Info
Germany’s justice minister has shot a bow at Google, saying that the company is becoming a “giant monopoly” and threatening government action if it doesn’t become more transparent.
According to a Reuters report over the weekend, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger shared her concerns about products like Google Earth and Google Books with the German magazine Der Spiegel:
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Fri 8 Jan 2010
Posted by Admin under Features: Analysis, Google: Business Issues, Google: News, Latest Info, Top News
It’s been noticed that new Associated Press stories — hosted by Google itself — are no longer appearing in Google News. It’s true. Since Dec. 24, Google has no longer added new AP content, something the company confirmed with me today. I received this statement:
We have a licensing agreement with the Associated Press that permits [...]
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Thu 7 Jan 2010
Posted by Admin under Google: Business Issues, Google: Outside US, Latest Info
France to explore “Google tax” to pay creative work from Reuters reports the French government wants to find a way to tax Google and other companies like them. The President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, said:
For the time being, these companies are taxed in the country in which they are headquartered even though they make [...]
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Thu 7 Jan 2010
Posted by Admin under Ask: Business Issues, Ask: Web Search, Google: Business Issues, Google: Partnerships, Latest Info
AOL’s CEO: Google To Get 1st Shot At New Search Deal from the Wall Street Journal reports AOL’s CEO, Tim Armstrong saying that Google will get “first dibs” at a search deal.
Armstrong said this at Citi’s annual entertainment, media and telecommunications conference today. This was prompted by a question about possibly using Microsoft Bing [...]
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Wed 23 Dec 2009
Posted by Admin under Google: Business Issues, Google: Critics, Google: General, Latest Info, Search Engines, Search Engines: Experimental, Stats: General, Top News
Factual has analyzed data from 4 million web sites and provided a holiday gift for stats junkies. Did you know 5% of pages have either a Twitter or Facebook link? Or that 28% of sites run Google Analytics? Or 12% of them run Google AdSense? Now you do!
The core data comes from CommonCrawl, a non-profit [...]
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