Google is a very strong brand, but in the Chinese market, branding the company under the letter ‘G’ may be a bit easier, especially for the mobile or newbie user. Google now owns one of the shortest possible domain names for the users in the Chinese market, G.cn.Google says that this short domain name would [...]
Even if you’re not a fan of baseball you probably know that Barry Bonds is one of the most questionable men in the game. From admitted steroid abuse to the brash ways in which he deals with the media — Bonds is nothing short of despised by most.Like Bonds, Wikipedia comes across as one [...]
Being a professional blogger and a work from home consultant, sometimes cabin fever starts to kick in, and it’s time to flee the humble abode for a more vibrant, or just different atmosphere. This is one technique I use to revive my self of writer’s block, or blogging block, as four years of search marketing [...]
Opera Software and Google have renewed their partnership agreement for another two years as Google will remain the default search provider for Opera browsers and provide.Up until 2005, Opera was serving banner ads or subscriptions to their browser to help offset operations costs. Then, the company formed their partnership with Google, letting AdWords results in [...]
Yahoo’s Executive Vice President and General Counsel Michael Callahan has apologized to US lawmakers over providing incorrect information about Yahoo’s cooperation with the Chinese government to hand over user information on Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist who used Yahoo China Mail to leak a secret government story to external media companies.Next week Callahan and Yahoo [...]
The much talked about OpenSocial APIs which Google is spearheading is officially announced jointly by Google and MySpace. Touted as collaborative tool that would spark and simplify web innovation, OpenSocial promises to standardize and simplify the development of social applications by offering a set of common APIs geared towards the development of “open” and “freely” [...]
Ok, StumbleUpon has nothing to do with Google PageRank, except for the fact that both are toolbar based and reach millions of users. Like PageRank, StumbleUpon also experiences its flaws.. especially on the Top Stumblers page.StumbleUpon’s own Top Stumblers page is flawed because some users there have 100,000+ stumbles while others have less than a [...]
One of the obvious reasons for the Google acquisition of Feedburner, besides gaining access to a major amount of blogs and adding a blog metrics tool for future Google Analytics upgrades, was a monetary channel for Google AdSense ads which can be published in RSS feeds. In turn, the ads would be publised on the [...]
Everex is launching its gPC “Google PC” today at Wal-Mart stores for the low price of $200. The gPC runs off of a mix of Ubuntu Linux, Google Applications and Open Source software like OpenOffice to offer fully functional applications at an affordable price.The gPC runs off a 1.5GHz Via C7-D processor, Via UniChrome Pro [...]
Semantic search engine Hakia has added a social component to its meaning-based search engine called Meet Others. The idea behind Meet Others is to connect users through the queries they used during a search activity in Hakia.So, when you are searching for “search engine optimization”, the Hakia search search results page will include a link [...]
