Archive for the ‘Corporate’ Category

May
06

Elliott Schrage Leaves Google to Join Facebook

Effective May 14th, Google will have lost another one to Facebook. Elliott was in the Google Executive Management Group with the ...

Apr
30

2008 Anita Borg Scholars Announced

Google has announced the winners for the 2008 Anita Borg Scholarship Foundation. Here's a little excerpt from the Google blog about ...

Apr
21

Google - Strong Horizontal, Weak Vertical

Last week, Sramana made a good point about how Google has not been reaching the vertical markets where they should ...

Apr
14

Google Partners to Help Find Missing Children

According to an official Google blog post today, Google will be working with the National Center for Missing & Exploited ...

Apr
08

Google Campfire One

Google's Campfire One developer event last night was used to launch the new Google App Engine. Here is a video of ...

Apr
08

Google Trademark Basics (Part I)

Let's visit some of the Google Trademarks out there right now. Google has a few guidelines for trademark usage, ...

Apr
05

Google Sells Performics Division

Danny Sullivan wrote an open letter to Google mid last month essentially asking for Google to not go into the ...

Mar
25

Google to Use Open TV Band for Wireless Use?

This morning, the New York Times reported on what Google is thinking about doing. Last week, Google lost the ...

Mar
04

Sheryl Sandberg Leaves Google to Join Facebook

In a recent report by The Wall Street Journal, Sheryl Sandberg has left Google to join Facebook. "...Google's 38-year-old ...

Feb
15

Google Strongly Supports Development of Open Source Wine

Google has proven itself as a strong supporter of many Open Source projects. This week, they officially announced their ...

Feb
11

Google Lawsuit Over Search Rankings

Are you ready for another win for Google? Here we go! This time around, "two real estate agents in Victoria, ...

Feb
03

Google feels the Microsoft Bid is “Hostile”

Here is what David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer of Google has to say about ...

Jan
31

Google Wins the 700mhz FCC Auction @ $4.7bn

Google came out with the winning bid for the 700mhz frequency that the FCC has been auctioning off. A ...

Jan
31

Google Takes Heat for Potential Age Discrimination

Brian Reid is the source of this law suit that Google is being handed. "Age discrimination" is what Reid ...

Jan
31

Google Execs to Leave in 2024

In an interview hosted by CNN's Fortune, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt all have a few things to ...

Jan
31

Google Hosts Online Advertising Meetup

Earlier this week on Monday, I attended an advertising meetup that was being hosted at Google NYC. A lot ...

Jan
23

Rumors of Google to Buy The New York Times

John Ellis brings up the rumor (or potential rumor) of Google acquiring The New York Times. What's in it for Google? ...

Jan
21

Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data

"Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com, will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific ...

Jan
11

Google to Announce Fourth Quarter 2007 Financial Results

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - January 11, 2008 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) today announced that it will hold its quarterly conference ...

Jan
10

Google’s gPhone by GE (411 too!)

The long-awaited gPhone is, well, sort of here now. GE is featuring a new phone that has a GOOG-411 ...

Jan
09

Google Said to be Adopting OpenID

Google, along with companies such as IBM and Verisign, are said to be willing to join hands with the OpenID ...

Dec
21

You Blog, Google Listens

"Two fixes just went live, before we sign off for a brief holiday break: Unregistered commenters can once again provide an ...

Dec
17

Google Supports iPhone Unlocking

I have discussed Google and Apple's mutual love for each other already, but this one comes as, well, only a ...

Dec
17

Guest Posting for Google

This one comes directly from the official Google Maps API blog. Joe Monahan writes a guest post as an Orbitz.com employee. ...

Dec
06

Update: Larry Page to Marry Lucy Southworth this Weekend

A quick update from Radar gives us all the latest details on the wedding this coming weekend. Larry Page ...

Dec
05

Google Senior VP Sells Stock

NEW YORK - The senior vice president of worldwide sales and operations at Google Inc., an Internet company, sold 6,000 ...

Dec
05

Google is Powerless

Errr well, it could be powerless. As I was going through my morning routine of checking Sphinn, checking Digg, going through ...

Nov
30

Google Will Apply to Participate in FCC Spectrum Auction

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (November 30, 2007) - Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it will apply to participate in the ...

Nov
13

…Goin’ to the chapel…with Larry Page

As the Chronicle has learned, Larry Page is set to get hitched next month. Where? No one knows ...

Nov
12

The Dwindling Google Index

Over the past few days, I've noticed that the Google search index has been dwindling down. For some particular ...

Nov
07

YouTube Gets Another YouSuit

According to InfoWorld.com, An Indian music label has filed a suit against Google and its video sharing site YouTube after the ...

Nov
07

20% of a New Feature for Google Reader

Google exercises the 70/20/10 methodology for it's employees. Two of Google's employees decided to use that 20% time to ...

Nov
07

Google Losing China to Microsoft

Google is indirectly losing China's market share to Microsoft. This is happening through the Microsoft-Founder agreement announced this morning. "San ...

Nov
07

How to Request Googlers to Speak at Your Event

Barry over at Search Engine Roundtable points out there is a specific form you can fill out to request particular ...

Sep
27

Google’s 9th Birthday

According to Google lore, company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were not terribly fond of each other when they ...

Aug
29

Google Cares.

Reading a notable article Danny Sullivan, I had to make a point to share it. Last week, I was part of ...

Aug
28

George Reyes To Retire As Google CFO

This comes as a shock to me. Google stock is currently slumping at USD$506.40, but it's still extremely high. ...

Aug
27

Google to Present at the Citigroup Technology Conference

Hot off the Googlepress, Google has announced that two top product managers will be part of a Q&A session at ...

Jul
19

Google Announces Q2 2007 Results

Google has released their Q2 results. See below for the full details.

Jul
10

Google to Announce Second Quarter 2007 Financial Results

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 10, 2007 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) today announced that it will hold its quarterly conference ...

Jun
16

Google does not Own PageRank

After doing a little patent research, the research returned a little information about how the technology buzz of PageRank is ...

Apr
22

Google Thanks Yahoo! for its Success

Very few people go into the history of Google to see where and when the company actually started. I'm ...

Apr
16

Dodgeball.com Founder Quit Google

Another upsetting case of founders and management quitting Google after an acquisition. We saw this take place with dMarc ...

Apr
13

Google Buys DoubleClick for USD$3.1 Billion

As it was rumored before on the first of this month, while some may have considered it an april fool's ...

Apr
12

Google Plans to Open a Poland Operations Center

Hopefully this isn't some Polish prank or joke -- as many of us know about the Polish. But according to Yahoo! ...

Mar
27

Google to take on Monster.com in the Job Search Industry

Google is slowly but surely taking the steps to integrate Google Base into Google Search as a means to filter ...

Mar
16

Google Phone is the Real Deal

There were rumors flying around from before, but it has been confirmed by a Google executive that the secret of ...

Mar
15

Google to Employ Ex-Furniture Workers

Straight from the New York Times, Google is looking at using the widely unused grid of power and energy in ...

Mar
13

Google Testimonials

My sister-in-law found her mother after 34 years of searching by using Google. I just thought you'd like to know ...

Mar
05

The Top 50 Most Important People of the Web

Yahoo! released an article with the top 50 most important people of the web today. So what makes this ...

Mar
05

Google Loses Out to CBS with Ad-Sales Exec

Last week, Google suffered a huge loss of Patrick Keane to CBS. Keane's title with CBS is VP-chief marketing ...

Feb
06

Reflecting on the Future of Google

As I touched on in 2006 last July, I mentioned the future of Google and what it looks like. ...

Dec
08

Google China’s Co-President to Resign

Google China announced on December 8 that Google vice president and Greater China co-president Johnny Chou will resign on December ...

Dec
06

In-depth Study of PageRank

This is a well-written essay and explanation of how PageRank works.

Nov
16

Hutchison-Google Partnership

Google and Microsoft on Wednesday launched separate deals with telecoms operators to place their search engines on handsets, extending their ...

Nov
15

Google to provide 500 Dublin jobs

Google has over 9,000 employees around the world right now. It appears that they are just expanding their horizon ...

Oct
31

Google Acquires JotSpot

Google has officially acquired JotSpot (Jot.com). Why did you decide to sell the company? We believe that joining Google will accelerate our ...

Oct
30

Google is too close with the CIA

Michael on disgrunt.com wrote an extensive article about the interactions of Google and the CIA. He thinks they are ...

Oct
30

YouTube: Viacom Speaks Up

NEW YORK (AdAGE.com) -- Last Friday, Jeff Reifman received a letter from YouTube, noting the video-sharing site had disabled some ...

Oct
30

Google’s All Up in Microsoft’s Biz

Ok, seriously, enough is enough. Google keeps trying to pry its way into the Internet Explorer 7.0 (IE7) browser. Google ...

Oct
30

USA Today: Google Advertising Follow-up

The USA Today has a great article on how Google is dominating the advertising industry. This is just a ...

Oct
25

Google Becomes Third Largest Tech Company

Google just passed up IBM as now the third largest technology company in the world. ...lead over other web companies like ...

Oct
19

Google Taps into the Government

FCW.com is reporting that Google hired M.J. Pizzella who used to work on the government search engine, FirstGov. ...

Oct
18

Online Advertising Turns to Google

As the buzz goes around, eMarketer has all the latest. Google's US ad revenue growth rate in 2006 will soar almost ...

Oct
17

Google’s “Colorful” Campus

Google's at it again -- just like they took a Yahoo! Director -- they also stole away a top AIM ...

Oct
17

Niniane Wang Interview

Phillipp produced a good interview with a Google employee, Niniane Wang. Don't take my word for it though, read it yourself.

Oct
17

Google Snatches up New R&D Director

Google was having some trouble finding some solid employees for their new India office. Google thought, "hey, might as ...

Oct
16

Vista Takes a Hit — Google as Default

There have been a couple release candidates of Windows Vista already. Internet Explorer 7.0 (IE7) comes default with it, ...

Oct
11

Let the Battle Begin

Valleywag makes some good points. Google has been chasing and beating Yahoo! in every major deal lately. Count ...

Oct
10

New R&D Office in South Korea

Google has new plans to establish a new research and development office in South Korea. "Now we will have the chances ...

Oct
09

Google Bought YouTube.com

It has been confirmed. Google bought YouTube.com is a stock transaction that will close in Q4. It will ...

Oct
09

Free Music Videos

Google has signed agreements with Sony BMG and Warner Music Group to offer a large collection of music videos via ...

Oct
06

Google to Acquire YouTube.com at 40%?

Michael Arrington on Techcrunch got an email recently talking about how Google might be acquiring YouTube for anywhere between $1.2 ...

Oct
03

Eric Schmidt Interview by Time

Time.com interviewed Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google. It digs a little bit deeper into what Eric thinks of ...

Oct
01

Search Mashup Registrations

So, here’s a list of domains registered by Google Inc. either last Thursday or on September 13th. mash-search.com/net/org mash-serch.com/net/org mashsearch.com/net/org mashserch.com/net/org mashup-search.com/net/org mashups-search.com/net/org mashupsearch.com*/net/org mashupssearch.com/net/org search-mash.com/net/org search-mashes.com/net/org search-mashup.com/net/org search-mashups.com/net/org searchmash.com/net/org searchmashes.com/net/org searchmashup.com**/net/org searchmashups.com/net/org serch-mashup.com/net/org serch-mash.com/net/org serchmash.com/net/org serchmashup.com/net/org wwwsearchmash.com/net/org wwwsearchmashup.com/net/org Gary Price Some good insight ...

Sep
27

Google Update on the Belgian Court Ruling

Last week we asked the court to reconsider its decision and requested that the requirement to post the ruling on ...

Sep
27

Happy Happy Birthday! ~~ Google Style!

That's right. Google is 8 years old today. Google has, single handedly, changed the way we browse the ...

Sep
25

Become a Google Tester

Philipp puts out a good word here about becoming a Google Beta Tester. I just finished my application a ...

Sep
25

List of All Google Domains

Here's a current list of all the current Google domains:

Sep
21

Do You Want to Be Like Matt Cutts? Now You Can!

Google has opened up a position to basically be the interaction between webmasters and themselves. Here's a brief overview ...

Sep
21

Google Starts The Outsourcing

As some previous reports have shown, Google has launched a Webmaster Contest for copywriting. If you have a clear, concise style ...

Sep
20

Vanessa Fox & Amanda Camp Interview

Seattle24x7.com has a great interview with Amanda Camp and Vanessa Fox, two great contacts that work under the Google Webmaster ...

Sep
20

Google Acquires Transformic Inc.

As William points out, Google has quietly acquired Transformic Inc. Earlier this year, it purchased the rights to a new way ...

Sep
18

Apple: Go Big or Go Home

Google's CEO Eric Schmidt didn't join Apple's board just for kicks and giggles, there was obviously a reason behind it. ...

Sep
14

Google.org’s For Profit Venture

The NYTimes makes some good points about Google.org. The philanthropy is consulting with hybrid-engine scientists and automakers, and has arranged for ...

Sep
13

Google and Intuit Team Up

This is not the first of all major partnerships which Google has been involved in.  This partnership, however, will prove ...

Sep
01

Time to Take a Break

Looks like I'm not the only one taking a break this weekend. The Google AdSense will also be taking ...

Aug
29

Google + Apple = Eric Schmidt?

Many rumors have been floating around that Google's CEO Eric Schmidt might be joining Apple's board. As Google released ...

Aug
28

Google Signs a Deal With eBay

eBay initially banned Google's new payment service -- Google Checkout -- but they recently released some news that the two ...

Aug
22

Googlize Your iPod

Time to wrap your Google around your iPod to make them one. For a low price of $1.75 you ...

Aug
21

Google Heads to Egypt Next

A spokesperson for Google, the world’s leading search engine, has told ACN that it will soon be opening an office ...

Aug
19

Googling Over Google on Google

Seems I'm not the only one in the world that uses the term "Google" as a common day word. ...

Aug
19

Google Being Sued … Again

Google, fresh from its $90 million settlement, is being sued for click fraud in another class action lawsuit, this one ...

Aug
18

Writely On The Right Path

Google's recently purchased Writely software has opened up shop for new accounts. With this new web application online and available, there ...

Aug
16

Google Opens Up GoogleWiFi

Today, Google launched a WiFi network in our hometown of Mountain View. Radios hanging on lampposts throughout the city are ...

Aug
15

Google Purchases Neven Vision

Google has purchased Neven Vision, a Santa Monica-based firm that provides image recognization software, according to a post on the ...

Aug
15

Google Secrets

There are a lot of different subdomains and folders that Google uses for all the various services. If you ...

Aug
14

New Google Auction Site? Maybe.

There has been a lot of talk about asking Google to open up an eBay-like site that would host auctions. ...

Aug
11

Little Too Hot Out? Time For Some Google Ice Cream

Some Googlers are thinking it's a bit too hot. Frankly, I agree. Living down in Los Angeles, it's ...

Aug
10

Google Plans a New Server Farm in India

This past March, Google attempted to develop a new server farm in India, but for various reasons had to close ...

Aug
08

Did Someone MySpace Google?

Fox News Corp has signed a contract with Google to be the search engine powering this monster social networking site, ...

Aug
08

MTV Talks to Eric Schmidt

Google and MTV have had some talk amongst themselves and came up with an agreement that will allow for MTV ...

Aug
08

Google, Mozilla, and Real Networks Team Up

Google, Mozilla, and Real Networks have agreed to a multi-year contract between the three companies to distribute software together. ...

Jul
27

Google Joins the Open Source Network

Google is now offering a separate section dedicated to hosting projects. This Project Hosting is where Open Source projects ...

Jul
25

The Unseen Linkage of Google

As I was reading through my daily blogosphere or posts, I came across some interesting links. A nice tour ...

Jul
24

The Future of Google

A topic, not touched on too much, was brought up on DigitalPoint. How do we all see the future of Google? ...

Jul
07

Google Risks Losing its Trademarked and Branded Name

Here's a little background information on Google. Google is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, ...

Jul
06

Google Joins the Everyday Language

Nathan had some good points, but on some I will disagree. While he thinks the world is such in ...

Jun
29

Domain Registrar Accreditation — What Next?

Not many people knew, including myself for a while, but about a year ago Google became a domain registrar. ...

Jun
27

Adobe + Google: Coming to Terms.

Not too long ago, Adobe Systems Inc. and Google came to terms and created an agreement which states that Google ...