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Google to Launch Groupon Clone
Google has confirmed that they are launching their own Groupon-like service. Google had been reported of trying to acquire Groupon for somewhere upwards of $6 billion, but Groupon had declined the offer. The real question is, why would Google spend that kind of money if they can build the same exact service within 30 days [...]
full storyNew Features in the AdSense Interface
The AdSense team has released a number of new features in the AdSense dashboard. We’ve changed the default metrics shown on the Home and Performance reports pages based on strong feedback that most of you prefer to view your earnings at the page level rather than by ad unit. As a result, we’ve switched back [...]
full storyGoogle Timeline Search Malfunctioning
It seems that the Timeline filter you can apply, doesn’t really sort the way it should. You would expect that it would show you the same results you saw when you did a normal search. For this particular query, mozilla site:techcrunch.com, there are 1800+ results in normal search. When you add the Timeline filter, it [...]
full storyGoogle Thanksgiving 2010
Today, Google is celebrating with a special holiday logo. But instead of sending users directly to a search query, Google is sending you to a landing page. Could this be the start of a content-driven trend by Google? A landing page with a recipe by Ina Garten. Incoming search terms:google thanksgiving 2010thanksgiving 2010 googlegoogle thanksgivinggoogle [...]
full storyGoogle APIs Console
Google has a lot of APIs. There is no doubt about that. So what did Google do to make it more friendly for non-developer folks to start using them? Google has released the Google APIs Console. One of the major APIs that was added in this release is the Custom Search API. The Google Custom [...]
full storyTop 7 Best Gmail Logos
Here’s a line-up of what I think are the top 7 best Gmail logos or creatives ever made. Something interesting along the way of doing this research is that I noticed Google strongly out-performed both Yahoo! image search and Bing image search, by leaps and bounds. Yahoo! and Bing showed the fist two pages worth [...]
full storyGoogle Labs: Related Links
Last week I sent in my request to be part of the beta for Related Links, which is a product of Google Labs right now. Overall, I’m not very impressed with it. For sites that are not run on WordPress, this widget may be a good tool. But without the ability to remove the “Related [...]
full storyGoogle Cars Driving Themselves
Late last week, there was a bit of news flying around about the Google Car that drives itself. Google also released a blog post about this very topic. So what is the purpose behind Google developing this technology? So we have developed technology for cars that can drive themselves. Our automated cars, manned by trained [...]
full storyHappy Birthday Google – 12 Years Old
Today is a very special day for Google. It celebrates 12 years of age. Google has had a great year. They had both a layout re-design and the launch of Google Instant, which one of my friends from High School worked on – I think that’s pretty cool. Over the past 5 years, since it’s [...]
full storyGoogle Instant
Google has just announced Google Instant Search. Just start typing and the search results appear, here’s a quick glimpse of what it looks like. Lots of Google coverage on it: The Official Google Blog, Analytics, Webmaster Central, and AdWords. Incoming search terms:Google Instantallintitle: Google Instant
full storyGoogle Celebrates Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Today, Google is celebrating the birth of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. According to Wikipedia, Jacques-Yves Cousteau (French pronunciation: [ʒak iv kusto]; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997)[1] was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the aqua-lung, [...]
full storyWho Google is Investing In
Google Ventures was launched a little over a year ago. The goal? Do three primary things: Seek out the most innovative and interesting entrepreneurs and companies we can find Perform in-depth due diligence and invest in those we are most excited about Do everything we can to help those companies succeed So who has Google [...]
full storyAgain, Still No Easter for Google
Last year it was the same as this year, nothing special for Google for this precious Christian holiday. I looked around at the other engines, but the only other search engine I saw doing anything was Ask.com, which has bunnies on their homepage. Bing.com has some baby chicks, but Yahoo! is doing nothing as well.
full storySports Trending
Google has a good measurement tool called Google Trends, which lets you visualize how much a specific term is searched. The graph below represents the last six years worth of search data for the major sports within the USA. What can we take away from this graph? It’s easy to see that Football is by [...]
full storyGoogle Testing New Search Layout
As we have seen Google test, test, and test again, with innovative and unique navigation systems, Google is at it again. Huge thanks for tipster Jared for sending in these screenshots he was able to capture. Here is what looks like a new potential layout for Google search. The first screenshot is of normal search. [...]
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