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Google TV vs. Apple TV
Apple TV is reportedly preparing itself for battle with Google TV by chasing the subscription model. This will be one of the biggest tests that Apple’s new CEO, Tim Cook will face in upcoming months as Google isn’t going to wait for Apple to grip that market. Google’s recent acquisition of Motorola, the largest producer [...]
full storyA Closer Look at the Google-Motorola Deal
As with any tech industry merger, Google’s recent acquisition of smartphone-producer Motorola Mobility came to fruition for a number of reasons benefiting the participants. The deal also should not be considered too much of a surprise, since Motorola and Google have been allies in the mobile wars since 2008, when Motorola committed all of its [...]
full storyGoogle and Bing Go Head to Head
In case you haven’t been following all the news reports lately, there have been a ton of news stories covering the theory that Bing has been copying Google’s search results. Here’s the official Google post about it. Here are a couple videos, with discussion from both sides. In this second video, Matt is said to [...]
full storyBye-bye GOOG-411
What started out as a great idea, ended just like many other projects. Anyone remember the GE phone that had a GOOG-411 button built directly into it? That obviously will no longer work, that’s unfortunate. Google is describing the GOOG-411 project as something was a stepping stone to better projects, such as Voice Search, Voice [...]
full storyGoogle Drops IE6 Support
In a recent turn of events, Google is dropping support for IE6 among other browsers as well. Here is what Google Apps recently sent out: Dear Google Apps admin, In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser [...]
full storyNext Step in Search: Making AJAX Crawlable
A large problem with new technologies, or even old technologies like Flash, is that there may be complications with how Googlebot crawls. This has been a huge problem with AJAX, which was introduced by Microsoft back in 1999 (then called XMLHTTP ActiveX control), but popularized by Google’s release of Gmail back in 2004. Google is [...]
full storyMark Lucovsky Leaves Google to Join VMWare
Mark Lucovsky is leaving Google to join VMWare. Lucovsky was a technical director for Google’s AJAX Search API platform. After leaving Microsoft, this is what was said happened, “Mark Lucovsky has stated that Steve Ballmer, on being informed that Lucovsky was about to leave Microsoft for Google, picked up a chair and threw it across [...]
full storyGoogle Chrome vs. Internet Explorer 8
So I’ve been writing a lot about how Internet Explorer 8 is making Microsoft look worse and worse, saying that they need to spend more time on actually making a better product. Let’s go head to head and see how they line up. Right-click options? IE8 looks a lot like Chrome, with a few other [...]
full storyMicrosoft Struggling to Stay Alive
Microsoft is simply acting in desparation now to keep Internet Explorer alive. Chrome? Pfft, forget Chrome! Microsoft thinks that Chrome is “tarnished … so get rid of it or get lost”! Here is Microsoft’s latest marketing push for Internet Explorer. Incoming search terms:microsoft struggling?
full storyEverything Microsoft is Doing Wrong
Google Chrome was launched with some minor success just nine months ago, in September 2008. Initially, it was only available for Windows users. Disappointing for Mac and Linux users? Sure. End of the world? No. Google Chrome for Mac is now available, but still fairly buggy. When Firefox was announced, was Microsoft scared that they [...]
full storyBing.com’s Structured Data Search Results
I’ve discussed various uses of structured data in search results. Here’s a short list of things I’ve covered. Searching your profile on Google Yahoo!’s Search Monkey integrates with LinkedIn Google’s integrated sports data Something I noticed with the new Bing.com search engine, is the structured data they are using. Though, it’s not even particularly structured [...]
full storyBing.com Launches Webmaster Portal
Bing.com, the new “face” of live.com, Microsoft’s search engine, sent out a friendly email to all webmaster.live.com participants. I logged in with my live.com login credentials and the first thing I noticed was that it looks exactly like webmaster.live.com, the webmaster portal for live.com. In fact, even my sites that I auth’d on webmaster.live.com were [...]
full storyGoogle Believes in Education
As we have seen time and time again, Google is a strong supporter of education. Google cares so much about education that as part of the interviewing process to even be considered as a potential Google employee, they ask for your GPA records. Google recently announced the 2009 Google Fellowship recipients. After careful review, we [...]
full storyGoogle Pushes More Money to Chrome
Google is pushing full force to get Chrome adopted by the world. In a recent blog post, Google talks about how they are now running Google Chrome ads through their television advertising network on AdWords. So why is Google trying to push Chrome so far? It’s two-sided, in my opinion. Google obviously wants part of [...]
full storyGmail Celebrates 5th Birthday
Google’s email product, Gmail, turned 5 years old yesterday. I remember the first e-mail I received was from the Google team. It’s the same exact e-mail you get today for creating a new Gmail account. It’s been a long and quarky road, but it’s been a fun road. Gmail has made some huge advances in [...]
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