Archives Tag: Google Rumors
Google to Develop its Own Router
You may or may not be aware, but Google has a very, very complex server setup. Google has dozens of data centers and thousands of servers to offset the massive load from visitors hitting google.com everyday. The way Google has its servers setup is that they are not physical machines as we would normally think. [...]
Full StoryGoogle Hosts Online Advertising Meetup
Earlier this week on Monday, I attended an advertising meetup that was being hosted at Google NYC. A lot of people felt it was a sales pitch for Google products, but I had other thoughts. Since I author this site, I felt it was actually informative and there were some really interesting things touched on. [...]
Full StoryRumors 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? Well, for one thing, it’s cheap. Sell off the New England properties and the real cost is $3 billion. That’s not much money to buy one of the premier brands of the information age. [...]
Full StoryPageRank Knock-out Round 1
As one of my co-workers was cruising around this morning, he realized that SERoundTable.com is now a PageRank4. As I looked around, I also noticed a number of other sites that were hit. SEOPedia.org and SearchEngineJournal just to name a couple. But looking around at other similar sites, they rank just fine. Seems that this PageRank hit is really only effecting the public numbers as the search rankings still seem to be just the same as they used to be yesterday.
Full StoryGoogle Looks to Begin Laying Undersea Cable
“SAN FRANCISCO – Search giant Google Inc. may invest into a joint venture that lays high-speed trans-Pacific cable under the ocean, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.” The first thing that really sticks out to me is how this article describes Google. Google is no longer just a “search giant.” They are far more than a search company now and they should be treated
Full StoryGoog-Daddy in the Works? Maybe.
Google and GoDaddy (and eNom) began a partnership almost one year ago. This partnership was a move to support the up and coming Google Apps. Google badly needed a trusted company to handle all their new domain registrations through the new program.
But as we know, Google is already their own domain registrar, so why did they want to partner with other companies? Well, I feel it has to do with exactly what I talked about above, a better “face value” to their domain registration process. GoDaddy and eNom were already reputable companies in the domain industry.
So why would Google be looking at GoDaddy as a future acquisition?
Rumors of FeedBurner and Google Love
Rumors are flying around again that Google may acquire FeedBurner. Would it be a good move? I don’t see why not. Google has yet to move into the RSS advertising world and neither Yahoo! nor Microsoft have touched it. It would be a strategically good move…but would it be too soon? Google has already been acquiring so many companies lately. Would this new acquisition be too soon for the monster Google? Valleywag has said they confirmed rumors that there are talks of an acquisition price of USD$100 million.
Full StoryGoogle Seeks to Acquire Simply Hired
As the rumors are flying around again, TechCrunch reports that Google is possibly looking at buying Simply Hired, a resume posting site similar to Monster.com. As the previous rumor chimed in true, we’ll see how this one plays out as it should prove to be true. Simply Hired recently raised $13.5 million from NewsCorp on a rumored sub-$40 million post money valuation. The company has raised a total
Full StoryGoogle looks at Buying DoubleClick Inc.
Internet advertising, a world that is becoming old but still relevant just became a little more relevant for everyone. DoubleClick, an industry leading competitor to dozens of other companies was recently rumored to be bought out. Some of the buyers looking at DoubleClick are Microsoft, AOL, and Google. ClickZ’s article brings up a great point. If Google did acquire DoubleClick to add to its already dominating
Full StoryGoogle 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 the Google phone is indeed a real product. The Google Phone has been a ‘pet project’ for co-founder Larry Page and he was quite distraught when the news leaked out about a possibility of the Google Phone. It makes perfect sense to me why Google would want to move into the mobile industry. Advertising, power, and market share. “Whoa, sweet new phone, who made it? — Google!” I can see it now, Google on your computer screen, Google on your phone, Google on the radio, and soon Google coming to a television near you! Google is flooding the entertainment and communication markets with a huge strategy to ‘go big or go home.’ That’s exactly what they’re doing though. Either do something right or don’t do it at all.
Full StoryRumors Fly of the Google Phone
The rumor on the mill right now is about the Google phone. So what exactly is the Google phone? Some inside sources say that the Google phone will be blackberry-like with tons of additional features. I do notice that Google has taken a strong interest in the mobile industry during the past year and this would prove to be a good reason why. On that rumor
Full StoryGoogle TV: Hoax or Beta?
This one comes straight from the rumor mill. The talk around town has been that Google TV will be coming out in beta sometime soon. There has been rumors floating around and videos being created about Google TV. So is it real? The never-ending question of Google products. This one, however, made it to the front page of BBC this past Tuesday. This is
Full StorySome Success, Some Failure
Google has a huge list of products on the market right now which are utilized everyday by people. Some of these great products include AdSense, AdWords, Google Maps, Gmail, and Google Calendar — just to name a few of them. But not all of these have been a success.
Two huge success stories include the AdSense+AdWords platform for advertising and the second is Gmail. These products have honestly changed the way the world of the Internet actually functions. AdWords+AdWords brought a new kind of advertising to the table and let small-time publishers start earning a few bucks here and there. Gmail re-invented AJAX — which Microsoft created nearly 15 years ago. AJAX lets a user check for new e-mails without ever leaving the page. This AJAX technology blew up and became widespread across the Internet. The technology wasn’t new, but not many people knew about it until the release of Gmail.
Google to buy Digg Inc.
Mentioned on a DigitalPoint thread, will Google end up buying Digg Inc.? There is no backing of this at all right now, but it’s not a bad idea. What would Google benefit from if they were to buy Digg.com? For starters, they know their revenue since digg.com is using AdSense as their source of income. Just like YouTube.com, Google would have an interest because it would
Full StoryNow Facebook.com is up to Bat
Just yet another rumor, Google may buy Facebook.com. What’s the price tag on this baby? $2.3billion. Threadwatch has a solid source, but we’ll see. Yahoo! was already looking at buying Facebook.com for $2.0billion, but the extra 300 million wouldn’t hurt Mark. I personally hope that Facebook.com doesn’t sell out, it was a great resource before — now it’s all just marketing.
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