Google Inc. yesterday unveiled its long-anticipated service for helping consumers make purchases online, setting up a potential rival to eBay Inc.’s popular PayPal system. Read the rest of this entry »
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 1, 2006 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of Google Romance™, a new product that offers users both a psychographic matchmaking service and all-expenses-paid dates for couples who agree to experience contextually relevant advertising throughout the course of their evening………..More At…..
We’ve heard the rumors about Google’s up and coming rival to PayPal, GBuy, and many people have been eagerly awaiting it to move into an open beta. It may be almost here, with Google possibly
this week.
GBuy will be unique from other payment services in that it will be integrated as part of a search, so that GBuy supporting vendors would get priority. Though the details are not fully apparent, Google does have a battle ahead of them, with PayPal having a user base of more than 100 million. They will have some offerings other companies don’t, such as merchant discounts and rebates……..More At…….
There seems to be a growing number of webmasters who run Digital Point’s Coop on their site seeing heavy penalities placed on their sites’ SERPs in Google. Is it a coincindence, related to recent Google heaves or is it a definite Coop based penalty? The waters seem muddy at present (come back Matt…) and many are sceptical that it’s a penalty aimed at Coop users……..More At…….
Google’s dominance in search, coupled with its software-related forays, may drive Microsoft to acquire Yahoo or eBay to become the top internet revenue earner, writes MediaPost, citing a report by Merrill Lynch analysts. The Microsoft-Yahoo combination would immediately challenge Google in search, with search traffic roughly evenly split between Google and a merged Yahoo/MSN, according to the report…………..More At….
Spanish firm FON began a push this week to create a global wireless Internet community made up of people that could earn cash by turning home or business Internet connections into “hot spots.”
FON said on Monday it would practically give away one million Internet routers that would let hot spot owners share in small daily fees charged to roaming computer users………..More At…..
Today Google is performing “maintenance” to Writely that will be finished sometime this afternoon. All your documents remain read-only during this period — which got me thinking.
They obviously didn’t take down their servers to do hardware or OS upgrades, otherwise nothing would be available — it has to be related to moving data. The reason they would lock the files and keep them read-only would be to keep everything in sync……………..More At……..
NEARLY five million users have visited “Geoportail,” the French answer to Google Earth, in the first day of the site’s operation, the portal’s developers say.
The flood of traffic to the site, which offers offering high-resolution aerial imagery of France, has meant only about one in five has been able to connect to Geoportail (www.geoportail.fr), developed by the state-funded National Geographic Institute (IGN), in a bid to rival the success of the US pioneer in the field, Google Earth………..More At……….
MSN South-East Asia has appointed Media Two Point Zero (Media 2.0) Sdn Bhd as its exclusive sales partner in Malaysia. Read the rest of this entry »
At around 5:30 am on Sunday, May 7th, almost precisely five months since we launched, a user posted the 10 millionth answer on the service. This is a big day for us, and we’ve decided to celebrate by coming out of beta, and beginning the integration of Answers into our core search services. Read the rest of this entry »
Those of you looking for your own little bit of paradise can thank Google Earth for providing it’s exact location: Nevada, USA……………………More at……………..
The US company confirmed that it had disposed of its 2.6% holding in Baidu - acquired before the latter’s 2005 stock market flotation - on Wednesday.
Baidu is the leading web search firm in China, a market in which Google lags behind the domestic provider…………More At…..
Google is offering Google Video users the ability to watch an ad instead of paying for some premium content, the company said on Thursday.
Google is running a pilot programme to test ad-supported videos for premium content on Google Video………More At…….
comScore Network recently released an analysis of the online travel market in the U.S., finding that nearly 150 million consumers visited a travel Web site in 2005, a 35-percent increase over the previous year. Annual online travel revenues exceeded $60 billion in 2005, representing a 20-percent increase versus 2004, with all travel segments posting gains.
Sara Stevens, director of comScore Travel Solutions, said “The Web is extraordinarily well-suited to helping consumers make travel plans, and increases in home broadband penetration should continue to fuel growth in the online travel sector.” ……….More At……..
Google will launch a public test to show display and video ads on Google Video, another step in the search giant’s slow exploration of graphical ads on its own services, according to sources familiar with the plans.
Possibly as early as Thursday or Friday, Google plans to announce it will stream for free some premium videos on Google Video which are normally fee-based, and accompany them with a banner-like ad and a video ad. …………More At……
Adobe Systems Inc. said Wednesday it has signed a multi-year agreement with Google Inc. to distribute Google’s Web search software with various Adobe products. Read the rest of this entry »
Google researchers have developed technology that lets computers listen to TVs. The idea is to give PCs the ability to understand what is being viewed on a nearby TV so those watching television can be provided with related content, automatically, on their monitors. Read the rest of this entry »
Search engine giant Google is nearing completion of a new data center on the banks of the Columbia River in Oregon. But trying to get information about the project is almost as difficult as finding Bigfoot. Read the rest of this entry »
A Trojan horse has been discovered in Google Pages, a Web site hosting service offered by the search giant. Read the rest of this entry »
Google’s hugely successful search advertising product, AdWords, is borrowing a buying tactic from traditional media. Read the rest of this entry »