Google Street Views Hides Your Face. What Took So Long?
Saturday, December 1st, 2007The Daily Poll: Is Google Losing its Focus?
Friday, November 30th, 2007I was just watching a CNBC segment where a pundit who happens to own Google stock was voicing his concern that the company is losing focus on its core search business. His argument was that if Google’s management team wants to invest in things like wireless spectrum and renewable ...
Track Santa on a Google Map, In Real Time
Friday, November 30th, 2007This year, you’ll be able to track Santa on Google Maps as he makes his way around the world on Christmas Eve. Through a partnership with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), which has been in the spirit of helping kids track Santa for 52 years now, you’ll ...
Google To Bid For Wireless Spectrum
Friday, November 30th, 2007According to WSJ, Google will apply to bid for the 700 MHz spectrum in a January Federal Communications Commission auction. This confirms frequent speculations that Google is interested in the wireless spectrum, but some claim that they will bid low on purpose, not to actually win the bid but merely ...
Google Reader Adds Drag and Drop
Friday, November 30th, 2007Of all the Web 2.0 and social media tools I’ve adopted over the last year or so, the one that has changed the way I function on the internet most significantly would have to be Google Reader. I’ve always collected RSS feeds, and as a podcaster, they’re central to ...
Google Considers Adding User Voting To Search
Thursday, November 29th, 2007There was a time when seemingly everyone was adding Digg-like voting to some of their products and services: Dell, Yahoo, Microsoft. Now, a bit late to the game, Google follows suit by adding user voting to their search results. The feature is currently in experimental phase and it may not ...
PeekYou Makes People Search Worthwhile with Google Integration
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007People search engine PeekYou had launched a new interface that combines Google search results with listings from its directory of people. For example, a search for “Mashable” will return a link to our blog, and on the left include a picture and link to the PeekYou profile of Pete ...
Google Knows Where You Are Too; Launches “My Location” for Mobile
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Google has released a new version of Google Maps for mobile, which includes a new “My Location” feature that approximates your location by using information from cell phone towers. This means that instead of typing in your current location to get directions, Google knows already knows where you are, ...
Google Maps Gets Wiki With It
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Google maps has updated its My Maps tool to incorporate some wiki-like functionality. Collaborative mapping, if you will. For those custom maps that you make for yourself, you can know get all your friends to help you. Similar to a shared Google document, you can invite friends ...
The Daily Poll: Would You Store Your Files with Google?
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007News of a Google file storage solution has gone mainstream, and the so-called “GDrive” reportedly could be available for mass consumption within the next few months. A while back, I took a look at all the different pieces of our lives that Google knows about through their ever-growing array ...
Bumpy Map Mashups with Google Terrain
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007I don’t think a day goes by without there being Google Maps news. Today’s story: Google has added a “terrain” view to your maps feature. It has actually replaced the “hybrid” view on your map views options, which sort of combined the map and satellite views to ...
Can Yahoo Structured Search Beat Google?
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007In an effort to stand out (and then beat) Google, Yahoo may soon be rolling out a structured search for particular keywords, which would give a more informative set of results than just links to websites containing relevant information. While very few details have been released about this ...
Air Pollution on Google Earth. Erin Brockovich Would’ve Loved This.
Monday, November 26th, 2007The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has created a Google Earth map mashup that shows air quality across the nation. Get started here. There’s even a 3-D map overlay that lets you view the level of air pollutants that are coming from specific businesses. You can see this if ...
Google Apps Scores Big Deal in Switzerland
Friday, November 23rd, 2007The second largest telecom in Switzerland, Sunrise, is teaming up with Google to offer a new, unified, email system to their customers. As opposed to having to make a large investment in their infrastructure, Sunrise sees this partnership as a quick way to implement giving their customers larger email accounts in ...
Google Ditches Video Link, Replaces It With Products
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007Ok, it’s not a big deal, but it’s a holiday, and thus Google replacing a link on their homepage qualifies as news. So, here goes: Google has replaced the “video” link on the classic homepage with the “products” link, formerly known as Froogle. The video link got dumped in the ...
Google AdSense Video Units Going to the UK
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007AdSense Video Units will be available to English-language publishers in the UK, Ireland and Canada. Having been launched in the US over the summer, the video ads are now taking the leap to Europe, and will surely be rolled out on a larger scale across the globe. You ...
Google Custom Search is Getting Very Fluent
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007More international product launches for Google today, with the first announcement being in regards to the UK launch of video ad units. Custom Search Engines are now available in 40 languages, covering about 80 countries around the world. In its effort to continue to engage developers and web ...
Zoho Creator Now Mobile, Beating Google to the Punch Again
Monday, November 19th, 2007Zoho Creator, the suite’s application-creation and sharing tool, now has a mobile version. Zoho has been pretty good and quick to extend the majority of its suite’s solutions for mobile access, and now Creator isn’t the one that’s left behind. This swiftness is an especially important trend for ...
Mark Your Real Location with Google Maps
Monday, November 19th, 2007Google Maps has added a new feature to allow you to “Edit” where your address falls on the map. To do so, you simply enter in your address on Google Maps and select the “Edit” function. From there, you’re now able to move the marker to more accurately ...
Rumor: Google Buying Skype? Makes Sense
Monday, November 19th, 2007Jemima Kiss has floated a rumor that Google may be in talks to acquire Skype from eBay. While it sounds mostly like pure speculation right now, such a deal would make sense for both companies in a number of ways. While Skype is still growing strong and eBay’s CEO Meg ...
Google Notebook Could Weigh on Search Rankings
Monday, November 19th, 2007Google has filed three new patents for its Notebook Service, and by glancing over excerpts that have been published online here, it’s clear that Google is planning on furthered integration of Notebook content for search results. The question is: will this become a factor for determining Google’s search engine ...
Microsoft Takes on Google Apps
Monday, November 19th, 2007After establishing Windows Live services as an integrated suite of solutions and online social network, Windows is now letting you create communities of your own. Windows Live Community Builder is for businesses and non profits to create a community for better working with team and organization members with its ...
Google Guns at Microsoft with Email Migration API
Saturday, November 17th, 2007Google has released the Google Apps Email Migration API, which allows users to migrate email from their servers into Gmail. This follows the addition of IMAP support to Gmail last month. For corporate users, where Microsoft Outlook is still the norm, this makes Google Apps a far more ...
Google Adds Picasa Images to Search
Saturday, November 17th, 2007Finally, Google has integrated Picasa Web Albums into Google Image Search. Public albums can be enabled for a public search option, meaning your images will be more likely to come up in Google image results. And that’s a huge improvement, because previously images on Picasa (and Blogger, and ...
