Google in trouble over parked domains
If you have ever found a parked domain, have you noticed the Google Adwords on the page?
This has become the basis of an accusation from a law firm in California; they have been paying the site to be promoted through the search engines scheme. Only to find that instead of the adverts appearing on [...]
Google increases day care costs
You can always tell when company means business, when they start looking to the costs of the benefits that they providing their staff with. Google of course no different to any business now and they too have been looking into the costs of the perks which their staff love so much.
But instead of looking at [...]
Adsense referrals RIP
For users of Adsense who have not updated their accounts recently, may wish to pay the account pages a visit, especially before the end of August as this will be the time when Adsense referrals will be closed for good.
Google said that this part of their continuing work to improve the services that they provide [...]
Coloured labels
Google are forever moving forward to get more features out on their products and services, this time we are talking about gmail, now this is a service that people either love or hate, fortunately for Google there is a lot of love out there.
In return Google will be looking at beefing up the features and [...]
Cheap food is no more in the UK
Despite all of the warnings, the food crisis still grows. But we have seen this type of problem arise before, but the difference is now that the food crisis could soon be hitting countries closer to home.
We have since the end of the war had the luxury of cheap food, and recently over the past [...]
Google is top of the brands
It seems that it is not only search that Google is dominating these days, as far as a brand names go it seems that apart from all of those famous brands out there like Coke Cola, McDonalds, Marlboro and so on, it would seem that Google takes the number one spot.
But being on the top [...]
Could search be finished?
For some people search is probably already finished, ever since the introduction of social networking it would seem that many people who just lurked around the internet searching for something interesting, would have used a search engine to find what they were looking for.
But ever since the likes of FaceBook, MySpace and Second Life took [...]
Google’s and Doubleclick get Euro approval
The merger between Google and the online advertising business Double Click has been given the all clear by the European regulators, stating that there would be no harmful effects on consumers. Originally the proposed merger had been opposed by Google’s rivals Microsoft and Yahoo, as they were concerned about the advertising.
However it was decided that [...]
Google unhappy with Microsoft/Yahoo deal
It was inevitable that at some stage a partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo would be going ahead, however what was not clear was how this would happen. But the cat is out of the bag now and Yahoo will be going under the very large umbrella that is known as the Microsoft organisation.
Almost immediately after [...]
Microsoft goes for FAST
Microsoft is making a move on the search engine FAST (Fast search and Transfer) it is said that the figures being put around are something I the region of $1.2 billion in cash, the deal will make things in the enterprise search industry which has been dominated by FAST, but there are other players too, [...]
December 27, 2007Mobile phones by Google in Feb
We have heard for a while about the gPhone but there has been so rumours abound that it is virtually impossible to separate the facts from the fibs, but now it seems that we are getting some decent information coming through and what we are hearing is nothing very spectacular.
From some sources it would appear [...]
Google hire people for feedback
Imagine a job where you search Google and look at the results all day long! Well there may just be an opportunity at Google for just a position like that one. Sounds interesting!
Google are in a funny position at the moment, they are still riding on their successes of a few years ago, and are [...]
Google to spend millions on Green energy
Google plan to tackle the world reliance on fossil fuels for energy, it is estimated to be around 40% of the world is reliant on coal for electricity. Googles idea is to replace this reliance coal with cheaper renewable energy, which is key in reducing global warming and save the planet.
They intend to develop cutting [...]