Last week Google announced their Top Contributors to the Google Help Forums. For those of you who have had a need of help, there’s a solid chance you may have run across one or more of the following helpmates over time. Some of these people have literally helped millions across the spectrum of Google products. Here’s a …
Status Update: Our Bob Jones reported yesterday on a furvor over Google Webmaster Tools having had serious security issues. Having contacted Google myself, the company’s official response to the situation was forthcoming today. Google insists the “access granted” problem was highly localized, and that the problem has since been resolved. By way of background, while …
Just in: Boston based C2B texting innovators Pingup announced having closed a $4 million dollar Series A funding round led by Boston VC firm, Avalon Ventures. Pingup is pretty much the way an engagement “easy button” is supposed to look. If ever there was an innovation bred out of need, Pingup CEO Mark Slater and fellows …
For Windows Phone users Bing has just released their free Bing Translator app for Windows Phone 8. Continually one of the most popular apps in the Windows stable, the translator combines so called “Augmented Reality Translation” via users’ cameras to translate text along with other modes of use. As a mobile search component, the new app would …
Black Friday seems to have brought its fair share of shopping glee, according to Comscore online retail spending jumped 26% to something over $1.04 Billion this year, and for the fist time. To put that into perspective, online sales now represent about one tenth of all sales. So today we are wondering how Cyber Monday will …
If the reports are true, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) may not have the ammunition to proceed with an anti-trust case versus Google. Their ongoing investigation of allegations that the search giant leverages its search dominance unfairly versus rivals, simply may not hold water. “Unnamed sources” have told various media outlets there is not enough …
Bing is being criticized for having waited so long in releasing their Webmaster Guidelines, and even for having over generalized what Bing’s Duane Forrester termed ”broad strokes of search marketing.” Many question how “broad strokes”, applied so long after Microsoft’s search engine began, could have possibly taken so long? And, there’s bound to be more critiques, here’s one …
Sometime late tomorrow, after the football games and a billion pounds of turkey get consumed, 300 million people will once again start the holiday season. Later in the day, while mom and mom-in-law pillage the Thanksgiving Day sales, dad and dad-in-law will nap on the couch, eyelids fluttering in between TV shows and insulin induced …
U.S District Court Judge Susan Illston hands down a ruling to approve the FTC’s $22.5-million fine of Google over privacy complaints. However, consumer advocacy groups consider the fine a slap on the wrist. For Internet users, what should be made of Google being assailed on so many sides? Shortly after hearing arguments from both sides, Judge …
Yesterday on the Google Developers Blog, Editor Scott Knaster posted an article about a fascinating new Google Developers Live (GDL) learning tool for absorbing not only tech, but language too. While everyone knows about Google translate, the work being done in applying the technology is less visible to most of us. Check out the potential of …
