Google has long taken an active role in promoting scientific ingenuity and in encouraging young people around the world to get involved in scientific and technological endeavors. Google’s Science Fair is one of the best examples of both. 2011′s science fair has concluded, and the three winners all took on impressive scientific tasks that address major issues such …
Unsurprisingly, Gmail’s team is already working hard at integrating their service with Google+ – and vice verca. Mark Striebeck, a Google Engineer on the Gmail team, indicated that the company is “working on several Gmail / Google+ integrations.” Those changes are still in a brainstorming phase, however, with the company seeking more information. Striebeck specifically asks, “What email features would make it easier to …
The field trial for Google+ has hit a major bump in the road. On July 9th (Saturday), the notification servers went down for 80 minutes, resulting in a massive wave of notification spam to all users who were unlucky enough to get a notification during that time. The repeat notifications piled up, with some users …
Those who have been around on the web for a long time are almost certainly familiar with the Yahoo Site Explorer. This service, while it offered a good spread of webmaster-oriented features, was used most popularly as one of the three places each site mustsubmit a sitemap (the other two being Google Webmaster Tools and Microsoft Webmaster Central). …
While Bing has attempted a variety of features and services to combat the almighty(?) Google, a few have really stuck. The Bing shopping features, the travel-related niche searches, and Bing Maps have been among the more popular features drawing users to Microsoft’s search engine. Continuing to levy these strengths, Bing Maps has recently been re-worked …
The Google eBookstore has seen a lot of attention from Google over the last few months, with an expansion to the affiliate network, updated APIs, new partnerships with major libraries, improved device compatibility, and more. Now Google is taking another step forward with the Story HD from iriver. This e-reader is the first to be integrated with the Open …
If your company is serious about getting involved in social networking, there’s no doubt that the announcement of Google+ created a lot of excitement and even more questions. What will the business-facing elements of the service look like? Will it be more akin to the “Pages” of Facebook, or something more in tune with the …
Google’s empire is something like that of Alexander the Great. It extends all the way from their home territory of search through many foreign lands, including mobile and media, and is buckling hard against yet unconquered territory (social, that is) on the other side. Part of Google’s strategy, though, is fortifying their existing investments, pushing …
As a prelude to its social network, Google released a social sharing button known as Google +1. Available to webmasters as a widget or to searchers on the SERP itself, the Google +1 button seems in many ways to be a response to the Facebook “Like” button and its impact on Bing search. But how is Google …
We recently discussed the expiration of the Twitter-Google deal for real-time search. My own early speculation said that this was a bad sign for partnerships in the future, likely attached to Google’s own social network hitting the web. Dialogue on the topic has continued, and one contributor was Eric Schmidt, who discussed the expiration of …
