Google Goobuntu Linux OS : Ubuntu Distro Google has often been rumored to be working on an operating system product to compete on fair levels with the software giants Microsoft. Albeit doing so is easily said than done, we now have some confirmations on a possible project which might indeed see Google release an operating [...]

MSN Spaces Policy Addresses Government Blog Content Complaints In light of the controversy over Google, Yahoo and MSN search censorship in China and MSN recently deleting the MSN Spaces blog of a popular Chinese blogger who rubbed Chinese government censors the wrong way. During the incident Microsoft’s responded : “Microsoft operates in countries around the [...]

Google Expanding AdWords Professional Program to Non US Companies Google announced via email today that they are expanding the companies which can qualify for the Google Adwords Professionals program. Until now Google has only allowed US companies to qualify for GAWS Professional Accreditation, now Google is expanding the service into Europe and Africa, but bypassing [...]

IE 7 Beta 2 With RSS, Search and Firefox & Opera Like Functionality Microsoft have surprisingly launched a public preview of their upcoming Internet Explorer update. Unlike the previous beta, this is available for anyone who is running the latest and legal version of their operating systems. It looks like the aim is to please [...]

Google Comments on Napster Rumor The search engine world should be taking this rumor with a grain of salt, but as speculation of a Google Music Download Service is heating up; we’d like to pass along the Google Rumor of the Day: Google Buying Napster. From the New York Post (a News Corp publication) : [...]

Google Tagging & Bookmarking in Yahoo’s Backyard Lots of Google action going on this morning as Threadwatch’s Aaron Wall has picked up that Google is integrating tagging and bookmarking into personalized search. In what looks like a page from del.icio.us and Flickr (two Yahoo properties) Google is expanding their bookmarking from the new toolbar and [...]

The Google Cache, Caching Google in Protest In my referals the other day I clicked over to a blog which linked to Search Engine Journal and a story on Google China. The blog entry was about Dorks protesting Google. I’m not sure how dorky covering search engine news is, nor have I really considered myself [...]

Skype Ringtones a Prelude to iTunes Competitor? In a smart youth oriented marketing move, Warner Music Group will make available master recordings from WMG’s roster of world-renowned recording artists as ringtones to the more than 74 million registered users of Skype. Skype users will have access to music ringtones from artists including Madonna, Green Day, [...]

Breaking Google’s Great Firewall of China Google’s censorship of certain terms on Google China has led to a rather large argument of humanitarian freedoms and International Business. Google says that if they had not released a China friendly version of Google China, most of Google.com’s offerings would have been blocked anyway in the Chinese market. [...]