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Google Chrome Grows to 10% Market Share
One of the most advantageous things for Google in having its own internet browser is that it gets to choose your default search engine. This...
DuckDuckGo Pitches Private Searches
Yahoo, Google, Microsoft… DuckDuckGo. Is it possible that this uniquely named start-up search engine may make a dent in the field? Considering the track record...
Vizio Goes for Google Over Yahoo
When looking at the success of the search engines, one can’t simply see how users are treating the platform. A major part of success for...
Google Honeycomb Requirements Hit Rumor Mill
We’ve been hearing about Google Honeycomb for quite some time now. This 3.0 operating system is alleged to have all kinds of new features that...
Analysts Predicting Android Will Overwhelm iPhone
The way we think about computing — including productivity, internet access, and entertainment — is seeing a fundamental shift. While the concept of accessing the...
Yahoo Looks Back to Better Times
At the end of the year, it’s tradition for each search engine to release a report detailing the top search terms for the previous year....
Search Engines Presenting at CES
There are dozens of trade shows showing off electronics each year — hundreds, even, if your standards for what qualify are broad enough. However, there...
Galaxy S Android Phones Still an OS Behind
Diversity is both the greatest strength and most devastating weakness of Google Android phones on the market today. On the one hand, while Apple has...
Bing’s Growing : Can They Catch Up?
Microsoft looked a lot less sickly in 2010 than they had in the several years prior. Their partnership with Yahoo has garnered them a much...
Google vs Apple: The Digital Magazine Battle
Smartphones and tablet devices fill many roles. They are productivity platforms, GPS navigation systems, gaming devices, and — more and more these days — a...
How Yahoo’s Pain Is Small Business Pleasure
Yahoo’s ship is sinking. To keep it afloat, they’re tossing all the dead weight — and there’s a lot — of their unprofitable websites. We...
Google AdWords Pushes Mobile Targeting
A recent comment on another news story complained that some of what we talk about here, while related to the companies running the search engines,...
Results for the Top Searches for 2010
The end of the year can mean a lot of different things: an opportunity to start over again, an excuse to get black-out drunk, a...
TechCrunch’s Vivek Wadhwa Calls for a “Better Google”
“You can’t say you don’t like Google. You might offend people.” Or, at least, that seems to be the ideology found in the atmosphere of...
Android’s Terrible, Horribly, Very Bad Text Bug
New age technology, with all its “instant sending” features, is filled to brimming with horror stories about miss-sent emails, pictures, and Facebook comments. Having a...
Windows Phone 7 Bars NES Emulator
Despite the fact that its sales are flagging, the Windows Phone 7 has plenty of signs of life. Their app market just hit over 5,000;...
Google Reviews Their 2010 Blog Posts
Google runs 104 official blogs. These cover their various geographic locations, specific services, different platforms, and much more. As such, when I say that Google...
Google’s Matt Cutts Gives New Year’s Advice
If there’s one thing you can say about Matt Cutts (known by many as the “voice of Google”), it’s that he’s never short on advice....
SEO Predictions Prognosticated
Happy new year everyone! Welcome to 2011 or MMXI to all of you Romans and movie producers! 2010 was a mixed year. The economy continued...
SMS Marketing Conversions From Facebook and Twitter
Although text message marketing isn’t my specialty, I’ve been hearing some impressive results. I had an opportunity to interview with Justin Rockwell of OIR Interactive...
Online Marketing Today – A Lot of Research, A Lot of Psychology
When I went into marketing/communications in the 80’s, things were simpler. I spoke 5 languages, which pushed me into this field. What else could I...
Will Google Be Your Next Phone Carrier?
Google tries to be a lot of different things to a lot of different people, and if history is any indication, they won’t simply stop...
Why Rovio Says Android will Remain Developers’ Second Pick
While there are dozens of reasons why users will choose either an Apple-powered or Android-run device to fill their smartphone needs, one of the most...
Yext Tries to Take Down Google Hotpot
Google’s expansions these days cause more than a few ripples in the world of online commerce. Their push to buy ITA is still the subject...
Windows Phone 7: Have ALL the Apps?
When we mention Windows Phone 7 here, it’s not usually with awe or enthusiasm. After all, Microsoft’s “ambitious plan” entails climbing into the number three...
How Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Stacked Up in 2010
The world of search engine technologies has been changing at an incredibly fast rate. Names that determined how we thought of searching just a few...
Health Check: Will Google Take Over the World?
We have a few nick-names for Google here. “The search engine giant” is one of the favorites, while a variety of other names — mostly...
Google Fights Against Disclosure Order in Court Case
Google’s original business model was reliant on SERP ads. Now, they’ve expanded their revenue base somewhat, but their primary focus is still on ads found...
Geinimi: The Trojan that Eats Android Phones
For some reason, people who get their hands on the latest and greatest technology automatically assume that it’s invulnerable to the threats that assailed its...
Developer Version of Android’s Next Gen Music App Leaked
Anyone who has an Android phone should be jumping for joy at the great news we released just the other day, outlining Google’s upcoming Android...