By tim, on August 23rd, 2010
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Google has made a change to its search algorithm that means most of the results shown for a search may now come from a single domain. Previously, it would only show a couple of results from one domain, on the assumption that users would prefer to select from a diversity of results.
The example
…continue reading Google favours big brands over diversity
By tim, on August 22nd, 2010
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Oracle may be suing Google over its use of Java in Android; but the company is still happy to take the search giant’s cash in exchange for foisting the Google Toolbar on users who carelessly click Next when updating their Java installation on Windows. If they do, the Toolbar is installed by default.
…continue reading Oracle still foisting Google Toolbar on Java users
By tim, on May 21st, 2010
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Yesterday’s Google I/O was remarkable for several reasons. The most significant was not a specific technical announcement, but rather the evidence for a successful Google-led alliance against Apple in the mobile device market (and perhaps also in home entertainment with Google TV). Apple has hardly put a foot wrong since Jobs rejoined the company
…continue reading A great day for Android at Google I/O; not convinced by Google TV
By tim, on April 23rd, 2010
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It’s been reported that the Daily Express newspaper is selling paid links, in other words links that look to Google’s web crawler like links from independent editorial, but in fact are paid for by advertisers.
The consequence of doing this, according to Google:
However, some SEOs and webmasters engage in the practice of buying
…continue reading Google flexes page rank muscles, hits Daily Express?
By tim, on March 22nd, 2010
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Google is campaigning to reassure us that its Chrome browser is, well, no worse at recording your every move on the web than any other browser.
Using Chrome doesn’t mean sharing more information with Google than using any other browser
says a spokesman in this video, part of a series on Google Chrome &
…continue reading Google’s privacy campaign, and three ways in which Google gets your data
By tim, on February 17th, 2010
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a keynote address at the Mobile World Congress yesterday, which is worth watching if you have an interest in the future of technology or, well, human life.
The talk was an informative and open insight into Google’s future direction. It was centred on mobile; but since Google
…continue reading Google’s strategy unveiled: a little bit of everything you do
By tim, on February 16th, 2010
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I am watching Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s keynote at the Mobile World Congress today. I am only 10 minutes in, but I was struck by these comments, as he talks about improving connectivity across the internet:
Think of it as an opportunity to instrument the world. These networks are now so pervasive that we
…continue reading Eric Schmidt: we can literally know everything
By tim, on December 4th, 2009
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Shares in Rightmove, a UK web site for house sales, have dropped by move then 10% over the last couple of days, following a report by the Financial Times that “Google is in talks with British estate agents to launch an online property portal.”
I do not know what chances of success this venture
…continue reading Fear of Google
By tim, on July 29th, 2009
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Microsoft’s search deal with Yahoo makes more sense than the attempted full acquisition last year. The 10-year deal provides for Microsoft’s Bing to become the back-end search engine for Yahoo, while Yahoo becomes the exclusive sales force for premium search advertisers on both Bing and Yahoo.
Listening to today’s conference call, the rationale for
…continue reading Microsoft – Yahoo search deal: 2+2 makes 5, or 3?
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