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Google NewsCuil.com (pronounced ‘cool’ with an Irish twang) has been hyped as the new Google. It launched a few days back, and almost instantly suffered the downside of enlarged expectations.
For one, it didn’t work that often; you were greeted with a message explaining that the server was going through a mid-life crisis. And the results were [...]
The speculation is now rife: is Google showering favours on its own sites? The search beomoth’s answer to Wikipedia launched last week, and now Jason Calacanis has launched an attack on the Knol strategy:
For Google’s own good they should not try to take over their own search results. If Google results start showing 20-30% Knol [...]
So Knol has gone live, centuries after it was first announced. Hardly sock-scorching yet, but you know how it goes with all things Google – they’ll add a feature here, a widget there, and before you know it…
And ask yourself this – what cheaper way is there of building a vast social network using free [...]
Blink in disbelief – Google’s home page has gone black as a sign of support for Earth Hour.
A few months back, Google caused a heap of stink by offering subjects of stories ‘featured’ on Google News a right of reply. Various traditional news sources threw a minor fit, pointing to the fact that Google didn’t actually generate any news in the first place.
Until a few days ago, the apparent invisibility of [...]
Just about everyone working on the web uses Google Trends at one time or another, if only to give that quick gauge on which term would prove more popular (Hilary or Barack?).
But now there’s Google Checkout Trends, the search equivalent of every retailer opening their ledgers to the world’s prying eyes. Well, almost.
Wikia Search went live today.
So what? So it’s the brainchild of one Jimmy Whales, the clever chap who brought you Wikipedia. So there’s just a remote chance that it may fly.
The search results are, so far, pretty damn poor, and many of the preferences do not work. But as the world gets stuck in and [...]
Good news for content producers this week: Google has finally released a beta of its YouTube piracy tool.However, the new tool puts the ball firmly in the court of the makers: they’ll need to upload the videos that they want protected. Google will then run a whizz-bang program that goes hunting for identical material on [...]
So the search giant is going to unveil its Facebook rival on November 5 (no source here… just a hail of blogosphere noise).I’m wondering what tricks Google has up its sleeve to bring down the social giant. In case they’re still wondering, and happen to be reading this, here are a few ideas:
Bring every social [...]
Put a tick in your diary for November 5 – TechCrunch claims to have a leak from a secret squirrel briefing held deep within Google, aimed at addressing the “Facebook issue”.
The meeting was so secret that all attendees had to sign confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements strictly forbidding them from discussing what was shown to them [...]
