Friday, May 16, 2008 12:32 PM/EST
This is great, but Google will have to enable some additional languages other than Python soon, or there will be a mutiny among programmers, particularly the ones who complain about being sharecroppers locked into the Google plantation to harvest more green for the company.
And I don't mean cabbage.
Friday, May 16, 2008 11:37 AM/EST
It makes me wonder whether, in taking $240 million from Microsoft last year, Facebook felt like it needed to go against Google to keep the search vendor from getting ahead. Or perhaps CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discussed the matter and came to the same conclusion: that Google must be stopped from Internet dominance.
Thursday, May 15, 2008 4:43 PM/EST
By swooping in and mixing things up so it can lengthen its reach of its search and ad offerings, Google easily rubbed Verizon the wrong way. It's a case of a bully in one market beating up the bully in another. They can dish it, but they can't take it.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 3:16 PM/EST
Google is holding a press pow-wow Monday, May 19 at its Googleplex in Mountain View, offering what an invite says is "an insider's perspective on search" and "an update on Google Health."
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 3:32 PM/EST
It's a very clean user experience from the desktop, an experience that has been more closely mapped to the iPhone. This is going to become more crucial as the stakes in the mobile search and advertising wars begin to soar.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:54 AM/EST
Basically, Google is creating and encouraging the creation of apps based on the OpenSocial APIs. Similar to Google Gadgets, Friend Connect apps will be in a gallery. But while MySpace and Facebook free up users' data, Google doesn't have that data to free up, so it puts the power in the hands of Web site operators.
Saturday, May 10, 2008 1:30 PM/EST
In anticipation (or fear) of a Google-Yahoo search outsourcing tie, 16 organizations comprising rural and minority groups opposed the pact in a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:31 PM/EST
MySpace unveils Data Availability initiative to let users move their MySpace profile information among Twitter, Yahoo, eBay and others.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:53 AM/EST
Google's Android needs some vendor to blast its presence into the market, or the OS isn't going to happen. Today, with the announcement of the new Clearwire company, that vehicle may have arrived to drive Android into the market.
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:53 PM/EST
Elliot Schrage, Google's vice president of global communications and public affairs, or to journos like myself the top gatekeeper to what Google corporate information I can access and when, has joined Facebook in the same capacity...
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