Why Wikipedia May Not Be Totally Safe From Google Knol
There has been a lot of talk about Google’s recently announced Knol project on the web over the last week or so, but up till now we haven’t felt the need to add anything. However a piece in today’s Guardian Technology made an assumption that I though was worth challenging.
In the piece Charles Arthur sets […]
Does Face Always Mean Facebook?
Here’s one for you all to ponder (or maybe not, maybe I’m overreacting).
If you have Firefox as your browser, type the word face into the address bar and hit enter. You will find yourself automatically redirected to Facebook. Why? Because Google assumes that if you type face into your address bar, then you wanted to […]
Power And Google: Can A Search Engine Save The Planet?
No, this isn’t a post about Google’s huge power over the Internet, iPhones vs gPhones , data protection or Google taking over the planet. It’s about power: Google’s power, the Pope’s power, the power of politics, and the power of the individual.
On Tuesday Google announced RE<C (Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal).
Their aim is to promote […]
Google Overtakes ITV Revenue: You Heard It Here First
A report by The Times has suggested that Google’s surge in revenues, which we reported recently, means that the search giant has overtaken ITV’s revenues for the first time. Whilst I wouldn’t like to boast, this is exactly what we predicted back in August when we suggested that 2007 would be the year that Google’s […]
Is Sarkozy The French Blair? Google Thinks So
The Guardian have pointed out a very interesting little anamoly; if you ask Google’s translation service to translate the word Sarkozy (the surname of the recently elected French President) into English, it comes back with the translation Blair. And if you enter the word Sarkozy three times, it returns a translation of ‘Blair defends Bush’
Now […]
Google Revenue, Hatebook & The UK’s Love Of Viagra
It’s been an interesting week and so we’ve got a lot to cover; we’ll try to pull out some of the most interesting stories & developments in the world of digital over the last 7 days.
Google announced another massive hike in profits & revenues, with increases of 46% & 57% respectively. With the UK making […]
Changes To Yahoo! Show That SEO Isn’t Just About Keywords
The last week has seen major changes to the way that Yahoo! presents its search results. In many ways these changes are a response to Google’s move to, what it calls, Universal Search. Essentially this means that where there is a wide variety of content types that match a user’s search, they are all displayed […]
What’s Wrong With Being 10?
We reported a while back that many people thought that it was Google’s 10th birthday. Well, apparently it’s only 9. I have to say that whilst I have trouble admitting that I’m never going to see my twenties again, it seems a bit much to be lying about your age when you’re not even in […]
Microsoft To Take Stake In Facebook: Is It To Keep Google At Bay?
There are reports this morning that Microsoft is planning to take a 5% stake in Facebook which would value the social networking site at $10 billion. This is quite an increase on the $7 billion that was mentioned in the last round of rumours surrounding Facebook, and makes the $1 billion that Yahoo! apparently offered […]
Bebo Is More Popular Than Google In The UK
Wow. This is a bit like spraying “Clapton is God” on the walls of the loo in the Marquee one night, and then going to hear Jimi Hendrix play and having your whole outlook on life turned around the next day…
I read today in NMA that Bebo is the most viewed site, ahead of […]
