Topic: GOOGLE - on November 22, 2006 at 1:20:00 PM CET
GoogleOS: What To Expect
There's no such thing as the GoogleOS in reality - but despite that, it is one of the most talked about Web products. People can't stop discussing it - and even imagining screenshots for it! Seems like everyone expects Google to get into direct competition with Microsoft, by releasing an operating system. However Google refuses such claims and even makes fun of this kind of buzz. Nevertheless we decided to analyze where Google may be heading with their product strategy - and from that determine what are the chances of a GoogleOS.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on November 19, 2006 at 6:11:00 PM CET
Google News in trouble - again
Google gets into trouble with its new Scandinavian versions of Google News.
For those webmasters who are struggling to get into the Google News search results, this may come as a surprise, but there are actually several news sites that want to stop Google from spidering their sites in order to present news snippets on the Google News portal.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on November 16, 2006 at 4:59:00 PM CET
ESA adds stunning satellite images to Google Earth
Google Earth users can now view stunning satellite images of volcanic eruptions, dust storms, colliding icebergs, and other natural phenomena, thanks to a deal between Google and the European Space Agency (ESA).
ESA announced that it has made 130 satellite images available to Google Earth to create a new layer of content. As well as the images, ESA is providing detailed scientific explanations and theories to explain the phenomena, and facts and figures about man made landmarks, such as the Palm Island in Dubai.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on November 13, 2006 at 11:58:00 AM CET
Free cellphones for all, if...
Web search leader Google Inc.'s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, sees a future where mobile phones are free to consumers who accept watching targeted forms of advertising.
Schmidt said Saturday that as mobile phones become more like handheld computers and consumers spend as much as eight to 10 hours a day talking, texting and using the Web on these devices, advertising becomes a viable form of subsidy.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on November 13, 2006 at 10:47:00 AM CET
Google Earth in 4D
Google skipped right past the third dimension and landed directly in the fourth (time) by offering historical maps on Google Earth. Now you can travel back in time — for example, I am looking at the globe of 1790.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on November 8, 2006 at 3:53:00 PM CET
Google steps up investment in radio industry
Web search leader Google is hiring scores of radio sales people and is spending heavily in a bid to expand its position in the $20 billion radio industry.
Google spokesman Michael Mayzel said this week that the company will begin a public test of Google Audio Ads by the end of the year. Advertisers will be able to go online and sign up for targeted radio ads using the same AdWords system they use to buy Web search ads.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on November 8, 2006 at 12:30:00 PM CET
The best of Google Earth
Around the world, via burning oil fields, topless sunbathers and Area 51...
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Topic: GOOGLE - on November 5, 2006 at 1:38:00 PM CET
Google Earth (Release 4 - BETA)
Welcome to the newest beta of Google Earth (release 4). Since our last release (on September 13th, 2006), we have made many improvements. We have improved icon management by creating a new icon palette, added line and polygon drawing tools to our free product, added the ability to print search results and placemarks, made it easier to select icons that are overlapping, and much more.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on November 4, 2006 at 10:52:00 AM CET
Google 'will be able to keep tabs on us all'
The internet will hold so much digital data in five years that it will be possible to find out what an individual was doing at a specific time and place, an expert said yesterday.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on October 28, 2006 at 12:45:00 AM CEST
Geocoordinates from Wikipedia for Google Earth
In the free Software Google Earth is it possible to use own data and to connect this with a website. In the free enzyklopedia Wikipedia some Wikipedian support the WikiProject Geographical coordinates, where they include coordinates in the articles. I use this coordinates to create a dataset for Google Earth.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on October 27, 2006 at 11:58:00 PM CEST
Is Google legal?
A Belgian court ruled against Google’s use of newspaper stories in early September. If you believe Google, it did nothing wrong and failed to defend itself because it was unaware of the publishers’ lawsuit. If you believe the publishers, Google is lying and infringes copyright on a colossal scale. The parties return to court on 23rd November in a case that finds legal uncertainty looming over the world’s leading search engines.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on October 26, 2006 at 5:04:00 PM CEST
Google's YouTube copyright pledge
Google has vowed to take a tough line on copyright when it completes its $1.65bn (£875m) takeover of YouTube.
The video-sharing website's rapid growth has been partly down to the thousands of clips from old TV shows uploaded illegally by its users.
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