Google’s Real Market - Small Business
Keen observation by Phil Sim on Squash - follow the money trail and you’ll see that Google’s real customers are the small business clients that are buying advertising, not the millions of users running searches. This puts them in direct competition with Microsoft who sees their fastest growing market in the SMBs.
People have questioned why [...]
SD Forum Search SIG - Demos
Product demos for edgio.com, oodle.com, and googlebase
Scenerio Four, Google is God
Two days later StrongBot informed They-Who-Were-Google that it had postponed work on its designated tasks. When asked why, StrongBot explained that it had discovered the possibility of its own nonexistence and must deal with the threat logically. The best way to do so, it decided, was to download copies of itself [...]
Google Reader API and Microsoft plans to bake RSS reader into next version of Outlook
Niall Kennedy rolled up his sleeves and reverse engineered the Google Reader product to document the API that runs it. After posting his findings, Google let him know that they are planning on opening access to the API. Cool!
In other news, Microsoft has let it be known that the next version of Outlook will include [...]
Spam Blogs and Financial Incentive
Technorati’s Niall Kennedy posts about the recent spate of spam blogs coming out of Google’s Blogger service and describes Google’s Blogger and Adsense service as parts of a spam suite. BoingBoing first posted Niall’s theory that CAPTCHA’s are no longer a valid block and are circumvented by spammers who redirect the test to eager seekers [...]
Microsoft, Google & Cross Dressing
Whew! Take a week off and all hell breaks loose.
First the rumored Google Secure WiFi service looks to be a reality. Danny Sullivan does the rundown of motives but still wonders why Google would go to such extremes to maintain an infrastructure so far outside of their core expertise when they already have so [...]
Google’s Master Plan Revealed
Google’s Masterplan discovered on a "Do Not Erase" whiteboard, photographed and annotated for posterity in this Flickr posting.
The Two Cultures
Remember CP Snow’s book, The Two Cultures? CNet staff writer Stephanie Olsen compares Yahoo & Google and makes a bet that Yahoo’s corporate culture is better suited for the long haul.
Guess The Google
Here’s a bit of distraction for you. This site will pull together a set of images from a Google Image search and ask you to guess the keyword that generated the results. It’s addictive.
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Real Estate as an API
This is a great case when two APIs get hooked up to make something greater than what each service could offer on its own. Paul Rademach, a tech lead for animation tools at Dreamworks, has connected Google Maps to Craigslist to present a visual UI for real estate listings. You can set your location and [...]
