Category: Search Engines

  • Google cannot be trusted with confidential information

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    Google inadvertently released some confidential information last week – the information was in the speaker notes of a PowerPoint file posted for the Google investors meeting. Greg Linden downloaded the PowerPoint file not realising fully what it contained but as soon as he started blogging about it, it was pulled from the Google site and…

  • Google releases half-baked Google Pages

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    Google released a new product overnight called Google Pages and one has to wonder why?! Google Pages gives you the ability to create simple web pages through a simple online web editor but it is missing so much as to be pre-pre-alpha (although, in Fairness to Google they do say it is a Beta (isn’t…

  • Any questions for John Battelle?

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    I will be interviewing John Battelle for PodLeaders.com on Monday. John is author of The Search – the book on the evolution of today’s search engines, John is one of the co-founders of Wired magazine and the founder and former Chair of Standard Media International (“The Standard”), publisher of The Industry Standard and TheStandard.com. Currently…

  • Measure Maps swallowed whole by Google!

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    I see Google have bought Measure Map an online web stats application. Google already have Google Analytics as a Web Stats application so they must really like Measure Map’s technology to say they have bought it from Adaptive Path (the developers) and have taken the Measure Maps team with them. A comment on Paul Kedrosky’s…

  • Could podcasting get content through the Great Firewall of China?

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    I wrote a couple of pieces last week about Google’s Internet censorship in China and the debate continues this week. The four largest American companies who are actively helping the Chinese government censor the Internet are Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Cisco Systems. These four companies have been invited to a U.S. congressional subcommittee hearing on…

  • Google Adsense and EFT payments

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    Tom Raftery
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    This has probably been going on for a long time but I missed the memo(!) – Google’s Adsense is now paying by EFT as well as by cheque – this should speed up payments and reduce bank charges – excellent! To access this facility: Click on the “My Account” tab in your Google Adsense screen…

  • Google founder defends censorship

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    David Kirkpatrick of Fortune met with Sergey Brin (one of the co-founders of Google) at the World Economic Forum at Davos and asked him about Google’s decision to censor the Internet in China (something I posted about the other day). Sergey’s reasoning for the censorship: We ultimately made a difficult decision, but we felt that…

  • Google censors the Internet

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    Tom Raftery
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    The New York Times published an article yesterday (and I think I heard a reference this morning on Morning Ireland) about Google’s new Google.cn site. According to the article, the new Chinese version of the Google search engine: will not allow users to create personal links with Google e-mail or blog sites, will comply with…