Category: Search Engines

  • Google has rolled out a web version of Google Talk

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    Tom Raftery
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    As the title suggests, Google has rolled out a Flash based version of Google Talk called Gtalkr. It includes a Yahoo Maps extension – as Google Maps is not Flash based – this is unfortunate because Yahoo Maps is US only 🙁 Gtalkr also includes your Gmail account automatically (you log in using your Gmail…

  • Google Analytics graphs on a Mac

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    Google announced it was opening Google Analytics – a web stats program, for all to use free last week. Since it was launched Google Analytics has had problems – mostly related to the unprecedented demand for its use (unprecedented by Google, at any rate). One persistent issue, unrelated to popularity is that the Google Analytics…

  • Riya being bought by Microsoft?

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    Riya is a company I have mentioned previously – they have an incredible application which combines text and facial recognition with photo uploading, so that once you tell Riya who is who in your photo albums, it will recognise those people from then on out in any photos it sees! Riya also has tagging built…

  • The downside of free

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    Google announced that their web analysis product Urchin has been renamed Google Analytics and has been made free – however not everyone is happy with the result!

  • Google Maps – now available for mobile phones!

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    Google announced yesterday that they are releasing a version of their acclaimed Google Maps which can work on mobile phones! This is a major announcement as it is the first downloadable cellphone application Google has produced – doubtless, more will follow (Google Payments for mobile anyone?). The app works on a range of nobile phones…

  • Scoble is disruptive!

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    Robert Scoble wrote a significant post in his blog yesterday calling on Microsoft and Google to Clone the Google API. In a nutshell, Robert went to see a Microsoft customer company called Zvents (an online events listing company). When he asked them why they aren’t using Microsoft’s Virtual Earth on their site, (or Yahoo! Maps…

  • Yahoo! new Map? Don't even bother!

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    Tom Raftery
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    Yahoo! has launched, the next generation of Yahoo Maps. Like everything else, it is in beta, right now so any bugs found are because of that, not because they couldn’t be bothered hiring internal testers. The site is done in Flash, which has some advantages (it looks pretty) I suppose, but where are the satellite…

  • More on Google Print

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    Google Print continues to excite comment. Damien Mulley came out against Google Print today quoting Dave Winer’s argument that it should be opt-in, not opt-out. I disagree. If Google had taken that approach to websites, they would never have become the useful resource they are now. This also misses the point that for the majority…