Tag: google
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Why don't online calendar apps allow importing of existing calendars?
Word on the blogosphere is that Google are developing an online calendar application called CL2 – Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has pictures of the app here. An online calendar is something I would find very useful – I have loads of information in my calendar on my desktop but I lose that when I go…
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Measure Maps swallowed whole by Google!
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…
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Could podcasting get content through the Great Firewall of China?
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…
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Google founder defends censorship
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…
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Google censors the Internet
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…
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Google News 1.0(?)
I see Google has announced that its Google News is finally out of Beta – it has been in Beta since it launched in September 2002! Looking at the Google News site, you’d be hard pressed to see any difference but according to the announcement: today we’re adding a way to automatically recommend stories for…
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Web 2.0 to suffer from United States Department of Justice request?
I see Xeni Jardin over at Boing Boing has posted an article on how the US Department of Justice have requested a weeks worth of search data from the major US search engines. Seemingly Yahoo, AOL, and MSN simply handed over the data without any question. Google however held out and is now being taken…
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"no banner ads on the Google homepage" – Marissa Mayer
I see the post I published earlier this week wondering if Google were now going to have banner ads on their site after their puchase of a stake in AOL has bee answered once and for all by none other than Marissa Mayer (Google’s VP of Search Products & User Experience). In a post on…