Archive for the ‘google’ Category

Google dominates mobile search

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

SMS Text News runs a story this morning that Google gets 61% of mobile search. Yahoo! is a distant number 2 on these stats with 18% of the market. The figures are from Nielsen. I have just trawled through the blog because I thought I had written on this previously ...

Alltop Is Tops On Google

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Back in April we wrote about Flock partnering with Alltop to create a green version of the social media browser that includes Alltop as the default start page. Today SEO blogger Neil Patel has some stats on what type of rankings Alltop has in Google in the year after launch. It's ...

Google ads on other search engines

Friday, June 13th, 2008

With Yahoo signing away their advertising business today to Google, I thought it would be interesting to look at the major search engines and see who handles their advertising. Have a look at the list below and check out just how dominant Google is. You wonder why no one ...

Google to offer iPhone-like app store for Android

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

It appears Google plans to offer an iPhone-like application store for the Android platform, offering developers a central place to distribute applications on its open-source platform. Android project leader Andy Rubin, speaking at the Google I/O, didn't exactly announced the app store but guaranteed one is on the way. "It ...

Google’s New Project: Your Health Records

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

About a year ago Google announced that it would launch a service to allow users to store their own health records on a secure website. There was a lot of discussion about what it would look like but the wait is over. A free public “beta test” version of Google ...

Google to accept third party advertising tags

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

According to a press release by Google it is now  accepting third-party advertising tags on the Google content network in North America. This will empower advertisers to work with approved third parties to serve and track display ads, including rich media ads, across the Google content network through AdWords, giving ...

Rumor: Google To Launch Hosted Site Search, Ditch Mini

Friday, May 16th, 2008

There are rumors on Google new step in search engine crawling which is meant for business. Google plans to announce the replacement of its Mini Search Appliance with a new enterprise search solution called Hosted Site Search in the next few days.We hear it will be a for-pay product that, ...

Google Offers Banner Advertising On Mobile

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

[ad#co-1] Google the leader in CPC advertising and search engine has just announced some progress on the mobile ad front. They have started displaying banner ads on mobiles. Advertisers who use Google’s AdWords service will be able to choose between displaying plain text or banner ads to mobile Internet users. A line ...

Run Your Apps on Google’s Infrastructure

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Google thae market leaderwe're announcing a preview release of Google App Engine, an application-hosting tool that developers can use to build scalable web apps on top of Google's infrastructure. The goal is to make it easier for web developers to build and scale applications, instead of focusing on system ...

Google buys Vadafone

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Google has gone habitual with buying companies that are flying high or have just started flying high. the latest news from acquisition  industry is VODAFONE. Google, the world leader in search, has, this morning, announced the purchase of Vodafone’s entire business, in a deal valued at approximately $200 billion — a ...