Here is an interesting overview of Googles acquisition history over the last five years. If anyone knows the undisclosed values of any of these, please pass them on.
Writing Archive
Die Spammers…
I got this in my email this morning. I hate spam! I specifically hate this type of image spam since it can make it through the gmail spam filters. What pissed me of the most about this though was the accompanying text. “Dont click, type (removed URL) into your browser”. Not only do they send [...]
Patent for the Yoda figure
I recently came across a site that makes good use of the Google Patent Search. The Ironic Sans Blog has a cool post of celebrity patents. The coolest being the Yoda figuring patent by George Lucas.
Techcrunch answers it better than Google
Techcrunch posted a great article regarding why Google Answers has decided to call it quits. Essentially TC outlines how Google was beaten by Yahoo’s free service and they quote the numbers to prove it. This isnt suprising considering that I posted the same question (Why is Google Answers closing?) on both services [...]
The end of Google Answers
I read on the Google Blog that Google Answers is being closed down at the end of this year. The blog post didn’t give any sort of reason why this service was being taken down, so I just asked Google Answers what the exact reason was for the shutdown. I’ll post the response when [...]
I was waiting for this to happen
I just read on the BBC site that Google is about to overtake the main UK TV channels in advertising revenue. This means that for 2006 Google will actually have more ad revenue than Channel Four in the UK. Channel Four is no slouch either with ad revs of $1.5 billion.
I knew that it [...]
Google Calendar Launches
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Google Finally Acknowledges Me
So an interesting thing happened today. I finally got a google page rank. For some reason this took a few months but today when I went to check, my page rank turned up as a 6. At first I thought my lack of page rank had to do with the weird URL but I guess [...]
Does Google Finance Really Want Blogs?
By now everyone knows that Google released Google Finance yesterday. After scanning the blogosphere today, it became quite obvious that Googles latest offering is not being that well received. Although I generally agree with all these reviews, I am suprised that no one really addresses the fact that Google Finance shows blog posts in [...]
Less Google! Except in This Case…
Generally, I try not to write about things that every other blogger in the world is writing about. This means that I go out of my way not to cover every burp that comes out of the Googleplex cafeteria. In this case, my “Less Google” policy is going to be hard stick too. That’s [...]
Google to Get a New Layout?
San Fransisco blogger James Yu noticed something very interesting when he went to Google recently; it had a different layout. Strangely enough, this different layout looked familiar although I can’t say for sure if I’ve seen it before. I know Google doesn’t look like this now. Does anyone know what’s up with this?
Is Google Building a G-Drive?
Blogger Greg Linden has a great blogpost about Googles recent analyst day. Part of his post describes the existence of a project that some are calling the Google G-Drive. Here is a little description:
And slide 19 (in the notes) talks about how their work is inspired by the idea of a world with infinite [...]
Google Dumps Pop-up
I wrote about Google’s annoying chat popup in an earlier post and today they finally fixed it. One has to wonder how a company that smart can make a mistake that big. Lets hope it was just one of those things. You can read more about it on Googling Google.
The Best Google News this Year
OK for anyone who has had Google talk “turned on” on in Gmail this week you will thank me for this post. Now, with Gmail Talk turned on, every time you hover your mouse over someone’s name in your inbox, you get an ANNOYING pop-up menu that asks you if you want to chat [...]