Yahoo Toolbar Supports Firefox
If ever there were a sign that Firefox is gaining markeshare, here you have it. Yahoo has released a PC Firefox version of its toolbar, and plans to add Mac support soon….
If ever there were a sign that Firefox is gaining markeshare, here you have it. Yahoo has released a PC Firefox version of its toolbar, and plans to add Mac support soon….
I'm out of pocket most of the day, heading to NYC….
This fellow says Google's going to a $1 trillion market cap….
Mark Jen, the fellow who reported on internal company activities at Google, is gone from the company. I pinged a Google rep and he confirmed it. This is a clear message to Google employees. I imagine any who are blogging, are re-reading their HR policies about now… I guess…
This is a clear message to Google employees. I imagine any who are blogging, are re-reading their HR policies about now…
I guess someone who violates the rules like this will, I imagine, be dealt with in various ways by various companies. I wonder what Yahoo might have done in the same situation, or Microsoft? The information on the site, which was taken down and then redacted, was really not that big a deal. At least, it seems that way to me. But one never knows.
Read MoreNice explanation in the piece from Bret Fausett, who publishes Lextext.com. When a domain expires and changes hands, Mr. Fausett said, Google can now more easily find, scan and index the new site, so it does not mistakenly point searchers to a site with irrelevant content, or place advertisers…
When a domain expires and changes hands, Mr. Fausett said, Google can now more easily find, scan and index the new site, so it does not mistakenly point searchers to a site with irrelevant content, or place advertisers on sites with content that does not match their products or services.
That alone could profoundly affect the domain name market, which has rebounded partly because of another Google service, AdSense. Through AdSense, Google pays publishers to display text ads related to a site’s content. Speculators often buy the expiring domains of even marginally popular Web sites and replace the site’s content. But because the practice diminishes the usefulness of Google’s search engine, the company has long sought ways to curb it.
Huh. I know Google integrates maps with local, but this feels new. Thanks to reader Richard Lusk. BTW, Andrew Chen noticed it as well, and has a nice post here. Update: Google has sent out its release on this, it's in the extended entry. Update 2 – the buzz on…
< ![CDATA[Huh. I know Google integrates maps with local, but this feels new. Thanks to reader Richard Lusk.
BTW, Andrew Chen noticed it as well, and has a nice post here.
Update: Google has sent out its release on this, it’s in the extended entry.
Update 2 – the buzz on this is pretty good, including a nice review from Gary, though he did notice that Osama is apparently hiding out at the Googleplex…]]>
If you recall my 2004 predictions, I claimed Bloglines would be sold to a major search engine. I just didn't think it would be Ask. But come to think of it, it's a good fit – Yahoo is well on their way toward the Bloglines space with its integration…
“Ask was the best fit,” Mark Fletcher told me last week. “They have a multi-brand strategy – we will not be going away.”
Fletcher, who together with Larry’s brother Carl Page and a few others sold his other company – eGroups – to Yahoo back in the golden era for a whole lotta dough – does not need to sell. So his choice of Ask is instructive. “Ask got it,” he proclaimed, indicating others were in the hunt but did not, er, get it. “We had a lot of choices, and this one made the most sense.”
Read MoreFolks have been noticing for some time that Google Images seems to have been updated, today Google made it official. From the note sent to me by Google PR: Today, Google announced two new updates to Google Image Search that further help users find the information they need. First,…
Today, Google announced two new updates to Google Image Search that further help users find the information they need. First, Google Image Search now includes more than 1.1 billion images from around the world. With a comprehensive index of images, users can quickly and easily find relevant images of both popular and obscure queries.
In addition, Google released a new feature that displays images from Google Image Search above Google web search results when they’re relevant to users’ search queries. When users search for queries such as [sunsets], [mountains], [torre eiffel], or [inverno] on the Google homepage, they may see relevant thumbnail images at the top
Read MoreGoogle lost last week in a French trademark case involving Louis Vuitton. Cnet reports….
As I've been working on my book, I've developed a rather odd form of visual incentive. For each chapter I created a 3×5 index card, each taped one atop the other on the side of the bookcase next to my desk. As I worked on a chapter, I devised…
Well, I’m pleased to say that at about 5.30 today I marked the final check on my wall of 3×5 cards. While weeks of revisions, corrections, and possibly rewrites await me, the fact is, I have completed the first draft of this f*cking book. Nearly 90,000 words later, I’m at last into the realm of editing, as opposed to writing.
For whatever reason, well, for reasons too numerous to state, I wanted to let all of you know about that first. Thank you for being here with me as I labored over it. Now, I plan to go out with my wife and, most likely, drink far more than I probably should.