Google News Adds Smart Stars, Personalization
Here’s the scoop on personalizing Google News to fit your interests.
Searching Now Influenced By Your Friends
What your friends and family do on the Internet will soon shape the results Google gives you. Here’s why that’s bad.
Officially Stable, Google Chrome 4 Launches
I think Google Chrome is the fastest, most user-friendly browser on the market. Opera is close, but Google added speed and usability to the mix. I’ve been so enamored of Chrome that I only use Firefox for testing anymore. I’ve also been using the developer channel for months. Think of it as a big beta [...]
Android Suggests Search Results Near You
Sopranos fans may remember Tony getting his hands on a new cell phone and having the GPS function ripped out. You’ll forgive Palm and Windows Mobile execs if they feel like doing the same. As Google’s Android adds features every week, the convergence between phone and Largest Search Company Ever blurs fast. Word out [...]
Bigger Google – Fast Friday Fact
December’s search engine market share data is out from Hitwise. Don’t bother with the link The Fast Friday Fact is that Google’s share increased 1 point and the next 3 players (Yahoo, Microsoft’s Bing) all lost share. Google now has 72.25% of U.S. search engine market share. That’s why when people complain about [...]
How Chinese Hackers Improved Your Gmail Security
By now you’ve undoubtedly seen the headlines that Google and as many as two dozen other technology companies came under attack by a coordinated hacking effort launched from China. That’s interesting on many levels, not the least of which is that information technology and information — even about or maybe especially about individuals is an [...]
Google Broadens Pay-Per-Call
This is a long time coming, and boy, is it big. Yes, this is Google news related to telephones, but we won’t talk about Nexus One (still). Google is launching pay-per-call advertising. Now. There have always been variants of pay-per-call available, but this shows how serious Google is about invading the local search advertising space. [...]
Google Launches Certified Professionals Search
Google has launched a search site listing certified professionals and marketing agencies. From the company’s description: Google Advertising Professionals are not Google employees, but rather are online marketing professionals, agencies, and other individuals such as search engine marketers (SEMs), search engine optimizers (SEOs), and marketing consultants. They have been certified by Google to manage AdWords [...]
Google Usability Tools Continue – Meet Visible Area
Google launched another tool hot on the heels of last week’s release of Speed Tracer, a tool developers can use to determine what elements on a particular web page are slowing down its display in a browser. And last month, we told you that a new SEO frontier for 2010 would be speed, as in [...]
10 Google Chrome Extensions Still Installed
Geeks old enough to remember using MS-DOS will undoubtedly remember the feeling of automating their bootup programs using a batch file. Around the same time that Bill Gates muttering that 640K ought to be enough memory for anyone, those same geeks looked at each other and begin whittling down their batch files so there was [...]
