Archive for 'Google'
Google Wave – The future of Email and IM
Posted on 29. May, 2009 by Nikos.
Today Google announced its new upcoming product, Google Wave. The two well known brothers (Lars and Jens Rasmussen) were working on this project for the last 2 years in Google’s office in Australia. Google Wave will be available later this year and it will be a combination of email, IM.. It reminds me the iPhone [...]
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A very interesting slide show for Google!
Posted on 02. Dec, 2008 by Nikos.
This is a very interesting 34-slide presentation on Google prepared by FaberNovel, a french consulting firm. It is hard to realize the real nature of this just 10 years old giant given the number of services it has continuously released, updated (and sometimes shut down) or acquired. This presentation gives a great overview of the [...]
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New changes to Google Search!
Posted on 21. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
Tonight, Google changed its interface. Google Blog The changes are called SearchWiki, and are a dramatic departure from Google’s streamlined, algorithm-rules approach to search. It takes features from Digg to allow users to vote site results up or down, as well as features from Wikia Search to allow users to add comments, move search results, [...]
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Google’s increased market share in October 08 – 71.7%
Posted on 14. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
Google continued to increase its U.S. search share dominance in October, widening its lead over Yahoo and Microsoft. In October, Google’s share of Web searches by people in the U.S. rose to 71.7 percent, up from 71.2 percent in September and 64.5 percent in October of 2007, according to market research company Hitwise. At the [...]
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Apple building its own search engine?
Posted on 13. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
According to TechCrunch’s “multiple (if thin) reports,” Apple may be working on a search engine in the interest of weaning themselves from Google’s teet. Given that Apple defaults to Google search on Mac and iPhone versions of Safari, and given that Google is sort of competition now with Android, the rumors make sense…but given that [...]
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The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0
Posted on 11. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
Women have been heavily instrumental in redefining the way we interact online. Here’s a look at the most influential of these. (L to R: Leah Culver, Pownce; Rashmi Sinha, Slideshare; Dina Kaplin, blip.tv; Marissa Mayer, Google; Cyan Banister, Zivity; Lisa Stone, Jory Des Jardins, and Elisa Camahort Page, BlogHer; Caterina Fake, Flickr; Gina Bianchini, Ning; [...]
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Global Incident Map – Terrorism in the world
Posted on 02. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
Do you want to know what terrorist attacks happened in the world yesterday? Global Incident Map is your site (They also call it – Global Terrorism Map..) Now you can see all the terrorist attacks in the whole world. This website uses the Google Maps and it is updated every three days.. Tweet
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Scour – A new Search Engine
Posted on 02. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
Scour is a new search engine that combines the results of the most famous search engines: Google, MSN and Yahoo. You can also rate the results as you do in Pandora. By this, Scour is getting better! Tweet
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5 Friends – Vote
Posted on 30. Oct, 2008 by Nikos.
How many of you know the 5 Friends video. Of course you are too many.. It is a very smart campaign of famous ‘Hollywood people’ with the support of Google, YouTube, Declare Yourself, and MySpace. Some of them are Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Snoop Dogg, Harrison Ford, Julia Roberts, Ben Stiller, Will Smith, [...]
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The new Google Phone!
Posted on 17. Sep, 2008 by Nikos.
Google and T-Mobile finally took the wraps off the T-Mobile G1, the first phone to use the Internet giant’s Android operating system. The phone, the first of several to come, crystallizes Google’s ambition to create an open mobile environment that gives users access to a wide variety of applications and the mobile Internet, which Google [...]
