Yahoo Announces Search Advertising Deal With Google
Hot on the heels of the 3days ultimatum given to Yahoo by Microsoft, Yahoo is doing everything it can to subvert the deal. Yesterday it acquired analytics startup Indextools and today it has announced a search advertising deal with Google. Here’s the press release : Yahoo! Inc. , a leading global Internet company, announced today that it will begin a limited test of Google Inc.’s AdSense for Search service, which will deliver relevant Google ads alongside Yahoo!’s own search results. The test will apply only to traffic from yahoo.com in... Read The Rest →
Google Launches Amazon Web Services Competitor
Amazon has for long won the hearts of developers worldwide with its amazing services in Amazon S3, SimpleDB and EC2. Google finally has a noteworthy competitor up its sleeves to give Amazon some shakes. Google has just launched a preview release of Google App Engine. Here’s what Google has to say about the App Engine : Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow.... Read The Rest →
Google Talk Labs Edition Released
I wonder how many of you regularly use Google Talk anymore? Its been ages since the Official Google Talk client was updated. We’ve patiently waited for new features like Group Chat, New Emoticons to make it into Google Talk, but so far that hasn’t happened. Well the Google Talk team has just released a “Labs Edition” of Google Talk which is more or less same as the Google Talk Gadget, just that it is the desktop version of Google Talk Gadget. The Labs edition of Google Talk features notification for... Read The Rest →
Feedburner Quietly Kills All Time Feed Stats
Feeburner, the leading Syndication Engine for just about most of the blogs on this planet, has pulled out one small but very useful feature from its statistics. Feedburner which was acquired by Google late last year has not yet come up with an explanation as to why the All Time Stats option was removed. But as of now, the data of the past is still preserved and there are workarounds for you to get it. But Still it isn’t nice on the part of Feedburner to remove this useful option... Read The Rest →
Sign A Petition Against The Yahoo Acquisition
If you think that the proposed Microsoft and Yahoo Merger isn’t all that good for the Internet Community as a whole. If you think Yahoo would rather live than die at the hands of Microsoft please sign the petition. I’ve already outlined just about all the reasons why this acquisition isn’t a good idea in my previous post What Does A Combined Microsoft Yahoo Look Like. Please read it and consider signing the petition. The power is in the hands of us bloggers who could get the attention of mainstream... Read The Rest →
What Does A Combined Microsoft Yahoo Look Like?
Hot on the heels of the $44.6 Billion Offer made by Microsoft to Buy Yahoo, the web is going crazy with discussions on this. This deal if takes place, could well be the defining moment of Internet in 2008. This deal has large ramifications, beyond just about you and me can think of. I’m not entirely sure, if this deal makes sense for Microsoft. The only reason Microsoft seems to be running behind Yahoo is to beat Google in Search and Online Advertising. The Bid seems to be a good... Read The Rest →
Rumor : Google to Partner Dell to Launch an iPhone Competitor
When Google first unveiled Android, the mobile OS way back in November, something inside me told, “Hey, Wait this is not what Google would want, they will want to have a complete phone”. Interestingly the rumor mills are abuzz saying that Google might partner with Dell to launch a new handset that would come loaded with Android. Everyone seems to be touting the gPhone as the next iPhone and its chief competitor. While Android is still under heavy development, and a final version is expected sometime this year. It makes... Read The Rest →
Remember the Milk Now Integrated (Fully) into GMail
Remember the Milk, one of the best Online Task management services is now fully integrated into GMail. The Integration of RTM into GMail is so good that you’ll never again need to visit RTM again. Email integration of this kind is always welcome, because I can do everything from Emails, to planning my tasks, and just about everything from a single interface. On a side note Remember the Milk integrates pretty well into other Google Services like Google Calendar, and Offline support via Google Gears. For other forms of... Read The Rest →
Google Makes its Identity Management Move
Google has been evolving beyond its search roots in the recent past, and has been adding services at a pace that very few would dream off. The latest in line is an Identity Management system that will build a profile on the basis of your activities on all Google Services. While still in development, the current version of Google Profiles is accessible from Google Reader, Maps and Shared Stuff. For example, in Google Maps you’ll find the link to your profile at the top of the page.
Google Takes on Wikipedia with Knol
This is has to be the biggest announcement coming from Google at the end of this year. Google is planning to take on Wikipedia with their own project titled “Knol” which apparently stands for Units of Knowledge.. While the title doesn’t really say much about the project, but they are definitely trying to create a more accountable version of Wikipedia, that will be monetized and will also also feature in Google Search Results, giving Wikipedia a run for its money.
