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Google CEO warns of possible job cuts after DoubleClick merger
2008-03-24 09:57:00 Google may cut its workforce as it integrates online ad firm DoubleClick into its operations, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt warned in a blog posting after the acquisition was approved by the European Commission on Tuesday. “As with most mergers, there may be reductions in headcount. We expect these to take place in the U.S. and ... More About: Google , Merger , Cuts , Doubleclick
With Europe?s OK, Google closes DoubleClick acquisition
2008-03-24 09:54:00 European antitrust regulators on Tuesday approved Google ’s $3.1 billion merger with DoubleClick, paving the way for a blockbuster deal in Internet search and publisher-based advertising tools. Approval by the European Commission, which came without conditions, had largely been expected to occur this week. The Commission’s announcement comes three weeks before its April 2 deadline, in which ... More About: Europe , Acquisition , Doubleclick
Google on data security: You can trust us, really
2008-03-23 11:13:00 Google described on Tuesday how it secures the mountains of data that it handles every day, saying that it has highly automated processes and employs the best and brightest in Web security. On the Official Google Blog, Douglas Merrill, a vice president of engineering, spelled out the company’s philosophy, processes, and technology that the company employs ... More About: Google , Security , Data Security , Data , Trust
Google?s drop in paid clicks: Part of the grand plan
2008-03-23 11:09:00 After ComScore reported a recent decline in Google ’s paid clicks, the Net ratings service followed up, noting evidence that the drop was due to “Google’s own quality initiatives that result in a reduction in the number of paid listings and, therefore, the opportunity for paid clicks to occur.” The reduction in listings, ComScore noted, was “offset ... More About: Paid , Part , Grand , Plan
Google: Model citizen of community development?
2008-03-22 10:27:00 John Mark Walker, Hyperic’s community lead, has an interesting take on whether Google deserves to be loved or loathed for its open-source community outreach. John Mark is in the former camp and, increasingly, so am I. Google is the Teflon open-source company, contributing selectively and strategically…and winning kudos across the board. Self-interested Google? Absolutely. But then, how ... More About: Community , Development , Model , Community Development
Former Googler?s social take on search
2008-03-22 10:25:00 Ex-Googler start-ups are coming out of the woodworks. And now there’s one more. Steffen Mueller, an ex-Google product manager from Munich, Germany, has launched his own version of Web search with a dash of the social. Mueller and a few friends from Germany started Topicle, which launched in beta on Monday. The site lets anyone create or ... More About: Social , Search
How Google?s counterculture changes everything
2008-03-21 08:13:00 In the world of online services and editorial content, a term known as “stickiness” becomes the rallying cry of Webmasters and marketers alike. In essence, these people are fearful that if they lose visitors on the site, they’ll never get them back. But for some reason, Google doesn’t feel that way. In fact, it’s more ...
Google to penalize advertisers with slow-loading pages
2008-03-21 08:10:00 Companies advertising on Google ’s AdWords system better fine-tune their ad landing pages. In its automated auction system, Google will soon be looking at the length of time it takes to see an advertiser’s landing page once an ad is clicked as a factor in determining ad position and minimum bid for keywords. People are more likely to ... More About: Advertisers , Slow , Pages , Loading
Gmail falls prey to spam bots
2008-03-18 07:25:00 Spammers have cracked the captcha mechanism Gmail uses to make sure you are a human before you can open an e-mail account, leading to a huge increase in the amount of spam sent from Gmail last month, security firm MessageLabs says. We’ve all been subjected to captcha programs when signing up for Web services. They typically ... More About: Spam , Bots , Falls , Prey
Don?t buy into the paranoia about PageRank sculpting
2008-03-18 07:10:00 The blogosphere and Twitter have been abuzz with talk about this article by Shari Thurow, published Thursday on Search Engine Land. The article warns of supposed dangers against the SEO tactic of “PageRank sculpting.” Readers are coming away feeling reticent to employ the tactic, fearing retribution from the engines in the form of penalties. The ... More About: Pagerank , Sculpting , Paranoia
Google says spam is huge corporate headache
2008-03-17 10:02:00 Google released a white paper on Thursday about trends in electronic communications systems at corporations and found, to no surprise, that spam is a huge problem and getting worse. While overall e-mail message volume per user grew 47 percent, the spam volume was up 57 percent in 2007 to record levels, according to data from Google’s ... More About: Google , Spam , Corporate , Huge , Headache
Sync your Google and Outlook calendars
2008-03-17 09:58:00 Online calendars are great but the problem is you tend to have one at work and a separate personal one. Now you can see events in both calendars at once, at least if you are using Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook . Google released Google Calendar Sync on Wednesday, which allows you to sync up those two ... More About: Calendars
EU could approve Google-DoubleClick merger next week
2008-03-16 15:12:00 European regulators are planning to grant approval for Google ’s proposed $3.1 billion takeover of DoubleClick, possibly on March 11, according to a Bloomberg report. And that would be approval without conditions, three sources familiar with the matter told the news service. Google was given the go-ahead by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in December, but has been ... More About: Week , Merger , Doubleclick
Security threat discovered in Google’s Android software
2008-03-16 15:09:00 Researchers have found some holes in Google ’s Android SDK that could make the software vulnerable to hack attacks. But because commercial Android devices are still months away from hitting store shelves, there’s no need to panic. Core Security published an alert on its Web site on Tuesday stating that it had found eight vulnerabilities related to ... More About: Software , Threat
Google offers search within search
2008-03-15 12:54:00 Imagine searching inside Wikipedia or Amazon.com, but on the Google search site. Google’s got a test going of a way to search inside different sites from within a Google Web search results page. If you type in “amazon,” “wikipedia” or “new york times” on Google, it brings up the relevant result at the top and ... More About: Search , Offers
The Google-ization of Facebook
2008-03-15 12:53:00 Is Facebook the next Google ? Maybe and maybe not, but either way there’s a lot that Facebook can learn from Google and from the Googlers it’s hiring. The latest person to move offices from Mountain View, Calif., to Facebook, seven miles away in Palo Alto is Sheryl Sandberg. The Google vice president of global sales and ...
My stunted interview with Google?s Eric Schmidt
2008-03-14 11:40:00 I’ve always wanted to interview Google CEO Eric Schmidt one-on-one, and this week I finally got the chance. I learned that he was going to be making a big Google Health announcement at a health care trade show on Thursday and a Google spokesman promised me I would get a “one-on-one” interview with him in private ... More About: Interview
Questions ahead for Google?s Eric Schmidt
2008-03-14 11:36:00 It’s fair to say there are plenty of things to chat about with Google CEO Eric Schmidt . Microsoft may be closing in on its whopper acquisition of Yahoo. Google’s stock price has slid dramatically since its 52-week high in November. ComScore says bad stuff’s a’ brewing in Google’s U.S. paid-click performance. And the economy, perhaps the ... More About: Questions , Ahead
Google goes after Microsoft SharePoint
2008-03-13 12:06:00 Google Sites was just launched and its target is clear: Microsoft SharePoint. While it has an uphill battle–security and a lack of the complex features that SharePoint has, for example–its biggest problem is that it doesn’t connect with the content production tools that most people spend their (enterprise) content-producing lives in: Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Office. Of ... More About: Google , Sharepoint
Schmidt: Google Health targets ?the most important search?
2008-03-13 12:02:00 ORLANDO, Fla.–Search giant Google launched Google Health and announced major industry partners on Thursday, aiming to be the Intuit for personal health care, where people can access all their health information in one spot. “Why would Google be here?” Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said during a keynote speech at the Health Information Management Systems Society ... More About: Google Health
EFF sues Justice Department over Google privacy hire
2008-03-12 16:10:00 The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice seeking information about communications between a former top privacy official and Google , which eventually hired the official. At the time Jane Horvath was named as the Justice Department ’s chief privacy and civil-liberties officer in February 2006, Google was challenging a subpoena by ... More About: Hire
Google and other telecoms to build U.S.-Japan cable
2008-03-12 16:07:00 The existing bandwidth between Asia and North America is crowded. Following FCC approval of a U.S.-China link last month, Google and five other companies have announced a Japan -U.S. link to be completed in early 2010. The $300 million fiber-optic cable will stretch approximately 10,000 km (6,214 miles) under the Pacific. “Google’s partners in the consortium, dubbed ... More About: Telecoms , Build , Cable
Opera mobile browsers swap Yahoo for Google
2008-03-11 13:07:00 Opera has switched out Yahoo and made Google the default search engine for its Opera Mobile and Opera Mini Web browsers designed for mobile devices. In January 2007, Yahoo and Opera announced that Yahoo would be the default search engine on Opera Mobile and Mini. Now, though, the mobile versions are getting what the desktop version ... More About: Browsers , Opera
Get ready to Google-ize your health records
2008-03-11 13:05:00 ORLANDO, Fla.–Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt will detail the company’s plans for Google-izing the health care industry at a health care trade show on Thursday morning, starting with a consumer destination site called Google Health . Schmidt is scheduled to give the morning keynote speech at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2008 annual conference ... More About: Records , Ready , Get Ready
Google: A bellwether or giant losing its grip?
2008-03-10 20:53:00 We interrupt this scheduled lashing of Yahoo to ask a question about the company that’s been putting a whuppin’ on Jerry Yang & Co. over the last few years: Are you OK? Google shares dropped 4.57 percent Tuesday largely on new ComScore numbers that show flat year-over-year growth in U.S. paid-click performance in January. It’s an ... More About: Giant , Grip
Google urges ISO to give thumbs-down to Microsoft Open XML
2008-03-10 20:52:00 The head of Google ’s open-source programs on Monday urged international delegates to vote against certifying Office Open XML as an ISO standard, saying the Microsoft -led effort poses a risk to users who want unfettered access to documents. Delegates from international standards bodies are meeting in Geneva this week to resolve technical comments submitted after Office Open ... More About: Give , Thumbs Down
Google scrambles to avoid EU privacy regulators
2008-03-09 10:25:00 Google could soon be forced to delete identifying user information from its search logs, statements by the European Union data regulators suggest. The search engine’s lawyers have long argued that network addresses don’t really count as personal information, and even if they did, the company’s policy of masking the last few digits of an IP ... More About: Google , Privacy , Avoid
Google?s Brin fears the Microhoo borg
2008-03-09 10:20:00 Speaking at an event for the Google Lunar X Prize on Thursday, Google co-founder Sergey Brin reiterated his company’s position on a Microsoft-Yahoo union, the Associated Press reported. “The Internet has evolved from open standards, having a diversity of companies. And when you start to have companies that control the operating system, control the browsers, they ... More About: Fears
Google unleashes even more ads, now in video
2008-03-08 05:32:00 Google has launched AdSense for Video , enabling Web sites another way to push ads in our faces. I’m not complaining…well, actually I am. The ads don’t offer much, except more distraction to already ad-filled Web sites. Viewing the ads on My Damn Channel, for instance, you can’t always tell an ad from actual entertainment content. I know ... More About: Google
Google to kick-start medical records program with Cleveland Clinic
More articles from this author:2008-03-08 05:29:00 Google is set to announce on Thursday that it will be using the Cleveland Clinic hospital in Cleveland, Ohio as the pilot site for its new personal health records initiative. Between 1,500 and 10,000 patients at the Cleveland, Ohio, facility will participate in the project’s test run, volunteering to have their medical records transferred to their ... More About: Google , Medical , Start , Program 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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