Posts Tagged ‘google’

Bing, Google, and Yahoo All Making Maps More Interesting

Sunday, February 14, 2010 3:52 No Comments

At TED, Microsoft unveiled some new features for Bing Maps. “This work builds on the idea of spatial search that Microsoft discussed in December when the company launched its new version of Bing Maps,” a representative for Microsoft tells WebProNews.
Some of the new features are available today, but some you will have to wait on [...]

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Will Google Buzz Change the Social Media Game?

Sunday, February 14, 2010 3:46 No Comments

Buzz has gotten off to a great start in terms of attracting users. Google said in a blog post yesterday that over 9 million posts and comments had been created, and they were seeing over 200 posts per minute. Both numbers have likely grown since then.
In the post, Google addresses some of the privacy concerns [...]

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Google: “Buzz Will Be Just Another Node”

Sunday, February 14, 2010 3:38 No Comments

When Google announced Google Buzz earlier this week, the company made it abundantly clear that it was interested in Buzz being as open as possible. Looking at the Google Buzz API page, you’ll see that support for Activity Streams, AtomPub, OAuth, PubSubHubbub, Salmon and WebFinger are things that are “coming soon.”
What all of this means [...]

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US Government Wants China to Investigate Google Attack

Thursday, January 21, 2010 13:14 No Comments

Update: In a speech today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called upon China to investigate the attacks on Google and the State Department will reportedly file “a formal protest over the complaints.”
Original Article: Google may try to continue with operations in China, even if it shuts its search engine down due to censorship. You must [...]

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Google Turns to Your Past Emails to Make Ads More Relevant

Thursday, January 21, 2010 13:01 No Comments

Google has made some changes to the way ads shown to Gmail users are selected. If you use the service, you have probably noticed that Google often shows ads that are somehow related to the content of whatever piece of email you are currently reading. If you have noticed this, you have probably also noticed [...]

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