A Google decade - 10 years of searching With Sergey and Larry
Eagerly they came - the young, the ambitious, the smartest of the smart.
They queued impatiently and crowded into the rafters above Charlie’s Cafe at the “Googleplex”, the curving glass and steel cathedral of the internet age. Finally, laptops snapped shut and the room hushed. It was time for Barack Obama to preach to the converted.
“There is something improbable about this gathering,” said the presidential hopeful, gazing around a sea of T-shirts at Google’s California headquarters.
“What we share is a belief in changing the world from the bottom up.”
It was last November, and Obama was asked whether he lacked political experience. He compared himself with the founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who a decade ago were university students with a big dream.
Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. will start a high-profile advertising partnership by early October, even if federal regulators haven’t yet approved the deal, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Thursday.
Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. will start a high-profile advertising partnership by early October, even if federal regulators haven’t yet approved the deal, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Thursday.
“We are going to move forward with it,” Schmidt said in an interview on Bloomberg television after being asked whether the companies would wait for the Justice Department to complete its review.
Schmidt’s comments indicate that the deal, outlined in June, is full steam ahead. Under the agreement, Google will supply Yahoo with online advertisements that are expected to generate an additional $800 million in annual revenue for Yahoo and help prop up its slumping finances.
To deflect criticism about the No. 1 and No. 2 search engines teaming up, the companies said they would give the Justice Department 3 and a half months to review the deal, although they weren’t required to do so because it does not involve an acquisition. Schmidt’s comments indicate that they won’t wait any longer to implement the partnership.
A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment on the status of its Google-Yahoo review.
Why Google is Free?
I found an interesting article at ValleyWag today ;”Can Google charge for a service it mostly gives away — and that doesn’t always work? That’s the experiment it’s conducting with Google Apps. Gmail, the email service at the heart of Google Apps, went down three times earlier this month, and Google has sent a note to customers who pay for its “Premier Edition” — typically colleges and small businesses. As Fortune notes, Google hasn’t had much success breaking into the large business accounts where Microsoft rules. The tone of Google’s apology speaks volumes. It’s mostly apologetic, but there are overtones of Stanford-comp-sci huffiness:” Click Here to Read The Rest
John McCain has picked his running mate (announcement tomorrow) and a theory in Denver is that it’s ex-eBay CEO Meg Whitman. If true, is this a good choice?
John McCain has picked his running mate
(announcement tomorrow) and a theory in Denver is that it’s ex-eBay CEO Meg Whitman. If true, is this a good choice?
After some thought, we actually think it is.
That wasn’t our first reaction. But our current impression of Meg is colored by the fact that we hold her responsible for the collapse of eBay. (Meg was solid in her early years as eBay CEO, but, in our opinion, she then retired on the job. eBay stopped innovating about eight years ago, shifted into cruise control, made some ludicrous acquisitions to try to prop up growth, and ultimately smashed into the rocks.)
Overall, we think the perception of Meg’s CEO skills exceeds the reality.* But that said…
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The 01 Phone - Is This a Tech Giant’s Response To Iphone 3G?
In this address, you’ll see a countdown of an amazing product. There’s not exact information about this product but according to varied rumors, this can be a Nokia N96, BlackBerry Bold, Samsung’s INNOV8 i850 killer. It’s too early to add iphone 3g to the list.
What do you think? Is this a Tech Giant’s Response or a new tech company’s product?
The Facebook Movie - Aaaron Sorkin Writing a Movie About The Founding Of The Popular Social Network.
The Facebook story is coming soon to a cineplex near you. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin confirmed yesterday on a Facebook group that he is writing a movie about the founding of the popular social network. A day after Facebook announced that it reached 100 million users around the world, Sorkin (or his assistant) wrote on the group page that he “just agreed to write a movie for Sony and producer Scott Rudin about how Facebook was invented.” Read The Rest
I just wonder; Will Aaron Sorkin will make a research or listen to Connectu’s founders before writing about that stuff? I don’t think so. If they’ll use “facebook” name in the film, Sorkin will obey Zuckerberg ’s rules
MakeWords.com - One of The Best Domain Name Generator Tools on Internet
Choose niches, languages, colors, add what you want to include in, select your favourite registrar an go. MakeWords.com will be your closer friend when you need a great domain. MakeWords thinks instead of you. For example, your name is James and you’re planning to create a blog. If you select colors, MakeWords will show you, bluejames.com, greenjames.com, beigejames.com etc. Also you can find register baby names, pet names, screen names, rolepay names as domain.
+ System Works Fine and Quick. A very well written aspx site.
- There has to be good navigation on the site. You lose yourself. When you choose the languages, you lose animals, colors menus. Site is not user-friendly.
Anyway, we think that; One of The Best Domain Name Generators on Internet
Google is considering allowing users of its search engine to tinker with query results by re-ranking them and commenting on them.
Google is considering allowing users of its search engine to tinker with query results by re-ranking them and commenting on them.
The company has already run public tests on its search-results pages that contain up and down arrows next to listed links, as well as buttons that allow users to append comments to results.
“At this point, I can’t say what we expect from this feature; we’re just curious to see how it will be used,” wrote Ben Gomes, a Google Distinguished Engineer, in the company’s official blog on Tuesday.
A screenshot of one of these test pages also shows “x” buttons next to results to apparently remove them from view, although this isn’t addressed by Gomes.
Should Google decide to incorporate these as default features, the change would be a significant step by the company in giving people power to interact with its search-results pages.
There are a number of customization and personalization options that Google grants to users who open a Google account, such as keeping a log of their search and browsing activity via a service called Web History, as well as bookmarking and annotating site links with a service called Notebook.
Thanks to Google’s unquestioned domination, the not-so-wide world of search makes for uninteresting competition.
Thanks to Google’s unquestioned domination, the not-so-wide world of search makes for uninteresting competition. But while Yahoo, Ask, and now Cuil duke it out for whatever scraps of market share they can get, specialized search engines are aggressively trying to outwit the master.
Have You Seen The Russian Founder of Google Sergey Brin While Talking Russian?
Here is an interview in Moscow with Sergey Brin;
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