Sometimes I loiter about in non-techy forums, and today someone raised a point that has annoyed me a lot in the past too. Google is too good at listing some pages. OK, what I really mean, is that webmasters are too good at getting their spammy web pages listed in Google. The most annoying...
News just in from Mashable.com – Eric Schmidt is stepping down to allow Larry Page to take the driving seat at Google. Eric Schmidt will become Google’s chairman. The news was released today as Google announced its fouth quarter profits. According to Reuters, analysts expect $6.06 bln in Q4 net revenue. This is twice...
News just in that Google has bought eBook Technologies and its team to help bolster its own ebookstore. eBook Technologies provided the hardware and software for reading ebooks, but it was never a hugely successful business, not being able to fight the might Amazon and Kindle. On their website they now say: “eBook Technologies,...
You may have heard about the new Google Chrome Notebook, and asked yourself ”why do we need another laptop?”. Well, this video explains exactly why. Watch and learn. The video shows how the Chrome Notebook saves data automatically. If you laptop is stolen or destroyed while you are using it (or maybe if there is a...
Google are doing their bit for charity in the run up to Christmas with a funky little extension for Google Chrome. The extension allows you to donate to one of five charities simply by opening tabs in Chrome. It sounds a bit barmy and I am not sure how it actually works at the...
We have reports of problems with the Google Custom Search Engine (CSE). Custom search is now used by many websites to help people to find and navigate around their site. It is a free service provided by Google. However, today it has failed. Many websites are now left without a search function on their...
Google Chrome really could be the Nemisis for Microsoft’s Windows. Google has been playing with Android for a couple of years now, and has Android on mobile phones and is talking about using it on Google TV and its own handheld tablet device. The latest news is that Google is putting Chrome on notebooks....
Is this the real reason why Google dislikes Clickbank affiliates? It has now launched its own eBook store, which could compete directly with ClickBank.com, the most popular outlet for commercial ebooks. So far the Google ebook store has only been launched in the USA, but it is planning to roll out to the rest of the...
We have suspected for some time that Google will make moves to compete with Facebook. As Facebook becomes more popular, and more powerful online, Google risks losing significant market share. Google’s answer is (or very likely to be) called Google Me, and it is currently being whispered about, publicly on Techcrunch, as Project Emerald...
Google has announced that it has made 4 new changes to its instant search feature to combat the growing abuse of search by the media pirates. This follows lobbying by the music industry. The changes include remove specific words, such as Torrent, BitTorrent and free download from the autocomplete feature in Google search. However,...
If you cannot see any videos on YouTube at the moment then this is because of a widespread fault with the system. Google is hopefully on the case, fixing the issue now. Latest updates from the Twittersphere: sillysaucepan: I can’t watch any youtube videos. FML. Twitter - 14 minutes ag sarahmeana: I can’t get any videos to play on Youtube, very annoying! Twitter - 16...
Today the BBC has reported that the European Commission has launched an investigation into Google after other search engines complained that the firm had abused its dominant position. The issue at hand is whether or not Google fiddles the search results for its own benefits. Google always claims that the search engine is automatic...
Was looking at YouTube earlier and spotted (it was hard to miss) a giant banner advert from Microsoft’s Bing. “Bing is beautiful because seeing is better than searching” Not entirely sure what they mean, I guess they are saying that their search results pages look prettier than Googles. Here is the advert: Not really...
Google has agreed to delete the streetview data that it collected by accident. A while ago an error in some program or other meant that Google collected some data on private wireless networks. The data it collected was not broadcast, it just sat on a computer forgotten about, until some techy spotted that a...
This is another funky Google search feature that I never knew about. I just searched for “Chelmsford Odeon” the the search result brought up a Google page that listed all the showings of the film I was looking to watch. In fact, the first result was: Cinema listings for ODEON Chelmsford Below that was a...
(in case you are wondering why there is such a big banner showing "Weboligist" here, let me explain - it is to prevent the image below appearing every time a page is shared on Facebook!).
