Google in all out Attack on Facebook
Google has joined forces with some the internet’s largest and most popular social networks to launch an all out offensive on the Social networking site Facebook.
The Google planned and let offensive plans to introduce a set of common standards for software developers to write programs for Google’s social networking site Orkut, as well as others social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Friendster.
Google’s […]
Viacom CEO Criticises YouTube Copyright Protection Efforts
Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman critisised the new copyright protection system for YouTube claiming is not satisfactory.
The system which was announced recently by Google is still in beta mode and dubbed YouTube Video Identification. Accroding to Google, it’s designed to help copyright holders control the distribution of their content over the internet.
Google’s new copyright protection system allows copyright holders such as […]
Google Earth Adds YouTube Layer
Google announced that they have added a YouTube video clips layer to their Google Earth application.
This new service allows YouTube users to geotag their video clip and have it appear on Google Earth when they upload it.
Users who find the clip on the “Featured Content” section of Google Earth have the option of playing the video […]
Google Launches Bookmark Sharing - Shared Stuff
Google has launched “Shared Stuff”, a bookmark sharing service.
Much like Yahoo’s del.icio.us, Shared Stuff allows people to share their bookmark links with friends and family.
To share sites with others, users can drag a “share” button onto their computer browser toolbar and proceed to share sites with other computer users.
As well as posting favourite links on the Shared Stuff page, the new […]
Google to Scrap BPF
Google has decided to end its practice to provide search advertising companies with best practice funding payments worth as much as £50m a year.
Google’s programme, dubbed Best Practice Funding (BPF), will sieze to exist by the end of 2008 giving advertisers over a year to adjust to the blow of loss of lucrative income.
The BPF programme […]
Google Sponsored Listings Video Ads
Google announced the possible integration of video and image ads in its sponsored search results.
Google product manager Nicholas Fox said that Google is seeking to do the best job it can at conveying information to its users.
He added, in some cases this may be achieved through a text ad, while in others it may be an image, a video or something […]
Google CFO Retires
Google announced today that its chief financial officer, George Reyes, will retire (age 52) by the end of this year. Mr. Reyes has been CFO at Google for five years.
Eric Schmidt Google’s CEO had these words to say about Reyes’ departure:
“I’ve known and admired George since our days together at Sun and we will miss his thoughtfulness, good humour and wisdom”.
Schmidt added:
“as Google’s […]
Google signs Adsense deal with CNN
Google has agreed a deal with CNN to become the sole supplier of contextual advertising on its flagship website CNN.com.
The deal will see Google serve contextually relevant ads next to CNN news content.
This is what CNN said about the deal:
“At CNN.com, our mission is laser-focused on providing up-to-the-minute news and information to our users,” said […]