Google Chrome is launched today. An open source browser aimed directly at IE7 and Firefox in attempt [we suggest] to package more tools into one location, for the benefit of the consumer, and of course to sell more stuff.
The official announcement is here.
We will be writing more about this once we have had a play, [...]
Category Archives: Google
Google launches browser to sell more stuff
September 2, 2008 – 10:51 am
Lucky Christine
August 14, 2008 – 6:30 pm
SEO is really not such a dark art. Although it has to be said not all companies who offer enhanced search engine results are fully articulate about what they are doing, many of them have grasped the basic truths of living in a search-engine optimized world where the verb “to search” has been supplanted by [...]
Searching Rich Media
July 29, 2008 – 12:26 pm
Google has been indexing Flash since 2004 but the underlying technology that powers millions of front pages and zillions of banner ads has defied the kind of interrogation that makes it truly searchable, until very recently. At the beginning of July, Adobe released what it calls Searchable SWF technology but although this is a step [...]
Microsoft to buy Yahoo?
February 1, 2008 – 5:41 pm
After almost a year of rumoured discussions, Microsoft has formally tabled an offer for Yahoo. [See the official statement from Microsoft here.] The bid, valued at $44.6 would see the two companies join forces as soon as Q3 2008. This tie up would be an impressive one, and a very logical one.
(We borrowed this great [...]
What is Google Open Social?
December 14, 2007 – 2:40 pm
You may have seen a lot of talk about Google launching Open Social - so what is it? Well in a nutshell it is an API standard that other companies can use to open up their site and connect with other sites and apps. For people or companies looking to create an app to go [...]
What are people searching for, what are people talking about?
December 5, 2007 – 6:54 pm
Google is getting ready to publish this years Zeitgest, its digest of the top search terms for the year. Some snippets have been released to the press and some bloggers are already picking up ‘unofficial’ stories, you can read one of each here and here.
You can see the Zeitgest for yourself over at http://www.google.com/press/intl-zeitgeist.html#uk for [...]
Google trialling voting functions on search results
November 29, 2007 – 9:57 pm
Last week we saw Facebook add thumbs up or thumbs down icons to your newsfeed so you can quickly tell Facebook what you like and don’t like. Now word reaches us from Googlified that Google is also trialling voting buttons on search results. The experimental feature enables you flag preferred results which will re-appear next [...]
Google mobile maps - helping you find where you are - without GPS.
November 28, 2007 – 11:35 pm
In 1995, when Jamie was first working in digital agencies, there was talk of mobile phones being able to triangulate where you were and send you a message offering a free coffee when you walked past Starbucks. Roll on 12 years (crikey!) and it’s still not happening. BUT, Google are launching a new product for [...]
