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If your AdSense earnings go up in the next few months, if you start seeing ads for big brands on your little sites, here’s why: Google has opened the DoubleClick Ad Exchange, and connected it to the Google content network. [Read more…]
Originally posted on September 18, 2009 @ 10:08 am
If iPhone fanboys need any more evidence that Apple is a bunch of anticompetitive liars, then listen to the most trusted brand in America: Google. [Read more…]
Originally posted on September 19, 2009 @ 5:51 am
The kids have gone back to school and Apple has made its annual iPod/iTunes announcement, so perhaps that will explain why Google is making a bit of a thing about the marginal increase in the size of its search box.
On Safari on a Mac I can’t see any difference, so either it hasn’t rolled out yet or it’s something that only Chrome users can see.
In any case, if I want to make the search box bigger I just press Cmd and +. In fact, that works in a lot of places in Mac OS X and I don’t really need other people making themselves look bigger by default. [Read more…]
Originally posted on September 10, 2009 @ 12:21 pm
Keeping an eye on the competition is one thing, but when you read about a company explicitly holding meetings designed to make another look bad you have to wonder where its priorities lie.
(Not so) secret “Screw Google” meetings have been a weekly affair at Microsoft, it seems, with the Redmond giant keen to find ways of making a major search rival look bad.
Now, we don’t know whether other companies are holding similar sorts of meetings — I’m sure some are — but in my mind it makes a lot more sense to focus on developing decent products of your own than wasting time trying to bring down the “enemy”. [Read more…]
Originally posted on August 30, 2009 @ 1:19 pm
Jason Kincaid shares what might be a screenshot of the upcoming Google Chrome OS. I don’t know whether this image is genuine or faked, but we can certainly see Google’s minimalistic design ethic in the layout.
Up until two years ago, Google Video offered a downloadable media player. Perhaps that will be recycled into the player app in the screenshot.
Originally posted on August 31, 2009 @ 11:00 pm
