Archive for the 'Google' Category

77% of Google users are not aware that their personal information is recorded

Friday, January 27th, 2006

According to a phone poll on over 1000 Internet users took last week by the Ponemon Institute, more than three quarters of web surfers don’t have a clue about Google’s possibility of recording and storing personal information that can be used to identify them. This fact proves clearly that the privacy war is far from [...]

Google Bots are in love with my blog?

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Saw about 6 google blots at the same time visiting my blog today.
Thought to take a screenshot and I did. Have a look:

Update: Mooore love… 8 google bots at once…

Another Update: and some Mooore love… 9 google bots at once…

Google bundles up desktop tools

Friday, January 13th, 2006

“Pack could grease entry into enterprises” - Phil Muncaster, IT Week
Google has launched a beta of a free collection of applications, including some from other vendors, to help users download, install and maintain software to use the internet more effectively.
The new Google Pack - available here - is primarily aimed at consumers, but experts said [...]

Schmidt’s Google Super-Sizes Mini Search Box

Friday, January 13th, 2006

Schmidt’s Google Super-Sizes Mini Search Box - Forbes.com
Chief Executive Eric Schmidt’s Google announced Thursday new double and triple capacities for its Mini search device, letting companies peruse their Web sites and internal networks the same way that Google’s flagship search engine scours the Internet.

Google Talk Gets a Taste of BlackBerry

Friday, January 13th, 2006

Instant messaging service will be available on mobile devices.
Continuing its push into the mobile space, Google is making its Google Talk instant messaging service available to BlackBerry users, Google and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion announced Thursday.
Google Talk for BlackBerry is a version of the instant messaging application that was designed for BlackBerry devices. The [...]

Mercora Brings Music to Google Talk

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Mercora, Inc. recently launched Mercora IM Radio for Google Talk, bringing Mercora’s innovative music search and discovery service to Google Talk users. As a result, Google Talk users gain the ability to browse and listen to their friends’ music as well as seamlessly access Mercora Music Search to find and listen to any music on [...]

Skin your Yahoo Messenger for a change.

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

A skin to make Yahoo! Messenger look like Google Talk.
Run the install and change your skin in Messenger > Change Skin…

Download: gtalk-yahooskin.exe
Source: Shift This

A New York tech firm to sue Google!

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Firm says telephony service Google Talk uses patented VoIP technology
The Times of India
Sunday, January 1, 2006
New York — A small New York technology firm said on Sunday that it was suing search titan Google for up to $5 billion dollars for patent violation in the Internet telephony software used in Google Talk.
Jerry Weinberger, chief executive [...]

An Interview with Google Guy in 2038

Monday, December 26th, 2005

If someone did miss this funny interview by Philipp Lenssen foretelling Google’s future for the year 2038, i guess you should spare some time to read it. I think even Larry had a good time reading it.
here is the link: A Talk to Google’s Larry Page in 2038

Just out of Google Sandbox!!

Thursday, December 15th, 2005

Was out of the confusion wheather the site was banned or in the sandbox untill monday(15th Dec).
Saw the site getting indexed finally. You can see the google index.
To understand what sandbox is, here is a good article by 14th colony.
Now its only a matter of time to take some top positions in Google [...]