Tag: Google

  • Google: Publishers Friend of Foe?

    Lawrence Walsh

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    Google chief executive Eric Schmidt walked into the lion’s den yesterday, speaking at the annual Newspaper Association of America’s meeting in San Diego to assure publishers of struggling newspapers across the country that the search giant is their friend. But these are not good times for newspapers and other periodical publishers, such as the New… Read more

  • Google Venture Fund Could Widen Channel

    Lawrence Walsh

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    While Google’s foray into the channel with Google Docs and its search appliance has gotten a lackluster response, solution providers in the near future may find themselves involuntarily partnering with Google through acquisitions and the extended Google investment network. Google created a venture capital fund to back startup companies developing innovative products in Internet services,… Read more

  • Google Changes Compels Search Strategy Changes

    Lawrence Walsh

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    Google is changing the way it returns search queries, giving users the ability to make more defined searches with longer strings and providing results with more information to make site selections. The changes may force rethinking search engine optimization and online marketing strategies. "We’re constantly looking for ways to get you to the Web page… Read more

  • Internet Explorer 8 Does Well, but Not Well Enough

    Frank Ohlhorst

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    With Microsoft’s commanding share of the Web browser market shrinking, the company had to do something, and that something turned out to be releasing Internet Explorer 8. IE 8 may prove to be a just-in-time product—just in time to reduce interest in the beta update of rival browser Google Chrome; just in time to make… Read more

  • Google Chrome 2.0, Windows 7 Not a Fast Combo

    Frank Ohlhorst

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    Google proves it can make a better beta with the latest release of its browser, Chrome 2.0. The new Chrome 2.0 beta leaves the likable interface pretty much alone and focuses on speed and functionality – at least if you are not running Microsoft Windows 7 beta. Testing the product beta with Windows 7 showed… Read more

  • Google`s Grand Channel Designs

    Lawrence Walsh

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    A little more than a decade ago, Larry Page and Sergey Brin set out to “organize” all the information online, making it more easily accessible than the hunt-and-peck Internet of the late 1990s. To support their grand Internet index, the Stanford grads developed an advertising business that had disrupted all of the traditional media models… Read more