Tag: Google

  • ASCII Group Helps Google Find Place in the Channel

    Michael Vizard

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    There’s an event coming up in one of those out of the way places not many people get to that just might be too good to miss. On Oct. 16, the ASCII Group will host a TechBoot Camp in Foster City, Calif., which is just outside of San Francisco. What makes this particular event compelling… Read more

  • Google Launches Hosted Website Search for SMBs

    Google Launches Hosted Website Search for SMBs

    Chris Preimesberger

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    Google fired a direct volley at its chief adversaries in the enterprise search market, Microsoft and IBM, with the July 17 launch of its Google Custom Search Business Edition service. The Custom Search Business Edition is a hosted, fee-based site search service aimed at small and medium-size businesses—but available for any Web site—that adds Google-type… Read more

  • Google and Ingram Micro Search for Acceptance

    Google and Ingram Micro Search for Acceptance

    Joel Shore

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    Though it made for splashy headlines when announced in late June, Google’s plunge into the systems integrator channel with its Google brand hardware search appliances is being met with a subdued response. But that may change as integrators’ understanding of the platforms increases. On June 27, Ingram Micro announced its intent to distribute worldwide the… Read more

  • Google’s Distribution Play: That’s It!?

    Google’s Distribution Play: That’s It!?

    Pedro Pereira

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    When I lived in Plymouth, Mass., I used to react with perverse amusement when I saw tourists with license plates from as far as Montana and Florida visit the famed Plymouth Rock. A first-time visitor’s reaction inevitably went something like this: “That’s it!? That’s Plymouth Rock!? We drove all the way from [insert faraway locale]… Read more

  • Can Google Give VARs the Love They Need?

    Jessica Davis

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    In a marriage of the technology stars, last week Google and Ingram Micro announced a deal where the world’s largest IT distributor would offer search appliances from the world’s largest search company. The move is intended to give Google an inroads into the small and medium business market (SMB) as the company has reached a… Read more

  • Ingram Micro to Carry Google

    Ingram Micro to Carry Google

    Jessica Davis

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    One of the most recognized names in the IT industry has joined with one of the biggest names in the IT channel to bring search capabilities to companies large and small. A deal between Ingram Micro, of Santa Ana, Calif., and Google, of Mountain View, Calif., to distribute the latter’s enterprise and SMB (small and… Read more