Google recently released Buzz, the company’s foray into the social networking world of microblogging. The service competes with other social sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Upon release, Buzz has been getting some criticism over its default privacy settings. Google launched Buzz last Tuesday to the public after its announcement. The new service piggybacks off Gmail automatically so users do not [...]

Google is expected to plunge into the world of Facebook and Twitter, using its popular Gmail service to allow users to post status updates and items. The search-engine giant, which recently tweaked its search function to allow easier access to social media results, has planned an event for Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET at its California headquarters. That comes a day after the Wall Street Journal quoted “people [...]

The war against IE6 continues. Effective March 1, 2010, Google will begin phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 in Google Docs and Google Sites. Google has just announced the news that it’s joining the long list of companies that will no longer support IE6. Once Google begins phasing out support for the archaic browser, Google Docs and Google Sites will be the first to go, but we should expect [...]

In the immediate aftermath of a 7.0 earthquake that caused an unbelievable amount of destruction to Haiti’s capital, Google has been asked by relief organizations and users to show images of what’s actually happening on the ground. In partnership with geospatial imagery company GeoEye , Google has just released a new layer for Google Earth showing post-earthquake devastationIn the [...]

Whatever Google’s reason for threatening to leave China, the latest numbers from StatCounter, a free online stat service, show that it certainly isn’t for lack of opportunity. Google has been steadily gaining ground on China’s premier search service, Baidu, since last August.According to StatCounter, Google held just 28% of China’s search market back in August and [...]

Google’s been taking bad press about Chinese search result filtering for years, and now it looks like the company simply fed up: it’s going to stop filtering Google.cn and it may pull of out the country entirely. The move comes on the heels of coordinated attacks on Gmail, which Google says were aimed at accessing the accounts of prominent human rights activists — and Google also [...]

Yes, you may of heard about it already. It’s not a new thing that certain policies are reviewed and this is just the latest one of those, for sure. It is though fairly strategic in nature and, worth considering the implications that it could have for your targeted web traffic. Google has started coming down hard on affiliate advertisers using PPC. Lets understand why? It’s because (in the eyes [...]