Posted by: clickry on: August 3, 2008
A few weeks back Udi Manber introduced the search quality group, and the previous posts in this series talked about the ranking of documents. While the ranking of web documents forms the core of what makes search at Google work so well, your search experience consists of much more than that. In this post, I’ll [...]
Posted by: clickry on: July 30, 2008
MENLO PARK, California (Reuters) – A start-up led by former star Google engineers on Sunday unveiled a new Web search service that aims to outdo the Internet search leader in size, but faces an uphill battle changing Web surfing habits.Cuil Inc (pronounced “cool”) is offering a new search service at www.cuil.com that the company claims [...]
Posted by: clickry on: July 30, 2008
MENLO PARK, California (Reuters) – A start-up led by former star Google engineers on Sunday unveiled a new Web search service that aims to outdo the Internet search leader in size, but faces an uphill battle changing Web surfing habits.Cuil Inc (pronounced “cool”) is offering a new search service at www.cuil.com that the company claims [...]
Posted by: clickry on: May 23, 2008
Microsoft has opened a new front in the battle with Google, the search engine group, in the increasingly ferocious struggle for control of the online services market. The software giant has said that users of its popular e-mail and instant messaging tools on mobile phones will display advertisements for the first time. Those using Windows [...]
Posted by: clickry on: May 21, 2008
Not everything Google touches turns to gold. These are some of Google’s biggest nonstarter Web services, software programs, and business moves. Google Incorporated is arguably the most successful Internet company today. But Google didn’t get to where it is without takings risks–some of which have failed spectacularly. For example, remember the Google Accelerator, which was [...]
Posted by: clickry on: May 14, 2008
Google Street View now blurs some faces in Manhattan. (Credit: Google) BURLINGAME, Calif.–Google has begun testing face-blurring technology for its Street View service, responding to privacy concerns from the search giant’s all-seeing digital camera eye. The technology uses a computer algorithm to scour Google’s image database for faces, then blurs them, said John Hanke, director [...]
Posted by: clickry on: May 11, 2008
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s Live Mesh, which will be demonstrated at the Web 2.0 Expo at San Francisco’s Moscone Center West later Wednesday, is a platform. That’s what Amit Mital, Live Mesh general manager, calls his company’s new data and management service. ‘Tis the season of platforms. Facebook has one. So does Bebo and MySpace. Google [...]
Posted by: clickry on: May 10, 2008
It’s official: the guys who founded Google are grown up. That was the pronouncement Thursday from Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, who was hired in 2001 to provide mature, traditional business savvy to the Internet search company founded by whiz kids Larry Page and Sergey Brin. “The boys have grown up,” Schmidt told a news [...]
Posted by: clickry on: May 10, 2008
It cannot be easy to be the company that set out with the motto: “don’t be evil”. Especially not now. See Google shares in the past year Proxy statements for Google AGM Google – whose shares currently trade at almost $600 (£300), more than $100 above its level a year ago – is facing two [...]
Posted by: clickry on: May 10, 2008
Elliot Schrage was a senior executive at Google Google has denied there is a brain drain of talent at the firm following the departure of its communications boss to social network Facebook. Elliot Schrage’s departure as head of global communications and public affairs is the latest in a string of senior Google staff to have [...]
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