Google Trends shows drops in Twitter news coverage, search volume
After a day of intriguing claims about Twitter — younger people don’t use it so much; men follow each other and nobody tweets — here’s something else. Google Trends, the search engine’s automated site analysis service, is showing a drastic drop in “news reference volume”… Continue Reading
Liveblogging the launch of Google Wave
Eric Eldon and I are at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, where Google is launching a new product called Google Wave today as a “developer preview”. The goal of the product is apparently to reinvent email/online communication. We’ll update this post throughout the… Continue Reading
Google Suggest delivers speed, speed and speed
Google users can now try new changes to the search engine’s auto-completion of search terms.
The changes were announced in detail late yesterday on the company’s official blog. Unlike many websites, Google’s engineers have proven yet again that interactive Web content can be made both better… Continue Reading
Roundup: OpenTable IPO this week, big cell phone launches approaching, Google facing antitrust scrutiny
Here’s the latest action:
OpenTable going public — Silicon Valley will likely welcome its first IPO in a while this week from the restaurant-reservation site.
Will the summer bring blockbuster cell phone sales? — The launch of the Palm Pre, iPhone 3.0 software, and others could juice cell phone… Continue Reading
Google’s mobile jihad: Support the web, but live with the app
Over the last year, it’s become clear that Google has a bigger mobile war on its hands than it had anticipated. Its principal antagonist is Apple’s sexy Apple iPhone, which has seriously disrupted Google’s ambitions to turn the mobile industry into a Web-based world.
With its… Continue Reading
Shocker: Google loses top sales executive David Rosenblatt
Google’s top advertising sales executive, David Rosenblatt, said he is leaving the company, in what some industry insiders are saying is the biggest shock yet about the steady departure of high-ranking executives.
We’ve already written about the flow of exits from Google, which comes in part… Continue Reading
Roundup: Facebook’s election, Google’s new toolbar, and more
Facebook users vote on site’s governing documents — An overwhelming majority of votes supported the new terms of use (which were rather controversial) over the old ones.
Google adds new features to Toolbar — New features include a search using your current location and a simplified Chinese toolbar.
Amazon… Continue Reading
Android growing, says Google — but not so fast, says Motorola
Okay, it’s not just tech blogs like VentureBeat that think the Google-forged Android operating system is going to have a big year. Even Google chief executive Eric Schmidt is getting bullish. In a conference call yesterday about his company’s first quarter earnings, Schmidt held forth… Continue Reading
Google Friend Connect’s event gadget: Useful, but not a Facebook killer
Google is announcing a new way to promote and get people to sign up for events online — a gadget powered by Google Friend Connect, the search giant’s service for letting developers add social features to web pages.
Setting up an event is pretty easy: Just… Continue Reading
Google defies economy, ekes out decent Q1
Google has announced its first quarter financial earnings, and so far the results look decent — given the economic climate. The search giant reported net revenue of $5.5 billion, or $5.16 per share. In terms of historic earnings, Google’s Q1 performance was actually down 3 percent… Continue Reading
Google cuts how long it keeps your IP data by half
Google announced yesterday evening it would change how long it stores the IP addresses of its users without anonymizing the information, down to nine months from 18. The announcement comes a year and a half after Google instituted the 18-month rule – before that, Google… Continue Reading
Analyst predicts merger of Android and Symbian mobile OSs
Updated
An analyst firm, J. Gold Associates, is speculating that Google’s mobile operating system, Android, and Nokia’s mobile operating system, Symbian, will merge in three to six months. The thinking goes that the move would free Google up to focus on compelling and potentially profitable mobile… Continue Reading
Blue Dasher joins the street visualization fray
There’s a dogfight among the street-view mapping companies. Blue Dasher Technologies is launching its own virtual tourism application where you can remotely view a distant place and feel like you’re walking down a street with a 360 degree view of the scenery. The company is… Continue Reading
Government’s wireless spectrum auction closes
The federal government said that the 700-megahertz wireless spectrum auction has come to a close. The government will announce the winners in a matter of days.
Fortune magazine’s Techland blog said that, after eight weeks, there were 261 rounds of bidding. The spectrum is becoming available… Continue Reading