Google has introduced a new, smarter way of handling search: easy access to answers through the Knowledge Graph. “We’ve always believed that the perfect search engine should understand exactly what you mean and give you back exactly what you want,” Google SVP Amit Singhal posted over at Google’s blog yesterday. “And we can now sometimes [...]
On Monday the first ever license for one of Google’s driverless cars has been released in the state of Nevada, a milestone for the self-driving vehicle project first planned in 2010. The license was approved for Google, which was the first company to have sent in an application to test its self-driving automobile in the [...]
Google launched Hangouts on Air to Google+ users all over the world yesterday, through an update published at their blog. Now, users from Argentina to the Ukraine can broadcast their hangouts live to the rest of the globe, monitor their number of viewers, and record and re-share content virtually effortlessly. Google released this new broadcasting [...]
In a recently published Glassdoor Intern Jobs Report, Google & Microsoft internships are among the highest-rated in a top 5 list that includes QUALCOMM, MTV Networks and State Farm. Based on a 5-point scale rating, with 1.0 being the lowest and 5.0 the highest, interns report a satisfaction rating of 4.3 for Google, making the [...]
Announced first as a light update with only 3.1% of queries impacted, it seems that the new Google algorithm update called Penguin did far more casualties than expected. If you are an editor and was impacted, there is a petition on Change.org called “Google: Please kill your Penguin update!“. “With the recent Google Penguin update, [...]
Kegdroid “Betsy” is a robot bartender created by googler Paul Carff. Recipe : take a geek (Paul Carff), have him build a real android bot, put an android tablet inside the robot and 2 big beers in its back. In order to have a beer you will need to authenticate yourself with NFC technology and [...]
While Google just launched Drive, its free sync storage service in the cloud (with 5GB of free space), they also just increased storage to 10 GB for Free (instead of 7 GB). This update will be effective for all accounts in the next coming hours. Gmail launched in 2004 and at this Google’s webmail was [...]
After Panda last year that affected about 12% of queries, Google is rolling out a new algorithm change that will affect about 3.1% of search queries. “The opposite of “white hat” SEO is something called “black hat webspam” (we say “webspam” to distinguish it from email spam). In the pursuit of higher rankings or traffic, [...]
Google Drive finally launched today and as anticipated with the update of Google Docs to 5 GB of storage, Google Drive will fully integrate Google Docs inside. Drive will allow users to create, share, and collaborate with their documents online (photos, videos, Docs, PDF, etc..). The service will offer 5GB of free storage and will [...]
Google has just increased the storage capacity of Google Documents from 1 GB to 5 GB. No official announcement has been made and the update is done silently in some users accounts, according to CNET. This update comes at the same time when Google is going to launch Drive, an online storage & synchronization tool, just like Dropbox or Skydrive. Drive should also be [...]
Matt Cutts explains in a 8-minute video How Google works. Head of the anti-spam team at Google does not reveals the secrets to be in 1st position on the search engine result pages, but rather a historical overview of how the search engine works. Matt explains Google’s ranking and website evaluation process works, backlinks, the importance of PageRank to be visited often (and yes PR is still relevant!), crawling timelines, priorities, indexing and filtering processes. SEO Pros won’t learn anything here, but the video is interesting for beginners.
Google celebrates Gideon Sundback birth (24 april 1880) with an impressive Doodle (Google logo). The zipper was invented in 1891 by Whitcomb Judson in United States. Sundback is known for his work in improvement of the zipper many years later. This Doodle is awesome. To see it in action go to Google.com or Google.ca and [...]
Here comes Google’s Spring-cleaning… After Knol, Wave, Gears and Friend Connect in november 2011, Google is now retiring many other services : -Google One-Pass : my biggest surprise … while the service is only one year old and looked promising, this payment tool for content could replace some of the online advertising for medias, but [...]
Google just launched an affiliate tool for bloggers who use its free blogging platform Blogger. Google Affiliate Ads for Blogger allows bloggers to earn money when they write a post about a product or a brand they love. To join the program, bloggers must have a Google Adsense account: Example: I write a post in [...]
Google Drive is coming very soon : free online storage tool from Google will be launched by early next week, probably on Tuesday. I hope this is true this time, because I hear rumors about Drive since 2007! Just an URL to remember: drive.google.com According to The Next Web, Google’s service will offer 5 GB of free storage and will be available for Windows, Mac, Android and IOS. “What’s [...]
If Google was invented in the 80s, it would look like this: Ok you’re going to say it’s just a picture… No! It’s a real working version of Google in a DOS-style (or french Minitel)! Visit this page to see it in action : masswerk.at/googleBBS/. 30 years in the past, and pay attention to the [...]
Despite the fact that Google has yet to even confirm that they have a tablet in the works, the device’s release is being pushed off until July, at least. The reason for the delay is reported to be the fact that Google still has a bunch of factors to tie up if they want to [...]
Who else than Sergey Brin himself to do the promotion of Google’s future augmented reality Glasses ? While Larry Page is writing a letter to shareholders, the other Google’s Co-Founder is doing some PR in a charity event for blind people. Scoble didn’t have the privilege to try the glasses but apparently he noticed that [...]
In a letter to investors, “2012 Update from the CEO“ Larry Page gave an update on his past year as the director of Google Inc. As did Techcrunch, we can summarize the letter by all the numbers and statistics mentioned inside : -Termination of services : Google closed 30 services in 1 year (including Knol) -Google + : 100 million users and 120 integrations including Youtube, Google Search and Android -Android : 850,000 activations per day, [...]
British comedian Tom Scott produced a video parody for Google Glasses (Project Glass). This is a nice marketing campaign that will save lots of money on Google’s marketing budget (Remember they spent $213 million last year). Hmmm well, I am not sure Google will like it… Google Glasses : a new way to hurt yourself…
