Google just launched “Account Activity“, a new online service with email alerts that allows you to receive monthly reports about your full activity on signed-in use of Google services. These reports will allow you to track everything you do while signed-in in your Google account : -the number of searches on Google -the number of emails sent [...]
Written on 28 March 2012 by Vincent AbryGoogle is known for keeping on top of newer technology, after all it does have competitors in Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Bing, in terms of search engines. To stay on top of the game and remain dominant in the internet market, Google is working on developing a more in-depth search engine experience. Over the years, [...]
For Google, it is a non-stop fight against advertisers who do not follow the line or sell goods and services considered illegal or contrary to Adwords’ rules. Blocking fraudulent ads is a critical job because these ads are displayed on Google Search Engine and on million of websites around the world (via Adsense). “Like all other Internet companies, we’re fighting a war against a huge [...]
Written on 15 March 2012 by Vincent AbryAs if Google was not already a dominant player in the technology industry, they are getting set to ramp things up according to recent rumors. The one thing that Google has been lacking in is the tablet world. With an increasing number of users gravitating to tablets on a daily basis, this will only prove [...]
Android Market is now called the Play Store and will be part of the new Google Play, a platform including ebooks, movies, music and apps. A new codename which will contain both the old Android Market (mobile apps), Google Music (now Play Music), Google eBooks (now Play Books) and Google Movies (now Play Movies). A single address to access 4 Google services combined on a single platform, from the perspective of globalization but also the goal of competing with the Apple Store or Amazon. On [...]
Written on 06 March 2012 by Vincent AbryHere are the World Top 10 largest IPOs of Internet companies in the last 10 years. Yelp (IPO was March 2) does not make this Top10 List because Deal Size was only 107 million (no10 Linkedin was 353 million). The information on Facebook is not yet unveiled, so we put only known data (An update [...]
Written on 02 March 2012 by Vincent AbryGoogle confirmed 40 changes to the search engine algorithm in February, with a Panda Update. The 3 most important points are : -Panda update. This launch refreshes data in the Panda system, making it more accurate and more sensitive to recent changes on the web. -Link evaluation. We often use characteristics of links to help us figure [...]
Written on 28 Feb 2012 by Vincent AbryGoogle just updated Google Docs App on Android Market. With some interesting features like real time collaboration. Among the new features : you have rich text formatting with bold, italics, underline, a choice of the font and background color, layout tools with bulleted lists and numbered lists, Real-time collaboration (you can see edits from others [...]
Written on 23 Feb 2012 by Vincent AbryCuill search engine was launched in 2008 by former Google and IBM employees, but was closed in 2010. Even with 33 million dollars and the promise it was supposed to be better than Google, faster, cheaper (10% of Google costs), deeper (3 more times indexed pages) and having a technology better than Page Rank. “According [...]
Written on 21 Feb 2012 by Vincent AbryGoogle quietly launched Leaderboard on Latitude this week-end, following a Google Maps update on Android. “With the latest update to the Maps app, Mountain View delivered an extra level of functionality to the all but forgotten Latitude. Now check check-ins earn you points which are tallied and used to rank Google+ users on a global leaderboard, just like on Foursquare. Not [...]
Written on 20 Feb 2012 by Vincent AbryAfter Path, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare.. copying users’ data on their servers, now here is Google playing some unwanted tricks and bypassing privacy settings.. ^^ Acoording to Wall Street Journal, Google tracked Web-browsing habits of users on their computers (Mac) or iPhones/iPads by putting cookies in Safari. “The technique reaches far beyond those websites, however, because [...]
Written on 17 Feb 2012 by Vincent AbryAs usual, Google just gave us a wonderful animated logo for a special event : a musical Doodle for Valentine’s Day! “in the animation’s sweet story, a boy seeks the best way to show his affection for a girl adept at skipping rope and rebuffing amorous advances. The lad taps Google in his quest to [...]
Written on 14 Feb 2012 by Vincent AbryThe Google world is all abuzz with the news of Google’s new policy changes that will be effective as of March 1st, 2012. You cannot sign into any Google tools or resources without seeing a pop up box that mentions the new private policy and a link to read them. While private policies are part [...]
Those who are familiar with Google products – Gmail, Docs, Calendar – will be excited to hear that Google may be finally releasing their online storage device. The storage service will be appropriately named Google Drive – or GDrive for short. The company is rumored to have had this device in the works since 2007, [...]
Google is developing High-Tech Glasses in a Terminator-Style. These HUD (Head Up Display) glasses look like the Oakley Thumps (picture below). “Our tipster has now seen a prototype and said it looks something like Oakley Thumps (below). These glasses, we heard, have a front-facing camera used to gather information and could aid in augmented reality [...]
Written on 07 Feb 2012 by Vincent AbryHere is a new infographic about Google History. This is not the first time we see this kind of information but here we have a special format : animated like a cartoon. When Larry Page Met Sergey Brin in 1995 … : Year by year, from 1995 to 2011, here is the history and milestones [...]
Written on 07 Feb 2012 by Vincent AbryGoogle X Project is slowly coming to Life and to the Public : a new website called WeSolveforX.com has been spotted and it unveils an introduction video. Solve for X/Google X would be like the new Google Labs, a laboratory of new ideas with tech conferences like TED Talk. “Solve for X is a place [...]
Written on 06 Feb 2012 by Vincent AbryGoogle just announced it will proceed to a major update on its privacy policy and terms of service. For the user, the change will be for the Google Account. “First, our privacy policies. Despite trimming our policies in 2010, we still have more than 70 (yes, you read right … 70) privacy documents covering all of our [...]
Written on 24 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryGoogle just put live an algorithm change for websites that have many ads above the fold. “As we’ve mentioned previously, we’ve heard complaints from users that if they click on a result and it’s difficult to find the actual content, they aren’t happy with the experience. Rather than scrolling down the page past a slew [...]
Written on 20 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryGoogle will join Wikipedia, Reddit and Boing Boing this wednesday to protest against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act). “Google, the Web’s top search company and one of technology’s most influential powers in Washington, will post a link on its home page tomorrow to notify users of Google’s opposition to controversial [...]
Written on 17 Jan 2012 by Vincent Abry