Robots vs Humans: The Core Question of Search Engines
The headlines on Google-related news stories recently haven’t all been kind. Some of them contain language like: “Why we need a better Google”; “Is Google...
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Rob has been insatiably obsessed with Google, search engine technology, and the trends of the web-based world since he began life as a webmaster in 2002. His work as an SEO consultant since 2006, and subsequently to content writing for technology and internet-focused publications, has done nothing but fuel this passion.
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Google Explains H.264 Codec Drop
Immediately after Google announced that they were dropping the H.264 video codec — the codec being used by major competitor Apple, for one thing —...
Yahoo to Stand Strongly Behind Flickr
Everything about Yahoo seems vaguely up in the air right now. Ever since an employee leaked a slide show from a company presentation that revealed...
Yahoo Hands Reins to Microsoft in Three More Countries
Yahoo isn’t a healthy search engine. In fact, they’re not much of a search engine at all anymore. They no longer compete for advertisements, because...
Google ITA Acquisition — Halted for Now
Google quickly went from being a small fish in a big pond to being a whale in that big pond. They’ve come to the point...
Google Trends: “What’s Your Sign?”
More and more people are asking Google about astrology than they have in a long while, and it’s more than just a preparation for cheesy...
Analysts Predict Google Will Conquer Tablets by 2015
There’s no doubt at all that, right now, Apple is dominating the world of tablets. The iPad remains stronger on its own than all the...
EU Competition Commission Examines Google for Unfair Practices
Google, as we’ve recently reported, is a dominant player in search engines across the globe. In fact, out of the top 40 countries using the...
Google: One Country Closer to Running the World
Google is more than a dominant player in the U.S. Market: They’re the player to look at, and the one that every group is trying to...
Google and Bing Grew in December Search Share
Back in December, we gave a report on how the search engines did in November. November, of course, has a special significance because of its...
Colleges Begin Offering Android App Development Classes
The point of education is to prepare our younger generations for the world that’s to come, opening their minds to the possibilities of the things...
Japanese Companies Build Google Android… Android
It’s a frightening world, filled with natural disasters, economic struggles, and — of course — deadly robots. It’s quite a wonder, then, that people keep...
Google Hunting for NFC Experts
Every few days, it seems, we’re here talking about NFC again. After all, near field communication technologies — the technology that lets users conduct complex...
Bing Adds Enhanced Auto Search
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Bing can’t survive in the market if it tries to compete with Google on every front....
Yahoo’s Profit Margins Decrease Despite Search Share Growth
The web advertising war is a vicious one, with a large number of competitors in the field. The dominant player is Google, with AOL, Microsoft,...
The Google Earth Treadmill: A New Way to Explore the World
If you stepped out onto my balcony right now, you’d see your breath fogging up instantly. Your fingers and toes would probably go numb within...
Social Media BOOM & Other Web Use Figures from 2010
If you pull everything in a computer far back enough, what you’ll wind up with is nothing more than a sequence of numbers — zeros...
Google and the War on Spam
Google has come under plenty of fire lately, and we’ve been reporting on (yes, maybe contributing to) a lot of it. The reason is Google’s...
Google Chrome Kills an “Elite” Bug
One of the great advantages of Chrome is its openness. Yes, it allows developers to look more fully at the code for their own purposes,...
Google Nabs eBook Technologies Company
Google has some impressive technologies when it comes to the online book industry. Their massive Google books library has translated millions upon millions of works,...
Will the Verizon iPhone Kill Android’s Lead?
The iPhone for Verizon is looming on the horizon, prompting many Verizon subscribers to rant and rave about how excited they are to pick one...
Google Android Makes C and C++ Apps Easier to Import
The preferred platform for mobile applications isn’t Android. In fact, Android may well be the third favorite from a purely developmental standpoint; Apple has the...
Google Translate’s Impressive Update
As a leader in the search engine industry, Google is a familiar name around the world. Even in locations where it’s not the top search...
Google and the New IP Holiday
The internet, despite presenting the sort of outward simplicity that allows my grandmother to get on and send me emails (asking if I’m eating my...
Hotpot Comes to the iPhone
Of the dozens of Google services out there, it’s fairly clear which one they’re focusing on. Hotpot, with its ability to compete directly against comparison...
Goo.gl Shortener API Released to Devs
While there are plenty of markets that Google enters for the sake of spreading word, increasing market share, or gaining additional income opportunities, there are...
Google Actively Addressing Android UI Issues
Google started so successfully because the company was made up of two brilliant innovators who clung to some unrelenting dreams. The story of the company’s...
German Officials Fight Google
When looking at the amount of control that government exercises over businesses, the U.S. Government is comparatively lenient when contrasted with European countries. This has...
Google Founder’s Latest Toy
If you don’t know who Larry Page is: Wake up! You haven’t been paying enough attention. This Google co-founder is one of the biggest names...
Microsoft Fights Down App Store Trademark
Whenever we refer to the various application lineups from the current players in the smartphone industry (Apple, Android, WP7, RIM), we refer to the storehouse...