Google’s Statements on Failed Groupon Bid
Google is a powerful company. It’s so big, in fact, that industry analysts are already talking about how the company needs to be prevented from...
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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’s Earth Engine Imaging
Google Earth has been a popular program since its launch back in 2004, and it has certainly evolved over time. They’ve added everything from underwater...
Google, Apple, Microsoft, and the Future of Tablets
What 2010 taught us in technology, if nothing else, is that the next few years will be largely centered around tablet computing. It’s changing the...
Health Check: The Chrome App Store
The future of several Google properties rest on one concept: web-based apps. Without web-based apps, the possibility for a truly usable Chrome OS wouldn’t exist....
Google’s Fast Flip in the Works
If we were to state one reason why Google has taken over the search engine world, it would be “innovation.” Their original approach to search...
Amazon’s Android App Store Launches Head-On Against Google
Android is open, and that’s been used as an excuse for a diverse number of claims and actions. The FCC cited it as a reason...
The State of Chrome and IE in Europe
We recently did a report on how Chrome, IE, Firefox, and Safari were doing in the United States. Google, after all, just hit the brag-worthy...
Google to Microsoft: Your Browser Needs a Fix
Google and Microsoft aren’t exactly what we would call “best friends.” They’re competing on almost every front, including browsers, search engines, smartphones, and now tablets...
The Google/Apple/Microsoft App Sales Tally for the 2010 Holidays
Anyone who subscribes to the mailing lists of any app store was bombarded with messages in late December. These messages all featured slightly different approaches...
Google News et Al: More Popular News Source than TV
Where do you get your news? Certainly, newspapers have faded out as a top resource. However, if you answered “from TV news programs,” you’re part...
Google and NFC: The Android Phone Credit Card?
The way we pay for things has been made simpler with time. Checks are now a rarity, especially for typical purchases. And once upon a...
Google Chrome Grows to 10% Market Share
One of the most advantageous things for Google in having its own internet browser is that it gets to choose your default search engine. This...
DuckDuckGo Pitches Private Searches
Yahoo, Google, Microsoft… DuckDuckGo. Is it possible that this uniquely named start-up search engine may make a dent in the field? Considering the track record...
Vizio Goes for Google Over Yahoo
When looking at the success of the search engines, one can’t simply see how users are treating the platform. A major part of success for...
Why Facebook’s “Threat” to Google Is Overestimated
Anyone paying attention to the web industry has probably heard Facebook touted as the “one real threat to Google.” Facebook has reached more page views...
Google Honeycomb Requirements Hit Rumor Mill
We’ve been hearing about Google Honeycomb for quite some time now. This 3.0 operating system is alleged to have all kinds of new features that...
Analysts Predicting Android Will Overwhelm iPhone
The way we think about computing — including productivity, internet access, and entertainment — is seeing a fundamental shift. While the concept of accessing the...
Search Engines Presenting at CES
There are dozens of trade shows showing off electronics each year — hundreds, even, if your standards for what qualify are broad enough. However, there...
Galaxy S Android Phones Still an OS Behind
Diversity is both the greatest strength and most devastating weakness of Google Android phones on the market today. On the one hand, while Apple has...
Bing’s Growing : Can They Catch Up?
Microsoft looked a lot less sickly in 2010 than they had in the several years prior. Their partnership with Yahoo has garnered them a much...
Google vs Apple: The Digital Magazine Battle
Smartphones and tablet devices fill many roles. They are productivity platforms, GPS navigation systems, gaming devices, and — more and more these days — a...
How Yahoo’s Pain Is Small Business Pleasure
Yahoo’s ship is sinking. To keep it afloat, they’re tossing all the dead weight — and there’s a lot — of their unprofitable websites. We...
Google AdWords Pushes Mobile Targeting
A recent comment on another news story complained that some of what we talk about here, while related to the companies running the search engines,...
Results for the Top Searches for 2010
The end of the year can mean a lot of different things: an opportunity to start over again, an excuse to get black-out drunk, a...
TechCrunch’s Vivek Wadhwa Calls for a “Better Google”
“You can’t say you don’t like Google. You might offend people.” Or, at least, that seems to be the ideology found in the atmosphere of...
Android’s Terrible, Horribly, Very Bad Text Bug
New age technology, with all its “instant sending” features, is filled to brimming with horror stories about miss-sent emails, pictures, and Facebook comments. Having a...
Windows Phone 7 Bars NES Emulator
Despite the fact that its sales are flagging, the Windows Phone 7 has plenty of signs of life. Their app market just hit over 5,000;...
Google Reviews Their 2010 Blog Posts
Google runs 104 official blogs. These cover their various geographic locations, specific services, different platforms, and much more. As such, when I say that Google...
Google’s Matt Cutts Gives New Year’s Advice
If there’s one thing you can say about Matt Cutts (known by many as the “voice of Google”), it’s that he’s never short on advice....
Will Google Be Your Next Phone Carrier?
Google tries to be a lot of different things to a lot of different people, and if history is any indication, they won’t simply stop...