If you are having difficulty finding porn on the web (and you actually wish to), and you have a great imagination, follow this link to see what might possibly maybe are 10 naked people, as captured by satellite photography:
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Google Earth has very recent images of London, but major cities like Manchester & Liverpool are at least 5 years old. Google says they are reliant on 3rd parties... I find it hard to believe that more recent images are not available. Is Google being tight? Or have they signed an exclusive deal when they shouldn't have?
"The World According to Bush", a two-hour film looking at President Bush's administration and his family, appeared on Google Video, effectively giving it away for free to whoever wanted to watch it.
A Google staff member has created a means to reading Google Reader feeds within Gmail itself. One would presume that he had to seek permission to publicise it, and therefore it is a stealth beta of sorts
According to the site:
"Administration of "Gmail.ru" congratulates all the users with registering the trade mark of our project. We also would like to inform you that from October 27, 2006 we will start explore new servers with higher possibilities, which will give us possibility to serve up to 10 000 000 users of Gmail.ru."Poor Google, they had the awkward decision to make, gmail (catchy, shorter, less hubris) or googlemail (longer, more hubris). Taking the shorter name meant they would have problems with existng services with this name. If they thought they could grab these, they were proven wrong, as evidenced in the UK and now Russia...
In early trading yesterday, Google's share price rose by $9.21 to $504.26, giving the company a market value of $154bn. I predict that one day it will be worthless, but before then it should reach $1000, perhaps 12-18 months from now.
Eric Case, a Blogger product manager, acknowledges that Blogger has had a rough time recently due to what he calls "a perfect storm" of network hardware failures and other infrastructure problems. ...Case said these issues will be a thing of the past once Blogger moves to a more solid and scalable platform... where Google is hosting the Blogger beta version, which is in limited availability and includes many new and improved features. More
Well, 1% of Google, Microsoft-indexed websites are porn, which probably means the same thing, but just thought I should clarify...
Google is hiring the founders of iRows, and iRows will shut down on Dec. 31. I guess this is how you buy a company without buying it... It's also a reminder of the easiest way to get rich from the web - build something innovative, and wait for Google to buy you.
According to Hitwise, Google dominated the search market, accounting for 78 per cent of UK searches in the month to October 21st 2006, up 9% year-on-year. In second place was Yahoo with 7.7%. Collectively Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask make up 96.6% of all UK internet searches, up 2% year-on-year.
Google is working on ways to display text, image & video ads on mobile phones. According to CEO Eric Schmidt, "Your mobile phone should be free. It just makes sense that subsidies should increase as advertising rises on mobile phones".
"Google on Tuesday inadvertently sent the Kama Sutra e-mail worm to the 50,000 subscribers of a Google Video e-mail group." More.
At PC Magazine they say it nicely:
So I had to laugh out loud when I first read reports about some Google software subsystems that supposedly will turn on your microphone (and eventually camera?) to eavesdrop on you. Google wants to do this because of some distant hope that the system will be able to hear just enough sound so that when it compares it with an apparently infinite database, it can determine what you are watching on TV at any given time. HAH!
Wait, it gets even better. Once they know what you are watching on TV, they (whoever "they" are) can feed you commercials aimed at your demographic. Never mind that the TV is being watched by the kids or Grandpa while you're eating dinner. Never mind that it's difficult to turn on the mic and get a reliable stream using what amounts to spyware. Never mind that anyone who keeps a computer running in the same room as a TV is from a weird demographic in the first place. I could go on.
It is obvious to everyone and their dog that someone is going to sue Google's new puppy YouTube. It's just a case of when and how much. Mark Cuban's source said a reserve of $500 million is part of the $1.65 billion purchase price. Google CEO denied it:
"The former is not true," Schmidt said in response to the question of whether "a very large sum of money was set aside to buy peace" between YouTube and big media companies.Now Google is confirming it, seemingly making Schmidt a liar, unless the actual $200 million figure is not "a very large sum of money" in Google's eyes!
Presumably to boost the number of merchants using Google's "Paypal killer", presumably because it has not been the success they hoped for - not yet anyway. More at MarketWatch
Google is about to start selling ads in
50 major newspapers, including papers published by Gannett, the Tribune Company, The New York Times Company, the Washington Post Company, and Hearst. Google reportedly will begin testing the system with 100 advertisers later this month.
Google will begin taking a cut of the revenue next year, after the initial test phase; the search company usually garners about 20% of the ad revenue, according to The New York Times. Among the marketers testing the program is Denver-based online retailer eBags.com.
Google Earth Hacks, top ten things to do, includes:
Visit here for the Top Ten. My faves are:
In a blog post, Google announced Gmail Mobile - designed to be powerful, easy to use, and runs on hundreds of mobile devices.
If you are running an AdSense ad on a CPM basis, it is possible to hide the ad within an invisible DIV, but impressions would still be recorded. Google would remove you if they found out, and you wouldn't make much money, but it seems to be an easy trick to do. More...
Apparantly this info is easily obtainable via a Google search, if you know how - the article provides enough tips.
For the 2006 academic year, Google received 60 applications from students at 21 different universities across the country.
