By running unknown code in such a "time-out" setting, where the content remains isolated from a local host and any trusted network it is connected to, GreenBorder claims to prevent malware programs from delivering their nefarious payloads.Google may have also like that the software will work with FireFox, and that they offer a free consumer version - Google loves to giveaway products (witness Picasa & Urchin)
At long last Google are about to do something about their bastard step-child, the Made-For-Adsense (MFA) site. It surely can't be too difficult to detect them - they contain multiple blocks of Adsense code, no links to useful resources, sparse content, and usually no contact details. They tend to be on domains with hyphens in them, and tend to get all their inbound links at once. As of June 1, Google will begin a purge of these from their index and/or removing them from the Adsense program:
Google says the clean up will affect the Internet, primarily by cleaning up search results so that users don't click through to a site filled with ads but with no content to support the ads.
A lawsuit from four years ago has finally been scheduled for trial, and observers are saying it could threaten Google’s revenues like no other legal challenge has so far.Google would rightly be worried about this. If they lose the case, then not only does some of their revenue go down the drain, but making sure that nobody can bid on competitor's trademarks would be a very expensive, time-consuming nightmare. For example, Google's competitors would run into the thousands, with new ones arriving every week.
Seems that Google has made a serious offer, and it would be a great fit, regardless of whether it was re-branded Google or Blogger.
The ban comes because, according to the BBC, “There have been complaints from universities about students being sold customised essays on the internet.” In other words, some students “write” essays for school by providing a company with their credit card information, as opposed to typing out thirty pages.
In the news today:
Google Inc. has taken a small stake in a biotech company that was co-founded by the wife of Sergey BrinThis raises two interesting questions:
It has invested $3.9 million in the company, called 23andMe Inc., giving it a minority stake in the start-up.
23andMe is a privately held company that promises to help consumers understand and browse their own genetic information.
Starting soon, AdWords advertisers will be able to block any IP addresses they suspect of fraudulent behaviour. And before July, Google will offer an interface for advertisers to report click fraud and request investigations.
I don't see it here in Australia yet, but Google is rolling out a new navigation bar for their "universal search". Details here.
FlickrVision - shows you pics as they are being uploaded, and shows on a Google map where the uploaderer is located. It's a bit bandwidth heavy, but a lovely place for some random time out
I should hope not. Imagine if Google owned the NY Times, and still operated Google News. Schmidt recently said:
That's pretty slow by Google standards, but it means it still stays a little bit exclsuive for us "in the know".
Until now, the ridiculous situation was that Canadian companies were unable to qualify for this status (as well as many countries in other parts of the world). The good news is that Google has finally fixed this, allowing companies from Canada to qualify - and it appears every other country as well...
Google has never had an official, snappy tagline. It has had "do no evil" - but that's really for internal purposes. And it has had:
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful....but that isn't snappy.
Search, Ads and Apps
It is affecting enough people for there to be an online discussion - some ads are still receiving clicks days are being paused in AdWords:
... I'm sorry to hear that you've had trouble with your Google AdWords campaign. I understand your paused campaigns are accruing clicks and impressions. Our engineers are currently working to solve the problem and hope to reach a resolution shortly. We appreciate you for your patience.
Once this issue has been resolved by the engineers, please be assured that any applicable credits will be automatically processed.
Putting a copyrighted video on YouTube is illegal, despite what the average user might think if they didn't read the fine print. Google has handed over the details of two folk who uploaded shows like 24 & the Simpsons to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California... They will suffer heavily, I presume, to help stem the tide of videos that YouTube is famous for.
As a test, The Age entered Shelbourne Hotel at 200 Sussex Street and Google's Sydney headquarters at 201 across the road, and sought directions.
Basically anything that you can build on a web-page can now appear inside your ads that show up on the AdSense network. This includes things like flash ads, video ads, real-time feeds, and transactional functionality.
Well, it's not a direct admission from Google, but evidence is at Daily Domainer.
Google are buying DoubleClick, and the deal includes Performics. This gives Google a difficult choice (or a wonderful opportunity). There are many aspects of Performics that are in common with what Google already does:
