Google Chrome browser Reviews

Google Chrome, the search giant’s first ever web browser, was released to great fanfare on Tuesday, amid talk that it could one day pass Internet Explorer as the world’s most popular browser.
The version released for free download is only at the beta - testing - stage, but users and critics have been quick to [...]

Smart Google “smart pricing” Pricing adjusts the value of clicks based on a number of factors

While the precise percentage is not clear, what is evident is that the percentage that Google pays publishers has gone down significantly since April 2004. It was at this time that Google announced it would be lowering the price of ads (i.e., charging AdWords() clients less) that appear on the sites of Adsense publishers. While [...]

Biggest Deployment of Gmail, Outlook/Exchange loses out

NSW schools has opted for Gmail for students rather than Outlook. Aside from a massive cost saving this will also allow easy email access outside of schools plus access to Gmail’s great spam filter system and other applications.
Google partner SMS Management and Technology has emerged as the leading bidder to supply the NSW Department of [...]

Google To Announce New Audience Measurement Initiative @ AM 3.0

Google plans to formally unveil its new product — AdPlanner — which will provide Web analytics to media buyers looking to place display ads on the Web. The service, leaked on the Web site of the Advertising Research Foundation on Monday, was to be introduced at the organization’s conference on audience measurement on Tuesday. (see [...]

Google App Engine suffers outages

One advantage of cloud computing is that it’s an expert’s job to keep the centralized computing infrastructure up and running. But even experts have problems, and that’s what’s going on Tuesday with Google’s App Engine.

The service has been having outages Tuesday, according to a mailing list posting Tuesday. App Engine, launched in April and still [...]

Technorati Media - Technorati’s Blog Ad Network

A very interesting post on TechCrunch announcing the launch of Technorati’s Ad network, to be called Technorati Media. The site, when launched and live, will be at http://www.technoratimedia.com/
Quoting from the post:
“…The company has been testing the new sales product with a number of partners, including BlogTalkRadio, BlogCritics, BlogCatalog, BlogTV, Technabob, GPSMagazine, GeekAlerts and NerdApproved. CEO [...]

Google Gears adds support for Firefox 3

Google has added support for Firefox 3 to Gears, the tool that allows web-based apps to function offline. Support for Firefox 3 was first announced on the feature list for Google Gears version 0.3, and speaking with Cnet, Google engineer Aaron Boodman confirmed that “Gears for Firefox 3, as of today, is available [...]

Sunset for Live Booksearch and Search Academic

The Live Search Blog reports that Microsoft is abandoning its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects. Is this from the giant Microsoft that we know of?

The end of the digitization project
Microsoft will keep the current Live Search Books and Live Search Academics databases, and the data will be included in regular web search [...]

Google Trips Over

This is totally pointless, but I wasn’t aware that this was actually possible until today.
Google Trips Over
If it looks normal for you then I guess it didn’t work.

Google Bug!

Here’s what’s happening:
1. Do a search for the term ‘Artflux’
2. Look at the number 3 result (which should be artflux.com)
3. Try clicking the link to Artflux
4. You continue to stay in Google!!!

So a very interesting ploy from Google - Offer the result, but keep the visitor in Google!
We have tried on different systems (Mac and [...]