New Google AdPlanner GUI

Dear reader,
This morning I was delighted as I was greeted with an e-mail from Google stating they had just renewed the Google AdPlanner interface.
Google AdPlanner is a service with which one can define the most suitable websites for advertising to desired target group. You can also build media plans with the websites that best respond to your target [...]

Passed Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) test

Dear Reader,
I’m congratulating myself for having just passed the Google Analytics Individual Qualification test. I thought the test was almost easy in the end although my score was (only?) 86% right (75% correct answers needed to pass). Most of the questions were not very hard and even though there were 70 questions in all, I [...]

Google Japan penalized by Google

Dear Reader,
Funny things happen in the cyberworld. Google Japan did a campaign paying for bloggers to link and blog nicely of them in order to boost the campaign. The result? Mother company Google penalized them by lowering the PageRank of Google Japan from 9 to 5.

Google Chrome content rights

Dear Reader,
Yesterday I posted an entry on the new web browser by Google, Chrome. Today I found out through various other blogs that the Terms of Service for Google Chrome are quite intriguing as the user is supposed to give Google rigths to distribute and reproduce any content that is submitted through their browser! Not [...]

Google Chrome – a new player for the web browser market

Dear Reader,
Google accidentally published a comic explaining some of the functionalities in their new web browser, Chrome. After realising this, they hurried to write a blog post about the browser and are launching it today. The browser makes some use of the technology of Firefox and Apple’s web kit. It also seeks to enhance the [...]

Former Google engineers challenge ex-employer with ‘Cuil’ search engine

Dear Reader,
Yesterday a brand new search engine saw daylight. Cuil has a fresh GUI and a new type of search listing. Because of being used to how search engines show results at present, it might be a challenge for new users to get to know this search engine’s way. But so far I think the [...]

Headliner: Google

Dear Reader,
Google is in the headlines right now. Earlier today I trackbacked TechCrunch’s article about the rumour of Google acquiring Digg. Later on I found Google Operating System’s contrasting article on the same subject.
Another thing I found out about today is Google’s new article repository, Knol. A bit Wikipedia-like endeavour for creating articles but with the [...]

Google offers $200 million for Digg?

Dear Reader,
TechCrunch has released news about Google looking to buy Digg for $200 million. There had been rumours on this already in March this year. Interestingly Google has been experimenting with Digg-like features in their search lately.

New features coming up in iGoogle!

Dear reader,
Google is going to enhance its iGoogle service by integrating functionalities from Google Reader, Gmail, Chat, etc. into iGoogle’s soon renewed GUI. This is currently tested by a bunch of lucky few.
Check out the Google Operating System blog along with instructions on how to be able to test it yourself!! Magnificient!

Live search regains its share with Live Cashback

Dear Reader,
After launching the new Live Cashback feature on Live search, Microsoft has regained its previously lost share in the search engine market. Live Cashback, as Techcrunch put it, goes straight for Google’s throat by moving from CPC (cost-per-click) to CPA (cost-per-action), meaning that a lot of the revenue is given back to users! As [...]