Google seems to be eking out a major new tweak to its search results.
Reportedly spotted by several users, the search pages are now displaying semantic data nestled to the right of the regular results. Such information tries to tie in relevant facts related to more…
Mobile advertising continues to grow. If you are a search marketer, you can’t read a blog or check your Twitter feed without seeing another article about the growth of mobile advertising. Google AdWords is helping to continue driving this trend by offering new features that make mobile advertising even easier. more…
Gmail‘s automated message translation is no longer an experiment. Now Google’s popular email platform can automatically translate emails from one language to another. So, for example, you can get an email in Japanese and have it translated instantly into English, or communicate with a friend in French without ever knowing the language. more…
A couple of weeks ago, early participants in the new AdWords for Video program gathered at the YouTube offices. The ostensible justification for the meeting was a fancy photo shoot, but YouTube executives also gave a little pep talk, laying out their vision to make video advertising available to small businesses. They even let themselves get a little dreamy, imagining a day when video might become as lucrative for Google as search. more…
Marissa Mayer, Google vice president, local and maps, has been nominated to join Walmart’s board of directors. Walmart hopes to tap into her experience with mobile, technology, and consumers. The election will take place June 1 during the annual shareholder meeting. more…
The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the internet three decades ago are under greater threat than ever, according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
In an interview with the Guardian, Brin warned more…
Tim O’Reilly spoke with me last week about Internet companies acquiring massive proprietary data sets. “We’re kind of heading toward data as a source of monopoly power in some cases,” he told me, comparing data to “Intel Inside” as a barrier to market entry. He qualified a moment later, “There’s so much innovation still ahead that I’m pretty confident there’s room for more…
Thanks in large part to Android’s history of lax app policing, Google’s mobile operating system has been criticized as insecure.
But now it appears that apps with no permissions pose a new threat, gaining access to sensitive personal information more…