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November 22, 2005
Robert X. Cringely's column is always interesting, the most recent particularly so to network geeks. In Google-Mart he speculates that Google aims to get closer to their users by locating mini data-centers at peering points and connecting to each other...
August 31, 2005
Google have launched the UK version of the US film search. You can trigger it by searching for films, showtimes or the title of a currently released movie, e.g. the dukes of hazzard. It's all SMS enabled too. Naturally, you...
April 29, 2005
I see Google have added satellite imagery to maps.google.com covering the UK (and the rest of the world) but not thus far at a resolution comparable to that which they have of the US & Canada. The satellite option doesn't...
April 19, 2005
Google have launched their fairly clever little map app in the uk at http://maps.google.co.uk/. No satellite view as yet but hopefully that'll be on the way. Google Local and Google SMS are now UK enabled too....
April 14, 2005
Google Videos have this evening quietly launched an interface to Google Video which invites you to upload your own movies into their video indexing system.You worked hard making your video; you deserve an easy way to put it in front...
March 10, 2005
The new customizable Google News is nice. Unlike for example Findory which personalises your news based on previous reads, Google just lets you add sections to the layout based on a set of search terms or one of their pre-configured...
February 10, 2005
Greg Linden has a few notes from Google's Analyst Day. The bits of it that I watched (the Q&A's) were not the most entertaining. I thought it was interesting at one point when Larry talked about how Google currently serve...
October 25, 2004
Google CEO Eric Schmidt says, “We are not building a browser” in answer to much speculation which was put to bed by the release of desktop search last week. Speculation since then has been limited, though authoritative. The browser is...
October 19, 2004
Perhaps in these heady post-IPO days Google are too busy with letting you search your own pc, developing browsers (or not) and figuring out how to leverage their IM application to bother too much about Orkut. Probably not, but it...
October 14, 2004
Google announced this afternoon the launch of a desktop search application perhaps in response to Microsoft's recent offering Lookout (An addin to Outlook to search e-mail, contacts, calendar, and filesystem). Desktop search is undoubtedly going to be a big thing,...
October 13, 2004
Google have now officially announced the recent launch of Froogle UK - the shopping comparison site which has been available for a good while in the US.More Britons than ever are shopping online, so we wanted to offer the broadest...
August 21, 2004
I put Google Landzeist in my links earlier, but I've been delving deeper in Douwe's site and have found something far cooler! Google Talks. You enter the start of a sentence, then... The system will search for this sentence at...
August 13, 2004
Reuters report:Google Inc. is forging ahead with its highly anticipated $3.3 billion initial public stock offering, declaring that its auction will open on Friday despite concerns over market conditions and a recent series of missteps. The auction, which will serve...
August 11, 2004
A candid conversation with America's newest billionaires about their oddball company, how they tamed the web and why their motto is "Don't be evil" Update: John Batelle discusses Google IPO implications potentially arising from this article. Update 2: The full...
July 12, 2004
Hmmm. Been trying to check gmail for a couple of hours or so and been gettingServer Error Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience.Just tried it again and...
May 14, 2004
Via Evhead, Google Groups 2 launches in Beta. The portalisation of Google continues combining Microsoft's knack of capitalising on other people's offerings (MSN Groups, Yahoo Groups) with Google's early bird, good karma, purchase of Deja News. Thumbs up for Atom...
May 11, 2004
Keen as ever, Google continue their cluetrain-esque drive to win over the world by promising "Insight into the news, technology, and culture of Google" at the all new Google Blog. They don't allow comments on posts though....
