As many as 30 countries world wide are considering prosecution of Google for its collection of data from unsecured hotspots while gathering information for its Street View project, according to the Age. The United States, many countries in Europe and A…
As many as 30 countries world wide are considering prosecution of Google for its collection of data from unsecured hotspots while gathering information for its Street View project, according to the Age. The United States, many countries in Europe and Asia Pacific are among those now looking at Google’s actions.
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Venture capital funds in the United States have performed better during the first quarter of 2010. U.S. venture capital funds raised $4.1 billion from 34 funds during the initial three months of the year. According to the data collected by Dow Jones LP Source, the graph below shows a 41% …
Venture capital funds in the United States have performed better during the first quarter of 2010. U.S. venture capital funds raised $4.1 billion from 34 funds during the initial three months of the year. According to the data collected by Dow Jones LP Source, the graph below shows a 41% …
Last night, Google announced their 4th quarter earnings. Guess what? They beat expectations and overall, everything was up. Greg Sterling posted the key highlights and nice graphs:
You can watch the investors call on YouTube.
Here are some comments from members of WebmasterWorld on this financial news:
Hah, mere pocket change.
That’s about 300-400 million net profit off Adsense. Not bad for a program that serves ads.
There is more analysis of the announcement in the thread.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
Last night, Google announced their 4th quarter earnings. Guess what? They beat expectations and overall, everything was up. Greg Sterling posted the key highlights and nice graphs:
You can watch the investors call on YouTube.
Here are some comments from members of WebmasterWorld on this financial news:
Hah, mere pocket change.
That’s about 300-400 million net profit off Adsense. Not bad for a program that serves ads.
There is more analysis of the announcement in the thread.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
I am using an extreme title here to illustrate a point. We have a searcher come to the Google Webmaster Help forums and complain about the search results for a search on Google for [christianity is]. The results are mostly informational but you have a few results which are negative. I cropped this image to show only some of the negative-like results:
The person said, “I have never been so mad in my life. We have enough problems in the United States without Google slamming Christianity!”
When will people learn that this is not Google slamming Christianity? Well, maybe what set this person off is that Google wouldn’t say Merry Christmas on Christmas? But still, these are the Google search results. Brin, Page and Schmidt aren’t sitting down and saying, hmm – I hate Christians and I want to place these results there simply to tick them off.
There are just so many cases like this, for all religions. It comes down to education, which is a hard thing to do.
Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.
I am using an extreme title here to illustrate a point. We have a searcher come to the Google Webmaster Help forums and complain about the search results for a search on Google for [christianity is]. The results are mostly informational but you have a few results which are negative. I cropped this image to show only some of the negative-like results:
The person said, “I have never been so mad in my life. We have enough problems in the United States without Google slamming Christianity!”
When will people learn that this is not Google slamming Christianity? Well, maybe what set this person off is that Google wouldn’t say Merry Christmas on Christmas? But still, these are the Google search results. Brin, Page and Schmidt aren’t sitting down and saying, hmm – I hate Christians and I want to place these results there simply to tick them off.
There are just so many cases like this, for all religions. It comes down to education, which is a hard thing to do.
Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.
The installed costs of solar photovoltaic systems in the United States dropped 30 percent from 1998 and 2008, according to a report from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The installed costs of solar photovoltaic systems in the United States dropped 30 percent from 1998 and 2008, according to a report from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Googler Douwe Osinga has a great personal project that demonstrates the Google Chart API. Just by clicking a few boxes, you can make an image to show the countries (or states in the USA) that you’ve been to. Here’s where I’ve been in the United States:
Clearly I need to do a trip across the northern [...]
Googler Douwe Osinga has a great personal project that demonstrates the Google Chart API. Just by clicking a few boxes, you can make an image to show the countries (or states in the USA) that you’ve been to. Here’s where I’ve been in the United States:
Clearly I need to do a trip across the northern part of the country. 
If you run a website, the Google Chart API is a great/free way to add pretty charts to your website or dashboard easily. You can even make google-o-meters
and QR codes
in addition to maps:
If you haven’t tried out the Chart API, give it a whirl sometime; it’s pretty easy.
