Marchex launched yesterday 100,000 local and vertical search sites with over one billion pages. These sites feature more than 15 million business listings across all major yellow pages categories, a deep refinement system, user-generated reviews and ratings, and third-party expert reviews.
These sites such as 90210.com, videocameras.com and newyorkdoctors.com seem to all be a good scraping […]
Linux users get their own treat from Google in the shape of Google Desktop. According to the official release post:
Since some Linux users are program developers, Google Desktop was designed with the ability to search source codes and information contained in .pdf, .ps, .man and .info documents. It also features the Quick Search Box ,which […]
Google added some interesting stats to its gadget directory. These stats list the amount of users and pageviews for all gadgets with more than 1000 users. The default gadgets seem to lead the pack with the amount of users, over 1,000,000 users each:
* Weather (6,593,949 users / 321,210,021 pageviews)
* Date & Time (4,860,018 users / […]
Google presented today a new program called Google Gadget Ventures aimed at funding the development and improvement of new gadgets. This new pilot programs breaks into funding options, grants and seed investment.
Grants in the amount of $5000 will go to those popular gadgets with over 250,000 pageviews and which the developer is interested in improving. […]
Lets be honest, everyone makes mistakes, and when you’re good enough to have a Wikipedia page about you, it is very likely that someone out there would like to out your mistakes regardless of your efforts. That along with the fact that a high percentage of Wikipedia’s pages rank in Google’s top-10 can be a […]
Earlier this month, ASK introduced its new interface along with a new ad campaign. This week, it added just another ad to the mix, this time it is a woman who “found what she was looking for”… Apparently she was looking for Kato Kaelin ?!? who according to ASK was “a footnote in the notorious […]
Earlier this week, Google announced the acquisitions of Zenter, a company that provides software for creating online slide presentations, to improve its Powerpoint knockoff product.
Zenter was focusing on the front end of the application, as well as community/sharing features. It complements Tonic, which focused on the back end technology for converting powerpoint presentations into Java […]
Google have had this problem for a few days now and never found the time to fix it. Apparently, when you search for site:youtube.com “clicks from ftp @”, you can see all the ftp details for many YouTube users.
PS. As I mentioned, this has been out for right about a week now, so it is […]
When Vanessa Fox, lead developer at Google Webmaster Central, left Google last week to work at Zillow, I considered it a minor event and didn’t even report, but the report this morning at SEL of Two Top Google Engineers Leave Google really makes one ask whether we are watching a developing trend or just a […]
While Yahoo is working on expanding its market share, CNNMONEY reports this morning that Google had offered $10 million in funding for the development of a 100MPG vehicle.
Google said Tuesday it is getting in on the development of electric vehicles, awarding $1 million in grants and inviting applicants to bid for another $10 million in […]
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