MSN Money reports what we all already know, namely that Google is worth a shitload : Google stock tops $400, worth $117 billion Investors clamor to buy the search engine’s stock because they believe it is revolutionizing advertising. How high can the shares go? When Google (GOOG, news, msgs) went public last August at $85 [...]
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Google Releases Web Stats Package
November 14th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Coding & Web Development, Google
In what should be of interest to a lot of webmasters (including this one), Google’s newest foray into world domination is Google Analytics, a web stats package: Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. You’ll be able to focus your [...]
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Risk Via Google Maps
November 9th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Google
In what I proclaim to be the “cool hack of the day”, someone has modified Google Maps so you can play Risk on it. The dude that created it says the following: A For some reason I decided a bit after the API for Google Maps came out that it would be awesome to be [...]
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Google Is Where Microsoft Was 20 Years Ago
October 1st, 2005 · No Comments · Google, Internet, Microsoft
An interesting piece on Informationweek points out that Google is now where Microsoft was 20 years ago: According to “The Google Legacy,” history is about to repeat itself. Microsoft today is where IBM was years ago. And Google is in a position to do to Bill Gates what he did to IBM. The result could [...]
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Ex Microsoft Exec Barred From Woking At Google
July 29th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Google, Microsoft
Microsoft has barred one of its ex executives from working at Google, so says C|Net: A judge has temporarily barred a former Microsoft executive hired by Google from performing any duties at the search giant similar to those he performed at Microsoft. Washington state Superior Court Judge Steven Gonzalez on Thursday granted Microsoft’s request for [...]
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How Google Got Started
July 29th, 2005 · No Comments · Google
Seeing Google is 10 years old now Wired has written a piece on it’s inception with some interesting tidbits of information: It began with an argument. When he first met Larry Page in the summer of 1995, Sergey Brin was a second-year grad student in the computer science department at Stanford University. Gregarious by nature, [...]
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Pay Per Click Speculation On The Rise
July 21st, 2005 · No Comments · Google, Internet
It seems that people are now registering domains just to put adwords on them, sorta like betting on horses: The number of web sites being opened purely to publish pay-per-click advertising links from the likes of Google Inc and Yahoo Inc is rocketing, according to VeriSign Inc, which runs the .com and .net domain names. [...]
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Google Moon Now Online
July 20th, 2005 · No Comments · Google
Finally, it has arrived. You can now check out your house on the euhm… moon: In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we’ve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor. Happy lunar surfing. More [...]
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Google Video Viewer Hacked
June 29th, 2005 · No Comments · Google, Internet, Movies
Within a mere 24 hours of its release Google Video Viewer has been hacked by non other than Jon Johansen, of deCSS fame. The crack itself is actually quite simple and was just a question of reading the diff Google added to VLC (VLC being of course the player that Google based its video viewer [...]
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Google Up – How Google Ranks Your Site
June 16th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Google
Buzzle.com has written a greate article on how google ranks pages submitted to it. How do they come by this information you may ask? It’s all in a recent patent Google filed: How many years did you register your domain name for? If it’s only one then that’s a point against you in Googles eyes. [...]
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