Live Blogging The Google I/O Keynote
May 27, 2009 at 12:21pm ET by Danny Sullivan
I'm at the Google I/O conference, where it is being opened by Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
He's welcoming the audience and saying it's great to be in front of programmers and saying, "it's time. it's time for us to take advantage of the amazing opportunity before us ... it has been 20 years trying to build a programming model that's the right one."
Internet programming is the right way. Have the network, the programmers to build the right types of opportunities out there.
Expects Android to have a strong year, thousands of apps and lots of hardware partners who are innovating to take phon [...]
Filed in: Features: General, Google: Chrome, Google: Code Search, Google: General, Google: Marketing, Top News
Google Does TV Ads, To Push Chrome Browser In Commercials
May 8, 2009 at 3:33pm ET by Danny Sullivan
It used to be common wisdom that Google never did consumer marketing. That's changed over the past few years, with Google doing everything from billboards to radio ads to bus "wraps" to push particular Google products. Now it boldly goes into that final frontier, TV ads in the United States.
It's a first for Google. The company has never directly advertised one of its products on television in the US, though they have been mentioned in conjunction with ads from Google partners, such as T-Mobile pushing its "G1 with Google" Android phone.
Now, Google's using TV to promote its Chrom [...]
Filed in: Features: Analysis, Google: Chrome, Google: Marketing, Google: TV, Top News
Google Joins EU Anti-Trust Case Against Microsoft Browser
Feb 25, 2009 at 2:34pm ET by Greg Sterling
Over the past couple of years Microsoft and Google have become increasingly intense (maybe even bitter) rivals. Most recently the two companies used Yahoo as something of a pawn their game. It may be somewhat unfair to all involved to characterize Yahoo as a "pawn." But Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo primarily as a way to better compete against Google in search and online advertising. And Google offered Yahoo a paid search deal in part to help Yahoo develop a credible alternative to Microsoft's offer and keep the property away from Redmond.
When the Microsoft offer/acquisition failed, it succ [...]
Filed in: Google: Business Issues, Google: Chrome, Google: Legal, Google: Outside US, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: General, Microsoft: Outside US
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