India (Hearts) Google … Brazil (Hearts) It, Too
Sep 14, 2009 at 8:10pm ET by Matt McGee
No one reading Search Engine Land should be surprised to hear stories about Google's dominance of the search landscape. But the degree to which Google dominates in some areas is sure to make you raise an eyebrow.
Consider India and Brazil, two growing Internet markets. ComScore released some stunning numbers about what's happening in those two countries and how Google owns a lot of the online experience there.
In Brazil, for example, about 30% of a person's online time is spent on a Google property. In India, it's about 29% of online time. For perspective, comScore says that the worldwid [...]
Filed in: Google: General, Google: Maps & Local, Google: Orkut, Google: YouTube & Video, Stats: Popularity, Stats: comScore
Marissa Mayer On iGoogle’s New “Social Gadgets”
Aug 6, 2009 at 3:04am ET by Greg Sterling
This morning Google is rolling out a program in Australia enabling developers to create "social gadgets" that permit sharing, collaboration and groups on the iGoogle homepage. The social gadgets will come to the US and other markets in the future, but the timing is undetermined. I spoke yesterday with Google's Marissa Mayer about the new initiative, built on the Open Social platform.
At the outset there are apparently 12 social gadgets, eight of which were created by third party developers. For example, there's a chess gadget and other casual game gadgets -- casual games have become huge on [...]
Filed in: Google: Gadgets, Google: Maps & Local, Google: Orkut, Google: iGoogle, Top News
Google’s New Wave Of Ambition
May 28, 2009 at 3:34pm ET by Greg Sterling
I'm in the Google Wave press conference, following a dizzying keynote -- dizzying, at least, after a night of little sleep. As he did yesterday Google co-founder Sergey Brin joined the discussion and similarly apologized for arriving late.
Danny live blogged the keynote earlier this morning. He jokingly compared Wave to Lotus Notes. In some respects that's not an entirely inappropriate comparison, given the scope of the product and the emphasis on collaboration -- though the Google folks would probably disagree.
Wave seems to be conceived as a total communication and collaboration to [...]
Filed in: Google: General, Google: Gmail, Google: Labs, Google: Mobile, Google: Orkut, Google: Outside US
Google Kills Lively
Nov 20, 2008 at 9:20am ET by Barry Schwartz
The Google Blog announced they will be discontinuing Lively, Google's Virtual World project. In short, they said that Lively is simply "not going to pay off" and that they will be closing it down by the end of December.
It is interesting that this happened just days after I reported that Google will be changing how they develop products. Is this one of the first projects to be axed by Google's Stuart Smith? Possibly. But this is not the first product to fail from Google.
In any event, Google made it sound like no one at Google will be losing their jobs over the Lively massacre. Go [...]
Filed in: Google: Business Issues, Google: Earth, Google: Orkut, Google: Other
Lively New Virtual World From Google
Jul 8, 2008 at 9:52pm ET by Greg Sterling
In a way, it's very un-Google. The new Lively 3D "virtual world" that launched today is perhaps another run at social networking after the mixed experience of Orkut (popular in Brazil and India, among a few other places). Apparently aimed at teens and even tweens cutting their virtual teeth on sites like Webkinz and Club Penguin, Lively is apparently the product of the long-rumored Google Metaverse project. It's only available for PC at the moment.
I spent some time with it this afternoon and found it relatively easy to use and engaging, although there's slight a learning curve. A nice, fai [...]
Filed in: Google: Earth, Google: Orkut, Google: Other
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