Topic: Google Blogoscoped

Map Of Google’s Products

Ever want to see all of Google’s products and services mapped out in icon view on one single page? Zorgloob has created a map of Google products, which is just enormous. If you click on a product image within the map, you are taking to a page that describes the product and enables you to […]

Did Wojcicki Create AdSense?

Yesterday we wrote Profile Of Susan Wojcicki: Mother Of AdSense. covering a USA Today article article describing Susan Wojcicki as being responsible for creating Google AdSense. Valleywag soon came out with a bold blog post countering USA Today’s article, calling Wojcicki a liar: AdSense was not a prototype that Wojcicki developed. Instead, AdSense was the […]

Google Launches “Question and Answers” In Russia

Googling Google reports Google Russia has launched a Questions & Answers service in Russia. Although Google closed down Google Answers late last year, this launch of Questions & Answers is a new flavor of such an application. To me, it looks more like a Google Groups approach than anything else.

Live From Google Press Day 2007

Google is holding its first press day outside the United States today. The "big" expected announcement has already happened, the addition of country-specific versions of YouTube. Tony Ruscoe, aside from kindly befriending me at the press dinner last night, is live blogging the conference here at Google Blogoscoped. I’ll pop-up and post short stories or […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 12, 2007

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. But before the news, a request! When Online Marketing Blog had a poll for best search podcast recently, I was one of the few that did NOT beg, plead or cajole listeners to vote for […]

YouTube Adds Related Videos To Embedded Players

The YouTube blog announced that they have now added related views to videos embedded on external sites. We saw hints of this coming when we saw YouTube testing a new player. So view the related videos, just mouse over the video as it is playing on your browser. You will then see a Mac dock […]

Insight Into Google’s Search Quality Efforts

Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine from the New York Times has some deep insight into the workings of Google’s search quality team. Google Blogoscoped has an excellent summary of some of the highlights from the article. In short, Amit Singhal, the head of the search quality team, let the New York Times in, to […]

Google Calendar Goes Mobile

Google has just launched a mobile version of Google Calendar, which is supposed to load for those visiting the Google Calendar site with a mobile phone. Google describes it more in a blog post today. It appears to work on a range of phones, including Windows Mobile.