SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 14, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Topic: The Guardian
Google Game Ads Patent Sets Off Privacy Debate
Google may use games to analyse net users from The Guardian reports that Google is considering the idea of using gaming behavior to display targeted ads to that user. Privacy advocates are already voicing their distaste for the idea of gleaning information on users based on their gaming behaviors. To me, this is just like […]
Gphone? The Google Phone Timeline
Rumor after rumor after rumor keeps appearing that Google is to release its own mobile phone, the Gphone. In April 2007, we originally compiled all these Google Phone rumors into a timeline view. Since then, we’ve continued to update the list, so that the confused, perplexed or just plain curious can keep track of what’s […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 27, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Don’t Expect A Magic Flash Solution For Search Engines
Call me Mr. Rain On The Parade, but after reading an interview in The Guardian with Google product manager of crawl services Dan Crow, I can’t help but feel people are going to come away with the mistaken idea that Google will magically make their Flash content suddenly more accessible to Google’s crawlers. That ain’t […]
Yahoo Signs Mobile Advertisers; Google Partners With Vodafone On Maps, Live Search Mobile Leaving Beta
The 3GSM World Congress is happening this week, so expect a variety of mobile announcements. Here’s a rundown on some that have caught my eye:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Jan. 29, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google’s Brin Calls China Censorship A “Net Negative”
China censorship damaged us, Google founders admit at The Guardian has a quote from one of Google’s founders, Sergey Brin, when asked about Google censoring content in China, “On a business level, that decision to censor… was a net negative.”