Topic: Tony Ruscoe

SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 8, 2009

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Sues To Stop Online Scams Using Its Name Google is fighting back against the get-rich-quick and work-from-home scams that use its name. The company says it’s suing to stop what […]

Google Health Close To Launching?

Philipp Lenssen and Tony Ruscoe at Google Blogoscoped have noted that the login page for Google Health is now live, although the service itself is not (and www.google.com/health currently redirects to the Google Coop page about health). Gabriel Stricker, Google spokesperson, told us: “We’re very interested in working on products in the area of health, […]

New Signs Of JotSpot & Google Wiki?

JotSpot to replace Google Pages soon? from Googling Google reports recent activity spotted with some of Google’s URLs. Tony Ruscoe wrote at a Google Blogoscoped Forum thread that https://pages-beta.google.com/a/google.com now contains the “service=jotspot” parameter in the URL. Google bought Jotspot in October 2006. Since then there have been rumors that Google would release a Wiki […]

Google Launches Google Shared Stuff

Google Blogoscoped reports that Google has launched Google Shared Stuff. This is a bookmarklet that you add to your browser, which enables you email or share web pages with your friends. In addition to adding web pages to your Google Shared Stuff page, or emailing those web pages, you can also add them to related […]

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 […]

Hacking Google To Help It Improve Security

Last Friday, Philipp Lenssen wrote a fascinating post describing how his associate Tony Ruscoe was able to access Philipp’s Google account: “It’s your worst nightmare – someone reads parts of your Google emails, views your docs, modifies your spreadsheets, checks out your reading habits on the Google personalized homepage or Google Reader, and goes through […]