Googling Google

Google spent about $780 million today

Garett Rogers — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:50:42 +0000

Two acquisitions were announced today — together totaling around $800 million dollars. This comes about a month and a half after Eric Schmidt told us that acquisitions are back on. Both acquisitions are significant — but one cost a lot more than the other. AdMob was the the most expensive acquisition — Google signed [...]

Coming Soon: Free video conferencing from Google

Garett Rogers — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:21:34 +0000

According to Rishi Chandra (a Google Apps product manager) who talked to SFGate, Google is set to roll out their first update in a long line of updates that will include multi-user video conferencing. The video conferencing will be rolled out soon — the rest of their plan will be executed within the next [...]

See what Google knows about you, kind of

Garett Rogers — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:47:17 +0000

Google has launched an all-in-one dashboard that attempts to show you what they know about you. It’s basically an updated “Google Accounts” page that gives you more information than was available previously. The complete list of Google services that are participating in “Google Dashboard” include: Google Account Alerts Blogger Calendar Contacts Docs Finance Gmail Health iGoogle Latitude Orkut Picasa Web Albums Product Search Profile Reader Talk Tasks Voice Web History YouTube Not every Google service is represented [...]

Microsoft doesn't believe Google Apps numbers

Garett Rogers — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:36:24 +0000

Google Apps has been picking up some steam recently — announcing a huge deal with the city of Los Angeles, and revealing numbers that suggest over 20 million users and over 2 million companies using the service. Microsoft, on the other hand, doesn’t believe the numbers Google is touting — saying that millions of [...]

Google "attacking" developer community?

Garett Rogers — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:42:58 +0000

So, as most people are happy that Google continues to build new features into their applications — like Google Maps Navigation and Google Latitude — there are others who aren’t so impressed. Some people are upset that Google is building features that have already been developed by Android developers, and in doing so, hurting [...]

Google Maps Navigation: The newest feature on Android

Garett Rogers — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:54:59 +0000

Google Maps Navigator is a feature on the newest Android 2.0 devices like Motorola’s new Droid. The application basically makes the GPS device you currently use in your car useless. The features Google has packed into this application are better than most anything you would find on a typical Garmin or TomTom — it’s hooked [...]

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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:54:59 +0000

Use Google Voice with your existing phone number

Garett Rogers — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:42:43 +0000

Google now gives users of a subset of Google Voice features if they want to simply use their service without getting a brand new “Google Number”. Mobile phone users can now forward incoming calls to their “Google Voice” mailbox rather than the one hosted by their carrier. The features available to these users [...]

Google Music: What if...

Garett Rogers — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:04:31 +0000

So, Google’s rumors of “Google Music” have found their way onto the internet again — at first glance, it looks like a very basic music preview tool: Nothing groundbreaking. But, let’s also take a look at what it could be — and why I’m a bit excited to see what actually happens on the 28th of [...]

Google announces Social Search with Twitter

Garett Rogers — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:07:05 +0000

Today at the Web 2.0 Summit, Marissa Mayer announced Google’s partnership with Twitter to bring the search engine real-time search results. Just hours before Google announced the partnership, Microsoft released their own Twitter search tool on Bing. Instead of being simply a way to search tweets, Google is planning to improve their existing search results [...]

Free WiFi from Google - On airplanes

Garett Rogers — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:23:19 +0000

For a couple months, Google is set to give away wireless internet access on Virgin Airlines in the United States beginning November 10th. Whether it’s using Gmail to confirm an airport pick up time with your brother, doing some last minute gift shopping for your niece on Google Product Search or searching Google.com for a good [...]