Articles in category 'Google'

I know the name sounds a bit awkward and geeky, but GHOP is a masterpiece move by Google in the endless game against Microsoft. I may just be a pawn, but that doesn’t bother me one bit.
For those of you that missed it, Google announced GHOP (Google Highly Open Participation) about two weeks ago. The [...]

December 9, 2007, 10:21 pm o'clock

YouTube videos will soon be available for the Apple TV, and possibly for the iPhone. Even though I own neither an iPhone or an Apple TV, I think that this is great news, because it seems that Apple and Google are getting along quite well together. Hopefully we can look forward to more cooperation between [...]

June 1, 2007, 4:41 pm o'clock

Check out this:

Its the new Street View feature in Google Maps. You can try it here.

May 30, 2007, 6:01 am o'clock

Google’s April Fool’s Day joke this year is better than the jokes in previous years. This years joke is TiSP. TiSP is a free Google service that provides you with free broadband internet. Be sure to check out the expanation of how TiSP works. It certainly is an “end-to-end” system as Google claims.
Google also has [...]

April 1, 2007, 8:33 pm o'clock

According to a lecture by Marissa Mayer (Product Manager for Google), Google’s founders didn’t know HTML. One other interesting thing that was mentioned was:
“Due to the sparseness of the homepage, in early user tests they noted people just sitting looking at the screen. After a minute of nothingness, the tester intervened and asked ‘Whats up?’ [...]

March 19, 2007, 10:02 pm o'clock

Windows Live OneCare (Microsoft’s attempt at an antivirus program) has apparently been identifying Gmail as a virus. Whenever anyone would go to Gmail’s website, it would tell them that their computer just got infected with the virus BAT/BWG.A. Supposedly it was a mistake, but I just don’t understand why they would identify a [...]

November 14, 2006, 1:33 pm o'clock

According to Google Maps there’s some kind of giant bug invading Germany. Here’s a picture of it.

No, I did not photoshop that. You can find it on Google Maps here. It probably was a bug that got on Google’s scanner.
I would give a bit more information but I gotta run. You [...]

September 28, 2006, 1:25 pm o'clock