Posts filed under 'Google'
If you’re like me, you’ve some how achieved two light camera tix upon arrival into a new state – this was my experience when I first moved to La, CA. In my quest to avoid all Red Light tix, and more importantly cameras, I managed to stumble upon a site that appears to depend on users submitting Red Light or Speed camera locations. They’ve used Google Maps to make them easy to find and clicking on the Light icon will display the intersection and reported price of the ticket. Good stuff.
Check out the site here.
February 26th, 2007
After much rumor, Google will finally release its payment service tomorrow. Long rumored to be a “Google Wallet” and to be a Pay Pal killer, the new Google product, called Google Checkout, will actually be a processing system for any willing to participate merchant. The official URL will be Checkout.google.com. User’s of the service just plug-in their credit card(s) and billing info they want linked with the system, and then their own their way to 1 click shopping - it’s still unclear what security measures will be put into place (i.e. passcode) to verify you’re the actual user. Merchants who utilize the new Google Checkout will be charged 20 cents and 2.2% of the final check out price. Merchants that are Google Adword advertisers will be allowed free transaction equal to up to ten times their Google Adword spend, and then charged the normal fees after that. Google currently has no plans to track conversions on Adwords, but according to the project lead, Salar Kamangar, that may change (we’re guessing not as Google would feel pressure from its advertisers to auto optimize their Adwords off the conversions, which means less ads and less money for Google - remember more clicks is better). To increase sign up of Google Checkout, Google has partnered with Financial services, such as Citibank and are offering $5 and 1000 ‘thank you’ points for joining. According to Google, the Checkout will NOT be released in Beta; most certainly a first for Google.
Google Checkout checks in [Cnet]
June 28th, 2006
Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft CEO known for whirling a chair across the room in reaction to an employee fleeing to Google, has admitted in an interview to forbidding his children from listening to not only an
iPod
, but using search giant Google.
“My children–in many dimensions they’re as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I’ve got my kids brainwashed: You don’t use Google, and you don’t use an iPod,”
Oh man! Its gotta be so easy to seek revenge in that family – just download iTunes and make the default home page www.google.com on every computer.
No iPods for Steve Ballmer’s Kids [News.com via UnEasySilence]
March 29th, 2006
I mentioned this a few days ago, but with further discussion with some folks it made me realize how interesting it is that Google is currently indexing their own Blog Search results. Before I had linked to the page with the results, but with the ever updating Google I decided it best to take a screen shot (patting myself on the back).
One theory from a seach guru I work with is that Google forgot to turn the spider off.
September 29th, 2005
Google has stopped displaying its number of indexed pages. One theory is because Yahoo recently announced they index 20 million pages, and another being is that people want more relevant results with less clutter. More indexed pages often means more fat the user has to trim away to find what they are actually seeking.
I myself get frustrated when I am searching for a product and its information, and all I can find are affiliate links. For instance, I was recently searching for a specific pair of Asic sneakers. I ended up with a million links to affiliates and non-relevant sites. I finally conceded defeat and visited Asics.com. Unfortunately, they no longer make the sneakers I sought, but it would be nice to find info about the ones I was looking for.
On a side note, I recently did a search in Google and noticed that they are indexing their own Search Blog results. Click here to see (2nd to last listing). I am undecided on whether this is right or wrong. On one hand, you have their own media taking up what could be a relevant listing, and on the other hand, it could very well lead you to a relevant site or blog. You be the judge, but I would love to hear some thoughts on the matter.
September 28th, 2005
Google has a few references throughout their site to a new service — WiFi! Google recently set up the subdomain wifi.google.com and users have already found a FAQ for this beta service at http://wifi.google.com/faq.html.
What could this mean? Well if it’s anything like Google’s other offerings, it could mean free wireless web access through the United States or even the world. All powered by the beauty of adsense I’m sure.
While this is obviously still just a rumor and just one page of evidence on Google’s site, it does further explain why Google bought up so much dark fiber. Dark fiber is fiber, the stuff that powers the backbone of the internet, that is not in use by any ISP’s or telephone companies. Google bought up a ton of it, in which most people speculated they would use for transferring data between data centers. Others, who I thought were crazy, thought it would be for Google’s own ISP. Looks like I was crazy.
September 20th, 2005
Google launched its Blog Search engine today. Don’t expect to find everything just yet as the company is only grabbing blogs via RSS. Also I heard that Google is only grabbing those feeds that started in June of this year.
Eventually you will be able to submit your blog for indexing.
To access the search visit Blogsearch.google.com, or Search.blogger.com.
September 14th, 2005
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