Tag: google

Give Engineers Room

penned by bharat, about the testing grouplet. bharat++

Navigational Search

Google: 14%, Yahoo 27%, MSN: 28%. Yahoo / MSN cater much more to the clueless it appears.

Google designing for Google

And now, the URL itself has to include the keywords for better page rank.

What if Google had to design their user interface for Google?

The case for Google

It may be true that Google, a company whose core business is very highly automated, may be massively overstaffed. Google may be a far more profitable business than its current results indicate.

indeed. why do we need all these MBAs, again?

Google doodle drama

last week’s decision to honor the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik launch — the second “g” in Google was replaced with a drawing of the Soviet satellite — is being blasted by some conservatives. Not only did Google honor an achievement by a totalitarian regime that was our Cold War enemy, they griped, but it did so without having ever altered its logo to commemorate US military personnel on Memorial Day or Veterans Day.

such insecurity

GOOG-411

I spent a half hour speed-dialing Google’s new phone directory service, 800-GOOG-411. The verdict? Google’s speech-recognition and geo-mapping algorithms outperformed Verizon and AT&T’s humans this afternoon.

Telco Interference

1 witness isn’t coming to the hearing to fret about the ad market or the dangers to consumer privacy. He’s only coming to tarnish Google at the behest of other parties. Guess which ones?

war.

Microsoft Search quality

As if we needed to see the gulf between Google and the rest, the Windows Live SkyDrive rename and update has only just hit the top of techmeme and yet Google has already updated its index and ranking and is continuing to do so. Yahoo and Live Search are both way behind

such candor

The Google For Older Adults

Tillich added that he hopes the site will soon replace Yahoo Internet Website.com as the most popular search engine for users over 55.