Google has published a detailed, 49-page report that rates the search engine optimization (SEO) on its various properties including the Google search home page. The result? It’s failing in a number of categories.
On the bright side, the company says it plans to use this information to better its own SEO, and that to help others, the company has shared some of the metrics it’s used.
More tweaks are on the way for Google Buzz amid reports that the company is considering building a Gmail-free version.
In response to the angry missive directed Google’s way Thursday by blogger Harriet Jacobs, Google has made additional changes to the way Buzz interacts with Google Reader, according to Silicon Alley Insider. Buzz users who had blocked other users from following them continued to see those users following their public Google Reader items, which Google described as a “bug.”
Google isn’t marching into consumer electronics; it’s tentatively dipping its toes.
When word of the Nexus One smartphone broke, the consensus was that Google was about to challenge Apple for the high end of the mobile phone market. One month after its launch, it’s clear that an awful lot will have to change before Google can truly be considered a viable competitor.
It’s not that there’s anything lacking from the Nexus One. It’s easily the best Android phone produced to date, and CNET editors recently decided it outranked the iPhone 3GS, Apple’s best iPhone to date.
How has Apple’s launch of the iPad made other companies feel? Has it brought sneaking admiration or steaming ire?
I fear that Google might not be leaping for joy like leprechauns.
People behind the China-based online attacks of Google and other companies looked up key employees on social networks and contacted them pretending to be their friends to get the workers to click on links leading to malware, according to a published report on Monday.
“The most significant discovery is that the attackers had selected employees at the companies with access to proprietary data, then learnt who their friends were,” the Financial Times reported. “The hackers compromised the social network accounts of those friends, hoping to enhance the probability that their final targets would click on the links they sent.”
Some of you who have been basking in the beauty of your new Nexus One Googlephone may not have tried out all of its delightful features.
And what I am about to tell you may lead you to utter some naughty words. Please, go ahead. I have heard them all, in several different languages. And I respect the vehemence of the vernacular.
Google’s recent turmoil in China has prompted the company to halt the launch of two Android smartphones in the Chinese market.
The company told Dow Jones Newswire on Tuesday that it has indefinitely postponed the Chinese debut of two mobile phones manufactured by Samsung and Motorola. The phones, which were to be sold by provider China Unicom, were initially set to hit China on Wednesday.
Perhaps Google’s announcement that Chinese cyber attackers went after human rights activists’ Gmail accounts has made you skittish about just how private your own messages are on the Google e-mail service.
Computer attacks on corporations happen all the time, but most companies don’t publicize them. They fear damage to their reputation and they don’t want to jeopardize the investigation or reveal any information that could be used in future attacks.
Google shocked the security community on Tuesday by disclosing that it and other companies had been hit by attacks that originated in China, with some targeting Gmail users who were human rights activists. As a result, the search giant said it would stop censoring its Web results in China and could end up exiting that market altogether.
Doing business in China comes at a price. But for Google, not doing business in China could prove quite expensive.
Google’s ultimatum to the Chinese government that it no longer will censor search results on Google.cn could force the company out of China, if Google follows through on its threat. The Chinese government is not expected to allow such a thing, especially after such a public slap in its face.
