14
Jun
BBC reports:
Yahoo has agreed a deal with Google which will see Yahoo use the search engine giant’s advertising technology.
Google ads will appear alongside some Yahoo search results in the US and Canada. The agreement with Google could be worth up to $800m (£410m) in additional revenue every year.
11
Apr
I’m no Christian, nor do I share their faith and beliefs. I’m actually not quite sure what to think of this:
Google has apparently turned down an advert campaign by a British Christian group. It appears the aim of this Christian Institute was to provide their views on abortion, a delicate topic in general.
The company turned down the non-denominational Christian charity which wanted to pay Google so that whenever the word “abortion” was typed in, its link would appear on the right hand side of the screen.
The link would have read: “UK abortion law - news and views on abortion from the Christian Institute. www.christian.org.uk.”
The group is now suing Google. One thing that made me side with Google is the fact that Google appears to have a policy of declining sites which mix the issue of abortion with religious views.
If I’d research the topic of abortion, I certainly wouldn’t want to end up on any Christian websites.
On the other hand, Google runs a lot of controversial campaigns including Porn and adult content. So if I’d research the female reproductive organs, I certainly wouldn’t want to end up on any Porn sites.
Anyway, I’m not bothered really. It could however be seen as online censorship and a threat to freedom of speech.
1
Apr
An unbelievable job proposition, literally.
For thousands of years,
the human race has spread out across the Earth, scaling mountains and plying the oceans, planting crops and building highways, raising skyscrapers and atmospheric CO2 levels, and observing, with tremendous and unflagging enthusiasm, the Biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply across our world’s every last nook, cranny and subdivision.
An invitation.
Earth has issues, and it’s time humanity got started on a Plan B. So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.
Google’s April fools joke is a delight!
27
Mar
Technorati Tags: google,earth hour,black,energy
Remember Google’s promised commitment to solar energy? Well they have launched the largest solar panel installation to date on a corporate campus in the US. Having covered eight rooftops of eight buildings with solar panels, Google has now gone completely black for day in Israel. Nothing spectacular really. (Blackle) Only the main page was blackified, search results showed up on white background again.
The whole event was in honor of Earth Hour, a global movement to turn off the lights for one hour across the world at a specific date and time.
I don’t know about you, but I think Google in black looks fantastic! I have to admit though, that I’d rather ask the white than the black, even though it’s pretty. It’s just one of those colour preferences I guess. Goths might love it!
25
Mar
Technorati Tags: gmail,email,google,software,opensource,freeware,free
I openly admit that I love Google’s free webmail service. Although I have seen others, I wouldn’t trade in my Gmail accounts (emphasis on plural ).
Since I’ve come to use Gmail everyday, I’ve also learned a fair bit about the service. Some tips and tricks to make it even more powerful and productive.
One of the best things about Google mail is the POP and IMAP support allowing you to retrieve your email messages in any POP/IMAP client. That’s certainly one option.
I don’t normally check my email every so often, perhaps once - twice a day and I cannot stand clutter on my desktop computer, which is why I usually try to avoid downloading any messages. It works fine.
If you’re not willing to set up Google mail with any email client, but want to be able to continuously check for new messages, the Gmail notifier is a great solution.
The lightweight application features a custom install and notifies you (in your system tray) whenever you receive a new G-mail. If you however have Google Talk installed on your system, the notifier becomes obsolete, since you will receive alerts about new emails from Google Talk anyway.
Single G-mail account? Who are you kidding? I have over 10!
So it is commonly known that people who are really into G-mail have multiple accounts… which is kind of OK…the big BUT rolls in when it comes to managing multiple email accounts. Unless you are using an email client such as Thunderbird or Outlook, juggling multiple addresses is just tiring and fiddly.
Of course Google mail being such a fantastic invention, I may have mentioned this fact before, it’s also possible to combine several G-mail accounts in one.
But that’s going off topic… So here’s another to deal with more than one accounts:
The GmailAssistant or alternatively if you prefer to keep the alerts in your browser, the Gmail Manager Firefox extension.
I haven’t tried the GmailAssistant yet, but I’m more than willing to. GmailAssistant is a free, open source application for multiple accounts and apparently also very customisable.
On the negative side: It doesn’t support Google Apps on your domain
