What X-Googlers Are Saying After Leaving
In 2008 Google HR set up a private Google Group to ask former employees why they left the company. We’ve been forwarded what appears to be authentic posts to the thread by a number of ex-Googlers, which we reprint below minus identifying information other than their first names.
The thread shows a brutal honesty about [...]
Diving Into The (Google) Zeitgeist
Google released its 2008 Zeitgeist list of the most popular search terms for the year. Unlike Yahoo’s 2008 list of top search terms, Google looks at the fastest-rising searches of the year. That makes for a slightly more interesting list. (Yahoo’s list was basically a repeat of its 2007 list). Below [...]
Read MoreGoogle Tells Yahoo To Stick It
After vowing repeatedly to go through with its search advertising deal with Yahoo no matter what the Justice Department does, Google reversed course today and pulled the plug on the deal. Chief legal counsel David Drummond writes:
. . . after four months of review, including discussions of various possible changes to the agreement, it’s [...]
Google Diluting Quality To Remain Profitable
Google turned in healthy third-quarter earnings largely thanks to the fact that Google is finally getting serious about cost containment. But that is only half the story. Going into the expected economic downturn, Google is now turning on every additional source of advertising revenues it can. For instance, so far earlier month [...]
Read MoreGoogle Image Search Sponsored Links – TechCrunch
Last May Google announced that it would begin experimenting with display ads on its popular Image Search, which it has largely been unable to monetize – in 2006 the company estimated that it was missing out on $200 million a year because it wasn’t including ads in search results, and that number has almost certainly [...]
Read MoreGoogle Web Browser Aka Google Chrome Sneak Peak
Google appears to have soft launched this site for Google Chrome, its open source browser, which is slated for release on Windows tomorrow.
Read MoreGoogle AdSense For Your RSS Now Live
This post was originally posted at Techcrunch and has been republished here with permission.
After more than two months of testing, Google has finally turned on AdSense for Feeds. Formerly, these were FeedBurner ads. The acquired company has moved its advertising program over to Google’s system, and now any AdSense advertiser can tap into [...]
Twitter Sets 2000 Follower Limitation
Twitter is starting to limit how many other Twitterers any one person can follow. While the number varies based on different factors, for most people (other than Robert Scoble) the ceiling seems to be 2,000. This has caused some consternation among bloggers (blogsternation?). You’d think Twitter was limiting free speech. But [...]
Read MoreGoogle And Yahoo Allow Users To Opt Out Of Ads
All of a sudden, Yahoo and Google want to make it easy for you to opt out of their ad targeting on both their sites and across the Web. Yahoo announced a new one-click opt-out policy today, and Google made it possible to opt out of both Google and Doubleclick ad targeting with one [...]
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