Why Google Owns the Internet

Why Google Is Taking Over The Internet Image via Wikipedia Ever see that movie or have that recurring dream where the slow moving sloth-like monster is chasing you and there is no possible way to lose him? Even though he moves slowly and clumsily, as soon as you trip and fall he will be on [...]

There’s A New Internet Sheriff In Town

I Think Facebook Just Seized Control Of The Internet: ” The opening keynote at Facebook’s f8 conference today in San Francisco was short and sweet. But don’t let that fool you. It contained some huge announcements pertaining to how the service will interact with the broader web going forward. The three big ones: social plugins, [...]

What Would Google, Adsense & Adwords Do If There Was A National Ad Click Day?

What would Google do if there were a national ad click day–where everyone everywhere clicked on as many online ads as they could that day? Heck, we could even have an international ad click day…that would really mess things up. In fact, why stop with just one day? Let’s make it an ad click week, [...]

Google Explains What A Web Browser Is?

Google Attempts to Explain What a Web Browser Is [VIDEO]: “ Although Google Chrome is starting to gain some adoption in the Web browser market, it faces a fairly significant challenge in becoming the leader: many Internet users simply don’t care what browser they use (see: 25% still use IE6). Moreover, many don’t even know [...]

Bing Continues Modest Gains

Modest Share Gains for Bing Continue: “ Comscore’s monthly ratings are out and Bing continues a slow but steady gain in share, to the slight expense of Google and Yahoo. Bing has a massive marketing push on right now, but also, I think the service is starting to gain footholds with users who see it [...]

Facebook Gains On Google In PPC

Watch Out Google, Facebook Is Gaining in PPC: “ Alex Salkever has written a post on Facebok’s self service CPC platform, which has been getting a lot of traction lately and is largely responsible for the company’s recent boasting about being cash flow positive. From it: I chatted with nearly two dozen people who are [...]

Google Acquires ReCaptcha

Google Acquires reCaptcha To Power Scanning For Google Books And Google News: “ Google has acquired reCAPTCHA, an open source technology that provides CAPTCHAs to prevent spam and fraud. Captchas are those security questions you find on Web sites that require you to decipher and type words or numbers and detects whether the user is [...]

Google Launches FastFlip To Read News Like A Magazine

Google Launches a New Way to Read the News: “ Is reading online news broken? Google seems to think so as they just launched Google Fast Flip, a Google Labs experiment that’s designed to help you flip through news online as fast as you would if you were holding a print magazine or paper. Fast [...]

Ddos Causes Twitter Outage; TwitterFeed, Facebook, Google, Youtube Affected

     According to Mario Menti, representative of Twitterfeed, evidently their api requests are still not getting through to Twitter Menti also stated that other sites are being affected as well. Yesterday, Google, Facebook and Youtube were all experiencing trouble.      It seems as a result of the Ddos attack, Twitter’s host started implementing [...]