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Bing Takes on Google in UK

It’s almost hard to think of Microsoft being the underdog in anything. Even in the mp3 player market they are no longer considered the underdog (although they are still not the goliath). Continue Reading…

Google’s Getting All Up in Your Face(book)

If you haven’t already seen it, your Facebook posts might be showing up in Google search results around the web. The search engine honcho has indeed begun to index Facebook content and has already been indexing information from MySpace and Twitter. Continue Reading…

A ‘Buzz’ Kill For Google?

There’s not much of a buzz for Buzz, Google’s latest foray into social networking.  Some technology experts are calling it “social networking for the anti-social”, others are calling it a “social networking aggregator” that does little more than funnel information from similar sites through it, and yet others say that it’s not quite different enough from its competitors Twitter and Facebook to be all that ground-breaking.  Continue Reading…

Should Google and Social Media Censor Content?

Google “Michelle Obama” and you might come up with a picture looking like a cross between an ape and the first lady. Search Facebook for “f*** Jesus” and you will come up with at least 3 groups dedicated to their hatred of Christianity and Jesus Christ. Continue Reading…

Google Labs To Allow Searches for Social Content

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA, the VP of Google announced that a new Google Labs experiment will be starting soon. The latest experiment will help searches find information from their social network contacts with every Google search.

The project will be launching in the next few weeks. In order to use the service effectively, you have to have a Google account and complete a Google profile that will require you to fill in information about the social networks on which you are active. The search results you request through the website will also then bring up any information relevant to your search as well as information related to content from your social network circle of friends.

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MJ Dies, Social Networks Buckle

Michael Jackson’s death not only affected millions of fans worldwide this week, but he nearly brought half the Internet down with him. Within minutes of TMZ breaking the story, traffic on Twitter spontaneously doubled, while Facebook updates tripled. Widespread slowdowns and outages plagued entire networks, with a mass effect not seen since the Google Failure earlier this year. Continue Reading…

Google Makes Waves with Wave

Audience members were recently blown away by the famed Rasmussen brothers at Google’s annual I/O developer’s conference when they unveiled their newest full-scale project, Wave. Lars and Jens Rasmussen earned fame (and a small fortune) when they sold what we all now know as Google Maps to the firm in 2005, and now they want to replace E-mail. No tool is more indispensable than E-mail; even in a world where social-networks are all-encompassing with their own proprietary “direct” or “private” messages, E-mail is still king. It’s also completely walled off from all the various social-networks as its own beast, a sort of underlying communications framework for the entirety of the Internet. Google wants to tear down that wall, and combine aspects of social-networks with the legacy E-mail we know today. Continue Reading…

Google Gets its Own “Fail Whale”

The social-networking world and its monetized back-end social-media circles got their chance to prove themselves recently in their first collective trial-by-fire when Google’s entire fleet of services went down for several hours last Thursday. The search giant offered no explanation at first, causing wild rumors to spread throughout the various networks, and productivity slowed to a crawl for many users. Word immediately got out that Google had its own “Fail Whale,” as news of the failure hit real-time feeds like Twitter and Facebook like only an Internet-disaster could.
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