Last week, President Bush was interviewed by CNBC, and the interviewer asked him about Google. He was quoted as saying: HOST: I’m curious, have you ever googled anybody? Do you use Google? BUSH: Occasionally. One of the things I’ve used on the Google is to pull up maps. It’s very interesting to see —...
read moreThe Georgetown Hoya reported today that the university is considering a Google alternative to their internal mail system due to the Georgetown mail servers being unreliable. The new system would run off the Google Apps for Education platform, enabling students to use … essentially, Gmail. Emails would be routed through...
read moreIs YouTube caving in too soon? On May 24, lawyers for Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures convinced a federal judge in San Francisco to issue a subpoena requiring YouTube to turn over details about a user who uploaded dialog from the movie studio’s “Twin Towers,” according to a copy of the document. YouTube...
read moreWith all of Orkut’s failures, there’s still nothing that Google is doing to drive its visitors to the site. Obviously, the plan is to give it a slow and painful death. With my 5 friends and inactivity on my account, I’ve received a flurry of emails in the past 2 days notifying me that someone (unnamed, usually...
read moreEarlier today, Google announced that it has acquired YouTube. One only can ask: why? When you think about sharing online video, what comes to mind first? It’s certainly YouTube that flies above the rest. Google Video pales in comparison. The social aspect of YouTube have people sharing links all the time, whereas Google...
read moreThe Washington Post has an article about Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” button. The button has a goal to bring the user the first result for a search term (which a lot of SEOs aspire to), but I’m generally more interested in the 2nd through 7th results. I generally ignore the first. That’s just my...
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Tamar Weinberg is a social media enthusiast with a passion for all things tech and productivity. She provides consulting in internet marketing and is Mashable's Global Advertising Director. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web.
