Yahoo opens Google AdSense account
If you smell anything wafting from Yahoo’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, it could be the rising stench of desperation. Unable to conclude a deal with Microsoft — for a variety of reasons that range from bizarre to ridiculous — the faded Internet giant has been reduced to signing a deal with Google to take over some [...]
Nick Carr: I hate the Internet, Vol. 7
I’d like to add my voice to the chorus of critical responses to Nick Carr’s piece in The Atlantic that asks the question Is Google Making Us Stupid. Blaise Alleyne, a member of Techdirt’s Insight Community, has already taken a crack at why the piece is so irritating, but I’d like to add my two [...]
Gmail: Shortening the feedback loop
Good design always benefits from a feedback loop between users and those doing the designing, and the tighter that loop is, the faster a service can learn from and adapt to its users. Google’s newly announced Gmail Labs is clearly an attempt to do this for the popular Webmail service. Google is adding a new [...]
Facebook blocks Google, for your own good
The “whose data is it anyway” wars seem to have flared up again, judging by what’s going on with Google and Facebook over the data-sharing issue: Facebook has blocked Google’s new Google Connect feature from pulling your “social graph” data out of Facebook. But it’s not because Facebook recently launched a competing feature called Friend [...]
Google: Is it getting big and stodgy?
There have been lots of “whither Google?” stories in dozens of publications, and no doubt there will be dozens more to come. Some talk about competition from Microsoft on the advertising side, and some talk about how Google hasn’t really had any big hits apart from its ability to coin money on keyword-related search. But [...]
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