I usually avoid repeating infographics, but thought this one was a great illustration of Google+ and Google’s strategy for owning the world (at the expense of everyone else). Up until Google+ and the company force feeding it into everything, I had been a huge Google fan. I’m really not sure anymore. What happened to “don’t [...]
Okay, we are crying uncle. We have added back the “Google+” button on our news posts. Anyone who wants to go back and +1 all the articles on their favorite companies, please do. (Apparently, Google’s ranking algorithms are now heavily weighting search relevancy towards pages which have been +1′d and shared — and is ignoring [...]
“You will be assimilated. “ The Borg, Star Trek It fascinated me to see the move Google made today — announced in their blog — to further cram Google+, the firm’s social networking service, into its mainline search results. Google said that it would start using information from Google+ posts from your friends and circles [...]
The big news over the next day or so is going to be the fact that Google Mail, the web mail software used by millions of people, went down around 12:53pm today. Aside from the inconvenience and immense loss of productivity this will cause (basically, a worldwide version of that “cubicle gopher” cartoon from Dilbert–where [...]
Not too many people realize that Google has operations in Santa Monica. But, ever wonder what Google’s Santa Monica engineers are working on? Apparently, creating giant, penny-melting, popcorn-popping Fresnel lenses.
Google is talking up its data center efficiency efforts today. As part of that, the firm posted a tour of its own water treatment plant. Can someone tell me why Google has a water treatment plant in the first place?
I was amused to see this post on Valleywag about Google’s Susan Wojcicki improperly taking credit for AdSense, and the fact that AdSense came from Santa Monica-based Applied Semantics. I’m very surprised by the number of people I run into who don’t even realize that Applied Semantics (which was purchased by Google a year before [...]
Google announced a new program Wednesday to fund developers who create gadgets for the firm’s personal desktop and home page. For those who haven’t played around with Google’s personal home pages, gadgets are little software widgets which allow you to display custom content–news, games, weather, etc. We’ve had a Google gadget available for socalTECH since [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
