Popups, I do not like them, at all. While they are sometimes used by sites to make part of the website’s functionality available, they are more often than not used for advertisement. And while there is nothing wrong with advertising in general, popup ads tend to be one of the most annoying forms of advertisement that you encounter on the Internet. The core reason being that new windows are spawned, that you need to close manually at one point or ...
When it comes to social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter or Google Plus, you will find that friends on those networks fluctuate over time. While you will keep in regular contact with a core number of friends, there are others that may stop using the service completely after some time. Some see inactive users on social networking sites as dead weight that they need to get rid of. For others, it is not a huge issue at all. While inactive ...
Google has dropped a number of services in the past six month period. From Google Sky Map and Picnic, Google Buzz or Knol and Gears. Yesterday’s announcement marks the beginning of the fourth wave of service and product retirements in that period. The post at the official Google Blog highlights the services that will be discontinued by the company. Among the products is Picasa for Linux, as well as Picasa Web Albums Uploader for Mac and iPhoto. Google notes that ...
The Web of Trust team is reporting that a Google policy change is affecting the display of the service’s trust ratings on Google. As it stands now, trust ratings are only displayed for organic search results, and no longer for advertisements displayed on the same page. Web of Trust previously displayed trust ratings for both ads and organic results on Google. As of today, that has changed and users will notice that this is no longer the case. Web of ...
Google reported a net income of $2.89bn for the first three months of 2012 10:55pm UK, Thursday April 12, 2012 The world’s dominant search engine reported net income of $2.89bn for the first three months of 2012. “Google had another great quarter,” stated CEO Larry Page.
Several Google products have so called labs sections which offer experimental features for those products. Probably the most popular product with a labs section is Google Mail, or Gmail, which at the time of writing offers dozens of features that users can enable for their email account. This ranges from integrating other Google products over preview options or new buttons that improve a user’s workflow on the site. Gmail is not the only Google product with a labs section though. ...
Google has just released an update that brings the stable channel of the Google Chrome web browser to version 18. Chrome users running version 17 or other previous versions should receive automatic updates once they begin the browser. Those who do not can click on the Wrench icon, and then About Google Chrome to force the browser to check for new updates. Those who have blocked automatic updates can download the latest version of the web browser from the official ...
When Larry Page took over the steering wheel at Google, the company made a u-turn on the “do not do evil” road which it had followed for most of its existence. Now, Google concentrates on generating revenue, and amusing investors, and if that means shoving certain services down a user’s throat, so be it. The Wall Street Journal reports that Google plans to roll out another change to its search engine in the coming months that is going to affect ...
By now you have probably read about Google’s privacy policy changes that take effect today. Some of you may have deleted their web history and other Google history, or even migrated Google services to other service providers with stricter privacy policies. Google this day announced the privacy policy change and a small FAQ that explains Google’s point of view and motivation behind the move. The company basically says that that the new privacy policy is easier to understand, that privacy ...
Privacy has moved into the public focus in recent years. Initiatives like Mozilla’s Do Not Track Header try to improve user privacy on the Internet. Google Privacy is a Firefox add-on that tries to enforce do not track on popular websites. The name may suggest that the add-on has been created by Google but that is not the case. It is likely that it concentrated on Google in the beginning, and that support for other websites have been added later ...