Hitech News

July 3, 2006

Suit over poor Google ranking may go forward

Filed under: google

A federal judge in California hinted on Friday that a parenting Web site that's suing Google over a poor ranking in the search giant's massive index would be able to proceed with its lawsuit.
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July 1, 2006

Great SEO Tools

Filed under: pagerank, seo, tool, google

Introduces two sites for very good SEO tools.
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Google All Goes Live

Filed under: google

A parody on where Google will be in 2022
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June 30, 2006

Google Updates PageRank

Filed under: google

Google Sitemaps service also unavailable as new Google PageRank update rolls out.
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Google is broke - dropped site checklist

Filed under: google

What the heck happened to Google's results on 6/27/2006? At least one blogger wants to know.
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June 29, 2006

Google Checkout Opens for Business

Filed under: google

Will compete against E-bay's Paypal
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Gbuy = Google Checkout and is Launched

Filed under: google

Google Checkout launched early this morning and may significantly change the online shopping sector. The system offers low transaction costs for merchants and mediation between buyers and sellers online in exchange for access to what will be a huge amount of data about shopping and sales conversions.
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What It Truly Means To Have Googly Eyes

Filed under: google

The Google Contact pictured above appears to have some sort of wireless mechanism to retrieve information like the weather. While such a tiny device seems impossible right now it may not be as far away as you think.
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June 27, 2006

Google To Test Online Payment Service

Filed under: google

Gbuy to rival paypal
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June 23, 2006

Google sells its stake in rival Baidu

Filed under: google

Google has sold its roughly 2 percent stake in rival Baidu.com, the market leader in China's Internet Web search market, according to a U.S. regulatory filing.
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June 21, 2006

Adobe-Google sign distribution deal

Filed under: google

Publishing software maker Adobe Systems Inc. said Wednesday it signed a multiyear distribution agreement with Web search engine Google Inc. Under the agreement, Adobe will distribute Google Toolbar with various Adobe products for the life of the agreement. Adobe said the Google Toolbar will be available immediately with free downloads
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June 20, 2006

Google Added Note This to search

Filed under: google

I was searching, and noticed the Note This link, which will add the link to your Google Notebook, automatically
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June 19, 2006

Hackers use Google Pages to host Trojan horse

Filed under: google

Google's web site hosting service has apparently been used by hackers trying to steal money with a malicious program, a security analyst said Monday.
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Google Launches New US Government Search Site

Filed under: google

Google has unveiled a new US Government search website. The new search vertical will make the process of finding information on the myriad of local, state and federal US Goverment websites much simpler.
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June 18, 2006

Google targets GPS-based in-car personalized advertising

Filed under: google

Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, believes that when he is listening to the radio in his car, radio ads should personally address him about his needs. For example, while driving past a clothing store, a radio ad should remind Eric that he needs a pair of pants and instruct him to turn left at the upcoming clothing store.
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June 17, 2006

Google Checkout preparing to launch

Filed under: google

Google Checkout — what the press calls GBuy — is getting closer to launch. Just minutes ago, checkout.google.com was given a CNAME record pointing to checkout.l.google.com which resolves to a ton of IP addresses.
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June 16, 2006

New Google Calendar

Filed under: google

Add your calendar to your Google Personalized Homepage Publish your calendar and share it with the world View your calendar with Google Desktop and much more on the this link http://latest-technology-news.blogspot.com/2006/06/whats-new-with-google-calendar.html
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June 15, 2006

Google Interview Questions (They Are Hiring)

Filed under: google

Google is where everyone wants to work can you answer these questions?
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New Google Search For Government Information

Filed under: google

Google today announced Google U.S. Government Search , a new search product that will make it easier to find U.S. government information and keep up to date on government news.
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Google To Compete With Microsoft Passport

Filed under: sso, Microsoft, google

It looks like Google is about to throw their hat into the 'single sign-on' arena, and I for one couldn't be more excited.
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Google Likely To Buy Another Online Office App

Filed under: google

Gartner says Google is likely to acquire a Web-based presentation application, such as Thumbstacks.
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June 13, 2006

Google releases Sketchup for OS X

Filed under: google

Finally, Google has released a free OS X version of Sketchup, which has been available for Windows for a while now.
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May 15, 2006

Why we trust Google

Filed under: google

A German podcast sums up the trust we put in Google as mere fanaticism. Do we trust Google too much? We use their email, their search engine, their jabber clients, and now their calendars. Where do we draw the line?
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May 1, 2006

Google Calendar tips

Filed under: google

Cool list of tips to help you make the most out of Google Calendar.
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April 26, 2006

Europe gets major update on Google Maps

Filed under: earth, google

For those of you working on Google Maps mashups in Europe, rejoice in knowing that new, higher resolution, satellite imagery coupled with street name data was put in place this week. There is still no official announcement from Google on these updates.
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