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November 12, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:22 PM/EST
Google Adds Flu Shot Finder to Google MapsFollowing its roll out of Google Flu Trends to 20 countries, Google this week added a U.S.-centric "flu-shot finder" in conjunction with the U.S. Department for Health and Human Services (HHS). The site actually tracks seasonal flu shots and H1N1 (swine flu) virus shots. Both are in scarce supply. November 11, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 11:17 AM/EST
Google Adds World Bank to Public Data SearchGoogle Nov. 11 added World Bank as a new source of statistical data to its search engine results, letting users mine an internatiional source for stats on such topics as electricity consumption per capita, or carbon dioxide emissions per capita. Google's addition of the World Bank data to its search engine comes, convienently, the same day Microsoft's Bing partnered with Wolfram Alpha to provide stats from that statisticial super engine. November 10, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:58 AM/EST
HitWise Says Google Drives 25% of Wall Street Journal's TrafficSo Rupert Murdoch wants News Corp, the big content provider, to shun Google, the leading content aggregation machine, eh? HitWise has cobbled together some nice stats to show just how important Google really is to News Corp.'s Wall Street Journal. November 9, 2009
Monday, November 09, 2009 2:19 PM/EST
Reframe It Issue Revives Evil Google ArgumentGoogle may be sensitive to end users, but what about startups, which Google can lift up or crush with its practices? As much as Google takes pains not to be evil, it certainly does things that hurt others, even if unintentionally.
Monday, November 09, 2009 7:22 AM/EST
Murdoch: News Corp to Hide Paid Content from GoogleWhat we have here is a bonafide Catch-22. Go Google, and get read. Shun Google, and go invisible online. What we have here is a bonafide Catch-22. Go Google, and get read. Shun Google, and go invisible online. November 7, 2009
Saturday, November 07, 2009 12:01 AM/EST
Google Advertises Motorola Droid on Its Home PageGoogle started promoting the new Motorola Droid, which launched today from Verizon Wireless and is available for purchase at Best Buy. Is this an ad? Definitely. Google has high hopes for the Droid, the first phone to feature its Android 2.0 operating system build and the Google Maps Navigation GPS service. November 6, 2009
Friday, November 06, 2009 8:07 AM/EST
Google Sidewiki Under Fire from Reframe ItReframe It believes Google's Sidewiki looks and feels a little too much like its own Web annotation service. While the similarities on the hood of both apps are hard to ignore, Google would likely argue that the ranking technology under its hood is where the real differences lie. What do you think? November 5, 2009
Thursday, November 05, 2009 2:00 AM/EST
Google Dashboard Lists Account Info to Calm Privacy CriticsGoogle made another move to assuage the concerns of privacy critics Nov. 5, with the Google Dashboard, which provides a summary of the application data associated with Google accounts. This is a fine feature, particularly for folks like yours truly who use a swath of Google Web services and want a faster way to manage them. November 3, 2009
Tuesday, November 03, 2009 4:38 PM/EST
Would Google Be Evil for Buying The New York Times?Bloggers and reporters are reviewing Ken Auletta's new book, "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It," in which the New Yorker writer notes that Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Google co-founder Larry Page considered buying The New York Times. Evil alert! November 2, 2009
Monday, November 02, 2009 4:39 PM/EST
Weather.com Plays Weatherman on Bing Maps Using FlashMicrosoft is getting help from its partners to boost the value proposition of Bing Maps. Specifically, Weather.com, which uses Bing Maps over Google Maps, has created an interesting way to deliver its weather-oriented maps to users. Called Futures, the feature aims to play digital weatherman by overlaying a forecast prediction on a Bing Map embedded in the Website.
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