Wednesday, October 19, 2005
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Google Gives Up Gmail Name in the UK
Google has given up on using the name "Gmail" in the United Kingdom. Because of a trademark dispute, Google's free email service will be renamed "Google Mail" in Great Britain. [Read Full BBC Article]
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Thursday, May 12, 2005
Google Ponders Blogger and Gmail Integration
"Google is contemplating various improvements to its popular Blogger Web logging service, including native image uploading and deeper integration with the company’s Gmail Web-mail service, according to a Google executive." Read Full Article at MacWorld.com
Saturday, May 07, 2005
Google Knocked Offline - Denies It Was Hacked
Google and some of its services - including Gmail - were not available on Saturday May 7, 2005 from 6:45 to 7:00 pm EDT, and some users were not able to connect for up to an hour. Because users were rerouted to another Web site when they tried to connect to Google, there was speculation the problem was caused by hackers, but Google denied that, saying it was a Domain Name System (DNS) problem. Read Full Article at InformationWeek.com
Friday, April 01, 2005
Google Diversifies and Produces a New Sports Drink
Google's new sports drink has been named the Google Gulp and it will "slam a truckload of electrolytic neurotransmitter smart-drug stimulants past the blood-brain barrier to achieve maximum optimization of your cerebral cortex".... Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Google Agrees to Acquire Urchin
On March 28, Google announced their intention to acquire Urchin, the producer of one of the most popular Web site statistics analysis tools [Google Press Release]
Thursday, February 17, 2005
About.com - Sold to the New York Times
The New York Times announced today that it will purchase About.com for $410 million from publisher Primedia. The Times, whose newspapers include The New York Times and The Boston Globe, said it will expand About.com's content and visibility and use the site to market its products and those of its advertisers. I hope this will turn out to be good news for the Web site editors, and all of my other friends at About.com. I am thinking about you guys! NY Times Explains About.com Purchase To Analysts Associated Press Article by Seth Sutel
Kanoodle is Battling Google for Contextual Ads
The former executives of Sprinks, which Google purchased in October of 2003, joined smaller paid-search provider Kanoodle in 2004 and they are renewing their competition in the market for contextual ads [Article at eWeek.com]
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