Monthly Archive
for: ‘December, 2011’

Google has blocked Google Street View API access to end “Google Shoot View,” a controversial shoot ‘em up game that inserted players as snipers picking off real people caught on camera by the map program. The game, while lac…

A friend popped on Skype this morning and told me to type “define an English person” into Google.

Um, okaaay.

In the 0.32 seconds it took for Google to deliver the results, a dozen possibilities flashed through my mind as to what possible defi…
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Google is integrating additional mobile and Offers features with the Google+ social network. Upcoming features will allow check-in based offers, incentivizing Plus shout-outs for local businesses – but stepping on the toes of other Google se…

SEO tools are nothing new, especially with respect to link research, but 2011 has seen the market really come into maturity. New tools are being released at a rapid fire rate and more established players continually upping the game. A core driver …
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Last week, I looked at some research from Google into where and when people are using tablet devices such as iPads. The research showed that tablets are a multi-tasking device that rarely leave the home, but are used in different ways at different…
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A couple of things have always kind of bothered me about Twitter: its search functionality and analytics.

How often have you tweeted a link or said something you thought was really pithy and gone back to try to find it? Depending on how often yo…
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The European Commission has put Google’s proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility on hold pending further investigation.

The EC issued a filing last month asking Google to provide additional details on how the acquisition will be …
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Google was forced to pull a series of malicious Android apps masquerading as legitimate titles such as “Angry Birds”, after they were discovered on the official Android Market apps store on Monday.

Irate Android customers and developers took to …
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