Saturday, July 24, 2004

Google On 9/11

An interesting article by Richard W. Wiggins on the effects of September 11 on the leading search engine.

Google On 9/11 by Philipp Lenssen

Yahoo Photo Upload

“Yahoo on Thursday launched a free service that lets people upload photos directly from their camera-equipped phones to the portal’s photo sharing site.”
– TechWeb News, Yahoo Launches Camera Phone Uploads, July 23, 2004

This sounds similar to what Google is doing.

Yahoo Photo Upload by Philipp Lenssen

Graphical AdSense

I’m certainly not suffering from banner blindness on my own sites, where I spotted a graphical Google banner. As you may know, Google AdSense offers the option to show off graphic ads as well as plain text for some time now.

Graphical AdSense by Philipp Lenssen

Google Lawsuits

Google Inc is currently involved in two lawsuits:

• Trademark issues with Froogles.com and Richard Wolfe.

• Google accused of elderly discrimination by recently fired manager Brian Reid.

Google Lawsuits by Philipp Lenssen

New Googler Bosworth

“Adam Bosworth, a software industry icon and the secret weapon behind several products including Borland Quattro, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Internet Explorer and BEA WebLogic application server and Workshop, has left BEA Systems to begin work at Google.”
– Darryl K. Taft, Bosworth Leaves BEA for Google, Jul 23

New Googler Bosworth by Philipp Lenssen

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