Google Maps Adds Satellite Images
Google Maps has added color satellite images. After selecting an area, simply click the Satellite link at the upper right of the page. These images are draggable and zoomable just like standard Google...
View ArticleGoogle Maps and Craigslist Property Listings Web App
This is probably the coolest hack we've seen in a long time. Someone has created an amazing web application hack by merging Google Maps with Craigslist real estate listings. Users can specify price...
View ArticleGoogle Launches Google Maps UK and Google Local UK
Today Google launched Google Maps UK and Google Local UK. The mapping service works exactly the same way as Google Maps in the US. The Google Local UK service provide listings of local businesses in...
View ArticleGoogle Earnings Stun Wall Street
Google has reported their first-quarter earnings and Wall Street is amazed. The company reported a net income of $369.2 million, or $1.29 a share, on revenue of $1.26 billion in the three months ended...
View ArticleSearch Engines Moving Toward Video
According to a Wired article, the major search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN are moving quickly toward indexing and aggregating video content. Initially much of the content will be from existing...
View ArticleGoogle Upgrades Choices for Advertisers
Starting today, Google is letting advertisers display images and animations on third-party partner sites using a new feature called Site Targeting. Advertisers can choose the sites where their ads will...
View ArticleGoogle Testing Blog RSS Ads
Google is testing a new service that allows blogs using RSS or Atom feeds to carry AdSense advertising. Other companies like Kanoodle, Moreover, BlogAds, and Yahoo either already offer or are testing...
View ArticleOnline Marketers Moving Into Local Advertising
Search engines and others are moving into the local advertising space, targeting small businesses who want to reach customers in their communities. Experts agree that switching small businesses from...
View ArticleGoogle Launches Web Accelerator
Today Google launched a beta of the Google Web Accelerator, a free plug-in for Firefox and Internet Explorer that is designed to speed up web browsing for users with broadband connections. In order to...
View ArticleNew People Search Engines Have Many Concerned
Wired.com has taken a look at ZabaSearch and interviewed their top executives. ZabaSearch is a new free search engine that lets you locate people and get information about them. The service uses public...
View ArticleReview of Free Desktop Search Engines
Informit.com has published an article that compares and reviews free desktop search engine software to find out which one is best. Software packages reviewed include Ask Jeeves Desktop Search,...
View ArticleGoogle Unleashes Personalized Homepage Service
Google has taken a page out of Yahoo's playbook and created their own My Yahoo-style personalized homepage service. The new service lets you arrange your GMail, Google News, Google Maps driving...
View ArticleGoogle Unveils Sitemaps Service
Google has unveiled a new service for webmasters called Sitemaps. Using this service, which is still Beta, operators of web sites can improve the quality of their search listings in the Google index by...
View ArticleUsing the Google Web API from .NET and Java Applications
Informit.com has published an article explaining how to use the Google Web API from your own .NET and Java applications. Using the Google Web API, your applications can access many of Google's...
View ArticleOnline Advertising To Skyrocket
According to a new study by Jupiter Research, advertisers will spend almost $19 billion on online advertising in 2010, up from $9.3 billion last year. The biggest increase will be in search engine...
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