Google PR PingPong Time Again

January 8th, 2008 It has been several hours since Google search went down. Google services on google.com domain, including but not limited to GMail or Google Analytics, Google Adsense etc., are down too while blogsearch.google.com is up and running.

November 14th, 2005 Google Web Accelerator is back with a vengeance. If your web site bandwidth consumption has spiked in the last couple of days, look to blame it on Google Web Accelerator.

August 21st, 2006 A Chinese blogger finds Google.com inaccessible around 60% of the time whereas Google.cn is perfectly accessible. Is it coincidence or intetnional? Is Google intentionally blocking Google.com in China and providing intermittent access instead of outright banning to prevent backlash from internet community & activists.

June 13th, 2006 Spencer Katt has an interesting (read funny) take on future Google products (and then there are mine). They are: 1.

April 5th, 2008 TechCrunch got it from a source that Google plans to launch their BigTable, their proprietary internal database which is used for Google Search, as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB Web Service. Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers at Google.

June 11th, 2005 I found something interesting: Google's SiteMap. This provides a handy reference to Google Tools which are increasing by the day.

April 3rd, 2009 Washingtonpost today has just brought in a heck of a rumor that Google may be in the last stage of acquiring Twitter. No one knows the price or exact transactional details yet, nor there is any official source to that, but its said that the deal may be well over $250 Million.

February 24th, 2006 Google seems to have developed a habit of introducing new services and then withdrawing them due to high demand and reintroducing them selectively later. Google Web Accelerator, Google Analytics and now Google Pages, all follow this overused pattern.

July 20th, 2008 Just after announcing its quarterly results Google lost over 16 billion dollar on Friday. The last trade was at 481.32, down from its previous day high of 534.75.

August 10th, 2006 What's wrong with Google and India? Did we hurt them in any way? Google provides GMail by SMS signup in Australia, Indonesia, Malayasia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey and of-course US of A. However India is not there.

November 4th, 2005 Google has silently added an option to display referral links (with images) in your blog or web sites. If anyone referred by you earns 100$ or more then Google credits your account with 100$.

July 9th, 2006 Nowadays it is common to complain about the accuracy of Google web search results (not image search as I have done in my earlier post). Most of the people complaining about Google web search are SEO types and those who have been affected by sudden lack of Google love.

September 20th, 2006 I am not talking about providing blogging software / service like Blogger. It looks like Google (at least Google India) may actually venture into blogging themselves.

April 8th, 2009 On a rather unceremonious way, Google has increased the Competitive link Filter for Google Adsense to 500. They haven't gone official about it as yet.

April 5th, 2005 Is there a broader plan behind latest Google innovations? At first sight some of them seems random addition to the Google family (20% effort or not) and somewhat unrelated to its search focus. Lets scan Google News lately: Google Maps now has a satellite Google Ride Finder - Builds on top of Google Maps to show you the live positions of various taxis in your area.