The big news story of the last few days in the technology world has to be Microsoft's bid on Yahoo!While there has been a lot said about the possible outcome and longterm effects of such a merger / takeover a lot of people were probably waiting to see what Google would say and do.Google have now released a statement of sorts on one of their corporate blogs and it is amusing to … [Read more...] about Google Believes Its Own Hype
Jaiku Offline For Maintenance
I normally don't mention when sites or services are offline, as it's the kind of whining that I hate.However in the case of Jaiku the 24 hours or so downtime is actually welcome.If Jaiku can resolve some of their scalability issues by going offline for a couple of days, then I'm more than happy to do without my daily dose.There's more information on their official blog, where … [Read more...] about Jaiku Offline For Maintenance
Google Screwing Up Another Cool Service Post-Acquisition
I mentioned how much I liked Jaiku some time ago and then was shocked to see it had been nabbed by Google.It now seems that my fears were not without some grounds. Anyone using Jaiku regularly has probably noticed how slow the entire system has become in recent weeks and how so many of the cool features are either not working or extremely slow.It now seems that there are issues … [Read more...] about Google Screwing Up Another Cool Service Post-Acquisition
Google Local Comes To Ireland
Richard spotted that Google Local has expanded to include Ireland.For any company that has a physical shopfront / presence it's a nice little feature, though I'm not sure how well it will work for companies that operate almost entirely online. When I was in the US a few weeks ago I found that most of the larger retailers had made the most of their listings, so you could easily … [Read more...] about Google Local Comes To Ireland
Google’s PageRank Update
Google's pagerank updates are always talking points. Once upon a time, not so very long ago, everyone focussed on PR as being the "end", but over the last couple of years that focus has definitely shifted.The latest update, which seems to have kicked in towards the end of last month, has left a lot of people very confused about things, though everyone seems to think that … [Read more...] about Google’s PageRank Update