Posts Tagged ‘Google’

When the flocks began migrating from MySpace to Facebook around five years ago, one of the common positives ascribed to FB was the fact that it ensured real names — that would help you know who the heck you were talking to.  In my opinion, it was a series of small improvements to design and [...]

Google Search plus Your World is the latest incarnation of Google’s search, and was released last week to a lukewarm reception.  The new service includes Google’s Google+ search results into any query, and supposedly kept things equal for existing social networks.  However, some sleuthing and tool development by the folks over at Facebook revealed that [...]

Late last week Google quietly rolled out a feature where Google asks you if you want to ask a question related to your current search query, and it then posts the question on Google+.  It doesn’t look like they’re providing any special interface for the question, but it does make you wonder whether this will [...]

Following tomorrow’s crucial State of the Union address, President Barack Obama will participate in a Google Plus Hangout next week to ostensibly field questions about his speech.  He’ll be addressing questions from users who will have until January 28th to submit their questions via video.  I’m curious to see how much of a draw the [...]

Google’s CEO Larry Page has gone on record to state that Google Plus now has 90 million users, and 80% of those users sign in weekly.  He was a bit vague with the definition of ‘sign in’ and would not specify whether the 90m represented monthly active users, but at our last check we had [...]

Unless you’ve been hiding in your IP-hidden digital cave for the last few weeks, you’re probably aware that the Internet is currently rife with protests for SOPA, the Stop Online Privacy Act.  Critics from Silicon Valley and various technology companies around the world blacked out their sites to protest the bill, which effectively would give [...]

What does 60 seconds of social media look like?  How many people are actually on Facebook, Twitter and Google+?  How often do people use Foursquare as opposed to Tumblr?  A new exclusive infographic examines the numbers and may surprise you — social is still growing rapidly.

Not everyone is happy with Google’s decision to integrate its social network, Google+ with its popular search engine.  Not long after Google announced Search plus Your World in a blog post, Twitter general counsel Alex Macgillivray fired off this tweet in response: The biggest complaint seems to be that Google+ would be able to push [...]

Google yesterday launched “Search, plus your World,” as it’s tentatively called.  It takes the best features of Google Plus and integrates them with Google search.  It mainly includes results from your friends in a miniature row right at the top of your search results.  With such powerful placement, the arguments for businesses to get themselves [...]

Have you ever wondered where all your friends are, at once?  Alright, it may not be something that comes up all the time, but it doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be fun to take a look.  A new extension for the Google Chrome web browser (my personal favorite) adds a menu to your Google+ sidebar which [...]