Google is promoting the open-source Firefox internet browser like never before. It has revealed a new plan to start a new phase in the browser wars against Microsoft. Browsers are much more profitable than previously thought because the search box and location bar can be used to generate traffic towards the search engine’s website, which […]

Google today released a free version of SketchUp, the 3D modeling software whose parent company Google purchased a few months ago. When they SketchUp was first bought, I tried the Pro software. It has a free trial, so you can try it out and see what you think. But it cost money to use it […]

If you live in the United States and visit Google with Internet Explorer you will find the first third party advertisement on the Google home page. The ad highlights using Firefox along with the Google Toolbar.
Spread Firefox: Google Promo for Firefox
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Google has released Ctemplate, “a library implementing a simple but powerful template language for C++ that emphasizes separating logic from presentation. You’ve already used Ctemplate: this is the same code that formats all of the pages for Google’s web search.”
Grab it here
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“Suck” might not be the right word here. But at least it conveys the right idea. They need major help. Google’s earnings prove that its competitors are falling behind, and although they claim to be “scrambling”, they’re not making much of an effort.
Only Google has a university outreach program that gives CS students free pizza.
The […]

The 400-pound Mountain View, California gorilla that was recently added to the S&P 500 list and has revolutionized the way advertisers reach customers launched Google calendar last week. On the”Inside Google” blog, one of the employees wrote that although the URL calendar.google.com was live and expected to launch any day, he wondered how many people […]

Now that Google Calendar is being widely used, and its API is in the works, we can expect lots of GCalendar mashups coming soon. Anyone have any ideas — or seen any interesting ones already?

Google registered two brand new domains on April 17th: googlesubscribed.com/net/org/info and googlesubscribedlinks.com/net/org/info.  Google rarely uses domains they register, but they almost always turn out to be a good indication of future functionality.
The question here is what Google Subscribed or Google Subscribed Links actually is.  There are a few things it could mean — but I […]

Over a year ago I put AdSense on a site that was getting limited traffic and only had a couple hundred indexed pages. Being this site was a directory, I should have had thousands of indexed pages. Anyway, I added the code into a global footer and forgot about it.
Then about a week later, when […]

As I use the service more and more, I’m finding features that just blow me away. Here’s a list:

When adding a new event and entering its description, when the description box gets nearly full, it magically expands. It grows and gets bigger to accomodate the content you’re typing into it.
You can easily add Guests to […]