Archive for July, 2006

July 14

Not a perfect economic solution

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Google is smart. Today Shuman Ghosemajumder posted “Let click fraud happen”? Uh, no., a post that clarifies Eric Schmidt’s comments on click fraud. It doesn’t go far enough, though. It’s an economic “solution”, yes, but it’s not perfect. In fact, the more I think about this, the more I realize that it would not […]

July 12

Google Brings 1,000 Jobs to Ann Arbor

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In a news conference in lansing, Google, based in Mountain View, California, said it would bring 1,000 jobs to Ann Arbor by creating a headquarters facility for Google AdWords. The jobs, which will pay an average of about $50,000 a year — more than Michigan’s average household income of $44,667 — will be a good […]

July 11

Select all 11486 conversations in Spam

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I think Gmail just added a new feature. When I click to select “All” messages in my Spam box, a link appears that says:
All 50 conversations on this page are selected. Select all 11486 conversations in Spam
Cool stuff. Slick implementation. Nice and simple. Great job, Gmail team!
Here’s a screenshot:
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July 9

Google GDrive information leaked?

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Corsin Camichel found this page while randomly testing pages on Writely. It includes information related to the project along with broken download links to Platypus (apparently the code name for GDrive). Rumors indicate that it is possible that Google is working on developing GDrive as a system that incorporates all of Google’s services […]

July 9

Google SketchUp Available for Mac

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SketchUp is now available for download for the Mac OS X platform.

July 6

eBay Bans Sellers from Using Google Checkout

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AuctionBytes reports:
eBay is banning sellers from requesting payment through Google Checkout. The online auction giant updated its Safe Payments policy this week to add Google’s new payment service, Google Checkout to its list of online payment methods not permitted on eBay.
eBay Accepted Payments Policy
Google Checkout

July 3

I disagree with BusinessWeek

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BusinessWeek is reporting that Google’s non-search products are failures. I wholeheartedly disagree. I quote:
Consider just a few examples: Google Talk, an instant-messaging service launched last August, now ranks No. 10, garnering just 2% of the number of users for market leader MSN Messenger, according to comScore Media Metrix. Three-month-old Google Finance, heralded as a […]