In a clever move by Google, they have announced plans to launch an open social networking platform which will allow web developers to use common social network modules, hosting on Google hardware.
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Google moves Piccadilly Circus to Zambia, forgets to tell Londoners!
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
I may be going mad, but a funny quirk on Google Maps UK last night meant that searches for ‘piccadilly circus’ on maps.google.co.uk resulted in searchers being told that the London landmark had moved across to Zambia. I tried a few spelling variations, but the same Zambian map was produced, see below:
I understand Google can [...]
Google’s attempt to take over the Universe
Sunday, September 16th, 2007
Search giant Google is offering a $30m prize pot to private firms that land a robot rover on the Moon.
Is this the first step towards Prometeus, - the Media Revolution:
Ask Attempts an Apple
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
In a campaign that’s reminiscent of Apples famous attempt to throw Big Blue (IBM) from their 1980’s monopoly of PCs, Ask.com (remember Ask Jeeves?) have started a gorilla marketing campaign questioning Google’s dominance of the worldwide search market. The campaign started earlier this week features a serious on unbranded London Underground posters with the [...]