The Chinese government seems come down heavily on Google again. On Wednesday this week, Google’s websites were not available in major portions of China. Google’s email Gmail too was not available temporarily. However now the service has been restored. According to China’s internet watchdog, Google’s search engine promotes pornographic content in China and the Chinese [...]
Chinese Government Comes Down Heavily on Google Again
June 25th, 2009Online Spend – Up or Down?
June 25th, 2009Is 2009 going to be the biggest year ever? Or will the recession and rising concerns about interent hackers cause the rising wave of online spend to finally crest and break? The Interactive Advertising Bureau released figures last week which ran counter to predictions earlier ion the year. Online ad revenues declined in Q1 2009 [...]
The SERPs Becoming More Refined and Personal
June 25th, 2009With the advent of new improved ways to search and the move towards ever more specialized results, being on the front page of the SERPs is more important then ever. When you type a query into one of the major search engines, you now can get more topics then before – categories of answers that [...]
Gmail Ninja
June 24th, 2009Google has taken a new initiative to help Gmail users handle their mails more effectively and efficiently through its Gmail Ninja lessons. Gmail Ninja Guide is indeed an interesting way of reaching to Gmail users. It probably tells the level of competition that is prevailing in the industry and how one has to do things [...]
Google’s Image Recognition For Searches Is Imminent
June 23rd, 2009Handling images has always posed serious challenges to search engines. Search engines are not as smart as human brain and they cannot recognize images at least so far. They have to go by the tags that are associated to the image. Computers need text tags to recognize images. However, one of the papers presented by [...]