According to ReadWriteWeb, in April of this year: “Tomorrow, Motorola will announce that it plans to replace Google’s location services on its Android phones with Skyhook’s location engine. By default, all Android devices currently use Google’s own location services to determine a phone’s location based on GPS data from the phone and the location of [...]
SkyHook Sues Google
September 18th, 2010Google’s “Secret Recipe”
September 17th, 2010What goes into Google to make it tick? This is the question repeatedly asked and repeatedly dodged by Brin, Page and CEO Eric Schmidt when asked what is behind the almighty algorithm. Danny Sullivan tried yet again to get the skinny, the lowdown, the scoop on the way Google arrives at rankings, but was stinewalled [...]
Google Employee Fired
September 15th, 2010According to Gawker, a Google employee accused of cyberstalking minors and accessing their data was fired – but the story goes deeper. “David Barksdale, a 27-year-old former Google engineer, repeatedly took advantage of his position as a member of an elite technical group at the company to access users’ accounts, violating the privacy of at [...]
Twitter Search Has Arrived
September 15th, 2010The new, improved Twitter search is here – and Search Engine Land has a great step by step comparision of the old and the new. Take a sneak peek then head over to read the whole post: (Note the new Twitter search box conveniently located at top of page.) “1) “Save This Search” Button & [...]
Google the Portal
September 12th, 2010Larry Page, co-founder of Google along with Sergey Brin, have always denied that Google was any type of ‘portal’. However, the language they use sometimes belies that fact, as seen on the philosophy of Google page: “””The perfect search engine,” says co-founder Larry Page, “would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what [...]













