Most small businesses have a very limited budget for building their own website let alone worrying about a mobile presence but Google have today launched a simple tool to help small businesses all over the world. With a couple of simple steps like uploading your logo and filling in your contact details you can have your own mobile site within minutes…
Read More …
Google are back with another attempt at a social product and it looks like an even more serious and ambitious attempt than their previous failures of Wave and Buzz. Google + has been in the works for a year and is positioned as a direct competitor to Facebook and we give it the full once over here and ask will it succeed or will it fail like previous attempts?
Read More …
With news that Google have just killed off another 2 services : PowerMeter and Health, I wanted to take a lot at the company’s peppered history of product launches and acquisitions, to see just how many areas they have tried (and failed) to diversify into, and some of the reasons behind those failings.
Read More …
Tech giant are best known for their online ads but this billboard campaign in London is pure genius and is creating quite a stir. It’s all to do with promoting their new mobile voice searches and getting people to search more on their mobiles and in terms of a campaign that gets the message across and gets consumers thinking you couldn’t wish for better…
Read More …
The +1 button which is Google’s latest move in to social got off to a spectacular start with widespread media coverage and a whole host of publishers across the web embracing the social button but weeks after launch there seems little point to the button. Does Google have a bigger plan for the + button that they have yet to roll out or are we seeing the early signs of yet another failure from the search giant?
Read More …
Google this week unveiled the +1 button for publishers and with billions of them already on the web we wanted to have a look and see what this means for publishers and consumers alike. Will people embrace the latest sharing button and does this have the power to take on the Facebook like button and get Google back in the social race?
Read More …
As Google prepare to announce the expected launch of near field communication technology in their phones to allow for easy mobile payment, we look at the opportunities for Google here and ask if people are really ready for this…
Read More …
Google came to prominence because of it’s efforts in the field of search but increasingly they are spreading their wings and challenging some of the other huge tech companies out there. With large scale battles looming against the likes of Apple, Microsoft and Facebook to name but a few are Google spreading themselves too thin or can they win all these battles against the other tech giants…
Read More …
Google have introduced a new setting in Google News, following a round of changes, that sees them offer users the ability to block blogs from their news content. Why would Google introduce such a move that could seriously impact bloggers, and is there justification in the move?
Read More …
All the talk on this blog in recent months has been about the impending battle between Google and Facebook but the world’s biggest search engine has gone back to it’s roots today and resumed it’s long running battle with another tech giant…Microsoft, Launching the Chromebook which is a cheap operating system that uses the web only Google might just be about to change the face of personal computing…
Read More …
Google is always busy improving their products and the latest update that they have just released to their images product is an impressive one. Anybody familiar with searching for images on Google will know that up until recently it was a fairly painful and random experience but this new update goes a long way to fixing that and drastically improves Google images…
Read More …
Google seem intent on adding a social layer to email and this promotional video that they have just released for Google Chrome shows that. Google has a bee in it’s bonnet about getting more social features in to their email products including the launch of Google Wave and even putting last year’s social effort Google [...]
Read More …
