Marc Macalua recently wrote about Google Setting Up Shop in the Philippines. Like everyone else, I’m excited! This is major. I actually know about this already, thanks to Marc and a certain telling post at the SEO Philippines discussion group (hehe).
Category: Google
Google Buys YouTube
Back at Techcrunch, Michael Arrington confirms that Google has acquired YouTube. My thoughts: There was word that although YouTube has dominated the online video sharing market, its founders Chad Hurley and Steven Chen aren’t making serious money out of it and are actually living on credit. YouTube’s only future is to be bought out by… Continue reading Google Buys YouTube
Pagerank Boost
Cool! Alleba Blog now has a PR 5! Up from a 4. Other pages on this site also enjoyed a boost. Again, I ask… how did your sites do?
Google Adsense Updates
Google Adsense emailed its publishers with a ton of cool improvements to its service. Most notably: AdSense for search results on your site Search results are now served on your site via IFRAME. This means your visitors don’t have to veer away from your page every time they search.
A Party at Google
My friend gets invited to these absolutely cool parties at the Googleplex. Here are some pics. I hope she doesn’t mind. Heh. My friend Tizza’s the one inside the small ‘g’. More pics after the jump.
Google does a MySpace
Google won over MySpace with a hefty $900 million revenue-sharing deal that will allow the search engine to provide its search and advertising services to the latter’s 70 million-plus users. That also means MySpace dumping its current ad provider Yahoo! who also made a bid but fell short to that of Google. With the social… Continue reading Google does a MySpace
Google Maps for Mobile
Google Maps for Mobile now has Real-time traffic reporting! How cool is that.
Google Talk Tries to be Spiffy
Google announced three new features to its instant messaging software, Google Talk: File Transfer ‘Bout time. Its absence may have been the reason why many have stayed away from it. It’s reported that only 44,000 were using Google Talk, or 1% of total market share — way behind MSN Messenger (60%) and Yahoo! Messenger (23%).… Continue reading Google Talk Tries to be Spiffy
Yahoo Mail Beta Review
I fell too much in love with my customized Alleba email courtesy of Gmail for domains that I completely neglected to do my piece on Yahoo!’s new beta mail interface. What better time to do it when I’ve slightly gotten over the whole Gmail affair. I have been using Yahoo! Mail Beta for slightly over… Continue reading Yahoo Mail Beta Review