Google App Engine

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Google isn’t just talking about hosting applications in the cloud any more. Monday at 9pm PT they’re launching Google App Engine, an ambitious new project that offers a full-stack, hosted, automatically scalable web application platform consisting of Python application servers, BigTable database access (anticipated here and here) and GFS data ...

Google Struggling to Buy DoubleClick, Rivals Overjoyed!

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Since Google announced the agreement to buy DoubleClick, the entire online advertising market joined forces to fight against the Mountain View company because a potential deal could make the search giant the most powerful player in the industry. Many of the Google rivals already took attitude and made acquisitions or ...

Samsung Recommends Windows Vista. But Infringes the Gmail Trademark!

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

It might sound pretty amazing that a company such as Samsung infringes the Gmail trademark but this is what results from the picture discovered by Haochi from Googlified. As you can see in the picture attached to the article and provided by the source mentioned above, the advert promotes Samsung ...

Viacom: Google’s Efforts Not Enough!

Friday, October 19th, 2007

The rivalry between the media giant Viacom and the other giant Google started since MTV's owner sued the Mountain View company for copyright infringement, requiring $1 billion in damages. Since then, Google has struggled to improve the copyright filters to reduce the number of the lawsuits but it managed to ...

Microsoft Is Not Even in Third Place in the Search Race

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Microsoft is the undisputed underdog of the search market, and the now traditional occupant of the third position in the constant race against direct rivals Google and Yahoo. But the fact of the matter is that the combined results of MSN and Live Search do not manage to ensure that ...

Hacker’s Dirty Tricks: Google and Yahoo Make Cool Tools

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Is it hard to be a hacker? How do I become a hacker? I want to learn more about hacking! Those are the things that I often hear or see on forums. Somebody asked me the other day if I know how to hack a site and whether it’s hard ...