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Major Google App Engine hiccup reveals weaknesses

By Pingdom at July 03, 2009 0 Comments

Google’s App Engine suffered from increased data access latency and errors yesterday, including problems serving applications. According to TechCrunch, the problems lasted for approximately six hours. From the App Engine status page: On July 2nd, all applications experienced increased error rate and latency with read and write Datastore and memcacheGoogle’s App Engine suffered from increased data More»

Firefox 3.5 release not hot enough to blip on Google’s radar

By Pingdom at July 02, 2009 0 Comments

Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 into the wild on June 30, prompting millions of downloads and a ton of mentions in tech press and blogs all over the world. Considering all this attention, Firefox should have More»

Bing Continues Microsoft Search Share Growth in June 2009, According to StatCounter

By Nathania Johnson at July 01, 2009 0 Comments

StatCounter made news fast and furious in Bing's first week when they offered up data showing Bing had surpassed Yahoo! in search. And now they're making a splash again by quickly releasing data for the More»

Britains Top Brands & How They Rank On Google

By Patrick Altoft at June 30, 2009 0 Comments

When Google carried out the brand update on Google.com in March we carried out a study to see where Britains most trusted brands ranked on Google. The idea being that if Google was boosting brands either More»

Michael Jackson KOP Breaks Google Tops Obama

By Daya Baran at June 29, 2009 1 Comments

Michael Jackson KOP Breaks Google Tops Obama

Michael Jackson the King of Pop (KOP) was as BIG as it gets and everything about him was big. According to Nielsen, the breaking news of Michael Jackson’s sudden death dominated the web, causing spikes More»

Google brand update hits the UK

By Patrick Altoft at June 29, 2009 0 Comments

Back in March Google performed an update which effectively boosted the rankings of big brands in the search results. At the time I commented that the update hadn’t appeared in the UK – until More»

7 Google Updates for the Week Ending June 26, 2009

By Nathania Johnson at June 26, 2009 0 Comments

It's been another week of mega Google updates. Several have been noteworthy-enough to get their own post. The leftovers are included below: Google Android has launched 1.5 NDK, Release 1. Meanwhile, More»

Google wants your help to make the Web faster

By Pingdom at June 25, 2009 0 Comments

This week Google launched a new Web community on code.google.com/speed. The goal is to help Web developers speed up their Web applications, but the long-term goal is even more ambitious; to work together More»

Google Releases Virtual Keyboard AJAX API

By Andres Ferrate at June 24, 2009 0 Comments

Google has just released a new Virtual Keyboard API as part of its AJAX Language API that should enrich sites that use forms to collect information from multi-lingual users. This new API (our Google Virtual More»

The Top 10 Malware Sites – How to Avoid Them Using a Google API

By Michael Manoochehri at June 24, 2009 0 Comments

Have you noticed an increase in the number of reports about malware and compromised web servers? Recently, a computer exploit known as Gumblar has been making news for its ability to launch exploits via More»

Google Dreams Turn To Nightmare For Many

By Daya Baran at June 23, 2009 26 Comments

Google Dreams Turn To Nightmare For Many

They came on bicycles and dreamed of driving away in Mercedes Benzes, they lived out of their suitcases but hoped to buy mansion, and they boasted of eating gourmet meals at the cafeteria but they could More»

Google Launches Volunteer Search Site

By Nathania Johnson at June 22, 2009 0 Comments

If you're looking to give back to your community or volunteer for a charity, a new site from Google can help you find the right opportunity. It's called AllforGood.org and it's a volunteer search site. When More»

7 Google Updates Including Flash Indexing, Custom Search, and AdSense

By Nathania Johnson at June 19, 2009 0 Comments

Another week, another slew of Google Updates. Chew on these new features while you watch the US Open this weekend: Google Flash Indexing - The googlebot will now index external content sources used More»

Google Invests More In Brin’s Wife’s Adventure

By Daya Baran at June 19, 2009 0 Comments

Google Invests More In Brin's Wife's Adventure

Google has invested an additional $2.6 million in 23andMe, a genetics startup founded by Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s wife.
Google initially invest $3.9 million in 2007 and $11 million in 2009 More»

6 Fun Sites to Track Your Trails

By Adam DuVander at June 18, 2009 0 Comments

Whether for exercise, sight-seeing, or just for fun, most of us enjoy walking, running and biking our way through the city or the country side. Below you’ll find six mashups from the Programmable More»









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