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If at the next cocktail party you attend someone walks up to you and asks for the seven millionth time how you can work with Google without working for Google, these are the videos you have to show them (and shut them up forever): As a company, Google focuses on three key areas: Search, Ads [...]

The moment Google announced the specifications of the smartphone they were about to release, I wanted to order it. I have been hesitating for a long time about buying an iPhone, but the real reason it never happened was because Apple tends to keep everything closed, from the device itself to its’ App Store. No [...]

Is Google evil, or should we trust them with our personal data? I think this exact question is the main challenge Google will be facing in the years to come. Meanwhile there are more and more people stepping up who have doubts about Google’s good intentions…

Video sharing website YouTube turns 5 today. “Five years of YouTube, is that all?” was my first thought. After all it seems like YouTube has been around for a decade at least and we have to admit they revolutionized the internet as communication channel over the last few years. On February 15, 2005 Chad Hurley, [...]

Yesterday Google, the advertising company that doesn’t advertise, made its debut on television by advertising during the Super Bowl breaks. The commercial is supposed to tell a Parisian love story in search: If you watched the Super Bowl this evening you’ll have seen a video from Google called “Parisian Love”. In fact you might have [...]

Really cool new Google Chrome ad! And really slow, unlike the browser…

OK, it’s a geeky joke but I like it. Google changed its robots.txt file for Halloween. Somewhere near the end it says: User-agent: Kids Disallow: /tricks Allow: /treats via Matt Cutts

The Google history in just over 2 minutes by Google UK: A (very) quick look back at the Google story over the last 11 years. From Stanford to Mountain View and around the world, featuring many different products, starting with BackRub (Search) up to Google Wave, StreetView and Chrome.

So I finally managed to get hold of a Google Wave invite (thx @prfection). After reading some of the comments Google Wave got in the blogosphere I wasn’t really that excited anymore and someone even referred to it as an improved chat box. But that’s because everyone was anticipating Google Wave as the next social [...]