Bob Morris Posted on Tue Apr 12, 2011 13:15 pm.
From the Official Google Blog We’ve invested $168 million in an exciting new solar energy power plant being developed by BrightSource Energy in the Mojave Desert in California. Brightsource’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) will generate 392 gross MW of clean, solar energy.
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Bob Morris Posted on Sun Jan 2, 2011 10:30 am.
Increasingly people are finding their searches on Google leads to spam sites gamed to appear at the top of the results. Google needs to change this, and fast, says entrepreneur turned academic Vivek Wadhwa in a TechCrunch post that is attacting major attention. Is Google the Next Yahoo? asks Silicon Valley Insider, noting it is [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Thu Oct 21, 2010 8:30 am.
Gimme a “Double Irish” and a “Dutch Sandwich” please, says Google and other tech companies. These tax ploys allow them to pay tiny amounts of tax as they shuttle profits around the world, sometimes through companies that have no employees. All this is quite legal, utterly unfair, and shows how our taxes need tightening. This [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Tue Oct 5, 2010 19:30 pm.
Google Goggles is now available as an iPhone app (for 3GS running iOS and 4) as part of the Google Mobile App. Just tap the camera button and it will analyze the image and return search results. Right now it works mostly for landmarks, logos, and books, but in a couple of years, it will [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Thu Aug 5, 2010 7:28 am.
Google and Verizon ‘near deal to end net neutrality’ So much for Google’s “do no evil” corporate philosophy. Their CEO publicly supported net neutrality as recently as February too.
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Bob Morris Posted on Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:45 am.
As we learned when studying the case of the dancing hippie, it’s the first follower that “transforms a lone nut into a leader.” May many more follow. Freedom is always better than repression and coercion. China has every right to set rules about what happens inside its borders. However, companies working there also have every [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Mon Mar 15, 2010 17:37 pm.
Hitwise Facebook reached an important milestone for the week ending March 13, 2010 and surpassed Google in the US to become the most visited website for the week.
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Bob Morris Posted on Mon Sep 21, 2009 19:06 pm.
It’s official. Google does not use meta tag keywords in ranking. (If you have no idea what that means, not to worry, just go to the next post For those who do, it’s because keywords were so abused that Google just ignores them. This has been assumed for quite a while, but now it’s official. [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Wed Aug 19, 2009 0:26 am.
Battle lines are drawn for the war of web search dominance Facebook buys Friendfeed. Their real target is Google, not Twitter. Twitter vs. Facebook: Who will win in real-time search? Comparison of their search engine features. Because it’s all about search. Real-time search. Google doesn’t have that yet. Facebook now has 300 million users and [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Thu Jul 9, 2009 12:04 pm.
After just one month, Microsoft’s re-launched search engine Bing is the 13th most visited site on the web. It’s a seriously excellent search engine too. This as Google announced their Chrome operating system to compete with Windows. PS Tech blogger Robert Scoble said on Friendfeed that Microsoft has a big announcement coming this Monday, big [...]
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