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Google shuts down Google Desktop and nine other projects

September 3, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Earlier today, Google CEO Larry Page announced the end of many projects at Google as well as the closure of Aardvark, a start-up that Google acquired in 2010 that was experimenting with social search. The concept of Aardvark was designed to help people answer questions by searching for the most qualified person on the Web. The company was started by former Google employees and is scheduled to be completely shut down by the end of September. Users of Aardvark have until September 30 to download all data related to user accounts.

Google Desktop is also on the chopping block and will be completely shut down on September 14 including all APIs and widgets. Google’s reasoning behind abandoning Desktop is the current shift in data storage from local to the cloud. Google’s Fast Flip is also closing down and will be removed from Google News within the next few days. Fast Flip allowed users to browse through Google News in a magazine-style layout and was previously thought to become the successor to Google News with publishers taking advantage of built-in micropayments to sell content as well as share in the profits of advertising revenue

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Twitter: 1 Billion Items Delivered A Day Is Nice, Google+. We Do 350 Billion. | TechCrunch

July 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Yesterday, Google CEO Larry Page dropped some big Google+ numbers during his opening remarks for Google’s earnings call. The biggest one sounded like Google+’s 10 million users were already sharing 1 billion items per day. That sounds insane for a network that is only a couple of weeks old and isn’t yet fully public. But it’s also a bit confusing. What exactly does that mean? And how do we put that into context?

Today, exactly 5 years to the day since they launched, Twitter adds the context. Google+ may be serving up 1 billion items a day, but Twitter is doing 350 billion items a day.

When I say these numbers are a bit confusing, it’s because they’re not “share” numbers in that you think one person sharing something is one share. Instead, as I understand it, what these numbers mean is that when one person shares something, Google and Twitter have to deliver it to X number of timelines (X being the number of people that follow that account). This has long been an engineering challenge for Twitter, and Google is clearly seeing the same thing since they use a similar “follow” model (with Circles — though it’s a bit different since there is such an emphasis on private Circles).

So 1 billion and 350 billion is actually the number of G+ shares and Tweets that Google and Twitter have to serve up, respectively, to fully cover their graphs completely each day. Mind. Blown.

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Microsoft Could Benefit From Google Antitrust Probe: Analysts – Desktops and Notebooks – News & Reviews – eWeek.com

June 26, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Microsoft’s Bing search engine could benefit from a federal probe into Google’s business practices, according to analysts.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the FTC will soon subpoena Google for information, which in turn could lead into an antitrust inquiry into the search engine giant’s search advertising practices. The FTC will also apparently send formal requests for information to companies that work with Google. (Neither Google nor the FTC provided comment to eWEEK on the matter.)

U.S. Sens. Herb Kohl, D-Wisc., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, also want Google CEO Larry Page and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt to appear at their July hearing on the search industry. Google plans to send Chief Legal Officer David Drummond, who has testified before about Google’s acquisitions and policies. But the two senators, in a June 10 letter, remained insistent that either Page or Schmidt appear to answer “fundamental questions about business operations rather than merely legal matters.”

That congressional drama is dovetailing neatly with the FTC’s recent focus on Google’s business practices, although The Wall Street Journal noted that any formal FTC investigation could take more than a year to unfold and result in no formal charges.

According to research firm comScore, Google held 65.5 percent of the search market through May, compared with Yahoo at 15.9 percent and Bing at 14.1 percent. Google continues to lure more than 1 billion unique visitors a month to its properties, versus Microsoft with 905 million.

But Microsoft has been notably aggressive of late in building out Bing’s capabilities. Bing now presents Facebook information on the search-results page. Search for a particular city, for example, and the search engine will tell you which Facebook friends live there. Given Microsoft’s minority stake in Facebook, this leveraging of the latter’s data should come as no surprise; for its own part, Microsoft seems determined to graft a social layer into search as a means of differentiating its own offering from its Mountain View, Calif., rival.

New features and slow-but-steady market share gains aside, a federal probe into Google’s practices could also help Bing gain share.

“Direct injunctions could prevent Google from doing certain things,” Roger Kay, an analyst with Endpoint Technologies Associates, told eWEEK June 24. Federal action could also spark “excessive caution on the part of Google trying to avoid getting near the tripwire, once the Department of Justice or whoever sets up such a thing.”

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Google E-Mails Show Value of Location Data – Mobiledia

May 4, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Internal Google e-mails shed light on the importance of location data for the company, underscoring the stakes in the recent privacy controversy over mobile positioning privacy.

The e-mails, unearthed as part of a ongoing lawsuit between the Mountain View, Calif.-based company and Skyhook over location data services, underline the company’s need for location data as a part of its mobile plans.

“I cannot stress enough how important Google’s wifi location database is to our Android and mobile product strategy,” wrote Steve Lee, Google’s location service product manager, to then-CEO Larry Page. “We need wifi data collection in order to maintain and improve our wifi location service.”

Location data possibly serves an important function for Google, helping the company get a fix on geolocation to deliver location-based mobile ads. But getting that kind of fast, accurate information can be difficult, and Wi-Fi positioning is often the only way to get the information that Google needs.

Getting a GPS fix on locations can take minutes, and may be impossible when indoors or in a big cities. By comparing nearby Wi-Fi networks to a database of networks with known positions, however, a phone can calculate location to within 100 feet.

But building a good database of networks is tricky because they must be constantly updated, since people change Wi-Fi routers and new networks appear all the time.

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Google Will Face Privacy Audits For The Next 20 Long Years (GOOG)

March 30, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Google has reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over Buzz, a social blogging service that the company introduced through Gmail last year.

As part of the deal, Google will be subjected to regular, independent privacy audits for the next 20 years. By then, soon-to-be CEO Larry Page will be 58 years old.

Buzz drew heavy criticism at launch in February 2010 for a glaring privacy flaw. When users turned it on, it suggested people to follow based on their Gmail contacts list and their most frequent email partners.

The problem: anybody following a user could automatically see all of his other Buzz contacts. So, for instance, your wife could see that you’re still exchanging lots of emails with your ex-girlfriend.

As the FTC put it, “Although Google led Gmail users to believe that they could choose whether or not they wanted to join the network, the options for declining or leaving the social network were ineffective.” Yikes.

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