Posts Tagged ‘Google’

They just keep going and going: shortly after purchasing the rating-service Zagat, Google has now purchased the Berlin-based start-up DailyDeal.de, an online coupon site founded in December 2009. With the purchase, Google is making clear that it isn’t afraid of the online coupon market, and is signaling its intention to expand own service Google Offers to Europe. Read the rest of this entry »

Last week, the search engine giant Google announced its acquisition of the prestigious restaurant rating organization Zagat. Google executive Marissa Mayer stated that Zagat will become a “cornerstone” for Google’s local services division in the near future.
“Their iconic pocket-sized guides with paragraphs summarizing and ‘snippeting’ sentiment were “mobile” before “mobile” involved electronics,” continues Mayer. Read the rest of this entry »

Whoa, the search engine giant is throwing another punch: not only is the social network project Google+ Facebook’s biggest competition while still in its test phase, but Google has now taken over the deal provider The Dealmap.

The goal behind this is quite clear: the internet giant can further expand its own service for deals, Google Offers, which has been in the beta phase and only available for few American cities. Google would then become a powerful player in the couponing market. The Dealmap, which went live just last November, already has two million users and is available online and as a mobile application for several US cities as well as London. Read the rest of this entry »

Lary Page can be excited about the positive reception of the Google+ project and a record turnover for the second quarter of the year. Meanwhile, Facebook has received a poor grade in the subject of user satisfaction from a study.
The social media market is ready for a new player, according to the census administered by the 2011 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Business Report, which was conducted with the market research institute ForeSee Results. The social network Facebook received the poorest grade of all the social networks that were analyzed in customer satisfaction. The winner in the category for social media was Wikipedia. But who could have been in first place in the portal and search engine sectors? That’s right: Google. Because the study was conducted last month, Google+ is not included in the study, as the project wasn’t launched until afterwards. But according to a press release by ForeSee, the low results that Facebook has received give Google+ a good start, that is, if the service can offer users something better. Read the rest of this entry »

The highly anticipated Google+ project, which is Google’s latest attempt at creating a social network, is continuing to add to its features. After the previous release for Android, the service has now released a native app for iOS, which has already become a great hit: the app, which was released just a few days ago, has already become the top free app in the App Store. But can the search engine giant’s attempt at creating a social network really be a such a threat to Facebook, which continues to hold the post of most downloaded app of all time? Read the rest of this entry »

“This is pretty cool”, which is why we give a +1: Google is now offering a tool for small businesses that allows them to create a mobile internet site quickly – for free. Whoever visits http://sites.google.com/mobilize can create a mobile landing page with just a few clicks in just a few minutes. Read the rest of this entry »

For quite some time, the Google recommendation button with which users could rate websites or search results with “this is cool” was only available on the English version of google.com. As of this week, the search engine giant is making the +1 button available worldwide, starting with google.de, google.co.uk, and google.fr. More countries should be made available soon, according to the Google-Webmaster-Blog. As if that weren’t enough: at pretty much the same time, the company started up its social network project Google+ as an alternative to Facebook. Read the rest of this entry »

Even though the total number of users has gone down, according to US media reports, Facebook’s winning streak is holding up: the social network is expecting to double its 2010 profits through display advertising, launching the site to become the largest advertiser on the net, according to the research of eMarketer. Yahoo, the previous front-runner, will fall to second place, followed by Google in third. Read the rest of this entry »

Google just continues in the direction of Twitter and Facebook. The search engine has now integrated in addition to the two other social communities like Quora and Gowalla in its real-time search. User questions, answers, posts and ratings – all food for the lagging Google feature. However, with a “lucky” algorithm, the posts can also show up in the universal search.

Oh boy…it’s not really that much of a surprise, right? But the outrage is still quite prevalent. At a conference in the USA, IT specialists revealed that iPhones and iPads with UMTS interface save the locations of their users using mobile networks. What really gets the blood boiling is that this data is not encrypted and can be viewed by just about anyone with the help of some special software. Read the rest of this entry »