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06/ 1/2005
From a recent interview, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt talked about the enterprise innovation strategy inside Google.
“We prefer them to run rampant,” said Schmidt. “The most clever ideas don’t come from the leaders, but rather from the leaders listening and encouraging and kind of creating a discussion,” he said. “Wander around … and try to find the new ideas.”
Google encourages its engineers to spend 20 percent of their time on “something of the engineer’s own choosing,” with the idea that focusing resources on activities that are not directly related to the company’s core business will ultimately lead to new discoveries
The open source community has been particularly adept at attracting some of the “best and brightest of new talent,” in part because it is an international phenomenon, Schmidt said. “I know this is a shock, but not all the best programmers are sitting here in California,” he said.
Tags: business, google, innovation
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05/26/2005
Reuters reported:
Software giant Microsoft today launched MSN China, a Chinese-language portal with content provided by Chinese partners, The portal will offer much more communication, information and content than available through MSN’s other services, including Hotmail and Messenger, that are already available in China. Messenger has around seven million users there.
Nothing new on MSN China, the site are pretty much Chinese-style. No wonder that the portal are running through Shanghai MSN network Communications Ltd., a joint venture media company with government-operated Chinese firm Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd.
Keso point out that MSN China didn’t support Firefox browser which makes their layout totally massed up. He criticize the new launches of MSN is a bad move in China: no innovation, no new ideas, even no informative contents.
Chinese Government restrict solely foreign company to apply for a ICP license which forced Microsoft to establish a joint venture company in order to obtain a content provider license. From the starting point, MSN China will provide their major web services such as MSN messenger, MSN spaces, Hotmail in Chinese language. Microsoft also said it would buy assets from Chinese mobile phone software provider TSSX to offer MSN-based services to China’s 340 million mobile phone users. One thing strange is MSN China didn’t integrate their own MSN search but licensed Yahoo owned Chinese search engine “3721”.
Tags: china, internet
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05/12/2005
Recently, I had seen a lot of buzz around that Google plans a China operation in Shanghai, one of my blogger friend Topku (currently working at Baidu.com) had post a picture of Google’s office building on his blog couple weeks ago, Some sources point out that Google hired Victor Koo, the former COO of Sohu.com, to lead the company’s Mainland operations. Updates: rumor was declared by Google.
Yesterday, Retuer’s story confirmed that Google won a operation license in China. which will allows the web services leader to step further into China’s market. Google didn’t disclose the company’s hiring of Victor Koo, but some media sources says Mr. Koo was taking a vacation in South Africa and will back to Shanghai soon to take his new role.
Baidu, Google’s largest competitor in China which also planning a IPO to Nasdaq, didn’t make any direct response to Google’s new move. Baidu’s PR policy highly restricted their employees to contact outside media, so no one really get to know their marketing reaction after Google’s setp in.
Google currently has two job vacancies posted under the China section of its Web site, including a marketing communications manager and a marketing director. (It seems that Google take away of those hiring information today).
More curious of Google’s China operation is that how they will deal with Censorship in China to avoid evil.
Read more:
Retuer: Google steps up fight for the China market
Interfax: Approval of Google’s plans to expand Mainland China operations
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04/26/2005
Google was testing new RSS Adsense in Longhornblogs., the feed works fine in both RSS reader and Blogline’s services. I was wondering that How Bloglines’s RSS advertising business to compete with Adsense? Even if they didn’t launch it yet.
With site-targeted advertising, advertisers set a maximum CPM bid - that is, the price they are willing to pay for every thousand impressions - and pay on a per-impression basis. This means that, unlike pay-per-click ads, you’ll earn revenue each time a CPM ad is displayed on your site. For every eligible impression, both pay-per-impression ads and pay-per-click ads compete in the same auction. Our technology will automatically display the highest performing ads on your pages.
Because of these new features available for advertisers, the number of image ads in the Google advertising network will grow. To take advantage of these ads, and the increased earnings potential that they offer, we encourage you to review your image ads preference in your AdSense Account Settings page.
You can also choose your image ads preference on a format-by-format basis when generating your ad code. For publishers who want to fully leverage image ads, we now provide an image ads only selection.
[Via chris Pirillo]
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02/24/2005
Google released their new toolbar for IE and integrade a controversial feature called "AutoLink". If user switch it on it will turn street addresses into links to Google Maps, Book publishers' ISBN numbers trigger links to Amazon.com, among other things. After released, it was getting a lot of heat on the web.
Dave Winer had a article argued on this feature: Google's toolbar and content modification. He was thinking AutoLink may infract author's copyright and modified content with no authority.
All documents will have to contain a disclaimer that links contained within the page may not have been placed there by the author or organization whose copyright notice is on the page. Same is true for legal documents, end-user license agreements, rental agreements, etc.
Also here is a potential patant issues:
While Google pooh-poohed any comparison of its controversial AutoLink feature to Microsoft's SmartTag technology, Google's generation of dynamic links to maps and use of ISBN numbers to trigger links to booksellers cover the same territory as Microsoft's 2000 patent application for Providing electronic commerce actions based on semantically labeled strings, whose sole inventor - Jeff Reynar - was the lead SmartTag Program Manager while at MS and is reportedly now a Google Product Manager who's being credited as AutoLink's creator.
Where is the line for Google? Dave asked. Hopefully google will collect these reactions from the web and keep promising Larry Page's
Beta-Strategy.
Update: Jeffrey Zeldman note us How to block AutoLink in your page, Oops, If I need to install that much code on my server, Certainly I will either uninstall the toolbar or switch to Firefox.
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02/ 1/2005
According to FT New, China's biggest search engine company Baidu plans $200M IPO.
Baidu.com, China's largest web search engine, is preparing a New York listing that could raise more than $200m and test the appetite of international investors for Chinese internet stocks. The company, in which Google holds a stake, is backed by US venture capitalists and is believed to have appointed Credit Suisse First Boston and Goldman Sachs to manage the initial public offering. It is likely to take place on Nasdaq or the New York Stock Exchange.
Good news for some of my friends who are working at Baidu, Hopefully the lock-up period won't take that long.
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10/27/2004
A Italian journalist had discovered a new google Desktop search vulnerability. The flaw allows attackers to target users of the Google Desktop application and modify the contents of search pages by injecting scripts located on external servers. reported by Netcraft
Last week, Netcraft reported the first Google desktop expolit:
A British computer scientist has demonstrated that opportunities exist for fraudsters to launch phishing attacks using cross site scripting bugs on the very widely used Google sites.Using these conduits, fraudsters would be able to inject their own content onto the site in order to collect credit card details and other sensitive information.
This vulnerability was closed within two days of being reported to Google.
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06/ 8/2004
Google indexes more than 4.2 billion webpages,
Google spend $173m on maintain date centres and is expecting to spend about $250m in 2004
Google datacentres range from 10.000 to 80,000, concentration of computer power could be addressing more than 6,000 terabytes of data.
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04/14/2004
Researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China have devised a distributed information retrieval system that promises to help. The system could eventually become part of the Internet infrastructure as an extension of the domain name service.
The Domain Resource Integrated System (DRIS) provides a unified search interface for information that resides on Web pages and in databases.
The software organizes resources on three levels -- an individual domain like a university or company, a subnetwork domain like the China Education Network (CERNET) that includes all the universities in China, and a top-level domain like the Internet in China, he said. via AO
I am not sure what the system is, this kind of integrated system probably works with EDU network more than public internet.
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04/13/2004
A small cookie, If you are using any browser other than Internet Explorer in windows system. Like me, use Firefox which can't compatible with Google's toolbar. Use the following handy-tool to View Google PageRank without a Toolbar.
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04/ 7/2004
Google released a new free email system, Gmail. It's a really hot topic had been talked over the blog and internet. Gmail with the 1GB of storage really had sparked the flame. Rich Skrenta had a great post with in-depth perspective in Google, I was really trilled in the last paragraphs.
Google is a company that has built a single very large, custom computer. It's running their own cluster operating system. They make their big computer even bigger and faster each month, while lowering the cost of CPU cycles. It's looking more like a general purpose platform than a cluster optimized for a single application.
While competitors are targeting the individual applications Google has deployed, Google is building a massive, general purpose computing platform for web-scale programming.
This computer is running the world's top search engine, a social networking service, a shopping price comparison engine, a new email service, and a local search/yellow pages engine. What will they do next with the world's biggest computer and most advanced operating system?
Jason (from Kottke) also posts his personal opinion after reading Scrota's post. He predict: Google will be the biggest and most important company in the world in 5-8 years. How to imagine that in the future Google providing their service not only a search engine or Mail service, but also a smart operating system with handy interface, even a build-in Google powered office applications?
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02/ 7/2004
Google is the most popular search engine in the world. Right now UW (University of Washington) professor Joe Janes open the world first goole class for his graduate students.
This class — taught by University of Washington Information School professor Joe Janes — isn't a simple class on Web searching that one might find at a library or a community college. This is a graduate-level course (albeit only one credit) that explores Google as a cultural phenomenon, Google the business, the technology behind Google — and "Google the Ravager of Worlds."
Oh, my goodness! Google's founders may be very pround to heard this news. A "great company" whose researchers have a "high level of IQ" that remind him of “Microsoft 20 years ago." Says Mr.Gates in
WEF Davos 2004. Via
AO. Google is creating miracle.
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Google fans Nancy Blachman has put everything together about google and build up an elegant new Interactive online Google tuorial: Googleguide.com
GoogleGuide
Why Take The Google Guide Tutorial?
Google is so easy to use, why take this online tutorial? If you're like many people, you use only a fraction of Google's features and services. The more you know about how Google works, its features and capabilities, the better it can serve your needs.
Just as the best way to learn how to sail is to sail, the best way to learn how to search with Google is to search with Google. Consequently this Google tutorial contains many examples and exercises designed to give you practice with the material presented and to inspire you to find amusing or useful information.
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01/ 2/2004
Google buys search engine - PageRank RIP? New post on The Register
Google has bought Kaltix, a three-month-old, three-man Stanford startup that's working on personalized and context-sensitive search.
Actually Jeremy Zawodny's point that
PageRank is dead long time agao, MetaFilter's
Matt Haughey and web designer
Jason Kottke have acknowledged the problem
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10/ 9/2003
Matt Haughey worte up a great post on experiences with google's Adsense system. Totally make sense in my mind.
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09/12/2003
Google Search Feature List
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