It's hard to believe, but today Apple's market cap of $222B is larger than that of Microsoft which finished at $219B. That makes Apple the biggest Tech company on the block today. Microsoft will probably reclaim the top spot tomorrow, but Steve Jobs must be happy to have surpassed its old nemesis. And Google? Today — Continue reading »
Google Secure Search
📆 May 23, 2010
Google has begun experimenting with securing its search site using TLS/SSL. This is the https scheme used by many ecommerce sites to encrypt web traffic between browsers and servers and keep the data safe from eavesdroppers. Not only is the data encrypted, but clicking on any results will not send the referrer information to the — Continue reading »
Pac-Man on Google
📆 May 21, 2010
This shows how often I actually Visit Google's homepage, as often as never. In honor of the 30th anniversary of the popular video game, Pac-Man, Google had a fully functioning game running on its homepage. And I had no idea about this until late tonight when I saw the news on a tech site. With — Continue reading »
Blocking Referrer (Referer) Header in Chrome
📆 May 17, 2010
I have been using the Google Chrome browser for quite a while now but the inability to block the Referrer header in Chrome has been a concern. Well, it was a concern until this past weekend when I got tired of waiting and wrote a Chrome extension to suppress it. I don't think Referer can — Continue reading »
YouTube Search Stories Video Creator
📆 April 30, 2010
Found this new toy on YouTube today that lets you create a video on the fly, kind of. It's called Search Stories Video Creator. Basically you give it a number of search terms and set the target search engines to some of Google's properties, like web search, news search, or Google maps. Click a button — Continue reading »
Google Stock Drop
📆 April 18, 2010
Google earns $2 billion in its last quarter and investors reward it with a 7.5% drop in share? Here's my list of why it dropped: People like to sell into the earnings news. With not much more to expect until the next earnings report, the money is best invested elsewhere. Some companies just can't get — Continue reading »
Yahoo Publisher Network Ends
📆 March 31, 2010
Can't say I was surprised when today I received an email from Yahoo announcing the end of the Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN). Yahoo introduced YPN a few years ago as a competitive product to Google Adsense. Those are the text and graphic banners you see on many sites (including this page) with a small type — Continue reading »
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