I just finished reading David Pogue’s review of Google Desktop when I noticed a video box on the sidebar. Video supplement and The New York Times? Interesting. David Pogue compares Windows XP’s built-in search to Google desktop complete with a picture of a girl plugging her nose and David dancing to Who Let the Dogs Out by Baha Men….
Category Archives: Google
Google Desktop Search
Google Labs released Google Desktop Search beta this morning. Google Desktop Search allows users Windows 2000 and Windows XP to search their e-mail, AOL instant message sessions, Internet Explorer browser history, as well as text and Microsoft Office documents. Google Desktop Search uses your Web browser as its management interface. Connect to 127.0.0.1:4664 and you are greeted by a familiar Google search layout with a Desktop addition. I am able to access the Web interface using Intenet Explorer and Firefox but I am greeted with an incompatible browser message when using Opera. You have the option of including secure…
Evan Williams leaving Google
Evan Williams is leaving Google. Evan is the founder of Pyra Labs and creator of Blogger, which was sold to Google in 2003. Whatever Evan ends up doing it should be interesting. Good luck! I have enjoyed your pictures lately and I intend to stay tuned in many formats….
Google Browser employees
NY Post: “Based on the half-dozen hires in recent weeks, Google appears to be planning to launch its own Web browser and other software products to challenge Microsoft.”…
Google biodiesel San Francisco shuttle
Google now offers shuttle service from San Francisco to Mountain View every day. The shuttle averages 155 employees a day and has wireless Internet access onboard. Sweet! Makes all the city folk want work at Google even more than before….
Google looking for Executive Protection Specialist
Google is looking to hire persons as an Executive Protection Specialist. Trained in protective driving and knowledge of surveillance, counter-surveillance and technical surveillance countermeasures. I am sure this is common practice among Fortune 500 companies but the times are changing for Google….
Larry Page and Sergey Brin interviewed in Playboy
The September 2004 issue of Playboy features a seven-page interview with Larry Lage and Sergey Brin. The interview occurred on April 22-a week before Google filed its registration statement. The interview may violate Google’s quiet period and result in a cooling off period imposed by the SEC….
Google IPO site is live
Google’s IPO site is now live. You can access the prospectus, watch the management presentation (27 minutes 6 seconds), and request a bidder ID….
Google S-1/A Filing
Google filed a S1/A with the SEC this morning. Among the changes are a list of subsidiaries (exhibit 21.01). Applied Semantics, Kaltix, Neotonic, and Orkut are listed as subsidiaries….
Selling a Google Gmail account is a prohibited action
Google updated their Gmail program policies as of June 28, 2004. Users may not “sell, trade, resell or otherwise exploit for any unauthorized commercial purpose or transfer any Gmail account.”…