In honor of Google’s 10th year anniversary, they’ve brought back their oldest available index dated 2001. Google only had over 1.3 billion webpages indexed that time and it’s a little nostalgic to do some ego-searching on that year.
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When I bumped into one of the Google Product Managers for SEA, I asked him why the Philippines (and the rest of South East Asia) doesn’t have enough hi-res imagery on Google Maps, he quips it takes time to gather all of these data. The recent GeoEye-Google partnership seems it will come sooner than later.
Continue reading ‘GeoEye takes more Google Satellite Images’
Six month after it was first introduced on a limited invite, Google Ad Manager has now opened its doors to the public. That’s if you already have an AdSense account.
Just got an email that my Feedburner account has been migrated over to a Google account. And thus, this blog will also have a new feed URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/yugatech.
The old Feedburner RSS will no longer work (the native WordPress RSS/ATom feeds do) but RSS to email subscribers will still get updates to their Inbox as usual. I’ve update the links and the rss meta to reflect this change.
Today, Google officially launched Knol to the public. We’ve almost forgotten about Google’s attempt to supplant Wikipedia in the content aggregation business but today it’s showing much promise, or so I hope.
Google gives its engineers 20% of their time for whatever persnal projects they want to take on. Some of the more famous products by Google came was borne out of this “20% project” like GTalk, Orkut and AdSense.
Continue reading ‘Lively: Google builds a Second Life clone’
A recent court ruling gave the go signal for Viacom to access Youtube user logs in the ongoing copyright lawsuit between the former and Google worth $1 Billion. Viacom, 1; Google/Youtube, 0.
I never thought this would happen know that Google is trying to move away from CPC and slowly pushing the CPA model but today, it announced that they will be retiring the AdSense Referrals program during the last week of August.
Continue reading ‘Google officially terminates AdSense Referrals’
Google Trends introduces a new measuring tool for websites and everybody else is calling it an Alexa-killer or Compete-killer. There’s only one big problem though — something’s missing in their graphs.
Yahoo! and Google today announced a non-exclusive AdSense for Search and AdSense for Content agreement. Omid Kordestani, Senior VP, Global Sales and Business Development spend a lot of time explaining on their blog what this deal is not about.
YouTube’s head of monetization, Shashi Seth, has now left Google to join a new start-up named Cooliris. He’s been working on YouTube as early as February 2007 but since then, there’s not much success with making money off the video sharing site.
Continue reading ‘YouTube: Why is it hard to monetize videos?’
It’s getting closer to the Philippines now. Inside Adsense just announced that Hong Kong and Hungary will be available to receive their AdSense payments via Electronic Fund Transfer (ETF). EFT directly deposits your AdSense earnings into your bank account, in your local currency, to greatly speed up and simplify the payment process.
Google needs to add a couple more thousand servers on its racks. Been getting a lot of these 502 Server Errors lately. This time, it’s the Ad Manager I can’t access for several hours now.
Carl Icahn, an erstwhile Yahoo shareholder wants to fire the entire Yahoo Board. In his letter to Yahoo, he claims buying $2.5 billion worth of Yahoo stocks to push his agenda. On the other hand, Facebook is accusing Google for invading user privacy with its Friend Connect.
After years of waiting for the guys from MeasureMap to update their awesome blog analytics service, they’ve actually done something there. This, according to a email they just sent a while ago.
Continue reading ‘MeasureMap converts to Google Analytics hybrid?’
Heard from the TWiT podcast that PC maker Dell made a deal with Google to load up all new Dell PCs with the Google Toolbar, PC Search and Web Search along with a co-branded homepage. Obviously, this co-branding is all about advertising and Dell and Google will share the profits from revenues taken from this.
Continue reading ‘Google blocks Yahoo on Default Search Settings’



































