Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

I haven’t seen too much of this circulating the Internet, despite it being pretty big news: Google is using sponsored posts to promote it’s search engine website in Asia. Story at TechCrunch. Google is undoubtedly the dominant search engine globally, but in a few countries such as Korea (Naver), Russia (Yandex) or Japan, local competitors [...]

*groan* I know there will be knuckleheads and Google cheerleaders who will rabidly support anything the New Big Brother (aka Google) will do, but Google’s new Latitude REALLY is taking things way, way too far. This is just BAD. The company plans to launch software called Latitude on Wednesday that lets mobile phone users share [...]

I don’t like the sounds of this. Google (surprise, surprise) intends to wipe out the concept of the personal computer by creating and hosting a service where everyone’s files and data are in a central location. Google is to launch a service that would enable users to access their personal computer from any internet connection, [...]

Creeepy. As much as I like demographics, this still creeps me out: Google is using web searches to track the spread of the flu. In other words, spying. On people, who use Google, for web searches. And then making it into a huge spreadsheet, in a way. Turns out a lot of ailing Americans enter [...]

Yep, Google is in the news again. And they’ve got a new thing going again. They’ve created a blog tracking service, which is basically a listing of blogs that Googlebot has crawled, and presents blog discussions by topics. For example, let’s say you wanted to know what bloggers were saying about a particular acne treatment; [...]