Search behemoth Google has acquired DoubleClick for $3.1 billion, following a bidding war with Microsoft, AOL and (allegedly) Yahoo!. The sale gives Google access to
After over thirty years in private beta, Google’s Gmail is finally available to the general public. It’s a pretty good offering too: Gmail’s spam protection
He-of-many-Riks Lomas has launched Microsummaries.org, an online resource dedicated to the Microsummaries feature in Firefox 2. Microsummaries – next big thing or white elephant? More
Google have launched Google Docs, yet another online application. Merging Google Spreadsheets with Docs (originally Writely, purchased by Google earlier this year), the service is
Google seem set to purchase video sharing site YouTube in a staggering $1.6 billion deal, if rumours are to be believed. Google’s own video service
Google have launched Google Image Labeler, a “game” created to help improve the quality of search results returned by Google Images. It’s an intriguing concept:
Goggles is a fun flight simulator game that uses graphical data from Google Maps. A great idea from Mark Caswell-Daniels.
SitePoint have published “The Ultimate SEO Guide” – a comprehensive article covering the fundamentals of search engine optimisation, written by Shirley Kaiser. The guide includes
Yahoo! have launched a radical overhaul of their site this week. The emphasis seems to be on usability and speed of navigation: the homepage still
The popular SitePoint author Matt Mickiewicz has interviewed Jakob Nielsen, the usability evangelist (or usability fetishist, depending upon your perspective), on AJAX (deemed “irrelevant”), contextual