Archive for the ‘Majors’ Category

What’s this? The Hungarian Google? Gugl.Hu

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

What will happen when I press Keresés?

Microsoft To Acquire Ciao For $486 Million

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Or, “If you can’t beat’em, buy’em!”
An excerpt from today’s InformationWeek:
Ciao’s Web sites let users search for and buy a wide range of tech products while comparing prices from numerous online retailers. It operates sites in seven major European countries and languages. Ciao also recently launched Ciao.com, a beta site aimed at the U.S. market.
Ciao users […]

The Age of Google (Part 4 of 4)

Monday, August 25th, 2008

(The previous installment: Web 2.0)

It is hard to imagine how a barely 10-year-old company has been the logo of our age from several years already. But Google does it. Google has so far satisfactorily solved two major demands of our age—information overload (through Google search) and generic globalization (through being the leader of Web […]

The Age of Google (Part 3 of 4)

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

(The previous installment: open sesame)

Google is a legendary company of Web search. However, it would not have been a legend if there were no Web 2.0. On the other hand, Web 2.0 might not have been so phenomenal if there were no Google. Google and Web 2.0 are twins. If we watch closer to the […]

The Age of Google (Part 2 of 4)

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

(the previous installment: The Age of Google (1))
It is an old Arabic story. By accident, a poor Arabic young man named Ali Baba overheard a message spoken by a group of thieves—forty in total. From the message, he learned a tremendous amount of treasure hidden in a cave. The magic spell to open the […]

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