SI Works blogs by tag 'Google' (4)

A couple of days ago Google released a new experimental public DNS resolver.

Many people use OpenDNS as their public DNS server, we use them as fail overs for our dedicated servers. Unfortunately for us South Africa's internet is not yet as stable as we would like. 

From Initial tests access to Google's DNS servers is slightly faster with less latency than those of OpenDNS.

If your like us and host quite a few servers then having reliable and up to date DNS servers is important.

We'll be running a few tests over the next couple of weeks to see how these services respond.Just one more step in the Google domination.

How's this for some figures on making some cash, this is UK specific ONLY, excluding all other countries and the US, which is where google's the largest

How Big Is Google? Here's Another Measure

Rory Cellan-Jones, a blogger for the BBC, calculates an interesting statistic from Google's earnings release yesterday.

Google earned USD 803 million, about GBP 407 million, in the United Kingdom in the first quarter. If you assume that rate won't grow, that makes GBP 1.6 billion for the year. And since Google's British earnings are up 40 percent from a year ago, it is a safe bet it will grow.

That means Google will overtake the ITV television network as the biggest seller of advertising in Britain this year, Mr. Cellan-Jones figures. ITV sold about GBP 1.5 billion of advertising last year.

Britain's biggest commercial television business - the original "license to print money" - is about to be overtaken by an American upstart which only arrived in the UK in 2001.

That's a fair amount of money, stjoe

Seems like google has been busy with some experiments, pretty neat stuff yeh.

http://www.google.com/experimental

Seems they've come up with a few nice little bits, a good example is this timeline of the civil rights movement, impressive stuff, by the looks of things.

Then we've got google keyboard shortcuts, pretty neat actually, lets just hope they can add some more functionality to this, that would be superb!!

There are some others over there, but if you don't know all of google's products / services go on through and take a look at them all :)

Acting Yahoo CFO Susan Decker said that Yahoo! is hoping to gain market share from Google in search.

That's a pretty bold statement, considering that Google has been the market leader years on end now, and no doubt if they see the threat from any other company they've got the money and resources to pull something spectacular out the bag to gain back what Yahoo! thinks they've taken away.

Google currently has 48% market share that's almost half the market share, and the rest of the share is split between all other search engines, Yahoo! MSN, altavista, and numerous other claiming to be "the best"

Apparently after their successful launch of Panama, which by the sounds of things is their new ad placement technology secures richer and more quality adverts? hmmmm

In my own opinion, if you take a look at the Yahoo! website, its like a portal, however if you take a look at google's website, its simple, and gives you exactly what you are looking for, which in our days is most important as society is getting more and more impatient waiting for websites to load, cause they don't have time and on top of that get totally frustrated when they cant find what they are looking for.

At the end of the day, I more admire Google's effort, as it seems everyone is not copying their style and ideas, but none the less no one has been able to top them!

Read the full article on CNN