Not only is Google not dominant in the search market, but it doesn’t hold market power. Or at least that’s what chairman Eric Schmidt now claims. The freshly-published comments come in the wake of Schmidt’s appearance before the Senate’s Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights subcommittee in September. Back then he agreed that when it […]
I saw the “barrel roll” thing yesterday, and thought it was pretty sweet. It also made me feel a little sick. Haven’t tried it yet? Just go to Google and type in “Do a Barrel Roll” in the search field. Here are some more nifty and geeky Easter eggs from Google. [Via C-Net]
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Science funding is a little hard to come by in the US as of late. The good news is that in this Age of the Internet, the opportunity to help researchers get the support they need is just a click away. The SciFund Challenge is best described as Kickstarter for scientists: research teams post their […]
Did you know that the Internet (apparently) weighs about 50 grams? I didn’t! [vsauce]
Tomorrow is Wednesday and that means new comic book day! I recently had a friend tell me he is giving up smoking, and using all this cigarette money on comics. I told him he’d still need to come up with more money for all the titles he likes to read. Luckily this will be a […]
The folks at Google have recently released this brilliant ad showing what a store’s online checkout process might look like in real life to promote their kick ass analytics service. Check it out! [Youtube]
The beauty of the Internet is that as new tools grow, users develop their own customs and ideas of how to behave. But whereas social networks used to be the domain of the early adopters and techheads, Facebook is now… normal. In some countries a majority of Internet users are now members of the site, […]
Ever wanted to put a million dollar statue on your front lawn to impress your girlfriend’s parents? Well now you can! At least in the photos you send them of your not so swank duplex. Here are some examples of a new photo editing software to be demoed at SIGGRAPH Asia this December. A research […]
Netflix has achieved the unwelcome triple triumph of pissing off former customers, current customers and shareholders. But it’s the customers who’ve stayed with the company that are the real source of the problems. The company has been making the headlines after admitting that it had a net loss 810,000 subscribers in the past quarter, far […]