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Strong voices against Google earth

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Strong voices against Google earth

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Latest releases from the web master world isn’t that pleasing for the Google giant as even, its exclusive feature of  Google earth which presents the online view of cities and places around the globe has been questioned when it matters to the freedom and rights of citizenships. Hence, Google is now answerable to a multitude of questions from the Japanese experts as they insist on making a strong argument that Google earth will bring serious consequences to the safe and free living of people around the globe.

Majority of lawyers and university professors from Japan had clubbed together to raise their protest against the IT giant Google and as far as their thoughts and policies are concerned, Google is publicly violating the very fundamental right of an individual and the citizens have to make their each and every routine step thinking that they all are continuously monitored by an IT force of the world, which basically is a denial of free living and survival.

The protest against this is expected to hit the high note in coming days, as the Japanese lawyers and experts declare that time has passed by to stop broadcasting the street wise and town wise online coverage made by Google earth.

Google and Microsoft being sued by Cygnus

Monday, December 29th, 2008

According to the recent news from the world of webmasters, search engine giants, Microsoft and Google has been sued by a company called Cygnus Systems. This is over the patent of icon Software infringement. The leading company Apple is also involved in the list of companies sued by Cygnus.

The company had already claimed that it holds the patent rights on a feature used by browsers. This feature for common file preview is being used by operating systems for showing the snapshots of files to users, before being opened. The company’s court filings, declare that Windows Vista, Google chrome etc are using this feature.

The company has the rights for the System and the patent of the management of the iconic software. The company had applied for this in the year 2001 and the US Patent and Trademark office granted this in March 2008.

The company is now investigating on some other potentially infringing products, which they have already identified. It is expected that the company will be trying to file suits against several other companies apart from Google, Apple and Microsoft. The company will be publishing this list in a short while when they go for court filing against them.

Images with Google adwords

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Things keep changing when it comes to tools we use to strengthen SEO aspects. As such, it should come as no surprise if you see images for certain adwords. So, if you’re searching on Google, you may see the option of show products from. This will show up on the plus box and if you click on it, it’ll show you further listings that have attached images. Now, the most unsettling reality of these images is the amount of space they’re taking up.

The idea of ads is not too surprising because in the past adwords have been associated with videos related to them, and now there’s images. Google is surely taking a very competitive approach in regards to adwords and checking out many permutations and combinations to see which of their results gain maximum acceptance. Google’s testing of product results in adwords has been ongoing, and previously the Google base was in the forefront.

This new feature does not alter free results but instead pushes other ads towards the right. The image implementation will not show up on all your searches right away. Google is also attempting to check banner ads in image searches. The changes can bring about pronounced differences.