Google secrets

[SPURSX3]

Feeva.com is google's free Wifi service being used in parts of Cali and in New York, San Francisco for sure has it.. not sure about LA.

Odeo.com is Googles podcast load and download site, I noticed that Yahoo just released it's own...I gotta say thought that the sound quality I am getting from Odeo is surprisingly impressive.  Maybe it's just the podcast...

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Google is shaking up the big internet players...its kinda funny.  Soon as Google announced Google Talk, almost days later, AIM has a new all in one client in the works.  Suppose to have all the features Google Talk has.

Now you see Yahoo trying to play catch up with the podcasts.  Also MSN/Yahoo are trying to get a Google Earth type service going also.

[SPURSX3]

Google is shaking up the big internet players...its kinda funny.  Soon as Google announced Google Talk, almost days later, AIM has a new all in one client in the works.  Suppose to have all the features Google Talk has.

Now you see Yahoo trying to play catch up with the podcasts.  Also MSN/Yahoo are trying to get a Google Earth type service going also.

Google is going for TV, they are trying to get network tv to play on the internet through them as well as make thier own channel - ONLINE and possibly tv.

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x3 check this out

http://print.google.com/

Just saw this early this morning when I was pretending to work!  Pretty cool stuff but I wonder if they will be getting sued over this real quickly here.

[Ted]

Sued by whom?

[SPURSX3]

x3 check this out

http://print.google.com/

Just saw this early this morning when I was pretending to work!  Pretty cool stuff but I wonder if they will be getting sued over this real quickly here.

Actually google has been out for over a year now.  they will only show some pages of copywritten material, if it's not copywrite protected then they will show the whole thing.

[westkoast]

Sued by whom?

The publisher.  If you have a google account you can actually see the whole entire page and read it.  You dont get the whole entire book but you may get enough of the text from the book to where you would not need to go buy it.

edit: people apparently have tried to sue them

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=2228

[Ted]

Sued by whom?

The publisher.  If you have a google account you can actually see the whole entire page and read it.  You dont get the whole entire book but you may get enough of the text from the book to where you would not need to go buy it.

edit: people apparently have tried to sue them

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=2228

Google doesn't post the books unless the publisher actually uploads a PDF to ftp.google.com. We're actually doing this at my publishing company. It's pretty cool really.

Somebody searches Google Print for a certain subject or term, Google gives them a section of the book. Say the best hit for your search comes up on page 82 of a book. Google Print will let you look at pages 78-86 for free. If you want to see more, you have to buy the book of course.

I think most publishers will quickly get on board with this. Google will have an absurdly huge database of books to draw from.

[westkoast]

Sued by whom?

The publisher.  If you have a google account you can actually see the whole entire page and read it.  You dont get the whole entire book but you may get enough of the text from the book to where you would not need to go buy it.

edit: people apparently have tried to sue them

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=2228

Google doesn't post the books unless the publisher actually uploads a PDF to ftp.google.com. We're actually doing this at my publishing company. It's pretty cool really.

Somebody searches Google Print for a certain subject or term, Google gives them a section of the book. Say the best hit for your search comes up on page 82 of a book. Google Print will let you look at pages 78-86 for free. If you want to see more, you have to buy the book of course.

I think most publishers will quickly get on board with this. Google will have an absurdly huge database of books to draw from.

You actually think it will help people purchase more books though?

This comes close to eliminating the library all together.  The last few essays I had to write for college I only used small sections from 2 books as refrences and the rest were online sources.  I actually went to the library to get the books but if I didnt have to get up because I can find it online, damn right I am gonna do it.

[SPURSX3]

Google is about to take on EBAY.  the day before yesterday google loaded "base.google.com" and online auction site, which would tie in to googles new online pay service "google wallet" the site was up for a few hours and was since taken down, it is being reported that this is still in development, but the fact that they made it "live" for a few hours is probably a clue that it will be ready to go shortly...  not only will they generate money from auctioning like EBAY does, but since they would also own the payment service they could also add that to thier wealth as well.

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Google is about to take on EBAY.  the day before yesterday google loaded "base.google.com" and online auction site, which would tie in to googles new online pay service "google wallet" the site was up for a few hours and was since taken down, it is being reported that this is still in development, but the fact that they made it "live" for a few hours is probably a clue that it will be ready to go shortly...  not only will they generate money from auctioning like EBAY does, but since they would also own the payment service they could also add that to thier wealth as well.

Not to mention being able to serve their text ads in online auction pages.  I use to do a little bit of web marketing for a company out here in Southern California and I can tell you that those text ads generate big bucks.  Four of the clients that company had were spending between 250 and 500 bucks a month on Google Adwords and Overture.  Now that Google serves more ads I would imagine that they've shifted more money to Adwords.