September 16, 2008

Financial sites only like IE?

by Brian Turner

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thank you for visiting!Bloomberg has become the latest site in the financial sector which doesn’t like browsers outside of IE.
At present, any attempt to access Bloomberg.com in Mozilla Firefox 2 results in a blank white page.
It looks like this is probably […]



September 15, 2008

Hurricane on Wall St: Lehman bust; Merrill bought

by Brian Turner

It was like a hurricane. Within a single weekend two of the biggest investment banks in the US were destroyed. In doing so, the worst of the Credit Crunch may be over, and the real beginnings of a credit recovery may arise in its wake.

The news may seem distant to everyday business, but Wall St […]



September 13, 2008

How Google destroyed $1 billion of United Airlines

by Brian Turner

There are few better reasons for keeping careful control of your content than the story of how Google News left United Airlines losing $1billion in share value.
The situation:
- The South Florida Sun Sentinel website has a “most read today feature”
- The South Florida Sun Sentinel website is crawled by the Google News bot
- The […]



September 6, 2008

Google: trapped in its own search box

by Brian Turner

Google as a brand has become synonymous with search - heck it’s even a verb. You don’t use search - you Google for something.
Yet Google’s powerful brand connection with search hasn’t allowed the brand to lead in other areas, despite Google’s repeated attempts to broaden its reach.
Conversely, other brand names have failed to lead in […]



Android gets cold reception

by Brian Turner

The FT are reporting that the mobile industry is giving Google’s Android a pretty cold reception:
Critics leave Google’s Android phone on hold

If the iPhone has been a text-book case of how to develop and market a new consumer electronics product, Android is the opposite, according to industry experts.

The key objections appear to hinge on the […]



September 2, 2008

Cuil crawlers crashing websites

by Brian Turner

Recent search engine start-up Cuil has been accused of running a rogue crawler that crashes websites.
Twiceler, the software crawler which is supposed to search the internet and index pages, is alleged to ignore robots.txt protocols - and additionally, of generating random URLs to locate pages, rather than follow links as other crawlers do.
According to James […]



Google Chrome - the Google Browser finally launching

by Brian Turner

After years of speculation, Google have finally announced that they are launching their own Google Browser - known as Google Chrome.
Google Blogoscoped provides a detailed run down on details prematurely released by Google, but this include:
- Google Chrome is an open-source browser project
- JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8, to speed up script execution
- Special tabs […]