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Google turns adSense into potential smut distributor

How far is Google willing to go sell advertisements? Google and Creator of ‘Family Guy’ Strike a Deal While, “Family Guy” can be funny at times, there’s a part of the show that doesn’t sit well with me as the father of 3 kids - with 1 or 2 more on the way (we’ll find out the exact number on Wednesday...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 06-30-2008
Filed under: Internet, Chimping, Chimpin', Google
Do *you* Yahoo?

John posted an interesting table showing how the various parts of Yahoo rank. http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jgormly/archive/2008/07/03/what-s-good-about-yahoo.aspx I looked down the list and, frankly, the only service of Yahoo’s that I still use is Flickr . Once upon a time, I swore by Yahoo’s...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 07-03-2008
Filed under: Internet, Search, Google, Yahoo
Fortune magazine’s “Best Company to Work For” raises in-house child care prices for employees

“There are many things about Google that are not great, and merit improvement,” blogged Sergey Solyanik, who recently returned to Microsoft after a stint at Google. “There are plenty of silly politics, underperformance, inefficiencies and ineffectiveness, and things that are plain stupid.” Starting,...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 07-05-2008
Filed under: Internet, Industry News, Google
Google News Alerts gone crazy

I receive Google News Alerts in email to keep track of certain topics around the web. These usually work great, except today, I think Google is having trouble figuring out what language to send me. Here’s a recent one for InstallShield with German and French entries: And, here’s one for the System...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 07-26-2008
Filed under: Internet, Messaging, Google
Chrome user or not - watch out for GoogleUpdate.exe

To update Chrome, Google installs a startup app in the HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run key in the registry. The program is called GoogleUpdate.exe and it seems to run periodically and of its own volition. If you have Chrome installed, check your processes for this app running...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 09-03-2008
Filed under: Internet, Google, Chrome
NetApplications indicates Chrome is losing ground?

Not that it had much ground to start with, but NetApplications has been tracking Google’s Chrome. From their numbers, though, I don’t see much of a drop-off. Except I do see that Safari gained some ground – which to me indicates that NetApplications isn’t tracking Chrome as well as they could...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 09-19-2008
Filed under: Internet, Internet Explorer, Google, IE8, Chrome
NetApplications indicates Chrome is losing ground?

Not that it had much ground to start with, but NetApplications has been tracking Google’s Chrome. From their numbers, though, I don’t see much of a drop-off. Except I do see that Safari gained some ground – which to me indicates that NetApplications isn’t tracking Chrome as well as they could...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 09-19-2008
Filed under: Internet, Internet Explorer, Google, IE8, Chrome
Chrome user or not - watch out for GoogleUpdate.exe

To update Chrome, Google installs a startup app in the HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run key in the registry. The program is called GoogleUpdate.exe and it seems to run periodically and of its own volition. If you have Chrome installed, check your processes for this app running...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 09-03-2008
Filed under: Internet, Google, Chrome
Google News Alerts gone crazy

I receive Google News Alerts in email to keep track of certain topics around the web. These usually work great, except today, I think Google is having trouble figuring out what language to send me. Here’s a recent one for InstallShield with German and French entries: And, here’s one for the System...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 07-26-2008
Filed under: Internet, Messaging, Google
Fortune magazine’s “Best Company to Work For” raises in-house child care prices for employees

“There are many things about Google that are not great, and merit improvement,” blogged Sergey Solyanik, who recently returned to Microsoft after a stint at Google. “There are plenty of silly politics, underperformance, inefficiencies and ineffectiveness, and things that are plain stupid.” Starting,...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 07-05-2008
Filed under: Internet, Industry News, Google

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