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Google Maps Meets YouTube

Philipp points to a nice mashup of Google Maps, where YouTube movies have been integrated. Fun!

Visit the Virtual Video Map

July 19th, 2006 Posted by Coolz0r | Culture, Google Maps, Services, General | 2 comments

Free Google WiFi is a fact

From Digg:

Google lights up their free wifi for the first time! The link is a Google map of access points and dead spots in the Mountain View area. Expect to see this officially launch later this summer.

Check it out on http://wifi.google.com/city/mv/apmap.html

July 19th, 2006 Posted by Coolz0r | Consumer Products, Products, Services, General | one comment

Google-based Malware Search Tool

The Register points to a handy tool for malware seekers:

The creator of the Metasploit hacking tool has released code that can be used to find malicious software using specially-crafted Google search queries. The malware search engine created by H.D. Moore can be found here.

Google’s search engine indexes not only file types such as PDFs and HTML files (for example), but executable files as well. Many, but not all, of these hits will correspond to legitimate download sites. Moore’s malware search engine has been coded with around 300 malware signatures (plans are afoot to expand this database). The search engine searches the web to find live samples of executable files associated with these signatures.

i don’t know who would actually actively search for malware, but hey, now you can!

Read more on The Register

July 19th, 2006 Posted by Coolz0r | Controversy, Culture, Search, General | no comments

ComScore Update

Search Engine Guide points to the release of the latest comScore numbers and summarizes:

it turns out that both Google and Yahoo! have grown by half a percentage share since last month.
MSN on the other hand slid down 0.3% while Ask fell 0.2%.
Overall search numbers were in decline, dropping 6% from May’s numbers.
Nonetheless, June’s 6.4 billion searches still represented a nearly 30% increase over this time last year.
Google and Yahoo! continue to run neck and neck in the toolbar race, holding on to 49.6% and 46.1% respectively.

July 19th, 2006 Posted by Coolz0r | Ask, Stock Market, Yahoo, Microsoft, General | no comments

Google China And The Travel Consumer

HotelMarketing announces:

Google China will announce its future plans for the booming Chinese travel industry at the upcoming EyeforTravel Travel Distribution China 2006 conference to be held in Beijing 22-23 August. Johnny Chou, President of Sales and Business Development for the search engine giant will be presenting on a session discussing how Google is targeting the Chinese travel consumer and the merits of Search as a distribution channel.

This year the event has seen record bookings – a large proportion of which are senior travel executives from across mainland China all keen to form international partnerships and learn first hand from the excellent line up of speakers.

It’ll be interesting to see what Google will propose for this multi-billion consumer market.

July 19th, 2006 Posted by Coolz0r | Search Marketing, Culture, Advertising, General | no comments