Google’s stock, after reaching an amazing all-time high closing price of $741.79 on November 6, has been in free-fall ever since, dropping 109 points in the last four days of trading. Clearly, a lot of investors and insiders were pleased at the chance to sell high, and did so, sending the stock down over 15%. Today was the first positive day, hopefully the end of that terrible trend, with the stock rising $28.48, or 4.5%
Take a look at this video, where Google explains Project Spectrum, an effort by Google to help those with autism take advantage of their gifts for working and expressing themselves visually using Google SketchUp, its free 3D modeling software:
It’s really great of Google to be working on this, and I really enjoyed seeing the various models the children had come up with. And really, who doesn’t think a semi truck with teeth is an improvement?
Read more about Project Spectrum here.
On a seperate note, Aidan Chopra has written one of those “For Dummies” reference books on how to use SketchUp. He’s also got over 60 videos on YouTube, which you can use to teach yourself how to be a better SketchUpper, especially if you’re too cheap to buy the book. If you aren’t use this referral link to buy the book at Amazon, currently available for $13-16.
(via Boing Boing)
Google’s Inside AdWords blog has announced that Clear Channel radio stations are now available in Google AdWords for advertisers to place radio ads on. 700 Clear Channel stations are all available, plus 1,000 other AM and FM stations, an average of 12 stations in each of the top 50 nationwide markets and stations in every conceivable station format.
This past Veterans Day, Google did something very different, and actually marked a holiday honoring our soldiers. The company, which had never ran a holiday logo for Memorial Day or Veterans Day, ran this:
It’s nice to see the company finally rectifying this one. I talked about this as far back as 2004 (on the old BlogSpot blog) how people were complaining that Google didn’t care about these holidays. Perhaps next year they’ll do one for Memorial Day, too.
Barry notes that Dogpile did good, too:
Gary notes that the U.K. versions of Ask and Yahoo included reminders to wear a poppy flower for Remembrance Day (same holiday, different name, plus the poppy tradition), but the U.S. search engines had nothing.
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