Tag: GOOG

Google has beefed up its 411 voice search service with some directions. Google launched a 411 voice search at 1-800-GOOG-411 in April. The service allows users to call in a search query and get the result by voice. Now Google has integrated maps into the voice search. The 411 voice search service with maps works the same way, but during your call you would say "map it" to get a text message with ...

PRV Wire's Chris Tew has written an interesting editorial in which he argues that "There is one company that Google, Microsoft or Yahoo could acquire to ensure they will be well placed on the living room TV, and that company is TiVo." Chris rules out Microsoft because they've already got their foot in your living room with Windows Media Center and because TiVo runs on Linux. Yahoo! and TiVo ...

Seems like someone made a booboo at the close of the NASDAQ last Thursday, dropping Google shares $350. The supposed details of this massive error started at the close of NASDAQ when Google trading ended at 4pm with $387.12 a share. Shortly after closing, Google made an announcement that they had better then expected earnings, but less then the quarter before. 4:02 pm hit, and Google's shares ...

After last month's rumors, Google took nobody by surprise today with the launch of Google Finance. The new financial portal is pretty slick, with a similar feel to Google Maps. Stock charts are powered by Flash rather than AJAX and have a very flexible interface. Along with all the usual info like market cap, volume, and so on, Google Finance also annotates its charts with recent news articles ...

Another piece of Google's fabled web-based office suite falls into place with the big G's acquisition of Writely, the web-based word processor that we (and everyone else) have been keeping an eye on since its beta launch last year. To refresh your memory, Writely is the flagship product of Upstartle and lets people collaboratively write and edit documents in their web browser. Writely shares its ...

This one falls firmly into the wild speculation category, but Search Engine Journal is reporting that this morning it saw a number of referrals from google.com/finance. The requests came from Google IPs and the referrers included queries for "GOOG," Google's stock symbol, and led to SEJ's most recent articles about Google. This would seem to indicate that google.com/finance is a site ...