Philip John

Tag: google

  • Web Startups are Threatening the Future of the ‘Net

    As we read about lay-offs at web companies and the big ‘crunch’ are web start-ups threatening to create a reputation for the internet as a harbour of bad business decision-makers?

  • Stop calling Chrome an operating system, it’s JUST A BROWSER!

    Why is it so many people are jumping up and down shouting “OPERATING SYSTEM” now that Chrome is out. I mean come on, out of all the big four (IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera) it’s the most basic browser you can possible get. I has a grand total of 4 options (okay, I’m exaggerating slightly) and…

  • Okay, I give in – My take on Google Chrome

    I’ve resisted up until now, but I can’t hold it in any more. I feel like the odd one out. The only person not shouting about Google Chrome. Even my mates where talking it up down the local watering hole. They’re usually my break from internet-related topics! I’ve been a FireFox user since version 0.8…

  • Yahoo Takes on Google Analytics

    Just over a month ago I received an e-mail from IndexTools to let me know, as a customer, that the company was to be acquired by Yahoo. I’ve been a consistent user of IndexTools for a good few years now, having discovered the tool whilst evaluating analytics vendors for my previous company, so it was exciting news to…

  • Yahoo Sucker Punches Microsoft

    I had to laugh when I read the news on the BBC site this morning that Yahoo and Google have teamed up in an advertising trial. For two weeks, Google will serve 3% of Yahoo’s ads. The article doesn’t mention which ads – I’m presuming pay-per-click ads on search results. The move is clearly intended to fend…