Google ripped off Yahoo!'s IE7 promo page?
[Via Matt Cutts]
jeremy zawodny posts
[Via Matt Cutts]
Filed under: Business, Finance, Web services, Google
Rumor Alert: Google Finance?
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 that rolls stock information, business news, and other relevant
Google content into one portal. Google PR is characteristically mum, saying only, "We’re always exploring
opportunities to expand our offerings, but don’t have anything to announce at this time." I agree with SEJ:
The fact that Google Finance has its own google.com URL (and not just an internal Google IP) would seem to indicate
that whatever it is, it's pretty close to launch. (And yes, the "logo" above is faked by me.)[Via Jeremy Zawodny]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
