One of my good friends in Israel has been working in Google Israel for quite some time now. When I came to visit him in my recent visit to Israel he took me up to see Google’s Tel Aviv office and the stunning views of southern Tel Aviv. The working environment in Google, as should [...]

Google’s China presence is growing with new China services for their local Guge coming out often. Google China (GuGe) has just released Google Pinyin, a Chinese IME to simplify typing in Pinyin to output Chinese characters. I think anybody using the default Windows Chinese IME has felt it’s a very frustrating tool, and most of my Chinese/Taiwanese [...]

I haven’t seen any announcements or mentions of this in either Chinese-related or IT-related blogs, but it seems that Google Translate is finally BETA testing Traditional Chinese, which is used in Taiwan, HK and some other Chinese communities outside China. Although Altavista’s Babelfish has been providing this service for a while now, it always felt [...]

I’ve been running Google’s Adsense program on some of the sites that I’m in charge of, and every once in a while I encounter a very insensitive sometimes awful Google Adsense mistakes. The worst Adsense problems usually happen in regard to the Hebrew version, which seems completely out of control with ads running things like [...]

With all the massive media coverage over Google buying Youtube for the humble sum of 1.6 billion dollars, here's my tribute to this wonderful site with the top Asian videos on Youtube, ranked by popularity (top going down) : There's a story behind each and every one of those, but I'll let you look for [...]

Google has recently launched a new service that indexes archived news of the past 20 decades. This service allows easy searching of the Internet's news archive database, reading more about happenings in world's history. News and history junkies take heart: Google's new News Archive Search lets you search back over twenty decades worth of historical [...]