Google Fixes Chrome's End User Terms Of Service

The old Terms of Service agreement was seen by many in the Internet community as Google being evil by asserting ownership over its users' work.

The old TOS stated "By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display, and distribute any Content which you submit, post, or display on or through, the Services."

(Source: http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210500008&subSection=Enterprise+Applications)

To make the story short, many Internet users complaint about the Google Chrome TOS as being evil by asserting ownership over its user's work. Google immediately updated the Terms of Service as remedy.

Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw

After just a few hours of launching Google Chrome beta internet browser, here's a quick discovery of it's vulnerability through webkit and java bug.

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Google’s shiny new Web browser is vulnerable to a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks.

Just hours after the release of Google Chrome, researcher Aviv Raff discovered that he could combine two vulnerabilities — a flaw in Apple Safari (WebKit) and a Java bug discussed at this year’s Black Hat conference — to trick users into launching executables direct from the new browser.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1843

Google Chrome

Google just released the BETA version of Chrome, it's own internet browser. So aside Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla (firefox), Netscape, AOL browser and other internet browser, let's add Google Chrome to the list. To tell you frankly, I'm only using Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, but will definitely check out Chrome for sure.

Here are some noted features:

• One box for everything. Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages.


• Thumbnails of your top sites. Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.


• Shortcut for your apps. Get desktop shortcuts to launch your favorite web applications.


• Safe browsing. Google Chrome warns you if you're about to visit a suspected phishing, malware, or otherwise unsafe website.


• Crash control. This is a cool feature, every tab you're using is run independently in the browser. So if one application crashes it won't take anything else down.


• and more.

Only 475KB file to download and quick to install approx. within 5 min. I'm surfing already with Google Chrome. Go check it out yourself, visit http://www.google.com/chrome

Share your feedback with us. Your truly, KING.NET

Whaddya know? Google Ad Manager provide tool to manage your online ad sales and inventory.

Great to know that Google is now providing free ad manager just like having your own hosted open source ad manager (phpad). The service is still in beta and currently a free service to use. I'm hoping that they will offer this service free of charge after the beta stage. Here's a few words from Google Ad Manager.

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Google Ad Manager is a hosted ad management solution that can help you sell, schedule, deliver, and measure all of your directly-sold and network-based inventory.

• Simple, intuitive user interface: Decrease training time and trafficking steps with simplified tagging and inventory management.


• Google serving speed and reliability: Ensure quicker ad delivery and fewer reporting discrepancies.


• Significant cost savings! Pay no I.T. infrastructure, maintenance, or bandwidth costs.

Take a tour of Ad Manager:

https://www.google.com/admanager/login/en_US/tour.html

Try it now, you can use your existing adsense account: http://www.google.com/admanager

Android Demo

The Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies, is developing Android: the first complete, open, and free mobile platform.




Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz discuss the availability of the SDK, that it will be open source in the future, and demo applications on the Android platform.

Google retiring Adsense Referrals

I received this email today from Google Adsense regarding retiring Adsense Referrals. It's time to update your website if you are using the service before last week of August 2008.

Here's the full email message:
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Thank you for participating in the AdSense Referrals program.We’re writing to let you know that we will be retiring the AdSenseReferrals program during the last week of August. We appreciateyour patience during this transition and here are some alternativeoptions to consider:

* Google Affiliate Network: As part of the integration ofDoubleClick, the DoubleClick Performics Affiliate Network will nowoperate as the Google Affiliate Network for advertisers targetingusers located in the United States. Similar to the AdSenseReferrals program, the Google Affiliate Network enables publishersto apply for advertiser programs and get paid based onadvertiser-defined actions instead of clicks or impressions. Forfurther details, please visit:www.google.com/ads/affiliatenetwork.

* AdSense for content ads: If you have less than three AdSensefor content ad units on a page, you may wish to replace thereferral ad units with standard AFC ad units.

If you currently use referral ads, either to promote Googleproducts or offerings from AdWords advertisers, AdSense Referralscode will no longer display ads beginning the last week of August.We encourage you to take the following steps before the product isretired:

* Remove the referral code from your site(s): Please take amoment to remove all referral code from your sites before the lastweek of August, so you can continue to effectively monetize yourad space. * Run and save all referrals reports on your desktop: Createand save all reports related to the referrals program on yourdesktop, so you continue to have access to your valuable campaigninformation

Why is this happening?
We're constantly looking for ways to improve AdSense by developingand supporting features which drive the best monetization resultsfor our publishers. Sometimes, this requires retiring existingfeatures so we can focus our efforts on the ones that will be mosteffective in the long term. For this reason, we will be retiringthe AdSense Referrals program. If you have any additionalquestions, please visit our Help Center:http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?topic=14882

Sincerely.
The Google AdSense Team

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Google Launches Affiliate Advertising Network, Courtesy of DoubleClick

Amazon, watch out. Earlier today, Google launched an affiliate ad network. Or, rather, it rebranded Performics, the affiliate ad network that came along with its purchase of DoubleClick, as the “Google Affiliate Network.” As with other affiliate networks such as Amazon’s, participating Website publishers get paid a fee for each referral that results in a sale. Existing advertisers include Bank of America, Barnes & Noble, Citi, Target, and Verizon.

The service isn’t yet integrated into Google AdSense (publishers and advertisers still have to set up separate accounts), but that would be a logical next step. An integration with AdSense could add a contextual element to the affiliate ads placed through the network. The more relevant Google can make those affiliate links, the more that consumers will actually click through and buy (in theory).

Source: TechCrunch

Microsoft Buys Navic for TV Ads

Microsoft failed to get Yahoo to increase their online search presence and go head to head with Google. Well, Microsoft move on and acquired Navic networks to extend its ad platform to television.

About Navic:
Navic's technology is transforming television advertising through sophisticated campaign management tools that use real-time audience measurement data to optimize the delivery and placement of targeted interactive media. Navic's closed-loop solutions are designed to ensure continued campaign success across local or vast geographical areas that span multiple MSO divisions and platforms.

In the news:
Buying Navic is also a way to keep pace with Google, which is making a push to enter the estimated $80 billion TV ad market. McAndrews said Navic differs from Google's approach by working directly with cable companies versus satellite services, allowing greater targeting and not forcing broadcasters to use an auction. Project Canoe, which recently recruited Aegis Media Americas CEO David Verklin to head it, is attempting to bring ad targeting to TV through a consortium of cable companies.

"Our ultimate goal is to take the things you can do on the Internet, including targeting and accountability, to television," McAndrews said. "We see TV looking a lot like the Internet.
Source: Adweek.com

Another Yahoo and Google news

According to Michael Arrington of Founder and Editor of TechCrunch, "Google taking Yahoo out of the game long term". This is why I don't like this idea, instead let Microsoft be part of Yahoo Search to combine the no.2 and no.3 search company to compete with Google to avoid monopoly in search engine business.

Introducing third-party ads on the Google content network

The Google content network now accepts display ads served from qualified third-party vendors. Third-party ad serving has been a longstanding request from top brand AdWords advertisers who use third parties to create and manage their online campaigns. Initially, we will be only accepting third-party ads in English, but we hope to expand to other languages soon.

Making the Google content network more accessible to large brand advertisers also benefits AdSense publishers and end users. Third-party ad serving will introduce a greater variety of advertising into the Google content network, increase the inventory of quality display ads competing to show on AdSense publisher sites, and offer more engaging ads for end users. In the long run, we believe the increased inventory and ad competition will result in increased revenue for many AdSense publishers.

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