Tag archive: Dave Girouard

In a move designed to expand its footprint in cloud computing—and crank up the intensity of its competition with Microsoft—Internet giant Google has announced it is launching a reseller program for its Google Apps suite of cloud-based business productivity software. Under the program, Google is throwing open its doors to 50 companies, who—if accepted into the program—will be able to buy the Google Apps Premier Edition… Read More

Google has added a new component to its Google Apps Premier Edition service offering: video sharing via a new offering called Google Video. Google video lets users browse to find a video on their local system, then upload it to Google to share with colleagues, friends, or the whole world. Videos can be viewed in standard Web browsers (even on the Flash-free iPhone), and users can add ratings and tags to video offers, and download videos… Read More

After gaining steam with Google Docs, Google’s Web-based alternative to Microsoft’s traditional Office suite, the Menlo Park giant rolled yet another Microsoft competitor onto the Web on Thursday. Google Sites challenges Microsoft Sharepoint by offering a simplified way to build team Web sites where groups can easily collaborate and share information with one another. “Creating a team web site has always been too… Read More

For less than the price of one share of Google’s coveted stock, small business owners can now buy their very own implementations of the company’s search algorithm for their business Web sites. Google recently announced hosted search for small businesses which is hosted on their Custom Search. This gives a new option for small businesses wanting to implement a reliable search without ponying up $1,995 for the Google Search… Read More

Last week GrandCentral was Google’s latest new toy, this week it’s Postini. The Internet giant announced its $625 million acquisition Monday morning, which is of course still subject to closing agreements and is scheduled to conclude in the third quarter of 2007. Unlike with GrandCentral’s acquisition, we won’t have to speculate about how Google will be integrating the company’s technology with its own.… Read More

Google has announced it plans to go after the likes of Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM with Google Apps Premier Edition, offering businesses ramped up versions of its Web-based Google applications with phone support, 10 GB of storage, and 99.9 percent uptime guarantees for $50/year per person. Google Apps Premier Edition will roll together the company's GMail email service, along with Google Calendar, Google Talk, the Web authoring… Read More

E-Commerce News has posted an interesting article about Google's enterprise search solutions based on an interview with Google Enterprise general manager Dave Girouard. “The funny part is it's easier to find box scores from the 1957 World Series than it is to find last quarter's sales presentation in the enterprise. While Web search has gotten really good, enterprise search has stagnated, and that's why we… Read More