The Google Doodle is an illustration of Carter standing in front of the sarcophagus, amid other ancient Egyptian artifacts excavated from the tomb, including a statue of Anubis. Carter left London, England, to chase his dream of assisting in the...
You couldn't even use the tool most suited to your purposes, namely the Pharmakon (the ancient Egyptian name for the concept of a written language), to explain the dissonance between intention and meaning.
Wael Ghonim, the Google marketing executive who frontlined the Egyptian revolution, said: “If you want to liberate a country, give them the Internet. While Google says the change is only expected to affect 0.35 percent of users, paid services seem...
All candidates must be over 25 with a father who has Egyptian citizenship. To mark the occasion, Google Egypt posted a Doodle with a design similar to logos Google has posted in other countries to draw attention to elections.
Case in point: The brand Kenneth Cole offended just about everyone when they hijacked the #cairo hashtag in a marketing ploy promoting its Spring fashion collection during the height of the Egyptian revolution.
Wael Ghonim embodies the youth who constitute the majority of Egyptian society -- a young man who excelled and became a Google executive but, as with many of his generation, remained apolitical due to loss of hope that things could change in a...
While Google employees have had a hand in the overthrow of the despotic Egyptian government last month, Google chose an interesting Doodle - the birthday of the composer of the National Anthem - as the country holds a referendum this Saturday to...
While Google employees have had a hand in the overthrow of the despotic Egyptian government last month, Google chose an interesting Doodle - the birthday of the composer of the National Anthem - as the country holds a referendum this Saturday to...
This was evident and a reason for why the Egyptian government shut down Internet services during the Egyption protests. An activist and active Twitterer from Iran has created a Google map of the violence and protests and shared it publicly to...
With all of the claims that Google is engaging with the protests for freedom in the Middle East - two of their employees were active in the Egyptian overthrow of the government - it would have been nice to see Google use this Doodle to also...
The Egyptian government tried to curtail the protest efforts by blocking all access to the internet and workarounds were created - including one from Google. In an interview "after his release from an Egyptian prison, the Google executive Wael...
Wael Ghonim, Google Middle East and North Africa Marketing Director, who has been missing since January 27th, is expected to be released today, following a statement by Egyptian Prime Minister. Earlier in the day, Naguib Sawiris, a prominent...
Google Creates Work Around For Blocked Egyptian Tweeters by Frank Watson As protests continue and the Egyptian government blocks access to the internet, Google created a workaround over the weekend so people can access Twitter via phone calls and...
I realize this statement borders on reductio ad absurdum, but the protest over the YouTube homepage layout shows less civility than the Egyptian protests over three decades of systematic and brutal repression in Egypt.
YouTube has been flooded with videos from the Egyptian protests and is now collecting them at CitizenTube - Google's news and politics channel, the YouTube blog reported. We understand how closely the world is following these events, and want to...
As protests continue and the Egyptian government blocks access to the internet, Google created a workaround over the weekend so people can access Twitter via phone calls and leave updates, the company's official blog announced.
Ghonim, a supporter of the Egyptian opposition, has been missing since Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported. Google's head of marketing for the Middle East and North Africa Wael Ghonim has gone missing in Egypt.
Over at the Daily Egyptian, which appears to be the student paper of Southern Illinois University, I found paid links (marked as Paid Advertisements) that covered such topics as: The Stanford Daily Selling Links thread at our Search Engine Watch...
An Egyptian Stumper for Google -- Or Is It? So despite this being the story's opening anecdote of search engine failure (the librarian resorted to an encyclopedia), Google at least did fine in my check.
An Egyptian Stumper for Google -- Or Is It? A "simple" query that seems like a no-brainer for Google turns out to be an excellent illustration of why you can't find "everything" on the Internet and even when you can, the "answer" may not...
