Accused by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) of promoting online sales of elephant and whale products, Google says that it moves quickly to remove material advertising ivory and products that contain it, despite what the EIA has claimed.
London Whale For the 12th straight year, Yahoo has announced their annual year in review. Since 2001, Yahoo has compiled lists of the top search queries entered into the search box in an attempt to determine the year's top stories, fads, and...
Or two bar design fail whale? On first grok it does not seem like much of a change. Just a new button that says "search tools" which is actually quite easy to miss. In fact it seems like such a small change that I struggled to remember what the...
There's no Fail Whale. Time for a fun game to break up the monotony of your day slaving away to make companies more profitable online. Twitter is currently down, and has been since just around 11:15 a.m.
So, they can see a sperm whale in time to escape its gaping jaws, according to a recent report in Current Biology. In February 2012, 179 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in February 2012.
Twitter has reached a significant milestone: 100 million active users (those who sign in at least once a month) converse or simply listen on the microblogging platform, and more than 50 million of those do so every day.
Perhaps they can take a page from Twitter and just come up with their own Fail Whale, afterall most people found out about the closure through the Twitter social network. Due to overwhelming response, Google had to shutdown the invites to their...
Google introduced another custom page -- the "Whale Fail" -- back in December on Google Books," a play on Twitter's famous (and all too familiar) "whale fail. Google is serving a new custom 404 page when you stumble across a page that doesn't exist.
As John Fetto of Experian says in a blog post, "Swim on, fail whale, swim on. Americans are spending more time on Twitter.com than ever before, according to new data from Experian Simmons DataStream. Americans spent an estimated 2 hours and 12...
Google Books' "Page Not Found" is a Whale Fail, Not a Fail Whale - ReadWriteWeb Search Engine Optimization SEO for Bing: Don't Ignore It by Adam Audette Bing offers a heavily e-commerce-focused demographic that can deliver modest, but incremental...
Twitter as a whole is still experiencing exponential growth up to a point where the chirpy company cannot sustain the traffic overload, as demonstrated by the numerous fail whale moments during the World Cup.
Curious to see how it works, I fed the search engine first with the picture of the fail whale. The fail whale is a cartoon, so I guess it does not qualify. But, right now, it's only theoretically. How it is supposed to work: take a picture you can...
Yahoo Meme Uses Sleeping Dog For Fail Page Posted by Frank Watson Sep 17, 2009 Okay so Twitter has the Fail Whale, but Yahoo's new contender in the social media space Meme has its own version the Fail Dog.
Okay so Twitter has the Fail Whale, but Yahoo's new contender in the social media space Meme has its own version the Fail Dog. The image is a sleeping dog as can be seen below.guess when things don't work Yahoo asks you to let sleeping dogs lie.
Twitter went down this morning and it's not the usual fail whale situation. Update 12:13pm EST - Twitter.com is finally up for many users, DoS attack still ongoing. Facebook and LiveJournal also experiencing issues.
But it's the top Twitterers who really tempt the Fail Whale.of Tweets are written by 10% of the most prolific Twitterers. New Twitter stats from the Harvard Business School reveal interesting demographics surrounding the popular social chat network.
Small birds attempting to lift a very infamous whale Recently, Visual Design Lead Doug Bowman left Google because he felt it was too constricting of an environment for a designer. I wasn't surprised. Marissa Mayer holds a tight leash on all things...
After all, the company's "fail whale" is already becoming an icon, and a reflection of Twitter's effort - lifting a whale with a flock of tiny birds. And while many of the answers were insightful, its seems Der Spiegel does not understand the medium.
TechCrunch mentioned the dashboard in terms of "Gfail" - funny how we all seem to be using the new Twitter-speak (the Fail Whale has become an icon). Google launched an Apps Status Dashboard this week, following the problems they had with Gmail...
As the popularity of Twitter grew, many of the users became accustomed to downtime, symbolized by the infamous picture of a whale being lifted by tiny birds. Twitter is testing a search box on the root URL of its site, meaning on the home page and...
