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Google toggles between spartan and picturesque backgrounds |
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 Last week, Google introduced a feature that allowed users of the world's leading search engine to customize the look and feel of Google.com homepage by adding a favorite photo or image to the background. Amidst the ensuing chaos, is retracted the feature, blaming a bug that stalled its explanation of the feature, which it said made most users think that the change in the homepage was permanent. Google ran a special “doodle” showcasing the functionality by featuring a series of images as the background for our homepage. It planned to run an explanation of the showcase alongside in the form of a link on our homepage, but a bug caused the link to not appear for most users, because of which many people “thought we had permanently changed our homepage, so we decided to stop today’s series early,” Google's Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience said in an update to the Google blog.  The experiment, intended for 24 hours, lasted just about 14 – with searches for its removal becoming a significantly trending topic on the search engine. Even rival Bing was not able to resist the opportunity to take a dig at Google – Microsoft Europe tweeted “we've lost a background image, if found please return to bing.com ;)”. Needless to say, this one didn't quite go as planned for Google, and was definitely not appreciated by Google users. |
LISTS AND RESEARCH
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Global Software Top 100 - Edition 2011
- The Global Software Top 100 is a list of the world's largest software companies, ranked by annual software revenues. The list is based upon revenue information of 10,000+ IT companies worldwide.
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Software industry trends (2011)
- This research article (accompanying the Global Software Top 100) describes changes in the software industry playing field. It analyses trends and key players and forecasts future developments.
- Top hardware companies
- A list of the world's largest hardware companies.
- What happens in the hardware industry?
- Trends and analysis of the hardware industry and its key players.
- Top IT services companies
- A list of the world's largest IT services companies, ranked by annual services revenues. This link will take you to www.servicestop100.org.
- IT services companies: healthy growth
- What is happening in the IT services industry? Read this research publication to find out about trends and key players in the IT services industry.
- Top gaming companies (2010)
- Entertainment is good business, and gaming software companies are growing faster than the rest of the software industry. This research article discusses trends and key players in the gaming business.
- Top ERP companies
- A research publication about the world's leading players in enterprise software.
- Top security software companies
- A research publication discussing the world's leading publishers of security software: antivirus-, spamfiltering-, intrusion detection- and firewall software.
- The fastest growing software companies
- This research publication reveals the fastest growing software companies in the world.
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CRM companies: a short list
- A short list of the leading software companies selling Customer Relationship Management software; aimed at IT managers looking to purchase CRM software.
- Top software companies in the US (2010)
- A list of the largest software companies in the United States, ranked by annual software revenues. 2010 Edition, posted 15 December 2010.
- U.S. software industry trends (2010)
- A research publication discussing the trends and the key players in the software industry in the United States. Posted 15 December 2010.
- Top companies in the world (not just software)
- A general list of the largest companies in the world, ranked by revenues. Not just software companies; in fact, there are no software companies in it...
- Top IT companies
- A list of the largest IT companies in the world, ranked by annual revenues. Includes hardware, software and services.
