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Google Book Search is more than a massive undertaking to organize the world's books online and make them available to users.
It's become a epic struggle aficionados of Star Wars can appreciate. From a legal front, this quest stretches back five years, which for many of us who have watched ...
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Google Nov. 19 made developers happy by releasing Chrome Operating System to open source.
Chrome OS is a Web operating system intended as an alternative to Microsoft Windows, allowing users to run Web apps much faster. Google intends to use Chrome OS to power netbooks, those light, speedy ...
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Yahoo Nov. 19 began indexing Twitter tweets, photos, and videos pertaining to breaking news stories on its Yahoo News Shortcut, which is displayed on our the company's search results page when users search for fresh news.
Today, users will see new tabs for Twitter, news, photos and videos, ...
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These are exciting times in Web-based computing, with Microsoft and Google going toe-to-toe on more than just search engine fronts.
Yesterday, Microsoft said Azure, the cloud-based operating system would be ready for enterprise consumption as soon as Jan. 1 2010. That's less than six weeks ...
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Challenging recent moves in visual search by Microsoft's Bing team, Google Nov. 17 launched Google Image Swirl from Google Labs, sets of animated image clusters that borrow from the graphical representation of Google's wonder wheel view of related search results.
Google Image Swirl renders ...
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To this point, Google Translate has been serviceable, if not bland in its translation of 51 languages.
You went to the site, you typed in some words, a Web page URL, or uploaded a document and selected what language you wanted the content translated into.
Google Translate Nov. 16 got a ...
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Google was very cagey when asked what its Google Voice team would do with the Gizmo5 startup it acquired last week.
Gizmo5 makes Web-based calling software for mobile phones and computers. Specifically, it provides a Web-based VoIP client that lets users make phone calls over the Internet, ...
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What flies in some countries won't in others.
That's the lesson Google is learning from its latest struggle with Switzerland, which is suing the search engine over its Street View feature in Google Maps, which provides 360° horizontal and 290° vertical panoramic street-level views of ...
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What do you want from Google for the holidays? If you're a fan of Google's Chrome projects to dethrone Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows, you may see a couple of big wishes fulfilled: Chrome for Mac and an early build of Chrome Operating System.
First, it seems that the infuriatingly ...
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Ladies and gentlemen: it's flu season. Wait a minute... Didn't we already have that? No, that was the darn swine flu.
Following its roll out of Google Flu Trends to 20 countries, Google this week added a U.S.-centric "flu-shot finder" in conjunction with the U.S. Department for Health and ...
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Google Nov. 11 added the World Bank as a new source of statistical data to its search engine results, letting users mine an internatiional source for stats on such topics as electricity consumption per capita, or carbon dioxide emissions per capita.
Google began adding public data from the ...
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So Rupert Murdoch wants News Corp, the big content provider, to shun Google, the leading content aggregation machine, eh?
There are lots of opinions on how this would/wouldn't work.
Jason Calacanis blogged about how Microsoft Bing could take 10 percent market share from Google by paying ...
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So Rupert Murdoch wants News Corp., the big content provider, to shun Google, the leading content aggregation machine, eh?
There are lots of opinions on how this would/wouldn't work.
Jason Calacanis blogged about how Microsoft Bing could take 10 percent market share from Google by paying ...
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On Friday, I published two pieces on We annotation startup Reframe It, whose leadership is upset because they feel Google Sidewiki comes perilously close to emulating ReframeIt's technology.
See the full story here on eWEEK, with the associated screenshots here on Google Watch. SlashDot ...
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Rupert Murdoch says in this video he would make News Corp's paid content invisible from Google:
How? News Corp could add a couple of code snippets ('') to the Robot.text file to go dark to Google and other search engines.
But if you do, Google warned in July :
Today, more than ...
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Rupert Murdoch says in this video he would make News Corp.'s paid content invisible from Google:
How? News Corp. could add a couple of code snippets ('') to the Robot.text file to go dark to Google and other search engines.
But if you do, Google warned in July :
Today, more than ...
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In addition to celebrating the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street by placing Burt and Ernie where its Doodles would be, Google started promoting the new Motorola Droid, which launched today from Verizon Wireless (also available for purchase at Best Buy).
Click on the Learn more link and ...
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Today I posted this piece about Web annotation startup Reframe It, which believes Google's Sidewiki looks and feels a little too much like its own Web annotation service.
Reframe It's leadership knows seeing is the key to believing, so they cobbled together these side-by-side screenshots ...
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Google made another move to assuage the concerns of privacy critics Nov. 5, with the Google Dashboard , which provides a summary of the application data associated with Google accounts.
Account summaries appear on the left, with links to manage those accounts (and delete data) listed cleanly ...
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Bloggers and reporters are reviewing Ken Auletta's new book " Googled: The End of The World as We Know It ," where the New Yorker writer notes that Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Google Co-founder considered buying the New York Times. Evil alert!
I haven't read the book from Penguin Press ...
