googleblog.blogspot.com - 6/19/2009
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googleblog.blogspot.com —
Today, we added Persian (Farsi) to Google Translate
. This means you can now translate any text...
from Persian into English and from English into Persian — whether it's a news story, a website, a blog, an email, a tweet or a Facebook message. The ...
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Official Google Blog: Google translates Persian
techcrunch.com - 6/18/2009
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techcrunch.com —
Google is about to launch a new Google
Labs project it calls Flipper , we’ve learned. No,...
it’s not a dolphin. As you can see in the screenshot, it looks like the project is a more visual way to read Google News , or to “flip through ...
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Google Flipper Is About To Jump Out Of The Water
blogs.wsj.com - 6/20/2009
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GeeksAPlane Briefing On The Chinese Tech Industry At Startonomics Beijing
TechCrunch —
This past Thursday, the GeeksOnAPlane group of traveling techies had the opportunity to attend Startonomics Beijing and learn about broad swaths of the Chinese web industry. The speakers, who represented companies such as Google China, Kong Zhong, Five Minutes and ChinaNetCloud, discussed topics such as gaming, social networking, network infrastructure and internet cafes. Overall, we were impressed not only by how massive the Chinese market for computing-related services is, but how fast it’s still growing as well. ...
China lambasts Google again for disseminating porn
Ars Technica —
... The Center is specifically targeting Google's Chinese search engine, which is apparently still serving up links to various places on the Web with unsavory content. This is despite China's push since the beginning of the year to get ...
China attacks Google China over pornographic links
D' Technology Weblog —
... China's Internet watchdog condemned the Chinese-language version of Google for "disseminating pornographic and vulgar information." The China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center said it had complained twice to Google about the "pornographic and vulgar links" available through its search engine (www.google.cn). ...
Google China UFO Logo doodle
D' Technology Weblog —
... Google is continuing with thier UFO logo doodles, with second one showing a crop circle. The logo is live on Google China homepage (the Chinese search it links to translated to “crop circle”). The file is named “goog_e.gif”, whereas the ...
Google Celebrates 60th Anniversary of Founding of PR China
Google Blogoscoped —
... 11 years ago. For better or worse (your call) these days Google’s homepages often follow along more of the official national celebrations; on the US Memorial Day this year, Google put a yellow ribbon on their homepage, after having not changed their it for this day for many years. Today, the company put up a special logo on google.cn, joining to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, proclaimed by Mao Zedong on October 1st 1949 after a civil war. (In the meantime in Beijing today, the government is “staging its ...
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