blogoscoped.com - 1/8/2009
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googleblog.blogspot.com - 1/11/2009
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Not long ago, answering a query meant traveling
to the reference desk of your local library. Today,
search engines enable us to access immense quantities of useful information in an instant, without leaving home. Tools like email, online books and ...
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Official Google Blog: Powering a Google search
technology.timesonline.co.uk - 1/11/2009
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Click here for how to reduce the footprint
of the Web | Google's response to the story
Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea, according to new ...
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Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches
bits.blogs.nytimes.com - 1/8/2009
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47 Google Products That Don't Make Money On Their Own (GOOG)
Silicon Alley Insider —
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Around the Web 1.8.09: In the land that CES forgot
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
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-- Happy New Year, and welcome back to the daily bogus Yahoo rumors. Boomtown
-- Google is tightening its belt; will it pull back on all these products that don't make money? Google Blogoscoped
-- No technology venture is immune to the economic maelstrom. One Laptop Per Child
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Marketing News Roundup, January 9
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
... Burger King-sponsored app, ’sacrifice’ 10 friends and get a free Whopper. Seriously (CP+B FTW again).
Didn’t I see this on L&O like two seasons ago? Now Google Street View helps solve a crime in the real world.
Ever wonder how Google makes their money? (No? Oh.) It’s their own “long tail”: $16,000 per advertiser, times one million. Meanwhile, Google Blogoscoped reminds us there are nearly four dozen Google products that make no money directly.
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