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In this video, see baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. speak at Google as part of its Authors@Google series.
Google Earth To Get Google Ocean
Google plans on adding a tool, either within Google Earth or as its own thing, that will allow for users to explore 3D underwater topography. […]
Google Docs added lots of new stuff, including saved searches, offline Google Gears access for spreadsheets and presentations, custom document stylesheets (using CSS), speaker notes in presentations, and embedded YouTube videos in presentations.
Move Your Life To Gmail With Gmail Uploader
Google released last month the Gmail Uploader, a free application that […]
Xoopit is a Firefox plugin that adds dynamic image preview to Gmail. You see a strip of images above your email, and there’s some sort of social networking theory at work.
H-1B Visa Situation the Usual Giant Disaster
Read at Techdirt about the H-1B (foreign guest worker) visas, which are once again […]
Google has announced a new service, Google App Engine, which lets web developers build their internet applications on top of Google’s technology. Developers will be able to use the Google File System and the Bigtable distributed data storage system in their applications, resulting in a strong backbone to […]
300 people lost their jobs today, as Google laid off 300 employees, or about 25%, of DoubleClick, the advertising firm it bought for $3.1 billion. The layoffs were expected and even warned about by Google, but it’s always sad to see people lose their job, especially in a recession. Hopefully […]
As usual, April Fools day was the internet’s Christmas, with many major and minor websites getting in the holiday spirit, most with unfunny fake news stories. A few were interest or stood out:
Google AdSense introduced AdSense for Conversations, involving a screen you stuck on top of your head […]
Ionut notes that Google is already running April Fools “jokes” around the world. In Japan, there’s something about a joke regarding words that are similarly pronounced. In China, the company blog says they’re launching a human-powered search engine (watch out, Mahalo). In Australia, they’re letting you search […]
Valleywag reports that Google intends to hold its first round of layoffs of DoubleClick employees, trimming headcount at its acquisition to get the most value out of the buy. The layoffs should start this Tuesday, the first day of the second financial quarter of the year.
Of course, that day is […]
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Uses Ajax and some other web2.0-ish features.
Sergey Brin is telling employees to stop making old products and start improving new ones. “For example, said Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, Google plans to combine its spreadsheet, calendar and word-processing programs into one suite of Web-based applications.”
Google now lets you do searches — including regular expression searches — across public source code.
James Yu has a screenshot of a new design Google has been testing lately.
Google has released a new program that gives users 100MB of web space to make simple HTML pages in.
Google is buying the leftover ad space in the _Chicago Sun-Times_ and filling it with AdWords ads related to the rest of the content. I wonder how they’re going to charge advertisers. The domains posted are the real domains, so it can’t exactly be pay-per-click.
Some great stories about Google’s early days, with more to come.
The Search Engine Experiment gives you the results from Yahoo, MSN, and Google without saying which is which. Currently, 41% of those who have taken the test picked Google (33% Yahoo, 26% MSN).
A free version of Urchin, a company Google bought. (official blog post)
You could also buy equipment to extend it into your house. (proposal)
The Google advanced search page now lets you limit your search to CC-licensed results.
Satellites, drag and drop, and more.
In a long New York Times piece, top Googlers speculate about the future of advertising, including Google selling TV ads, using more personalized information, and links to store inventory information.
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An attack could be initiated by hackers embedding a script into web postings or input fields on sites, making the Google RSS feed tool extremely vulnerable to attacks.
The fix was made to the Reader as soon as Google discovered it, and was reported as a minor security flaw.
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Is it because there is too much of a conflict with Ebay’s own Paypal? Who knows. But apparently it is not an accepted payment method as of yet. There are over held a dozen requirements that Ebay requires of payment methods in order to get Ebay approval, including a track record of providing safe and reliable financial banking.
So needless to say, no Google Checkout on Ebay now, or maybe ever….
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The search result produces three organic results, followed by a special section for the Yahoo results. Yahoo.com, Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo Search. After the section, the organic results are continued.
Barry Schwartz noticed this posting from SEO Speedwagon.
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The new bill will set up phone carriers and cable operators from any restrictions, and would be able to set fees however they see fit for delivering internet content.
Since companies like AT&T and Verizon are spending billions dropping fiber cables underground, they want the abilities to charge companies like Google and Yahoo for providing services over their cables.
If these bills are indeed passed, the telecommunications carriers would be in charge for upgrading, which in the eyes of many, we could see less upgrades, producing a slow speed of information for everyone.
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In the latest round of updates for the definitive record of the English language, Oxford has decided to add Google alongside FedEx, TiVo, and Xerox.
Way to go Google. One more milestone on how important this search tool company has gotten in everyday life.
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The new version of Merriam Websters Collegiate Dictionary set to be released this year will include the word “Google”.
Their online version of the dictionary currently has Google listed.
Main Entry: goo·gle
Pronunciation: ‘gü-g&l
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): goo·gled; goo·gling /-g(&-) li[ng]/
Usage: often capitalized
Etymology: Google, trademark for a search engine
: to use the Google search engine to obtain information about (as a person) on the World Wide Web
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They include:
- star jones
- tour de france
- wimbledon
- brandon routh
- spiderman 3
- the view
- fireworks
- michelle wie
- kate bosworth
- the devil wears prada
- alemania 2006
- zidane
- nba draft
- cristiano ronaldo
- maria sharapova
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Richard Kimbar was names managing director, sales and operations. He will be based in Sydney and responsible for managing Google’s operations and strategic partnerships in India, Singapore, Malayia, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, and New Zealand.
Kimber’s previous role was at the HSBC Group as cheif executive of FirstDirect Bank in the UK.
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The Google Pack is a file filled with essential Google software, including Google Desktop, Google Toolbar, Picasa, Google Pack screensaver, and 3rd party software including Firefox, Norton AntiVirus, Ad Aware, and Adobe Reader.
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The Google Earth tool will show users stage cities, results, departures and arrival lines.
It is truly a great way to integrate Google Earth into the sporting world.
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Lynch also has released news that it thinks the strong trend in search will help brow its second quarter advertising revenue growth. Pushing their ad revenue much higher than Yahoo and MSN’s.
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The tiff against Google started when Kinderstart started loosing rankings in the search engine going from 18 million page views a month in 2005, and then all of a sudden over 70 percent of their traffic just stopped coming.
Supposedly the owner thinks that Google black listed the site because it was also in the search engine market, and might be seen as a competitor with Google.
So, now Google has been asking a judge to dismiss the suit, because Google has its first amendment rights to choose whatever websites are the most relevant for the keyword term typed in the search engine.
Kinderstart might just have to wake up and realize that their website might not be the best search result built around their specific keyword phrases.
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Wired mag asked Google about buying mobile dark fiber, only to find out that they were frustrated about the fact that “bozos in America aren’t rolling out IPv6^” so they will do it.
Google had hired Vint Cerf in 2005 in order to lead the IPv6 strategy, which will provide trillions more IP number combinations. The demand is heeded from the increasing demand for ip addresses from mobile devices such as handhelds, and phones. With the new IPv6 in place, the internet will be able to handle trillions of individual IP addresses.
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This article is from an interview with Marissa Mayer, the VP of search products and user experience.
There are discussions on how Google has done delving into the non search world, measuring new product success, the press, and Google’s uncluttered home page.
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