Google, at age 10, is the official heart of the Internet
Born 10 years ago, the Google Internet search engine has grown into the electronic center of human knowledge by indexing billions of web pages as well as images, books and videos.
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15.9.2007 Google Links Blog Search to Google News
Some time over the weekend Google put links to Google Blog Search on the front page of Google News and at the end of each news search results page.
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24.10.2006 Google Chrome - Web browser from Google
Google has released the very first beta of their new web browser, Google Chrome. Chrome is a browser that, for now at least, is focused on offering a full browsing experience within a minimalistic user interface.
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2.9.2008 Can Microsoft Out-Google Google?
It aims to grab more of the search market with a new slew of search services that copy, and try to build on, Google's approach.
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13.9.2006 Two New Internet Explorers
Along with Beta 1 of Windows Vista, Microsoft has produced not one but two beta versions of Internet Explorer 7--one for Windows XP, and one in the Vista beta. The most exciting (and long overdue) innovation in both is tabbed browsing, which lets you open multiple Web pages in one browser window. You switch between the pages by clicking tabs in the IE 7 window. (The free MSN Search Toolbar adds tabs to IE 6.) Tabs have long been in Opera, and they're an attraction in Mozilla Firefox.
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Internet Explorer 8.0
You may get to have a look at the future of the Internet Explorer browser sooner than you might think.
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14.1.2007 Internet Explorer 8, to Be or Not to Be
Internet Explorer 8 is still approximately a year before the final version will be released, in fact Microsoft has not even made available the first beta for the browser, but the successor of Internet Explorer 7 has already been taking hits.
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24.1.2008 The History of Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer is 10 years old this year, but its genealogical roots are actually much older. Back when the Internet was first invented (for want of a better word) it was used mainly by universities and research institutions to share documents and information via FTP, Gopher and Usenet. Casual usage as we know it today was a rarity. That, however, was to change as the World Wide Web slowly came into being, thanks to a gentleman by the name of Tim Berners-Lee who not only published the first formal proposal for the World Wide Web, but is also credited with publishing the first Web page on August 6, 1991.
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Internet Explorer Chat
Internet Explorer is a set of core technologies in Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional operating systems that provides enhanced privacy features and a flexible and reliable browsing experience.
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9.3.2006 Internet Computer Names
I had a very exciting chat with some beta users today where, for the first time, we talked about a feature I am very excited about that we are calling Internet Computer Names.
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24.8.2006 Internet Explorer 7 Today
Microsoft plans to push out Internet Explorer 7 as a 'high priority update' when it ships security patches tomorrow, according to Washingtonpost.com's Security Fix blog.
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10.10.2006 Internet Explorer Video
Watch this entertaining video on how Internet Explorer 7 has made Roger's everyday tasks easier.
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19.10.2006 RIAA wants the Internet shut down
One of the lawyers involved in defending cases bought against people by the RIAA claims that if the music industry wins a crucial case, the Internet will have to be switched off.
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30.11.2006 Internet Explorer 8 In The Works
It seems Microsoft is putting IE8 development into gear. Participants of the Windows Server "Longhorn" beta program on Microsoft Connect have just received an email notifying them that a new survey for Internet Explorer 8 has been published on the program site.
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29.1.2007 Internet TV to get Silverlight
Maven Networks, which provides hosting services for Internet TV, will announce Wednesday plans to add Microsoft's new Silverlight technology as a video delivery vehicle.
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13.6.2007 Portable Internet Explorer 7
Internet Explorer 7 provides improved navigation through tabbed browsing, web search right from the toolbar, advanced printing, easy discovery, reading and subscription to RSS feeds.
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22.6.2007 AIO Internet Explorer 7
All in one Internet Explorer 7 (and as some useful utilities). Thanks to odeeee for this download.
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23.7.2007 Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Now Available
We’re excited to release IE8 Beta 2 today for public download. You can find it at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8. Please try it out!
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27.8.2008 Internet Explorer 8 RC1 - First look
Yesterday Microsoft made available Internet Explorer 8 RC1 (release candidate 1), which means that as far as Microsoft is concerned, IE8 is cooked and that barring anything major, this will become the final release. So, what’s the new browser like?
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27.1.2009 The New Internet Games in Windows 7
If you’re running the Windows 7 Beta and hadn’t already noticed, we are introducing 3 new Windows Games for Windows 7.
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21.2.2009 Internet Explorer 9, the Evolution
While just a single month into the development of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft has opened up to participants at the Professional Developers Conference 2009 in Los Angeles, and subsequently to the world, revealing the first details about the next generation of IE.
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19.11.2009 Windows Internet Explorer 7 DOWNLOAD
Few days ago at RSA, Bill Gates talked about Internet Explorer 7. As the guy responsible for IE, I wanted to say a couple of things about it.
First, some basics: we’re committing to deliver a new version of Internet Explorer for Windows XP customers. Betas of IE7 will be available this summer. This new release will build on the work we did in Windows XP SP2 and (among other things) go further to defend users from phishing as well as deceptive or malicious software.
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Internet Explorer 7 Supports Punycode
Microsoft developers have disclosed technical details of the internationalized domain names (IDNs) support in the coming beta version of Internet Explorer.
This support is meant to ensure that the browser treat domain names with characters from outside the ASCII range of characters the same way it treats their Punycode equivalents. With the aid of a new tab labeled "International" in the Internet Control Panel a user will be able to disable the IDN support.
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22.12.2005 Internet Explorer 7 news + screenshots
Microsoft adds tabs, search, RSS and anti-phishing to IE 7.
Over all it seems a big improvement over the sloppy current release and previous incarnations. A lot of this, I put down to the increasing market share of
Firefox, my current browser of choice.
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10.1.2006 Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 download
This is Internet Explorer 7 Build 5299, which is labelled as "Beta 2 Preview". This is not necessarily (and almost definetely not) the actual final Beta 2 build, that we should see some time in Feb.
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22.1.2006 Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
Brief Description
Beta 2
The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages. This version is a preview release and behavior may change in the final release.
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7.2.2006 Internet Explorer 7 Will Not Be Integrated into Windows
BusinessWeek is reporting that Microsoft's next release of Internet Explorer, version 7, will not be integrated into Windows. Breaking nearly ten years of tradition, Internet Explorer was always very tightly integrated into Windows, allowing users to do such things as launch a website directly from any Windows Explorer window, or save a live web page as the desktop wallpaper.
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26.3.2006 Internet Explorer ActiveX update
Microsoft is releasing a software update to Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1).
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4.4.2006 Microsoft Explains "Internet Explorer 7+"
Microsoft has announced that its Vista-bundled browser will be renamed to 'Internet Explorer 7+' to help differentiate between the separate build for Windows XP.
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28.5.2006 Internet Explorer 7 and Automatic Updates
Microsoft plans to use its Automatic Updates patch-distribution service to push its stand-alone Internet Explorer 7.0 browser to customers once the product is ready to ship in the fourth quarter of this year.
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26.7.2006Google, at age 10, is the official heart of the Internet
Born 10 years ago, the Google Internet search engine has grown into the electronic center of human knowledge by indexing billions of web pages as well
as images, books and videos.
On September 15, 1997 Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two 24 year-old Stanford University students,
registered the domain name of "
google.com." The word is a variation of 'googol,' which refers
to the number 10 to the power of 100, a term popularized by US mathematician Edward Kasner.
Page and Brin incorporated Google one
year later, on September 7, 1998, in a household garage in northern California.
News of Google spread largely thanks to the
efficient way the search engine classified results through algorithms, and it quickly became one of the most used methods to find information on the
Internet...
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14.09.2007Google's 9th Birthday
Two weeks ago, AFP informed us that "Google, at age 10, is the official heart of the Internet. Born 10 years ago, the Google Internet search engine
has grown into the electronic center of human knowledge by indexing billions of web pages as well as images, books and videos." That's true, except
that Google is 9 years old. Even if Larry Page and Sergey Brin registered the google.com domain in 1997, Google was officially launched one year
later.
"Google opened its doors in September 1998. The exact date when we celebrate our birthday has moved around over the years,
depending on when people feel like having cake," says Google's help center. You can read more about it directly from Google. In the recent years,
Google's birthday has been celebrated on September 27th with a doodle displayed on the homepage. Happy birthday, Google!
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28.09.2007Google CEO: Internet search is actually benefiting from recession
In a way, Google has actually benefited from the economic slowdown, since Internet search queries are booming, said Google CEO Eric Schmidt, in
telling financial analysts about Google's increased profits and revenues during the third quarter. But still, internal cost cuts are under way, even
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18.10.2008A mixed week for citizen journalists as Steve Jobs declines to die
Good news: Steve Jobs did not have a major heart attack this week. Bad news: A serious "citizen journalism" misfire may have caused several
heart attacks for investors anyway...
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04.10.2008Next Up: Google Office?
There's a Chinese curse:
May you live in interesting
times. These times must be
really interesting for Steve
Ballmer.
Microsoft's CEO allegedly
said he'd crush Google, his
company's rival in search,
and the lucrative ad business
it engenders. On Tuesday,
Google may strike back at
Redmond's heart: Microsoft
Office.
Go
ogle and Sun Microsystems will
hold a press conference on
Tuesday at which they're
expected to announce a
collaboration to bring
StarOffice productivity
applications to Google
users.
StarOffice
is Sun's suite of integrated
word processing, spreadsheet,
presentation, drawing and
database software based on the
OpenOffice open source
project. ..
winbeta.org - 04.10.2005
Internet Founding Father Joins
Google
The man widely known as a
"founding father" of
the Internet is now a Google
employee. Vinton Cerf, the man
who helped co-found TCP/IP,
the system that routes
Internet traffic, will join
the search giant as Chief
Internet Evangelist...
betanews.com - 08.09.2005
Google recruits father of the
internet
Google has appointed
Vinton Cerf as its chief
internet evangelist. Cerf will
help Google to build network
infrastructure, architectures,
systems and standards to
support next-generation
internet
applications.
"Vint Cerf is clearly one
of the great technology
leaders of our time," said
Google chief executive Eric
Schmidt. "His vision for
technology helped create
entire industries that have
transformed many parts of our
lives."
Cerf
added: "Google has already
made tremendous strides in
making access to information
on the web a reality for users
across the globe, but we are
still in the internet's early
innings...
winbeta.org - 09.09.2005
Google is largest source of global Internet traffic
Search giant Google is now the largest source of global Internet traffic, taking up six percent of it, according to an article by Information Week.
Over 256 exabytes of Internet traffic data were studied over two years in order to produce the report, which was created by Arbor Networks. The
report points out that whilst five years ago, Internet traffic was spread out between thousands of sites, today 60 percent of all Internet traffic is
made up of just 100 networks.
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neowin.net - 15.10.2009
Obama change of heart on FISA bill generates an online rift
With online activism one of the key factors behind Barack Obama's success, his new position on a key bill affecting the government's ability to
wiretap Internet users is making even stalwart supporters rethink their own positions...
betanews.com - 03.07.2008
Google calls Microsoft's bid for Yahoo 'hostile'
Google isn’t particularly happy about Microsoft’s recent proposition to acquire Yahoo. In fact, the company called the bid
“hostile” and noted that the move would hurt the “openness of the Internet”. The search giant suggested that the move was
anti-competitive and that it would only extend Microsoft’s monopoly, from the PC to the Internet: including services that both Internet giants
dominate, such as instant messaging, web email, and Internet portals. Google emphasized that the interests of Internet users should come first, and
that serious questions about the possible acquisition need to be asked.
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neowin.net - 04.02.2008
Microsoft Thanks Google for IE
Fix
Google this week rolled out a
fix to mitigate the risk from
a newly discovered
vulnerability in Internet
Explorer that puts users of
Google Desktop at risk even if
they are running a fully
updated system. Microsoft
developers thanked Google for
their work and say they are
working on a patch for IE...
betanews.com - 08.12.2005
Google ends ad agreement with Yahoo
Speculation grew last month when we
reported that the Google-Yahoo ad deal may be over. In a post on the official Google Blog, Senior VP David Drummond announced today that, due to legal concerns, a possible ad
partnership between search engines Google and Yahoo would not be coming to fruition after four months of review. According to Mr. Drummond,
" pressing ahead risked not only a protracted legal battle but also damage to relationships with valued partners. "
Yahoo and Google both run fairly prominent web advertising divisions which help them generate revenue, and as internet usage increases, so too does
the importance of effective advertisement. In June, there seemed to be a chance of mutual cooperation between the two companies: Google gave Yahoo the
option of using Adsense on its websites, with perhaps even more on the way. However, this was not to be.
When the deal was first proposed,
the two companies decided to wait a little bit and give regulators time to review the deal to avoid any possible negative consequences. But even after
four months, regulators still have concerns about the agreement, and, in order to preserve the "long-term" interests of Google, the company has
decided to call the deal off. However, should any of you worry that lawsuits may hinder future innovation, take heart: Mr. Drummond also stated that
the company would never " let the prospect of a lengthy legal battle distract us from our core mission. That would be like trying to drive down the
road of innovation with the parking brake on. "
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neowin.net - 05.11.2008
Price cuts don't get to heart of Vista's problems, says analyst
If Microsoft thought a lower price for Windows Vista was what the operating system needed to kickstart sales, it should have thought twice, an analyst
said early Friday.
"In some ways, it's an attempt to remove any barriers that may be dissuading people from buying Vista,"
said Michael Cherry, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft, a Kirkland, Wash.-based research firm. "But the missing step here is simplifying what
people need to know to buy. People are so confused about the versions and what they need on hardware that they don't even get to the price."
winbeta.org - 29.02.2008
Google targeted in Chinese Internet crackdown
Google, alongside other popular web portals, was warned on Monday that they must do more to block pornographic content from reaching Chinese users, in
the latest in a series of crackdowns on Internet content by the Chinese government. Chinese authorities published a list of 19 websites that have
failed to get rid of unsuitable material. The list includes American search giant Google and China's top search engine Baidu. According to the
BBC, one Chinese official said that the websites could be closed down if they fail to delete the offending material.
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neowin.net - 06.01.2009
Google introduces Google Dashboard
Google's one of the biggest companies on the Internet; between search, IM, email and everything else, they have a huge user base. Though, with
that comes the worry of how much user data they've collected; to remedy this, a tool has been announced, showing users that exact data. Google
has an extremely vast range of services.
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neowin.net - 07.11.2009
Year in Review: Google Sets
the Pace
For the folks at Google, 2005
will be remembered as the year
which it transformed itself
from a tech darling into an
Internet powerhouse. Its moves
were watched closely by the
media and customers began to
develop distrust in the search
company. But will Google
become the next Microsoft?..
betanews.com - 29.12.2005
Google Cries Foul Over IE7
Search Box
Google has raised objections
over Microsoft's plans to
integrate its new search
engine into Internet Explorer
7, press reports indicate. The
company's concerns have even
led Google to speak with the
Justice Department and the
European Commission...
betanews.com - 02.05.2006
Google aims to speed up the entire Internet with SPDY
There are many aspects of technology that can be tweaked in order to speed a user's Internet experience up; web pages optimized, purchase a faster
connection, or even just update software. Google has apparently bypassed all this, however… they aim to replace the HTTP protocol itself, with
SPDY. As the Google blog post reminds us, "HTTP is an elegantly simple protocol that emerged as a web standard in 1996 after a series of
experiments." It's been great so far, though with initial tests of SPDY (pronounced "speedy"), it shows that it can definitely be improved.
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neowin.net - 13.11.2009
Internet Archive wants book copyright indemnity like Google
The Internet Archive is concerned that the settlement reached by Google and The Authors Guild over the search giant's book-digitization project will
put its own online library effort at a competitive disadvantage...
winbeta.org - 20.04.2009
Microsoft's response to Google Chrome? SharePoint
It's surprising how many people are still asleep at the wheel while Microsoft continues to nurture perhaps its fastest-growing product (in terms of
revenue) ever: SharePoint.
The Web has been aflutter with Google Chrome discussions since it was released last week, much of it
centering on Google's strategy to drive a stake through the heart of Microsoft's Windows business by shifting the operating system to the cloud,
rendered in a browser.
winbeta.org - 10.09.2008
