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 Next 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.
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Google PC?
Just five years ago, Microsoft Corp. was considered the Big Bad Wolf of the media business.
Armed with a stockpile of cash and the Windows operating system that dominates office computing, Bill Gates' company was expected to huff and puff its way into America's living rooms as well, with video game consoles, home networking systems and TV set-top boxes.
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3.1.2006 Google Sites For All!
Google has just announced a new service called Google Sites, which is now available for any registered Google user. This service was previously only available to businesses with specialty accounts.
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22.5.2008 Google TV Coming soon?
Using Google?s search and advertising technologies to enhance users? Television viewing experience trends that are shaping user behavior when watching Television identify areas where use of Google?s search and advertising technology can enhance this user experience.
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Google history - Milestones
Google is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, Mathematics and the Imagination by Kasner and James Newman. It refers to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google's use of the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web.
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Google Talk Unleashed
I'm impressed with their initial effort, and I think when they add the ability to connect to MSN, AIM, Yahoo, et. al. they claim a major share of the IM market. Google Talk is worth a look
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Google fright for eBay
GOOGLE is testing a new service that could eventually propel it into new markets on the web in competition with a wide range of existing internet companies, from e-commerce giants like eBay to online listings sites.
News of the test, which Google would not discuss publicly, spread quickly around the internet and contributed to a 4 per cent fall in eBay's shares.
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Google Whistles a New Tune
Google on Thursday launched a new service intended to give searchers fast links to song lyrics, musical artists and CD titles on the main search results page.
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16.12.2005 Google to buy Opera?
"Take that, IE 7"
Google may soon announce its acquisition of browser firm Opera, if rumour is to be believed.
Pierre Chappaz, founder of Kelkoo and ex-Yahoo! Europe president, has revealed in his personal blog, Kelblog, that a "usually well informed source" has told him the buy is on the cards.
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17.12.2005 Google Sued Over Talk
Rates Technology (RTI), a company that owns several internet voice communication patents, is suing Google for $5 billion claiming the search giants' Google Talk software uses two RTI patented technologies without licensing them.
The suit, filed in October in US District Court in the Eastern District of New York, seeks damages in compensation for "irreparable damages" caused to RTI.
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2.1.2006 IE7 getting the Google treatment
For those of you who have downloaded Windows Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview you might get a surprise when visiting the Google.com webpage.
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9.2.2006 Playing catch-up with Google
At Ask.com, Steve Berkowitz didn't have enough resources to take on Google. Now, at Microsoft, he has plenty of money, but still has a lot of work to do.
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21.11.2006 No more replies from Google Answers
Google is pulling the plug on Google Answers, a service that allows people to submit questions over the Internet that researchers answer for a fee.
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29.11.2006 Google Groups gets an Update
Google Groups is all about helping users connect with people, access information, and communicate effectively over email and on the web. Now there's a new version on the block.
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24.1.2007 On antitrust, is Google the next Microsoft?
Not too long ago, nearly every move that Microsoft made seemed to draw complaints that the company was abusing its market dominance.
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23.7.2007 Google Toolbar 5 Beta
The Google Toolbar is a free and easy-to-use tool that allows you to take the power of Google with you anywhere on the Web.
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16.12.2007 Google Gets 70% of U.S. Searches
Seventy percent of U.S. searches in June were done on Google Inc.'s search engine, according to Web measurement figures from market research company Hitwise Pty. Ltd.
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21.7.2008 Google Gmail Outage
Google is having a really bad day. The Mountain View-based search giant revealed that an outage affected its email service for approximately four hours.
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24.2.2009 Google releases Chrome 3
Google has released its third major revision of Chrome. The updated browser boasts a 150% (25% over its most recent stable release) increase in javascript performance since the launch of version 1.
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15.9.2009 Google Chrome 4.0.211.4
With the Google Chrome 3.0 stable release barely out the door, the Google team is not looking back and the web browser reached 4.0.211.4 in the developer channel with the latest release.
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21.9.2009 Google Chrome 4 Beta
he Chrome beta channel has been updated to version 4. If you're already in the beta channel, you can go ahead and run the auto-update (if it hasn't ran already).
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4.11.2009 Google Video Integrates Media
Search engine's videos now play within a browser; no additional software needed. Google has improved its Google Video service by eliminating the need for users to download software to play back videos, the Mountain View, California-based company has announced.
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Google Gmail had a serious bug, claim
Google has managed to keep the lid on a serious bug in Gmail that had enabled hackers to take over accounts, read the contents and use them to send spam, since the service started.
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16.11.2005 Hey Google, Where's The Linux Apps?
A member of a Denver Linux development shop wonders why Google hasn't made its applications available for Linux systems.
It's pretty remarkable that considering Google's fabled use of Linux on thousands of servers and hundreds of desktops that all the desktop applications coming out of the Googleplex, with the solitary exception of the Gmail Notifier for Mac OS X, only run on Windows machines.
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19.11.2005 Gates: Microsoft Not Afraid of Google
In an interview with an Israeli newspaper, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said that his company sees Google as a threat, but is by no means scared of the growing search giant. Gates, however, did agree with the assessment that Google is Microsoft's primary competitor. But he said company has plans that will take effect over the next six months, which it hopes will cut into the Google's dominance in the Web search market.
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21.11.2005 Rumor Alert: Google Finance?
This one
falls firmly into the wild speculation category, but Search Engine Journal is
reporting that this morning it saw a number of referrals from
google.com/finance.
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26.2.2006 Gates: Microsoft will keep Google honest
While Google has grabbed an early lead in search and Internet advertising, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates pledged on Wednesday that his company would "keep them honest."
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4.5.2006Google Mobile App now available on Windows Phones
Google has launched its Google Mobile App for Windows Phones. Google Mobile App for Windows Mobile include Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, Picasa
Web Albums and Google Sync Beta, with instant access to Google Search and all of these products accessed from one place. Windows Mobile users can now
use Google Mobile App instead of using a browser to do Google Search. Google promises to get search results for identical queries nearly 50% faster
from Google Mobile App than from navigating to Google webpage in your mobile browser.
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19.02.2009Google Shows its Charitable
Side
Google detailed late Tuesday
plans to become a more
charitable organization,
including the founding of
Google.org that would serve as
the search giant's
philanthropic arm. Google has
donated $90 million in cash to
the Google Foundation...
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13.10.2005Update to Google Suggest
Urs Hölzle: There's been quite a bit of comment in the last few days about Google Suggest, particularly how it's used in Google Chrome. Google
Suggest is actually built into a number of different products including Google Search, Google Toolbar, browsers like Google Chrome and Firefox, and
the Google Search application on the iPhone.
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09.09.2008Google to kill 6 of its failed projects
Google has decided to terminate several products that weren't up to the Google's standards or now redundant. Google Video Google Catalog
Search Google Notebook Dodgeball Jaiku Google Mashup EditorIn a few months, support for uploads to Google Video will be discontinued and YouTube and
Picasa Web Albums will be left to handle the video uploads. In 2001, Google Catalog Search was launched as a demonstration of OCR technology and lead
to Google's Book Search which hasn't been as popular as some of Google's other products. Catalog search will be given a farewell on 15th
January 2009.
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16.01.2009Google Turns Its Hardware Manufacturing Over To Dell
Google, long rumored to be
getting into the hardware
business, has finally gotten
out of it, as least as a
manufacturer.
While
whispers about a Google phone,
Google chips, and Google PCs
continue to tantalize
consumers, the search company
said on Thursday that it had
recently partnered with Dell
to manufacture the Google
Search Appliance (GSA),
fulfilling a deal disclosed
last summer.
Dell
began trumpeting Google as a
customer several weeks ago
with an ad campaign aimed at
business customers. ..
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23.06.2007Google Discovers Comments, But Commenters Can't Yet Discover Google
Tuesday's unveiling by Google
of another beta feature for
its Google News service has
sparked a new round of ethical
discussions whose tone harks
back to the 1950s and '60s,
when TV broadcasters debated
the ethics and phraseology of
the FCC's Fairness Doctrine.
People specifically mentioned
in a story can now respond to
that story through Google
instead of through its
publisher. But will that
provoke comments or
complaints?..
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09.08.2007Google apps getting the wave treatment
Earlier this week, Engadget received a set of images from an anonymous insider at Google showing a quick insight into the potential future of
Google's web applications - with a hint of wave. It looks very much like a work in progress, but a change such as this is needed. The pictures
show a unified UI across all Google applications - including Google search, GMail and Google Contacts - which is a very similar UI to Google Wave -
which is more than welcome. Engadget was told that "the goal is to provide a consistent experience throughout all Google Apps and blur the line
between the browser and the website (e.g.
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11.11.2009Google Opens Gmail Service to Public
When Google unveiled its instant messaging client yesterday, there was only one problem: Google Talk requires a Gmail account, which has been invitation-only since its beta debut in 2004. This changed on Thursday, however, as Google opened Gmail to anyone in the United States with a mobile phone...
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26.08.2005Google Print Faces More Legal
Hurdles
The Association of American
Publishers on Wednesday
announced that it has filed a
lawsuit against Google to stop
the search giant from copying
books for its Google Print
Library Project. The group
said it filed the suit after
talks with Google broke down...
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20.10.2005Google kills its free text message iPhone app
An application that opened a Google experiment to a much broader audience, ended up giving Google more than it could handle.
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11.03.2009Google kills free text message iPhone app
An application that opened a Google experiment to a much broader audience, ended up giving Google more than it could handle.
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12.03.2009Google Desktop 4 Gets Gadgets
Google on Tuesday released the
final version of Google
Desktop 4, the search
engine's desktop search
utility and sidebar
application. The new release
brings tighter integration
with Google services, and new
"Google Gadgets,"
which expand the capabilities
of previous sidebar plug-ins...
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28.06.2006Google to announce how to host your own Google Wave server
TheNextWeb is reporting that Google may be set to announce Google Wave servers for federation later today. Currently Google has two Wave
infrastructures available to those outside the company, the first is the developer preview sandbox which has been available since Google I/O earlier
year and the second is the mass consumer preview which was opened up to 100,000 participants in September. Google is expected to allow companies and
end users to build and host their own Wave servers. These servers will be able to talk to other Wave servers. TheNextWeb claims that Google Wave
co-founder Lars Rasmussen has confirmed Google plans on opening up the sandbox infrastructure for federation later today. More details are expected to
follow shortly.
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30.10.2009Google Maps Mars
Not content with sticking to
Earth and the moon, Google is
bringing its mapping
technology to our nearest
planetary neighbor: Mars. In
commemoration of Percival
Lowell's birthday, Google
joined up with NASA to build
Google Mars using the most
scientific maps of the planet...
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13.03.2006Google Local Becomes 'Maps'
Again
Google early Friday announced
it was responding to customer
feedback and bringing back the
Google Maps brand, which has
been merged into a unified
Google Local site last
October. The company said it
was trying to emphasize the
wide range of local features
the service offered...
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21.04.2006Google Brings Talk, Local to
BlackBerry
Research in Motion said
Thursday that it had reached a
deal with Google to bring the
company's Google Talk and
Google Local products to
BlackBerry handhelds. The
first devices with the
capability built-in will
appear in the spring...
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12.01.2006Google 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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07.11.2009Now bigger, Google prepares to get smaller
Although yesterday's completion of the Google + DoubleClick deal gives the combined business a big boost against Yahoo and Microsoft, Google is
already planning staff layoffs...
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12.03.2008Microsoft 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...
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08.12.2005Google 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
at Google...
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