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Google was the victim of another Google bomb
when the top-ranked result for U.S. first lady Michelle...
Obama on Google Image Search showed the woman with the features of a chimpanzee below a link to a suggested Google search for the terms "Michelle Obama Monkey." The image was posted on a blog ...
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The Michelle Obama Google Bomb
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When Google moved to buy mobile display ad concern AdMob Nov. 9, I explored the notion that the deal could spark antitrust concerns .
After all, anything Google does that involves search and/or advertising is heavily scrutinized today.
IDC analyst Karsten Weide told me Google wouldn't ...
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When Google moved to buy mobile display ad concern AdMob Nov. 9, I explored the notion that the deal could spark antitrust concerns .
After all, anything Google does that involves search and/or advertising is heavily scrutinized today.
IDC analyst Karsten Weide told me Google wouldn't ...
Online
Yahoo
Microsoft
Google's Gmail application has enabled offline access since January 2009, connecting with Google Gears to let users access their e-mail messages and contact through a Web browser without a Web connection.
However, users haven't been able to include attachments, such as PDFs, word processing ...
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Gmail
After an event designed to pull back the curtain on the mysterious Chrome Operating System, Google Co-founder Sergey Brin said the Linux-based operating system for netbooks and Google's Linux-based Android operating system for mobile devices could converge into one platform.
Both OS share ...
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Chrome
Microsoft's Bing search engine has seen a decent growth trajectory since it launched in June, growing from 8.4 percent to 9.9 percent through October.
Could November be the month when Bing cracks the double digit mark? It could and probably will (at least according to comScore), but not if ...
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Bing
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Microsoft Bing
Google Book Search is more than a massive undertaking to organize the world's books online and make them available to users.
It's become a epic struggle aficionados of Star Wars can appreciate. From a legal front, this quest stretches back five years, which for many of us who have watched ...
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Google Nov. 19 made developers happy by releasing Chrome Operating System to open source.
Chrome OS is a Web operating system intended as an alternative to Microsoft Windows, allowing users to run Web apps much faster. Google intends to use Chrome OS to power netbooks, those light, speedy ...
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Microsoft
Yahoo Nov. 19 began indexing Twitter tweets, photos, and videos pertaining to breaking news stories on its Yahoo News Shortcut, which is displayed on our the company's search results page when users search for fresh news.
Today, users will see new tabs for Twitter, news, photos and videos, ...
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Yahoo
These are exciting times in Web-based computing, with Microsoft and Google going toe-to-toe on more than just search engine fronts.
Yesterday, Microsoft said Azure, the cloud-based operating system would be ready for enterprise consumption as soon as Jan. 1 2010. That's less than six weeks ...
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Challenging recent moves in visual search by Microsoft's Bing team, Google Nov. 17 launched Google Image Swirl from Google Labs, sets of animated image clusters that borrow from the graphical representation of Google's wonder wheel view of related search results.
Google Image Swirl renders ...
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To this point, Google Translate has been serviceable, if not bland in its translation of 51 languages.
You went to the site, you typed in some words, a Web page URL, or uploaded a document and selected what language you wanted the content translated into.
Google Translate Nov. 16 got a ...
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Google was very cagey when asked what its Google Voice team would do with the Gizmo5 startup it acquired last week.
Gizmo5 makes Web-based calling software for mobile phones and computers. Specifically, it provides a Web-based VoIP client that lets users make phone calls over the Internet, ...
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Google Voice
What flies in some countries won't in others.
That's the lesson Google is learning from its latest struggle with Switzerland, which is suing the search engine over its Street View feature in Google Maps, which provides 360° horizontal and 290° vertical panoramic street-level views of ...
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Google Maps
What do you want from Google for the holidays? If you're a fan of Google's Chrome projects to dethrone Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows, you may see a couple of big wishes fulfilled: Chrome for Mac and an early build of Chrome Operating System.
First, it seems that the infuriatingly ...
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Chrome
Ladies and gentlemen: it's flu season. Wait a minute... Didn't we already have that? No, that was the darn swine flu.
Following its roll out of Google Flu Trends to 20 countries, Google this week added a U.S.-centric "flu-shot finder" in conjunction with the U.S. Department for Health and ...
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Google Maps
Google Nov. 11 added the World Bank as a new source of statistical data to its search engine results, letting users mine an internatiional source for stats on such topics as electricity consumption per capita, or carbon dioxide emissions per capita.
Google began adding public data from the ...
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Bing
So Rupert Murdoch wants News Corp, the big content provider, to shun Google, the leading content aggregation machine, eh?
There are lots of opinions on how this would/wouldn't work.
Jason Calacanis blogged about how Microsoft Bing could take 10 percent market share from Google by paying ...
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Rupert Murdoch
So Rupert Murdoch wants News Corp., the big content provider, to shun Google, the leading content aggregation machine, eh?
There are lots of opinions on how this would/wouldn't work.
Jason Calacanis blogged about how Microsoft Bing could take 10 percent market share from Google by paying ...
Online
Rupert Murdoch
On Friday, I published two pieces on We annotation startup Reframe It, whose leadership is upset because they feel Google Sidewiki comes perilously close to emulating ReframeIt's technology.
See the full story here on eWEEK, with the associated screenshots here on Google Watch. SlashDot ...
