January 1st, 2010 by admin
Blogs are a great way for an individual to put their ideas on the internet and also a cheap and straightforward way for firms to publicize their business. In any given month there are more than fifty thousand blog searches. If you don’t make a great blog you won’t be in the search of a [...]
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October 25th, 2009 by admin
Google is notoriously slow and calculating about changing it the user interface of its services.
In fact, Google hasn’t made any major changes to the look and feel of Google Maps since its launch in 2005.
On Friday, the company launched several refinements to Maps–the biggest changes to its look since launch. While you might not [...]
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October 24th, 2009 by admin
Microsoft has cut non-exclusive deals with both Facebook and Twitter for Bing to search their real-time data feeds. Google has followed suit at least with Twitter, but Facebook is the prize because it has like 40 million updates a day from its 300 million users. Not all Facebook updates will be searched by Bing, however, [...]
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October 23rd, 2009 by admin
Updated 4:30 p.m. PDT with additional details from Google.
It was indeed a nonexclusive deal: Google is going to be indexing real-time Twitter messages in search results, in a deal announced just hours after Microsoft debuted integration of “tweets” into its own search engine, Bing.
A post on the official Google blog by Vice President of Search [...]
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September 10th, 2009 by admin
Support for extensions to customize Chrome, the top-requested feature for Google’s browser, has begun arriving for adventurous users.
Previously, extensions worked only for those who enabled the feature with a command line switch. Now the feature is enabled by default in the developer preview version of Chrome on Windows, Aaron Boodman, the Google engineer who oversees [...]
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September 5th, 2009 by admin
Amazon came out swinging Tuesday against Google’s proposed settlement with book authors and publishers.
Amazon’s opposition was made public last week when it joined the Open Book Alliance, but the company filed its own brief with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Tuesday arguing against making the proposed settlement final. [...]
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September 5th, 2009 by admin
Google has released additional details about the privacy policy it plans to use if its settlement over Google Book Search is approved.
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Google has released a more detailed privacy policy for its Google Books product, a move demanded in recent weeks by several critics of its settlement with publishers and authors.
The company [...]
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September 1st, 2009 by admin
Google on Monday announced that it had added nine new languages to its Translate service.
Included in the update (which actually went live early last week) are Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh, and Yiddish. This brings the total number of languages the service is able to translate to 51.
Like other Google Translate updates, [...]
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August 31st, 2009 by admin
Google News has come under fire in Italy.
(Credit: Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET)
Updated 10:40 a.m. PDT with Google’s response.
Competition regulators in Italy have opened an inquiry into Google News at the behest of publishers who allege they were banned from search results unless they agreed to be part of Google News.
According to reports, Google’s offices in [...]
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August 31st, 2009 by admin
Google continues to move language translation into more and more of its products. On Thursday, it became a feature of Google Docs, letting anyone do an on-the-spot translation into one of 42 languages.
The new feature, tucked away in a settings menu, has the smarts to automatically detect in which language the original document is written. [...]
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