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Either Germans care a whole lot about their privacy or they really have it in for Google. Most likely it's the first, but it doesn't discount from the fact that Google is getting in trouble again in the country, after the whole Street View affair, this time for Google Analytics. Several government official... |
24 November 2009
10:41 GMT |
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With its hands in every cookie jar in the kitchen, there doesn't seem to be anything that Google isn't doing or planning to do. It's gotten to the point where even the slightest hint or rumor that Google is planning to enter a new market is making established players worry. But do utility companies ha... |
24 November 2009
09:47 GMT |
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Google is all about advertising when it comes to making money but it's still very dependent on search ads. It's doing more than OK with those, but that's no reason not to expand. One area where Google hopes to capture market share, by providing a fresh approach and better tools to measure the impact o... |
24 November 2009
09:08 GMT |
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It's not even December yet and companies are already getting the Christmas fever. Who could blame them, the holiday season is the best time of the year for retailers and everyone is gearing up for a piece of the action. Google is not missing out either and is sprucing out its Product Search with several new fea... |
24 November 2009
05:51 GMT |
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The web is build around advertising but, as a medium, it's still relatively new and rapidly evolving at the same time. This creates a need and an opportunity to come up with new models and ad technologies which are better suited for the environment besides the established search and contextual ads, either in te... |
24 November 2009
05:16 GMT |
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Google hasn't been making too much inroad into display advertising, certainly not to the extent of its success with search ads. But it's not giving up any time soon and, if it can't deliver on its own, it could always buy a company that can. And this is exactly what it did with the acquisition of Tera... |
24 November 2009
03:56 GMT |
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Just three days after the release of an update to the developer flavor of its open source browser, Google has made available for download a refresh of Chrome through the Dev Channel. “The Dev channel has been updated to 4.0.249.11 for Windows and Linux,” revealed Anthony Laforge, Google Chrome program man... |
24 November 2009
02:53 GMT |
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Google Chrome extensions are here for everyone. Well, almost, for everyone who's a developer. The extensions gallery which we've been getting hints of for more than a week now is finally open for business, but for the moment, only to allow developers to upload their extensions. The gallery went live just a... |
24 November 2009
02:48 GMT |
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The latest flavor of Google's Android operating system, Eclair or Android 2.0, brought to the table a brand new feature for mobile phone users, namely Google Maps Navigation (Beta). The feature was announced as being free, yet the problem was that Verizon's Motorola DROID was the only Android 2.0-based mob... |
24 November 2009
02:36 GMT |
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Most people would agree that change is good. At the same time, most people are afraid of change. At this point, it isn't surprising to anyone that the old media is terrified of change, meaning the web, and it's hard to pick the one that's most afraid, the movie industry, music labels, or newspapers. It... |
23 November 2009
14:51 GMT |
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Google is getting ready for a big push with a full voice communications service in the works, but in the mean time it has to do a little housekeeping. Google Voice, one of Google's hottest products on the mobile front at the moment, came to be after the company acquired GrandCentral, a startup offering pretty m... |
23 November 2009
05:36 GMT |
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The Google Chrome Dev channel has been updated to version 4.0.249.4 for all platforms (Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux), Anthony Laforge, Google Chrome program manager, has announced. On the Mac side, Chrome adds Silverlight plugin support, as well as bookmark bar improvements. Read on for the full scoop. Mentioning th... |
23 November 2009
05:24 GMT |
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Google has spread its interests so wide that it’s hard to keep track of all of them. It's also looks like the company may be jumping from one big project to the other while lacking a very focused goal. At the same time though, several services have always been central to the company. Gmail gets most of th... |
23 November 2009
03:26 GMT |
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The underlying technology powering the Internet is going through a major overhaul as IPv6 is slowly replacing the aging IPv4, the most widely used networking protocol. The adoption rate has been slow but more and more companies are implementing the new protocol. Google is already one of the biggest adopters and is no... |
21 November 2009
07:18 GMT |
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Google has pushed a new build to the Chrome dev channel with the usual number of small fixes and tweaks. It's only a minor update but if you want to be on the bleeding edge, you should grab the latest build, Google Chrome 4.0.249.4, from the download link below. The updated version fixes a number of issues acros... |
21 November 2009
05:29 GMT |
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People love online video these days. In some cases, it has even begun to replace old-fashioned TV watching as users connect their PCs or web-enabled set-top boxes to their TV sets and get the best of both worlds. But it's a tough world to make a living in for video sites, not only are they struggling to bring in... |
21 November 2009
03:56 GMT |
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Google has released a brand-new, mobile-formatted version of its Google News homepage for iPhone and iPod touch users. To access the mobile Google News site, simply point your browser to news.google.com from Safari on your device. Google News for iPhone and iPod touch is the same for Android and Palm Pre users, and ... |
20 November 2009
10:35 GMT |
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Google Chrome OS may be getting all of the attention today, but such a huge company doesn't revolve around just one product. And it's still very much a search company so it can't afford to get too distracted from its main bread winner. In fact it's anything but, Google will be launching a rather ... |
20 November 2009
10:23 GMT |
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Google has just revealed its most ambitious undertaking to date, Chrome OS, a new operating system which intends to push the concept in a new direction by moving everything to the cloud. While this game-changing approach is very exciting and raises a lot of questions about the future of operating systems, the web an... |
20 November 2009
05:50 GMT |
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Inevitable, the advent of a new operating system has to be branded with certain coordinates that position the platform in relation to the ubiquitous Windows OS from Microsoft. Google Chrome OS has in this manner joined the club of non-Windows operating systems, and don’t think for a minute that this does not ap... |
20 November 2009
04:00 GMT |
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YouTube has introduced some pretty interesting technologies which enable users to add automatic text captions to the videos. The feature is only available in several channels for now, as the speech recognition technology it uses isn't exactly perfect but Google says it should improve in time. The video site had... |
20 November 2009
03:44 GMT |
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Google has just unveiled its hugely anticipated, web-based operating system, Google Chrome OS. As expected, Google hasn't actually launched the operating system, but it has released the source code in its current state for developers to have a chance to start working on it. From now on, the code will remain open... |
19 November 2009
15:08 GMT |
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Google Maps is great for mapping out a trip, getting directions, or finding a Chinese restaurant near you, but Google Earth manages to make maps actually fun. The latest version of Google's 3D mapping software just shed its beta tag after getting rid of most of the lingering bugs. With Google Earth 5.1 the focu... |
19 November 2009
04:10 GMT |
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The search landscape is still evolving even if at its usual slow pace. Not too much has changed in October, Google still clearly dominates and has actually picked up a little market share in the last month, but the other two players are bit more dynamic. Yahoo took quite a significant dive, dropping almost 1 percent... |
18 November 2009
10:03 GMT |
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The wait for Google Chrome OS is almost over as the company is getting ready to reveal the upcoming operating system in an event tomorrow at Googleplex, the company's headquarters. It's unclear whether Google will release any actual code or a rough, working version, but there will definitely be plenty of d... |
18 November 2009
08:51 GMT |
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Often it’s not the scarcity of information but its abundance that is the problem. This is especially true online, the web holds huge amounts of information, yet finding it can be more hassle than it should in some cases. And it's even harder for very specialized information which, while publicly available... |
18 November 2009
05:27 GMT |
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The general layout of a search results page seems to have stayed pretty much the same since Google cracked it about a decade ago. At the time, everyone realized that Google had the right idea and most search engines today have a very similar way of showing the results. But, despite looking very similar, the design h... |
18 November 2009
04:46 GMT |
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Google enjoys a very solid and comfortable lead in search right now and this is true for most types of searches, including image search. This doesn't mean that it can rest on its laurels, if anything Google is the company that showed others just that, so it's now launching a totally new way of discovering ... |
18 November 2009
03:32 GMT |
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Google Chrome is now almost certain to get much better support for extensions very soon, at least in the developer channel builds. After the first clues of an online extensions gallery were spotted yesterday, Google made it more or less official with the latest Chrome release, which now features links and notifiers ... |
17 November 2009
09:22 GMT |
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AOL is approaching its final moments at Time Warner, as the companies are heading towards the spin off revealed earlier this year. Time Warner has now officially put a date on when this is going to happen and as of December 10, 2009 AOL will begin to trade as an independent company on the stock market.... |
17 November 2009
07:19 GMT |
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Google is going all-out in the enterprise front, constantly updating and adding new features to the Google Apps suite it offers businesses. Now it's launching a new template gallery for Google Sites, the service which allows users to easily create and maintain a website. Anyone can install and use themes availa... |
17 November 2009
06:36 GMT |
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With the web reaching more people in more countries everyday translations are becoming even more important. There are a number of translation services online and one of the best just got a big update. Google Translate was already impressive with support for 51 languages and some interesting features, but Google took... |
17 November 2009
05:08 GMT |
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A new update to Google Chrome is available for download, for testers running the browser on all supported platforms, namely Windows, Mac, and Linux. The Mountain View-based search giant released Chrome 4.0.249.0 at the start of this week, offered to early adopters through the company’s Dev channel. The latest d... |
17 November 2009
04:03 GMT |
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Google is always introducing new features and products, but it plays it safe and the most experimental ones usually end up in Google Labs, Gmail Labs, and the likes. Even so, things usually work out all right and, apart from the usual bugs and hiccups, there isn't too much drama. It now looks like Google has fi... |
16 November 2009
11:30 GMT |
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After months of Google losing execs and top level engineers, it's nice to see the company reverse the process for a change by snatching up engineering evangelist Don Dodge, recently laid off by Microsoft. Very recently, in fact, Dodge has only been out of a job for 11 days and blitzed through Google's hiri... |
16 November 2009
09:05 GMT |
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San Mateo, California-based AdMob Inc., a company selling ads that appear on mobile phones, has been recently purchased by Google, who agreed to pay $750 million for the company. However, it seems that Google was not the only one interested in the purchase of AdMob, and that Apple also approached it with the same pu... |
16 November 2009
06:14 GMT |
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Everything online today is about customization and options. The world doesn't need 100,000 iPhone apps and developers aren't stopping any time soon, so people seem to be gobbling it up. Yet, you can't really hope to compete in the smartphone market without apps and lots of them. The same is true for b... |
16 November 2009
04:14 GMT |
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Google is making some people very happy, as it has finally introduced some sort of integration between FeedBurner and Google Analytics. Considering that the vast majority of users have been more than disappointed by the way Google has handled the feed-management service since it acquired it in 2007, this comes as a s... |
14 November 2009
06:44 GMT |
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Google is getting confident enough in its web-based office suite that it's now claiming that it will be ready to take Microsoft Office head-on within a year. Not just as a low-cost compromise option, but as an actual alternative for most users. These words are coming straight from Dave Girouard, president of Goo... |
14 November 2009
05:48 GMT |
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Google's ranking system is a closely guarded secret. Sure, the company lays out general guidelines and reveals the factors that go into determining a site's relevance, but knowing the exact algorithm would be worth a lot of money to a lot of people. That's not going to happen anytime soon, but somethin... |
14 November 2009
04:52 GMT |
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Google Books has been the source of much controversy for Google over the years and the problems aren't gone just yet, despite the company having reached an agreement more than a year ago with the author and publisher groups with which it was in litigation over the service. After delays and concerns from governme... |
14 November 2009
04:10 GMT |
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Google is facing issues with its Street View service yet again. It seems that every time the service opens up in another country the same discussion pops up with officials worried about privacy. It happened in Germany, it happened in Greece, in Japan and the UK, and so on. Now, Switzerland is saying its piece, with t... |
13 November 2009
11:26 GMT |
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Twitter looks to be as popular as ever, judging by all the attention it's been getting, but for several months traffic numbers in the US have been stalling and they've actually dropped in October from the previous month, going from 20.9 to just 19.2 million, according to comScore numbers. Traffic has been ... |
13 November 2009
09:41 GMT |
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Google's most hotly anticipated project, the brand-new, web-based operating system Chrome OS, is about to become a reality if rumors about its impending launch as soon as next week turn out to be true. When it first announced the project, Google said that the first public release should come this fall so this w... |
13 November 2009
06:42 GMT |
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A few years ago, when online video really started to take off, users were satisfied with webcam-quality, blurry and pixelated videos. Just the fact that you were watching video on the Web was mind-blowing enough. This changed soon enough and HD videos have become pretty much standard for any proper online video serv... |
13 November 2009
06:04 GMT |
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Google's eagerly anticipated communications service Wave has opened to a lot more people for about a month now. Unfortunately, many users were unimpressed with the current state of the service, be it because of its rather clunky interface or simply because they just don't get what problem exactly it is try... |
13 November 2009
05:36 GMT |
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The latest update introduced to the Stable version of the Google browser is designed to resolve an issue in which Chrome does not start. On November 12, 2009, the Mountain View-based search giant started pushing Google Chrome 3.0.195.33 through the Stable channel. In addition to the startup problem, the latest update... |
13 November 2009
05:28 GMT |
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There's no doubt Google is a speed junkie. It wants everything to be faster and its doing anything to make it so. It built its own web browser, Chrome, just for this, and it's even building a new operating system, Chrome OS, with the same idea in mind. It obsesses about its search engine to squeeze every l... |
13 November 2009
04:35 GMT |
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It's official, Google has confirmed the acquisition of VoIP startup Gizmo5. The company hasn't provided any financial details about the deal or what its plans are for Gizmo5, but it said that it would integrate it in some way with Google Voice, the hot new service which enables users to switch between mobi... |
13 November 2009
03:47 GMT |
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The economy is still in a dire state and companies are firing people left and right but there are signs of recovery in some areas particularly in online advertising. After years and years of sustained growth, online advertising revenue actually declined in the first half of this year. But in the third quarter, the ma... |
12 November 2009
11:46 GMT |
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