The other day I wrote a post about the Pirate Bay court case and given that Google; or any search engine for that matter, can provide the same search results as Pirate Bay when ...
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Currently Google, as a part of its mission to index all the information in the world, has through its Book Search program scanned the text of some seven million books. Along the way though, ...
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YouTube has moved in to Hulu territory today with a new offering of movies and television programs from a variety of providers including CBS, Lions Gate, MGM, Disney, ESPN and others.
The new feature delivers on demand and ...
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New features in Gmail seem to be a dime a dozen lately, from drunk email protection through to viewing YouTube videos inline. Some of the features rolled out in Gmail Labs have been useful before, but none ...
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Gmail is finally getting more intuitive support for images within e-mails. The Google gang announced the addition of "Insert Image" functionality within Gmail Labs this morning.
The feature, quite simply, lets you click on an icon to upload ...
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News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch targeted Google on Thursday over the use of newspaper headlines in Google News.
Murdoch rhetorically asked an industry event in Washington D.C., "Should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyrights?" going ...
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Government the world round are always trying to find new ways to get control over the Internet and the people using it. In Korea there is a state law that stipulates that if you run a web ...
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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has now responded to rumors that his company is in "late-stage negotiations" to be bought out by Google.
The rumors, posted at TechCrunch Thursday night and called into question hours later by BoomTown's Kara ...
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Residents in an English village have chased a Google Street View car out of their town.
The car was spotted by Broughton resident Paul Jacobs, who warned the driver that he should turn around. The driver ignored him, ...
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Google's getting its annual April Fools' chuckle in more than one way today. The Gmail team's announcement of a new Gmail Autopilot feature has become one of the hottest search terms of the morning.
Gmail Autopilot
The Gmail Autopilot ...
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Google is laying off about 200 employees, the company has announced. The cutbacks will come from Google's sales and marketing divisions.
In a blog posted Thursday afternoon, Senior VP of Global Sales and Business Development Omid Kordestani says ...
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Advertising platform provider Pixazza closed a Series A round of $5.75 million in February from A-List firms including August Capital, CMEA Capital and Foundation Capital. Earlier today they disclosed that the round also included Google.
Having Google on ...
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Google is making some changes to its search results pages. The G-Team announced two sets of tweaks this morning: expanded "related searches" lists and longer search result descriptions.
Associated Search
The first change is designed to provide better "related ...
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An interesting debate is brewing around Google's mystery-shrouded page-ranking system. Some big name media companies are lobbying for Google to give them increased weight in search results over blogs and other Web sites sourcing their news, AdvertisingAge ...
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Gmail unveiled a new "Undo Send" feature in its Labs menu this week. When I saw the announcement about it yesterday, I quickly shrugged and moved on. I've since been surprised to see how much glowing coverage ...
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Copyright laws around the world are in the process of being re-written and in many cases they are a draconian move into the the past with us – the users – being made out ...
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Google has upgraded the sharing feature in Google Reader to allow for multiple comments on shared items.
The immediate difference for Google Reader users is the addition of a comment option at the bottom of each shared item. ...
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For the most part online advertising has taken the form of contextual and placement-targets ads with some ad networks experimenting with what is termed as interest-based advertising. Google through its advertising program has stayed with the ...
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Outages sure do seem to come in ways for Gmail: The Google mail service has confirmed it is dealing with another bout of problems this week.
The latest outage, reported by the BBC, is (as usual) said to ...
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YouTube is blocking most music videos on the site from UK viewers after royalty negotiations broke down.
YouTube said in a blog post that it would block premium music videos in the UK until it can agree to ...
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It is always a good idea when trying to give someone who speaks a different language a cute little gift that has a saying in their language on it that you get the translation correct. It is ...
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Google has entered the social voting space with TipJar, a Digg like service for money saving ideas.
The service allows users to submit content and have it voted up or down. The only real difference is that while ...
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