Google has revamped the mobile version of its homepage to make things easier for Blackberry users.
The updated design -- announced today -- features a more comprehensive search function; combined web, image, and news results in every search; ...
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Following yesterday's rumors of rekindled talks between Yahoo and Microsoft, Yahoo execs have sent a letter to shareholders basically begging to keep their jobs while saying nothing new.
The letter emphasizes the fact that the Google ad deal ...
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Google has named a former Bell Canada exec as its new senior VP and CFO.
Patrick Pichette -- most recently president of operations at Bell Canada -- will join Google on the first of August and officially start ...
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Google is making its Maps utility a bit more Wikipedia-like.
The G-Team has unveiled a new Google Maps feature called MapMaker. Once logged in, you can actually edit any existing Google Maps result -- at least, if ...
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Just a day after announcing its acquisition of location-based social network Plazes, Nokia has another new property under its belt.
The mobile maker has bought out cell phone software developer Symbian -- a company of which it already ...
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The New York Stock Exchange is now offering real-time data online at no cost to the user.
NYSE Realtime Stock Prices launches today with instant info being made available at Google and CNBC. Both sites pay NYSE ...
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Google is set to reveal a new comScore competitor called AdPlanner, according to information obtained by the New York Times.
The Times discovered a mistakenly posted page at the Advertising Research Foundation -- a group hosting a conference ...
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Google now claims everything is on track with the release of its much-hyped Android mobile phone platform, just hours after a Wall Street Journal report indicated quite the contrary.
The Journal report suggests significant delays in Android's launch ...
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Now that Google has entered the Alexa space with Google Trends for Websites, the general public has some access to hidden traffic data from Google's vaults. The service get its numbers from a combination of sources including ...
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You can now track web site stats with Google Trends, thanks to a new toolset called -- fittingly enough -- Google Trends for Websites.
The utility lets you chart out traffic for any site and even break down ...
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Free 411-style directory service is now available in Canada.
Google has just expanded its GOOG-411 service to the country. Canadians can get in on the action by dialing 1-800-GOOG-411 from any phone. The number will look ...
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If headlines are to be believed, there is a massive exodus of staff from Yahoo at the moment. The flight of the Yahooites (Yahoos...what's the collective noun for Yahoo employees??) started before the Microsoft takeover bid, but ...
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Users who type the word "gay" into Google are being presented with a little extra in their search results: a rainbow flag between the results and ads.
The rainbow flag (also known as a gay pride flag) ...
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Google has added PDF support to its Docs utility.
Users can now upload, view, and share PDF files within the program -- something that had not previously been available. While you can copy and paste text, there ...
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Sad news today: Google has quietly advised that that they have ceased development of Google Browser sync and will faze out support.
Google Browser Sync, for the vast majority of people who have never heard of it nor ...
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Web content management company Clickability has signed a deal with Google that will see the company featured in Google's Website Optimizer Technology Partner (WOTEP) program.
Google Website Optimizer allows companies to more effectively convert visitors to customers. Features ...
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As expected, Yahoo has announced a search ad agreement with Google, just hours after officially ending its Microsoft talks.
The company will now run Google-supplied AdSense ads next to its search results as well as on some of ...
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Google is evidently no longer using the name Gmail in Germany.
Philipp Lenssen discovered the interesting change over on his Google Blogoscoped site. Apparently, Lenssen says, navigating to gmail.com in Germany now results in a splashscreen message: ...
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First came the announcement of a massive new development center on NASA property. Now Google co-founder Sergey Brin is planning to go directly to space himself.
Brin is one of six people slated to be on the ...
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Google's got another strong month under its belt in terms of web traffic.
Media measuring company HitWise released its May data this morning. The researcher found Google took a full 68 percent of all U.S. ...
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Viewzi, the visual search engine I described back in May as "visual search nearly done right" has opened its doors to the public.
According to the Viewzi team, the private beta program has been "a great success" ...
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Google has officially launched Gmail labs, a testing area of Gmail features.
The good news: despite a TechCrunch report suggesting that Gmail Labs was georetarded to the United States and United Kingdom, I'm seeing labs here in Australia.
Gmail ...
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