Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Google Offers Services to Bloggers at Political Conventions

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Google Offers Services to Bloggers at Political Conventions.

Well, at least now I know that The Superfreaks won’t be stuck out with the Pagans running amok…

Wait, that’s why I’m sending them. 

Wierd.

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Google Testing “AdSense for Games”

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Google is the sleeping giant when it comes to advertising in video games. While the company dominates search advertising, it has yet to make a big splash in video games. That could change soon, as the company has been quietly testing its “AdSense for Games” product for months.

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Google Moves to Reinvent Transportation

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

While Google commonly makes small investments in web and mobile startups and has started backing renewable energy companies as well, this was the first time it has funded companies focused on electric vehicles. With the move, Google has gone from advocating plug-in vehicle technology to investing in it, much the way a venture capitalist would.

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My Chat with a Google Street View Driver

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Sometime in the past few weeks, I was walking with a friend when we spotted a very funny looking car. We both immediately knew what it was and as the car drove closer by, our suspicions were confirmed: it was a Google Streetview car outside London. The driver was very sensitive to the privacy issues involved. So here’s my brief chat with him..

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Google Calendar and iCal can sync for free, with caveats

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Is having calendar information online, on the desktop, and on a mobile phone too much to ask? Google apparently doesn’t think so anymore, as the company has quietly enabled sync for Google Calendar, complete with instructions on how to plug into Apple’s iCal.

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Why Cuil is No Threat to Google

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Rest easy, Google … The much-hyped new search engine Cuil (pronounced “cool”), purports to index more Web pages than any of its rivals. But based on its Monday debut, the new site poses little immediate threat to industry leader Google, or even its nearest competitors, Yahoo and Microsoft, in either relevance or breadth of results it delivers.

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Former Google Employees Prepare Rival Search Engine

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Cuil (pronounced “cool,”) is unveiling a search engine that they promise will be more comprehensive than Google’s and that they hope will give its users more relevant results.

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Ex-Google engineers debut ‘Cuil’ way to search

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Anna Patterson’s last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system. She believes her latest invention is even more valuable - only this time it’s not for sale.

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Ex-Google engineers debut ‘Cuil’ way to search

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Anna Patterson’s last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.

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Google’s Knol Verifies You’re a Real Person

Monday, July 28th, 2008

ON-LINE ADS giant Google, which runs a search engine and e-mail service on the side, is offering a way to validate your name as that of a real human being in its new Knol on-line encyclopaedia. The only problem is that it doesn’t work.

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