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Google Chrome, the Google Browser

Philipp Lenssen writes "Google announced their very own browser project called Google Chrome — an announcement in the form of a comic book drawn by Scott McCloud, no less. Google says Google Chrome will be open source, include a new JavaScript virtual machine, include the Google Gears add-on by default, and put the tabs above the address bar (not below), among other things. I've also uploaded Google's comic book with all the details (details given from Google's perspective, anyway... let's see how this holds up). While Google provided the URL www.google.com/chrome there's nothing up there yet."

Google Tests Custom Highlights, Comments In Search

Ian Lamont writes "Google is testing functionality that lets users tinker with query results by re-ranking them and commenting on them. The reason for the commenting feature: 'We're just curious to see how it will be used,' according to a Google engineer quoted in the article. The company has posted screenshots of some of the experiments, which also involve highlighting certain results as well as stems and synonyms within results. Google declined to answer any questions about the experiments, and it's not known whether Google would factor the rearranging of results by users into the overall computation for ranking results for those specific queries. It's also not clear whether search result comments would be made available to anyone to read.

Google's Big Mistake - Getting Rid of Google Page Creator

Are you kidding me? Google getting rid of Google Page Creator, this must be a joke. No, it's for real. Google says they're going to be transitioning all Google Page Creator websites into their new Google Sites. Excuse me, but Google Sites doesn't come close to being as good as Google Page Creator. Why in the world would Google choose to keep the lesser of the two?

Google URL Index Hits 1 Trillion

mytrip points out news that Google's index of unique URLs has reached a milestone: one trillion. Google's blog provides some more information, noting, "The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we've seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. To keep up with this volume of information, our systems have come a long way since the first set of web data Google processed to answer queries. Back then, we did everything in batches: one workstation could compute the PageRank graph on 26 million pages in a couple of hours, and that set of pages would be used as Google's index for a fixed period of time. Today, Google downloads the web continuously, collecting updated page information and re-processing the entire web-l

Consumer Reports Tells How to Get the Best Seats for the Best Price at Online Ticket...

Consumer Reports Tells How to Get the Best Seats for the Best Price at Online Ticket Resellers August issue finds shopping up to the last minute can score good deals; CR offers tips to hunt hard-to-get tickets and dodge fees YONKERS, N.Y., June 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Scoring seats for summer's hottest events can be tough. The box offices often sell out quickly forcing fans to buy through online ticket resellers where they can pay hundreds, even thousands, above face value. Consumer Reports' August issue tells how to score big in the must-have ticket game. Ticket reselling sounds a lot like scalping, but changes in legislation have allowed for big companies to get in the game. StubHub, TicketsNow, RazorGator, TicketLiquidator and TicketExchange are among the better-known sites in a growing, $2.

Way To Earn Money

Everyone says that one of the easiest ways to earn easy money from home is through the internet. Yes, it is very easy to set up an internet business with little or no money upfront but questions abound. How do you get visitors to your site and how to get them to buy your products or click on your pay per click ads? Firstly, let's take a look at how to earn money online. You can earn money online even if you have no product of your own. That means that there will be no inventory and logistic costs too. One of the ways to earn money online is to create a blog. Creating a blog is free. Then go and apply for Google Adsense and Google will put advertisements on your blog. When visitors at your blog click on your ads, Google will pay you a commission and you can actually receive monthly payments from Google.

Google Under Fire for 'Breathtaking' Hypocrisy, New Report Shows Just How Much Personal Information is Available Through Google Street View

WASHINGTON, July 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Google is under fire for issuing contradictory statements on privacy: In California, Google responded to California State Assemblyman Joel Anderson's (R-San Diego) concerns about Google's privacy policies yesterday by stating that "Google takes privacy very seriously."

Google Apps Hacks

stoolpigeon writes "It seems that it wasn't long ago that Google was just a search company. The number of on-line products that fly under the Google moniker, today, is impressive. Google has moved well beyond its office-suite-like applications and excelled with everything from mapping to blogging to 3-D drawing. Google Apps Hacks is a new book from O'Reilly, published in conjunction with their Make magazine. This volume presents the reader with 141 hacks in an attempt to get the most out of a wide array of Google's on-line applications. The result is a quick ride that is rather fun — and while a bit shallow at times, it provides a great overview of just how much is available out there." Read below for the rest of JR's review.

"Google Satellite" To Be Launched This Week

Lord Satri writes "Well, almost. Google signed an exclusivity deal with GeoEye regarding GeoEye-1, the most advanced high-resolution, civil, remote-sensing satellite to date. This must be annoying for other high-resolution, remote-sensing data users since Google already has an exclusivity deal in place with DigitalGlobe, the other major civil satellite imagery provider. From the CNet article: 'Under the deal, Google is the exclusive online mapping site that may use the imagery... in its Google Maps and Google Earth product. And as a little icing on the cake, Google's logo is on the side of the rocket set to launch the 4,300-pound satellite in six days from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. GeoEye-1 will orbit 423 miles above Earth, but it will be able to gather imagery with details the size of 4

Notify Technology Joins Google Enterprise Professional Program

today announced it has joined the Google Enterprise Professional program, which extends the power of Google across the enterprise and helps customers get more value out of their Google Premier Apps deployment. Notify will provide Enterprises using Google's email, calendar, and address book applications with secure over-the-air synchronization to their wireless device using its NotifyLink Enterprise Edition for Google. NotifyLink users are free to use any BlackBerry(TM), Palm(TM), Windows Mobile(TM), or Symbian(TM) wireless device to access and manage their Google email, calendar, and contacts. The NotifyLink solution is available in two versions; one being an On-Premise software solution and the other as an On-Demand service solution. Over the past four years, Notify has been recognized by Gartner Group in their annual Wireless Email Magi

MS, Yahoo! and Google

The ladies and (especially) gentlemen of Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google trooped into the US Congress to inform US politicians about how good and how bad and how anti-competitive the Yahoo!-Google advert deal is; Yahoo! got things off with a joke by their lawyer Michael Callahan that was pretty funny but disrespectful: ''With all due respect to Google, we have every expectation of fighting them and winning;'' Brad Smith, Microsoft solicitor, explained to the congresspeople that if search is the key to the Internet, as ''many'' believe, then ''this deal will put Google in a position to own that gateway and the information that flows through it''; so it's probably fair to say that when Microsoft takes over Yahoo!, this deal will follow the dodo and other extinct species.

Now Companies Suing eBay For Giving Others Better Listings

Remember all those lawsuits against Google by people who didn't like how Google listed them (i.e., they felt that Google had them too far down the rankings)? Well, it appears that some similar lawsuits are being filed against eBay. One jewelry sales company, Windsor Auctions, felt that it should have been making more money via eBay and sued the company after realizing that a competitor was using tools eBay provided it to get better listings. Windsor mostly relied on a depression-era law that tried to stop big companies from engaging in predatory sales practices (using its marketing muscle to force suppliers to give it better deals). As Eric Goldman points out in the link above, the law makes almost no sense today (and it's questionable if it ever did).

Notify Technology Joins Google Enterprise Professional Program

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Notify Technology Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: NTFY - News) today announced it has joined the Google Enterprise Professional program, which extends the power of Google across the enterprise and helps customers get more value out of their Google Premier Apps deployment. Notify will provide Enterprises using Google's email, calendar, and address book applications with secure over-the-air synchronization to their wireless device using its NotifyLink Enterprise Edition for Google. NotifyLink users are free to use any BlackBerry(TM), Palm(TM), Windows Mobile(TM), or Symbian(TM) wireless device to access and manage their Google email, calendar, and contacts. The NotifyLink solution is available in two versions; one being an On-Premise software solution and the other as an On-Demand service

Google announces second quarter 2008 results

Google Inc. has announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2008. "Strong international growth as well as sustained traffic increases on Google's Web properties propelled us to another strong quarter, despite a more challenging economic environment," said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. "As we continue to focus on innovating in our core business of search, ads and apps, we also look forward to enhancing the experience of our users and expanding the reach of our advertisers and partners with new technologies and formats, particularly as our integration of DoubleClick gains momentum and creates new opportunities in display advertising and elsewhere." Google reported revenues of $5.37 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2008, an increase of 39 percent compared to the second quarter of 2007 and an increase of 3 percent compared

Verizon and Google Close To Mobile Search Deal - Google is coming to a phone near you

Google and Verizon have often been on opposing sides of deals and issues (like those issues that arose during the 700 Mhz spectrum earlier this year). However it looks like the two companies are about to put the past behind them as they are rumored to be nearing a deal which would make Google the default search engine on all Verizon phones. The two companies would split ad revenue so that both would benefit. The deal has not been commented on by either party but sources say that a major point of contention is that Google seeks to save user search information in order to improve targeted ads and Verizon wants to keep that data to itself. Google is already the default search engine for Sprint phones and has a search partnership with Nokia plus the first Android phone has just gotten FCC approval so this is another step for Google towards do

Google Has All My Data – How Do I Back It Up?

shadeshope writes "Slowly but surely Google has taken over my computing life.How can I back it up? Bit by bit with their mantra, hip image and brilliant services. Google has gained my trust and all my data. I am doing almost all of my computing in the cloud. Google Reader, Calender, Email, Docs and Notes have become my tools of choice. Even to the point where my day book, research notes etc are all on Google's servers.It was just so easy, enabling me to effortlessly work from multiple computers, operating systems and locations. I know, I know, this is foolish — all my eggs are firmly in one basket. It has crept up on me. As a long-time computer user, and committed pessimist, I have used many schemes over the years to ensure my data is safe.

Android developers get non response from Google

Android developers have had a lot to grumble about, and Google just added to the list. First a recap: The last official SDK most developers saw from Google was back in March, and then Google slipped up and everyone learned that only a certain few developers were privy to the latest SDK updates. And still, weeks after that, no word from Google about when the rest of the Android developer crew will get a peak at the latest iteration.

Olympics Search Review: Google And Yahoo Get Gold; AOL Grabs Silver; Live Places Last With Bronze

imageThe 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing are supposed to be one of the biggest digital events of all time with tons of content being available for all three screens: TV, Internet and Mobile. So, with the Olympics in full swing and viewers hungry to get the latest results in everything from basketball to equestrian, we thought it was fitting to check in and see how well things are being presented on the mobile phone. As the games proceed, we’ll be taking a look at how things are shaking out. Here’s the first of a series, tackling the question, which of the major search engines—Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) Live Search, or AOL (NYSE: TWX)—are providing the best mobile experience? To answer that question, we simply searched the word “Olympics” from each of the search engines using their mobil

Google Under Fire for 'Breathtaking' Hypocrisy, New Report Shows Just How Much Personal Information is Available Through Google Street View

Google Under Fire for 'Breathtaking' Hypocrisy, New Report Shows Just How Much Personal Information is Available Through Google Street View

Google Under Fire for 'Breathtaking' Hypocrisy, New Report Shows Just How Much Personal Information is Available Through Google Street View

Google Under Fire for 'Breathtaking' Hypocrisy, New Report Shows Just How Much Personal Information is Available Through Google Street View

Google Under Fire for 'Breathtaking' Hypocrisy, New Report Shows Just How Much Personal Information is Available Through Google Street View

Google Under Fire for 'Breathtaking' Hypocrisy, New Report Shows Just How Much Personal Information is Available Through Google Street View

Google's proprietary approach to software slows down acquisitions, claims TechCrunch

Google buys a lot of software companies -- YouTube, Blogger, Picasa, GrandCentral, Keyhole (Google Earth), Writely (Google Docs), JotSpot (Google Sites), Dodgeball etc -- but there's a tendency for them to stagnate. Nik Cubrilovic at TechCrunch IT reckons this is because of Google's proprietary software stack. In Why Google Slows Down Acquired Companies, he says:

Google Inks Deal to Use Tele Atlas Maps on Android OS

Google has signed a deal with digital-map maker Tele Atlas which allows Google to use the firm's map data on a host of devices including cellphones and gadgets based the much anticipated Android operating system. Under the terms of the 5-year deal Google will also continue to use Tele Atlas mapping data on a host of Google services such as Google Maps and Google Earth.

Google lets advertisers measure ad views

Google developed a system that lets advertisers limit and measure the number of times users view ads on its partners' sites. Clients will be able to better place ads based on the number of views they get and the number of users that visit a Web site after seeing it, Mountain View-based Google said Thursday in an e-mailed statement. The technology will be available within months, Google said. The product comes out of Google's acquisition of online ad company DoubleClick, bought in March to boost sales of promotions with pictures and videos.

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