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Google to Newspaper Publishers: We Come in Peace

Googlenews Google cares about copyright protections. Well, that's the message it wants to get out to newspaper publishers, anyway.

Google's Top 17 Easter Eggs, Gags, and Hoaxes

Buried Deep in GoogleGoogle Web site -- and many of the company's software programs -- are loaded with gags, goofs, and Easter eggs that have helped Google maintain a fun-loving spirit in the cutthroat world of Web competition. Of course, Google always has a good idea. Thousands of our readers have enjoyed past explorations of wonders like "The Strangest Sites in Google Earth" and "The Most Spectacular Sights in Google Sky." So when we heard stories of hidden teddy bears, a Google Romance beta service, and early morning appearances of the Loch Ness monster on Google home pages, we had to check them out. And most of them turned out to be true. Take a look. Artwork: Chip Taylor Google's Official Easter Egg GameIt's one thing to find Easter eggs, and it's another thing to catch them.

The Tools Google Uses Internally

A web seminar Google held yesterday at KMWorld Magazine offered a great deal of insight into how Google manages projects and communication internally. The presentation by Google followed an employee through his first few weeks at the company, explaining the many tools he’s using: from the Google intranet MOMA, the Google Ideas site and Google Caribou Alpha, to Google Experts Search, “Googler Search,” and Google Apps. Following is a smaller excerpt of the large-size screenshots & info Google was showing in the 59-page presentation, with thanks to Brian – who has a wrap-up of the presentation as well as the full slides at his blog – for sending this in. KMWorld says the presentation will be archived at their site eventually, so perhaps if you register with them you might still be able to see the event.

Facebook Pulls Out of Google Friend Connect

Google’s new Friend Connect initiative is in trouble. On May 15, Facebook effectively pulled out of participation in Google Friend Connect service, which links social networks and traditional Web sites. “Now that Google has launched Friend Connect, we’ve had a chance to evaluate the technology. We’ve found that it redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge, which doesn’t respect the privacy standards our users have come to expect and is a violation of our Terms of Service. Just as we’ve been forced to do for other applications that redistribute data in a way users might not expect or understand, we’ve had to suspend Friend Connect’s access to Facebook user information until it comes into compliance,� according to Facebook.

TechFaith to launch mobile phone based on Google's Android platform byyear's end

Shanghai. March 12. INTERFAX-CHINA - Nasdaq-listed Chinese mobile phone design house TechFaith Wireless intends to launch a mobile phone based on Google's Android platform at the end of this year, an official from the company said yesterday. "We will launch a mobile phone based on the Android platform at the end of this year. Android is often referred to as 'Google phone', but it is actually a mobile phone platform that is comparable with Windows Mobile," Gilbert Lee, president and chief operating officer of TechFaith, told Interfax at the Piper Jaffray & ChinaVenture Investment Conference 2008. Unique functions of the Android platform include seamless integration of Google services, including Google search and Google Earth, Lee said. "We still don't know which customers we will provide the product to.

Google Sky Brings the Heavens Online

Google has extracted the recently released night sky browser out of Google Earth and released it on the web. While Google Sky is still part of Google Earth, it is also joining Google Moon and Google Mars with its very own URL and new collection of Google Maps-like features.

Google: A Clear & Present Danger to Corporate Data Privacy

UPDATE: Editors' Note: At the request of Google, we've removed the photo of Google engineer Jayant Madhavan, co-author (with Alon Halevy) of the Google Webmaster Central blog post, Crawling through HTML forms, posted by Maile Ohye, Senior Support Engineer at Google. The photo was deleted at Google's request to respect the privacy of Google's corporate data and the personal privacy of Jayant Madhavan.

Google Sky Now Available Through Your Browser

Ars Technica brings word that Google Sky, formerly only available as an extension of the Google Earth software, is now accessible through your web browser. The interface of Google Sky is quite similar to that of Google Maps, complete with search and alternate views by spectrum. The story also mentions (and more importantly, links) ten of the more interesting sights. We discussed Google Sky's initial release last year. Quoting: "Visible light only shows us a small picture of the entire universe; non-visible spectra such as ultraviolet (UV), infrared and X-ray hold a whole other world of information. Here is where Google Sky becomes very cool. There are three more sections that highlight fantastic images from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the GALEX Evolution Explorer (UV), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (IR).

A New Tool From Google Worries Brand-Name Sites

Google has quietly introduced a new feature, called search-within-search, that is alarming some big-name Web publishers and retailers. They worry that users will be siphoned away through ad sales to competitors. What Google is doing is offering a secondary search option if the user initially searches explicitly for one of the brand-name destinations that Google has identified, such as "Best Buy." This secondary search lets users refine their query entirely within the pages of the desired site — but using Google's search, not the site's, and showing Google ads on the result pages, quite possibly ads from competitors. "Analysts generally praise the feature as helping users save steps, but for Web publishers and retailers, there are trade-offs.

Uruknet and Axis of Logic Cut Off From Google News Again

Google News has again cut off URUKNET, one of the most reliable and important sources of news on the war in Iraq. Google has systematically and persistently sabotaged revolutionary websites like URUKNET, nor is URUKNET the only victim of their censorship. Axis of Logic has also been cut off from Google News distribution. We support this appeal from URUKNET as we have in the past. Please click on the link provided near the top of the article below to register your complaint. Bombard Google with emails until they reinstate both, URUKNET and Axis of Logic to Google News. Meanwhile, you as a reader can become a distributor of our articles by sending them to the millions in your collective list-serves and email correspondence. Thank you for your important participation to keep the alternative media free of censorship.

Google Takes Down HuddleChat After Complaints

desmondhaynes writes "There were striking similarities between one of Google's App Engine demos, HuddleChat (a real-time chat application) and the Campfire app from 37Signals. Google has taken HuddleChat down from the App Engine app gallery." Google explains: "The App Engine team was looking for some sample apps to help kick the tires on their new system, so we invited Googlers to build some as side projects. A couple of our colleagues here built HuddleChat in their spare time because they wanted to share work within their team more easily and thought persistent web chat would do the trick. We've heard some complaints from the developer community, though, so rather than divert attention from Google App Engine itself, we thought it better to just take HuddleChat down.

Just Plain Strange - Google Bans Kids

Under 18? No Google for you. In what has to be one of the weirdest news items I've read recently, Google's Terms of Service prohibit any person under the age of 18 from utilizing any Google Web properties. So that means no searching, no YouTube, no Gmail. At issue here is Google's stance that a person under 18 is not capable of signing a binding contract - and that apparently you need a contract to search the Internet. Logically, if you have to be 18 to use Google's properties, you'd have to be 18 to have a Myspace page, right? Nope - Myspace only requires users to be 16 to publicly post their "preferences", religion, and those awesome pictures of that party at that kid's house when his parents were out of town. Facebook? 13. What makes this even more odd is that Google is sponsoring an art contest - Doodle 4 Google - for students K-12, w

Solid Cactus Becomes Google Analytics Authorized Consultant

March 10, 2008 (Shavertown, PA) — Solid Cactus®, an award-winning web design company and total solutions e-commerce provider, announces that it has been authorized by Google to provide analysis and technical consulting and support for Google Analytics™. Google Analytics, Google`s free web-analytics tool, provides e-commerce store owners with detailed statistics about a website`s visitors: where they come from, what they buy, which ads are most effective, which products are most popular, how much time visitors spend, and other actionable data. Solid Cactus is one of twenty-two companies in North America to be chosen as a Google Analytics Authorized Consultant (GAAC) and one of the only companies to offer a solution that specifically integrates Google Analytics with Yahoo! stores.

Solid Cactus Becomes Google Analytics Authorized Consultant

SHAVERTOWN, Pa., March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Solid Cactus(R), an award- winning web design company and total solutions e-commerce provider, announces that it has been authorized by Google to provide analysis and technical consulting and support for Google Analytics(TM). Google Analytics, Google's free web-analytics tool, provides e-commerce store owners with detailed statistics about a website's visitors: where they come from, what they buy, which ads are most effective, which products are most popular, how much time visitors spend, and other actionable data. Solid Cactus is one of twenty-two companies in North America to be chosen as a Google Analytics Authorized Consultant (GAAC) and one of the only companies to offer a solution that specifically integrates Google Analytics with Yahoo! stores.

Google adds a new layer of security to Google Apps

Google Apps is getting a new layer of security aimed at IT departments worried about phishing attacks and care less users. Google and Arcot Systems announced a partnership that makes Arcot's A-OK On-Demand authentication system available to any Google Apps Premier Edition customer for just $1 a month. By partnering with Arcot and offering the service at such a minimal fee, Google is aiming to further entice business customers and enhance the reputation of Google Apps as a secure, business-ready system.

We won't start sledging but we will retaliate - Uthappa

They said the India-Australia series was a summer of spite but, if you believe Robin Uthappa, it all began in the Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa. The Indian team were huddled in a team meeting ahead of the game against Australia when the way to tackle Australia's aggression came up for discussion. "We said they [Australians] generally talk a lot," Uthappa recalls. "We decided that if they start the sledging, we won't sit back and take it. We will give it back. We won't and didn't initiate anything."

New Google Search Tool Alarms Publishers

Some large online publishers are expressing initial wariness about Google's new "search within a search" feature, which some feel could diminish their role in directing users around their sites, according to the New York Times. Google's new service is touted as a way to help users find specific items within sites like Wikipedia, NYT.com, WashingtonPost.com, Wal-Mart, among many others. When a user enters a search on Google for one of those kinds of sites, Google then offer another search box that lets users to seek out subjects within those sites.

New Google Search Tool Finds Web Publishers' Concerns

imageSome large online publishers are expressing initial wariness about Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) new “search within a search� feature, which some feel could diminish their role in directing users around their sites, according to the New York Times. Google’s new service is touted as a way to help users find specific items within sites like Wikipedia, NYT.com, WashingtonPost.com, Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), among many others. When a user enters a search on Google for one of those kinds of sites, Google then offer another search box that lets users to seek out subjects within those sites.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX500: Sweet like chocolate

It's nearly Easter, and we find ourselves haunted by the moment we lost our childhood innocence: the instant we first cracked open a giant chocolate egg and discovered that it wasn't full of sticky-sweet goodness after all. We've been as hollow as a cheap supermarket mockolate egg ever since. Jaded as we are, we expect the worst from most compact cameras, until every now and again we come across a camera so packed with features it's like breaking into a giant Creme Egg and discovering it's fondant all the way through. Say hello then, to the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX500.

Google Summer of Code Mentors Announced - 25 New Spots

We've just announced the list of accepted mentoring organizations for Google Summer of Codeâ„¢ 2008, and you can check out more details for each of them on the program home page. After reviewing over 500 applications, we finally narrowed our selection to 175 Free and Open Source projects. Originally, we had planned to work with 150 projects this year, but due to the overwhelming quality of the applications we received we chose to take on an additional 25.

Google Search Mobile now available also for Windows Mobile

After Google Maps and Google Gears, Google Search is another product that Google releases for Windows Mobile. Now if only Google could release also Google Mail (Gmail) for Windows Mobile, then everybody would be happy!

Google Gearing Up for the Enterprise

The Google Solutions Marketplace, a portal for apps that make use of Google's APIs or Gadgets, demonstrates Google's increasing interest in the enterprise, along with Google's recent acquisition of enterprise-focused wiki company JotSpot, now called Google Sites. Additionally, Salesforce.com will begin reselling Google Apps to its customers.

Google Scoops Microsoft w/ Mesh Applications

Julie188 writes "Google's offline access for Google Apps is a kick in the shin at Ray Ozzie. Google took a page right out of the Ozzie mesh playbook when it announced the offline access (let's call it Google Docs Unplugged). Google delivered desktop apps from the cloud first and then added unplugged functionality. Microsoft wants to do the same, but in reverse, and faces an infinitely bigger challenge: rebuild Microsoft apps so they can become cloud enabled while pulling its giant channel (and embedded software) along in the process. Good luck with that, Microsoft. But then again, just because Google is making faster progress doesn't mean much. There's no guarantee users will like the unplugged versions of cloud apps."

Google Rolls Out Ad Manager

Ad Manager from Google appears less than 72 hours after Google acquired DoubleClick. The new Google Ad Manager will help publishers with small sales staffs keep track of online ad sales and serving. The free Ad Manager is in beta and an analyst says it's the first of what advertisers may see come out of the DoubleClick integration into Google.

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