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Unbelievable Google Suggestions :)

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:25:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: love Google in anyway!!!

One of the features I like the most in Google is the suggestions feature when you are typing in your keywords. But sometimes you come across some really crazy and outrageous suggestions. I mean, look at these ones….

81,300 pages for that?

Now you may say this is just my imagination but Google searchers seem to have an unhealthy obsession with black people! First with black kids in the cafeteria and now this? Why are black people black? What the hell? And are there really 51.9 million pages on the subject?

Microsoft uses search prizes to close Google gap

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:05:16 GMT

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San Francisco, Oct 3 (DPA) In a bid to close the ever-widening gap with Google on Internet searches, Microsoft has started offering consumers redeemable points for using its search service.

The programme was launched as new web traffic figures Thursday showed that Google had extended its lead to 63 percent of the US search market in August. Yahoo came in with a 19.6 percent share, followed by Microsoft with an 8.3 percent share.

Microsoft hopes that its new SearchPerks programme will help counter the trend by giving consumers, who enroll in the programme, tickets for any searches they do using Microsoft's Live Search service. The virtual tickets can be redeemed for prizes, such as airline miles, music downloads and games for Microsoft's XBox video game system.

Microsoft said that tests showed that people were three times more likely to use Live Search when they were offered redeemable points than when they weren't.

Google agrees to carry anti-abortion ads by religious bodies

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:23:36 GMT

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Clip Source: in.news.yahoo.com

London, Sep 18 (IANS) Religious organizations can now place anti-abortion advertisements on Google after a lawsuit by a British pro-life charity forced it to lift the ban.

Google settled out of court Wednesday with The Christian Institute, a UK-based charity, and will now allow religious groups to place factual and campaigning ads about abortion. The new policy will apply world-wide with immediate effect. The Institute lost no time in placing its first advertisement on the website.

The Christian Institute wanted to advertise with Google by paying so that when the word 'abortion' was typed into the search engine, a link to a web page on its views would pop up on the right-hand side of the screen.

Google refused to display the ad in March because its policy banned the advertising of sites that mixed 'abortion and religion-related content'.

14 Strangest Stuff You Can See in Google Maps

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:38:30 GMT

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The Osmington White Horse, outside Sutton Poyntz, UK. This prehistoric figure is

carved into the white chalk of the hillside - such horse carved shapes are called “Leucippotomy”

This Google map satellite pic of a swastika-shaped building on a
US Navy base in Coronado, California

Some of the best-documented messages found in Google Maps have been marriage proposals like this one

Giant thumbprint in a park in Great Britain. his thumbprint is actually a large maze designed by
Chris Drury.

Man-shaped lake in Brazil

This UK maze was built to celebrate the 200th birthday of Brunel, a famous British engineer

A rendering of Da Vinci’s famous Vitruvian Man, located in Italy

30 Google Apps You’ve Never Heard Of

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:40:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: On the other hand, there are quite a few apps I have heard of! Still, this list is a highly useful one!
To learn more on this, visit the site pl. Couldn't clip it all...

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By Laura Milligan

Whenever Google officially decides to take over the world, we will already be well-acquainted with their unending sets of online tools and applications and overall knack for simplifying our lives. If, for some reason, you’re still unaware of how the Google enterprise is revolutionizing the way even non-techies gather information and play on the Web, read below for 30 of the best Google applications that you need to try.

1. Android:

2. Google Scholar:

3. Google Search on China Mobile:

4. Google Answers:

5. Google OneBox:

6. Writely:

7. SketchUp

8. Google Desktop 4:

9. Picasa Web Albums:

10. IMAP for Gmail:

11. Shared Address Book:

12. New Google Talk:

13. Public Calendar Gallery:

14. New Google Docs:

15. Gmail mobile application for BlackBerry® smartphones:

16. Google Apps Premier Edition:

17. Mail Migration Tools

18. Domain Registration:

19. Google Reader

20. AdWords Editor:

21. Google Mobilizer

22. Click-to-Call

23. Page Creator:

24. Gears:

25. Ride Finder:

26. Transit

Google halves storage time of users' personal data

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:02:38 GMT

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA: Google Inc has halved the amount of time it stores personal data gathered from its users' Web surfing habits, a move aimed at improving its privacy policies, a company official said.

Google used to store such data for 18 months, but has now trimmed that duration to nine months.

Nicole Wong, Google's deputy general counsel, told a meeting of computer industry privacy experts at Microsoft Corp's Silicon Valley offices that her company planned to "anonymize" the computer addresses of its users more quickly.

Peter Cullen, chief privacy strategist for Microsoft Corp, said Google's move was done in response to pressure from European regulators and by industry rivals.

Cullen, who was taking part in panel discussion with Wong, said that until a year-and-a-half ago, Google had kept personally identifiable information about its Web users on company computers for an indefinite amount of time.

Interesting facts about Google!!!

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:22:04 GMT

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Clip Source: www.gtricks.com

Here are some interesting Google facts :

1. The name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ‘Googol’.

2. Gmail was used internally for nearly 2 years prior to launch to the public. They discovered there was approximately 6 types of email users, and Gmail has been designed to accommodate these 6.

3. They listen to feedback actively. Emailing Google isn’t emailing a blackhole.

4. Employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time working on their own projects. Google News, Orkut are both examples of projects that grew from this working model.

8. The infamous “I feel lucky” is nearly never used. However, in trials it was found that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience. Users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button.

11. Google has the largest network of translators in the world

15. Quote: Give Users What They Want When They Want It

16. Quote: Integrate Sensibly

At a loss for words? Google Suggests!!!

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:54:29 GMT

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Clip Source: googleblog.blogspot.com

Have you ever been stumped in finding the right words to search for? Back when I was planning my wedding, I had a list of wedding songs in mind, but the problem was that I couldn't remember any of the artist names or song titles. So I started typing into the Google search box parts of the lyrics that I did remember -- and like magic, I saw suggestions with the artist name and song titles that I wanted! (I was opted-in to the keyword suggestions Google Labs experiment at the time). At that moment, I was so proud to be working on Google Suggest, a search feature that provides real-time suggestions while you search.

Help formulate queries

Reduce spelling errors:

Saves keystrokes:

So what are you waiting for? Give it a try. Start typing in a query on Google.com to see Google Suggest in action!

Posted by Jennifer Liu, Product Manager

New Google box for offices can search 10 million files

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:26:09 GMT

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SAN FRANCISCO--Google said on Tuesday it is an offering an upgraded version of the hardware appliance its sells to companies and government organizations for Google-style Web search of office documents.

The Web search leader said the latest version of the Google Search Appliance, a pizza-sized box that holds a self-contained search system for managing an organization's electronic files, can store up to 10 million documents in a single box.

Once installed in a network, the appliances help staff find documents in various different corporate store houses, from EMC Corp's Documentum, IBM's FileNet, Open Text's LiveLink and Microsoft Corp's SharePoint.

New features in the latest model include greater encryption powers and the ability for Google Alerts to notify users when new documents are stored on the network by colleagues.

Roughly 98 percent of its revenue comes from advertising sold alongside services on Google.com and affiliated sites.

Google’s Book Search Offers 100 Million Texts

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:33:16 GMT

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Google’s Book Search Offers 100 Million Texts

Courtney Mitchel, of the University of Michigan library’s book-shelving department is among hundreds of librarians who spend hours of each day going through almost 600 pages of some of the world’s oldest books.

Their work is part of Google’s Book Search, a project that plans to offer its users access to digital versions of 50 million to 100 million ancient texts.

Among the books being scanned by librarians is one which they believe to be the oldest Bible in the world printed in Arabic.

Book Search allows users to search books through a variety of topics

. They are allowed to download the entire text as long as the book is not held under copyright. If it is, or if they just want to read an original, they can use Book Search to find copies to buy or borrow.

More than 1 million rare or fragile books have been digitized through the Google-Michigan partnership since it began in 2004, with an estimated 6 million to go.

Tags: literature, books, google, texts, reading

TOPPLE GOOGLE WITH YAHOO!

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:25:49 GMT

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Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

SAN FRANCISCO - Unable to topple Google Inc. on its own, Microsoft Corp. is trying to force crippled rival Yahoo Inc. into a shotgun marriage, with a wager worth nearly $42 billion that the two companies together will have a better chance of tackling the Internet search leader.

Microsoft's audacious attempt to buy Yahoo, spelled out in an unsolicited offer announced Friday, shows just how much Google threatens the world's largest software maker's grip on how people interact with computers.

For Yahoo, the bid represents another painful reminder of how missed opportunities and mismanagement combined to open the door for Google to supplant it as the Internet's main gateway, decimating its stock price in the process.

Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft is trying to avoid a similar fate at Google's hands as more people access services and computer programs online instead of relying on packaged software applications.

Tags: microsoft, googe, yahoo.

Microsoft to Pay $240 Million for Stake in Facebook

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:01:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: it's either google or microsoft! all the time and every time!

Clip Source: slashdot.org

Nrbelex writes to mention The New York Times is reporting that Microsoft has beat out Google and Yahoo for a 1.6% stake in Facebook. The investment will cost Microsoft $240 million valuing the total site at somewhere around $15 billion. "The astronomical valuation for Facebook is primarily evidence that Microsoft executives believed they could not afford to lose out on the Facebook deal. Google appears to be building a dominant position in the race to serve advertisements online. Fearing it might lose control over the next generation of computer users, Microsoft has been attempting to match and in some cases block Google's plans, even if that effort is costly."

Tags: microsoft, face book, new york times, website, social networking.

Scientists Use Google Widget to Improve Image Labeling

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:35:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The Omni-potent & Omni-present, The single Universal Force above us all, The God Almighty GOOGLE!

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University of California researchers are claiming they’ve added “common sense” to computers’ ability to recognize objects in photographs.

The team will present their findings today at the IEEE’s International Conference on Computer Vision in a paper called “Objects in Context” (pdf). Their technique could immediately improve the automatic cataloging of images in large collections (like those at the Library of Congress), albeit marginally in the early going. Down the road, it could provide computer object recognition systems with the context that allows humans to fill in our visual fields with usually reliable information. Really good systems, combined with metadata about when the photo was taken, for example, could provide the information for a semantic web for pictures, allowing automatic geographical and event tagging.

Tags: google, scientists, research, computer vision, pictures, semantic web.

Google Books Redesign

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:27:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Now it looks much better; like a real online library.

Clip Source: blogoscoped.com

The Google Book search homepage just received a redesign (some of you were able to spot this prototype before, but it just went live for all). It now looks more like book shelf than straight-forward search engine; instead of the typical Google logo + input box, you’ll be seeing a couple of pre-selected covers as images, making for a more explorative approach.

Tags: google, books, book search

Google, Yahoo!, Orkut Me too?

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:40:36 GMT

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Internet research company, JuxtConsult, has published its latest report on the state of Internet in India. The report, titled 'India Online 2007' offers interesting insights on the emerging pattern of Internet usage in the country

on an average, about 20 million Internet users are logged on to the Internet daily.

Among Web sites, Yahoo! remains the most recalled, with nearly 30 percent Indians having it top of their mind. Ironically, when it comes to actual usage, Google beats Yahoo! with about 29 percent Internet users opting to use Google instead.

Little surprise that the JuxtConsult report reveals Orkut to be the 'dark horse' with the best recall-to-usage ratio of 1.76.

The surprise package of the report is four Web sites, namely, Yatra, Orkut, Magicbricks, and Zapak, all of which have raced the popularity charts to reach number one or two in their respective genres.

Orkut,

64 percent usage preference in the social networking category

Tags: google, orkut, yahoo, internet, india.