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Google hits homerun with Gmail Motion April Fools Day goof
We gotta hand it to em’. The folks at Google have a great sense of humor. In their annual April Fools Day goof, the engineers at Google unveiled Google Motion, a new email feature that lets users interact with their email without using “outdated technologies like the keyboard and mouse.” The video is well produced […]
Continue reading...Number of apps specifically designed for Android tablets now thriving at 20
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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When Steve Jobs took the wraps off of the iPad 2 on March 2, he characteristically took some time to bash the competition. In one memorable tidbit, Jobs boasted of the 65,000 dedicated iPad apps available on iTunes. In contrast, Jobs claimed that there were only 100 apps written exclusively for Android 3.0 (Google’s tablet […]
Continue reading...Ways for Google to return to its start-up roots
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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With soon to be Google CEO Larry Page vocally tryingto return Google to its start-up roots, a post from a former Google employee on Slacy’s Blog details a number of things the search engine behemoth can do to return to its start-up ways. Google has a very, very strong NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome. Alternate […]
Continue reading...Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta not impressed with Google’s new search algorithm
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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Google in February instituted sweeping changes to its search algorithm to more effectively combat the growing problem of content farms and spam links populating search results. In the wake of those changes, some domains saw a huge decrease in Google search traffic, with Mahalo and Associated Content seeing their domains drop significantly down on Google’s […]
Continue reading...Google’s Honeycomb OS not entirely open just yet
Monday, March 28, 2011
A few weeks ago, I noticed that a friend of mine who happens to be decidedly not into Apple products toting around an iPhone 4. As it turns out, the phone was subsidized by his employer so an Apple user he became. When I asked him how he liked it, he had nothing but praise […]
Continue reading...Larry Page already making moves to transform Google back into a startup
Saturday, March 26, 2011
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With Google co-founder Larry Page poised to take the CEO reigns of Google in about a week, there’s been a lot of speculation as to how Google will operate under Page as opposed to outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt. One of the more common threads we’ve seen is Page’s desire to infuse a little bit of […]
Continue reading...Google begins internal testing on Google Music
Thursday, March 24, 2011
CNET reports that Google has begun internal testing on its long rumored Google Music service, indicating that a rollout may be coming sooner rather than later. Two weeks ago someone writing at the XDA Developers forum claimed to have accidentally discovered Google Music after installing the Honeycomb version of the Android operating system on a phone. […]
Continue reading...Google’s Doodle Logo Archive
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
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Waste some time looking at an archive of Google’s logo doodles. Take a look at some of the logos from 2001 and it’s amazing to see how much the logos have improved over the past few years.
Continue reading...When Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted to hire Steve Jobs
Monday, March 21, 2011
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Going all the way back to the late 90’s when Google was still an up and coming startup, co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were more than content to run their company themselves. Their exuberance, however, was tempered by a venture capital firm who insisted that the two young Stanford PhD candidates hire a seasoned […]
Continue reading...Google introduces “Instant Previews” for mobile device web queries
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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Google last week announced a new feature called “Instant Previews” for mobile devices running Android 2.2+ and iOS 4+. The new feature, available in 38 languages, displays website screenshots of search results and lets users swipe through the previews to get a quick taste for what each search result has in store, a particularly useful […]
Continue reading...The paper that started Google
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
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The abstract of Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s 1998 paper titled The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine reads:
Continue reading...Google removes over 51 popular malware-infested Android apps
Thursday, March 3, 2011
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Yeah yeah, Google’s Android platform is open and amazing and makes Apple’s iOS ecosystem look like a Russian gulag in comparison – or so some folks would have you believe. Seriously, while Android’s openness does have some positives, it also carries the potential for mischief.
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