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Google is giving away Amazon vouchers for learning more about your Web browsing habits
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A new Google project named Screenwise looks set to offer Amazon vouchers in return for information about your browsing habits. While it doesn’t appear to have launched officially yet, a landing page highlighted by Search Engine Land notes that “Google is building a new panel to learn more about how...
Google seeks full-time 'doodler' | Media Monkey
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Artists and designers should brush up their CVs for a stab at having their work seen by hundreds of millions of people. Google is on the hunt for a full-time "doodler" – a person to create the special designs that mark events and historic figures every day the Google search...
Big Tech: Google Goes After Siri, Merges Gmail With Web Search
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Google’s head of engineering says the company’s next generation of search is bringing the world a step closer to computers as smart as the ones on Star Trek. Photo: JD Hancock via photo pin cc Google is taking a major swipe at Siri with a new feature in its iPhone...
WSJ Says Big Google Search Changes Coming? Reality Check Time!
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The Wall Street Journal is out with a story saying that Google is about to make one of the biggest changes in its history of offering web search, providing more direct answers and gaining “semantic” smarts to understand more about what words mean. I’m scratching my head, since... Please visit...
comScore: Google Sites Top Facebook On Mobile, But 4 Out Of 5 Mobile Media Minutes Spent In Apps
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Online and mobile research company comScore just released its newly rebooted and retooled Mobile Metrix report this morning, which examines mobile media usage across both apps and mobile web browsing. According to the new data, Google sites led as the top property on iOS, Android and RIM devices, reaching 96.9%...
New Google bar to put more emphasis on services like YouTube and Calendar
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Google has been tinkering with the black bar that shows up at the top of any Google property that you’re on. It’s a powerful way to let its users seamlessly jump back and forth between the huge number of services that the company offers. Currently, the Google bar lets you...
Google Gets Scientific, Adds A Voice-Enabled 34-Button Calculator To Desktop And Mobile Search
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Oh Google. Sometimes you’re so awesome. Google search has long featured a built-in calculator function but a recent update added a fully functional 34-button scientific calculator. Previously, when a user entered, say, 2+2, Google would simply display the sum above the search result. Now, when that equation is entered into...
Google Testing New Navigation Interface: New Ad Location To Come?
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Some Google users are noticing a new Google search interface with top down navigation, search options and filters. Currently, the search options and navigation are along the left hand side bar. This new interface has those options across the top of the search results. Here is a picture: Here is...
Watch out, Siri - Google's enhanced voice search is coming to the iPhone and iPad [video]
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Google (GOOG) on Wednesday announced that it will be updating its Search application for the iPhone and iPad. The new version of Google Search will include the company’s enhanced voice functionality, which is similar to the service it offers in the latest version of Android. Performance on iOS should identical to...
Google AdWords for video rolls out of beta and is now available for every business
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Two weeks after YouTube opened its partner program to everyone to let people monetize their uploads, the Google-owned video platform has now announced that Google AdWords for video is now leaving beta, having launched initially last September. For the uninitiated, AdWords for video follows the same model as its Google...
Google Drive already referenced in Google Docs code
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Google is close to rolling out its cloud storage product, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal, which stated that the offering is “expected to launch in the coming weeks or months.” The actual launch could happen rather sooner than later, judging from some references to the product...
Groupon tries out creepy new deal: tuck ins
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Groupon today launched a unique deal: You can have a Groupon employee come and tuck you into bed. As far as strange deals go, this one even beats out the deal offered by Groupon Philippines for 76% off circumcisions. (Disclosure: I have options against Groupon.) In the tuck-in deal, only available in...
How we visualised gay rights in America
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Visualisign gay rights across US states needed more than a map. Guardian in America interactive designer Feilding Cage talks through how he did it• Check out the interactive guide to gay rights, state by stateWhen the idea of doing a gay marriage interactive was mentioned I had two initial thoughts....
A faster, simpler Google Search app for iPhone
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Starting today, when you use the Google Search app on your iPhone, you’ll see a completely redesigned interface that gives you faster results, beautiful full-screen image search, and a simple way to access all your Google apps in one place. Search by voice, by typing, or with your camera Get...
Google changes its web search again, and you can sign up to see it first
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Amit Singh and I have something in common. He heads up Google’s web search technology, and I am a lowly blogger, but we are united in our deep love for Star Trek. Specifically, we both want to bring the fascinating technologies of science fiction (and Star Trek in particular)...
Google soon adding Siri, Google Now like functionality to its iOS Search app
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Today, Google has announced that it is rolling out a new version of its its Google Search application for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The new version is notable in that it brings Siri and Google Now like voice search functionality to the App Store app. The Verge...
Live Blog: The Google Search Press Breakfast
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I’m here at Google San Francisco, where an array of press and bloggers (about 25 of us) have been called together with only a few days notice to get an update on what’s new with Google Search. Big news to come? We’ll see. I’ll be live blogging what happens. Google...
Breaking Down 50 New Google Search Changes
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Every month, Google makes tons of tiny changes to the way search works. It shares them in company blog posts that present a list of carefully scripted bullet points with mysterious code names in an inscrutable order. The company never comments on the changes beyond what they say in these...
Google Tests Adding Gmail To Your Search Results
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Hey, here are some personalized search results that I might actually like. Google has been expanding its Universal Search feature for a while, adding images, news stories, and more to its search results. Today it announced that it’s starting a field trial that will experiment with adding your personal Gmail...
Yup, Google’s Motorola purchase still doesn’t make sense
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You’d think that by now, Google’s $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility (its largest acquisition ever) would be shaping into some sort of brilliant strategy. But you’d be wrong. We’ve heard little about Google’s plans since the acquisition was announced in August, other than vague commentary on how the...
Google's iOS search app to gain "enhanced voice search"
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Google's search app for iOS is about to become more Siri-like. The app, which already allows users to enter search terms via voice, will soon gain the ability to better understand your intent—that is, what you actually mean with all those extraneous words coming out of your mouth. Google announced...
Princeton Review Founder Launches First Search, Recommendation Engine For Education
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Regardless of Android or the fact that 96 percent of its revenues come from advertising, from the beginning Google’s mission statement has been “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Google’s mission changed the Web, and it remains true that, if you know what you’re...
Google opens up about the future of search, serves 100 billion searches every month
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We’re in San Francisco at Google’s office to discuss the future of search. The question everyone asks Google is: “What’s the future of search?” Their answer: Everyone who asks that question, knows the answer deep inside their heart. They’ve actually dreamt the search engine of the future already. The way...
Groupon Exposes Customer Emails In Google Results…Again
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A while back we wrote about a flaw in Groupon’s email link encryption, which revealed the emails of some Groupon users when “addx” was added into a Google search of Groupon’s site. We’ve been alerted that is still happening, with about 170 emails coming up when we searched (last time...
Having problems when searching Google with Chrome? You’re not the only one
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One of the best things about Google’s Chrome Web browser is that it allows you to search by typing keywords into the URL bar however, right now, larger numbers of users from across the world are experiencing issues with the feature that come to be habitual for them. Comments an...
Google search nerds out, adds full-button scientific calculator
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Search is Google's bread and butter, so it stands to reason the company would want to cram in as much universal functionality to that unassuming text box as possible. After having integrated graphing capabilities this past Winter, the Mountain View gang's at it again, expanding the breadth of its...
Google introduces exclusive "field trial" for Gmail, to make search "really useful"
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Sagar Kamdar, Director of Product Management, Universal Search, talked about how travel isn’t the best experience, and Google could help you with that. Google discusses “Universal Search”, and says that email is a natural extension for the company. “Gmail is almost larger than our web corpus and it continues to...
The best new app at SXSW: Everything.me redefines mobile search
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After two rainy days of location-based, social networking apps, the sun finally came out in Austin at SXSW. And as the clouds parted I stumbled upon Everything.me, a new HTML5, browser-based app that has literally and simply, reinvented mobile search. In Paul Graham’s recent post “Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas” he puts A New Search...
Google's Knowledge Graph Now Worldwide
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Today at the Google Search Breakfast, Amit Singhal, head of Google search, said Google is launching the Knowledge Graph worldwide. The launch seems to be rolling out slowing to all countries with English based language. The complex thing with rolling this out globally is that searching for [chiefs]... Please visit...
Eric Schmidt: Google search will continue to become more personalized
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Google’s former CEO Eric Schmidt spoke at the Mobile World Congress today about the future of technology in developing countries and how its services will play a role in ecosystems who rely solely on the Internet for business, information, and communication. During Schmidt’s keynote, he didn’t speak specifically about Google...
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