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February 2nd, 2008

Google and ICANN vs domain tasters

ICANN and Google are now joining hands to combat domain tasting.  What is domain tasting?
Under current ICANN rules, anyone who registers a new domain name has a five-day grace period to back out and receive a total refund. The policy is in place to prevent hassles if people mistype domain names during signup or […]

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February 1st, 2008

Google Experimental Search with Digg Style voting

Straight from google experimental labs, they’re experimenting on search engine ranking which can be influenced by users via a “vote” (sort of like digg).
This experiment lets you influence your search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results. When you search for the same keywords again, you’ll continue […]

By Noel -- 23 comments

October 4th, 2007

Google Celebrates Sputnik’s 50 Anniversary

Google’s logo today was adjusted for the 50th anniversary for Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite which was launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957 and made history.
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October 4th, 2007

Texas Businessman Sueing Google, Yahoo and Microsoft

A Texas company is sueing Google, Yahoo and Microsoft for patent infrigement on his Systems and methods for transacting business over a global communications patent. The patent, awarded in 2005 outlines the process of performance base pricing for “for conducting business transactions over the Internet”. The infrigement refers to “smart pricing” which the 3 companies […]

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September 25th, 2007

Google to Power Anti-Malware Tool in Firefox 3.0

Firefox 3.0 is almost out the oven and the word on the street says that it includes an anti-malware tool. Such a tool requires reporting to “base” of all visited URL’s and verification of each URL against existing database and it appears as if Google is going to be the beneficiary of this “feature”.
If […]

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September 10th, 2007

Google Adds “Libraries” to Book Search

Several new features added to Google’s Book Search now allow people to build their own book libraries. You can simply search for books that you own by title or ISBN and then “Add to Library”. Once in your library is built, you can share it via URL, subscribe to ir via RSS, and most importantly, […]

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September 10th, 2007

Google to Start Publishing eBooks

Google’s Book Search feature haas been criticized for a few years now. In fact the whole initiative to scan books and make them public had earned Google enemies all around the place, but what was once a reason to complain may become another source of income for these publishers and authors.
According to the New […]

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August 30th, 2007

Google Lands CNN.com Deal, Beats Yahoo

Google announced yesterday that they closed an exclusive deal to provide contextual advertising to be displayed on the U.S. news portion of CNN’s website. Google beat Yahoo to the deal which has been Yahoo’s since 2004 (when they took it away from Google). Yahoo still remains the provider of such services to CNN’s international edition.
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August 30th, 2007

Yahoo & Google Direction in the Benz Near You

Beginning next week, Mercedes Benz owners will be able to plan trips, stops, hotels, restaurants and more using Yahoo or Google and forward their results directly to their in-car GPS system. The new program, called Search & Send, was developed as a joint effort between Yahoo and Google.
Drivers can plot destinations, addresses or points of […]

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August 24th, 2007

GPhone Rumors, Rumors and Some More Rumors

The blogosphere, news-sphere and even digg-sphere have all been shaking this morning with then ew gphone (Google cell-phone) rumors coming to us from India. Rumor has it that gPhone is set to launch in 2 weeks and that Google already has all its ducks lined up. PCWORLD adds that “Google is in talks with several […]

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