Posts Tagged ‘Google’
Google invites feedback on super-secret search upgrades
August 11th, 2009 | 
Author: Google is upgrading its search infrastructure and it’s being really shady about it.
In a post on its Webmaster Central blog, however, Google engineers Sitaram Iyer and Matt Cutts insist that ordinary users won’t even see the difference.
“For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google’s web search,” the post reads, making it all sound vaguely like some kind of elf workshop. “It’s the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions.” The user interface is unchanged.
Developers are encouraged to try out the new technology on a “sandbox” page and then offer feedback by including the word “caffeine” in Google’s feedback text field, secret-password-style.
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Report: Google Voice to be retooled as Web app for iPhone
Even though Apple prevented it from listing Google Voice on the iPhone App Store, Google is planning on retooling the application as a Web-based app, according to The New York Times.
In David Pogue’s Friday column regarding the ongoing saga of Apple and Google Voice, he reveals that Google has already found a loophole:
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FTC continues probe of Google-Apple tie-ups
We have been investigating the Google/Apple interlocking directorates issue for some time and commend them for recognizing that sharing directors raises competitive issues, as Google and Apple increasingly compete with each other. We will continue to investigate remaining interlocking directorates between the companies.
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A Google Wave reality check
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–Lars Rasmussen sighed, half an hour into a demonstration of Google Wave, the company’s audacious attempt to reinvent Internet communication: we’d found another bug.
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Tags: chat, Google, interenet, micro-blogging, social networking, Wave | 
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Microsoft, Yahoo team up to ding Google with Bing
SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft Corp. has finally roped Yahoo Inc. into an Internet search partnership, capping a convoluted pursuit that dragged on for years and setting the stage for them to make a joint assault against the dominance of Google Inc.
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P.S. I love www.google.com
