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Bing, Google to do Twitter Search

Published by: yuga under: Gooooogle , Microsoft , Search , Web 2.0. 10 replies

posted: October 22nd, 2009

Today, Bing and Google announced that they have set an agreement with Twitter to do integrated search. This means you can see Twitter updates on both Bing and Google search pages.

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Much Ado about Google Wave

Published by: yuga under: Gooooogle. 22 replies

posted: October 19th, 2009

We saw a preview of Google Wave a couple months back and we got excited. Now that a limited release has been going around (via invites), Wave users start trickling in. But after some time in front of the Google Wave screen, it feels like all the excitement has fizzled.

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Unlimited GMail and Yahoo! Mail with Smart

Published by: yuga under: Gooooogle , Telecoms , Yahoo. 19 replies

posted: October 4th, 2009

Smart partnered with Nokia to offer unlimited email access via Nokia Messaging for only Php299 a month. The push messaging service will include GMail, Yahoo! Mail, Ovi Mail and HotMail.

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Quiapo DVD on Google Maps

Published by: yuga under: Gooooogle. 20 replies

posted: July 15th, 2009

Not sure how Google moderates contributed entries (or POIs) on Google Maps but it looks like the strip of pirated DVD stores in Quiapo got thru.

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Google announces Chrome OS for Netbooks

Published by: yuga under: Gooooogle , Software. 24 replies

posted: July 8th, 2009

Can’t believe this is true but the official Google has announced it has developed a Chrome Operating System targeted towards netbooks.

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Will Google Wave change the way we E-Mail?

Published by: yuga under: Gooooogle. 14 replies

posted: May 30th, 2009

One of the upcoming services that was demo’ed on Google I/O Developer Conference is Google Wave, a new communication and collaboration tool.

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Google Chrome TV Ad

Published by: yuga under: Gooooogle , Software. 23 replies

posted: May 10th, 2009

When people say that TV is dead and Google is the new screen, it’s going to baffle them when they see Google Chrome in a TV commercial.

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Google offers remedy against content scrapers

Published by: yuga under: Gooooogle. 5 replies

posted: February 24th, 2009

Is someone copying your original content? Or other sites are using your images and photos without attribution? Dozens of autopilot blogs scraping/republishing your content without your permission? Google offers a couple of solutions to remedy the problem.

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Google caught doing paid post in Japan

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere , Gooooogle. 14 replies

posted: February 10th, 2009

Google was doing some marketing campaign in Japan thru an agency called CyberBuzz and paying bloggers to post about Google Widgets.

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Google Latitude: Find Friends on Google Maps

Published by: yuga under: Freewares , Gooooogle. 18 replies

posted: February 4th, 2009

Google has just introduced Google Latitude on top of its mapping service. The new feature enables you to track friends on Google Maps via their GPS-capable mobile phone.

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The day Google broke the Web

Published by: yuga under: Gooooogle , Search. 19 replies

posted: February 1st, 2009

There was some sort of mass panic last night when Google was spewing a warning “this site may harm your computer” on all their search results. People search on Google were shocked and confused as if the search engine itself was hacked.

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Chrome trumps Firefox on Google Pack

Published by: yuga under: Freewares , Gooooogle. 18 replies

posted: December 16th, 2008

Google Chrome recently got promoted to version 1.0 and dropping the beta label. At the same time, it also got another promotion on Google Pack, pushing back FireFox down as the default web browser.

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Google sheds some fat — up to 10,000 people

Published by: yuga under: Careers , Gooooogle. 7 replies

posted: November 26th, 2008

All these time that competing company Yahoo has been announcing layoffs after layoffs, no new has beens heard about Google’s status and its roster of employees. Maybe they’re not affected by the financial crisis as much as the rest.

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FeedBurner migrating to Google Accounts

Published by: yuga under: Gooooogle. 4 replies

posted: November 26th, 2008

I got an email from the AdSense Team announcing the migration of all FeedBurner account to Google Accounts on December 5, 2008. This is a required step as Google pushes to integrate all its services into one account.

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T-Mobile G1 Android Phone in the Flesh

Published by: yuga under: Gooooogle , Mobile. 22 replies

posted: November 18th, 2008

Managed to “borrow” one of the recently released T-Mobile G1 (a.k.a. Google Android Phone) and cooking up a full review. For the meantime, let me share some photos.

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Google 2001 Search

Published by: yuga under: Gooooogle , Search. 8 replies

posted: October 2nd, 2008

In honor of Google’s 10th year anniversary, they’ve brought back their oldest available index dated 2001. Google only had over 1.3 billion webpages indexed that time and it’s a little nostalgic to do some ego-searching on that year.

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GeoEye takes more Google Satellite Images

Published by: yuga under: Gooooogle. 11 replies

posted: September 7th, 2008

When I bumped into one of the Google Product Managers for SEA, I asked him why the Philippines (and the rest of South East Asia) doesn’t have enough hi-res imagery on Google Maps, he quips it takes time to gather all of these data. The recent GeoEye-Google partnership seems it will come sooner than later.

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Chrome +1, Firefox -1, IE undisturbed

Published by: yuga under: Freewares , Gooooogle. 9 replies

posted: September 5th, 2008

Google developed the Chrome browser in an attempt to grab a chunk of Internet Explorer’s market share. It was able to impressively get 1% share on day 1, not against Microsoft’s IE, but away Mozilla Firefox and Safari.

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Google Chrome: Thumbs Up or Down?

Published by: yuga under: Freewares , Gooooogle. 38 replies

posted: September 3rd, 2008

Now that most of us have downloaded and tried the new Google Chrome browser, what’s the verdict? Will Chrome become your primary web browser of will you stick with you favorite one?

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Mozilla not enough, Google develops own Chrome browser

Published by: yuga under: Freewares , Gooooogle. 27 replies

posted: September 2nd, 2008

Google has been supporting the development of Mozilla browser for years now but it seems the effort is not enough to gain major market share. So, it has decided to create its own browser — Google Chrome.

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