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Google’s Interesting, Useful, Odd, Imperfect Fast Flip

Monday, September 14, 2009

Did I just say that one of the differences between Bing and Google is that Bing is splashy and Google revels in its plain jane interface? I lied. Google had a TechCrunch50 announcement of its own this afternoon, and involves a new Google Labs feature that has a high “wow, lookee there!” quotient: Google Fast [...]

Michael Jackson’s Death Seen as Attack

Friday, June 26, 2009

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Google interpreted the swell of searches inspired by the passing of entertainer Michael Jackson as a malicious attack on its Google News service, according to reports. People searching for news about the music icon after word spread about his condition were met by a cryptic message: “We’re sorry, but your query looks similar to automated requests [...]

Google News: Down Again

Monday, May 18, 2009

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Last Thursday, a bunch of Google services went down for about an hour, and the company said that the glitch was due to a traffic jam caused when it had to route a lot of traffic through Asia. It said it would work hard to prevent it from happening again. But over on Twitter, lots of [...]

5Words for May 7th, 2009

Thursday, May 7, 2009

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I’m moving to southeast England! Really fast Internet in England. Your own personal Wi-Fi hotspot. Yet another OS for netbooks. Anonymous? You can’t watch Hulu. Indian hacker’s Facebook-compromising tool. Windows 7 requires no RAM. WiGig: Short-range gigabit wireless.

5Words for April 28th, 2009

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

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I want 100-mbps Internet! Cablevision: 100-mbps for $100. Microsoft tests Twitter for emergencies. Survey: iPhones are primarily personal. Google News comes to you? Apple’s doing something with chips. Dell’s touch desktop available stateside. New Firefox 3.5 beta available. New HP laptops for business. How Microsoft should virtualize XP. GE’s 100-DVD disc technology.

Technologizer is on Google News

Monday, September 29, 2008

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Here’s some news I’m pretty tickled about: Stories from Technologizer now appear in Google News. (Unlike other Google search services, Google News isn’t trying to index everything, just sources it believes to be professional and credible–only 4500 or so sites make the cut, which is a tiny fraction of the world’s news sites when you [...]

Google Puts Old Newspapers Online in Their Entirety

Monday, September 8, 2008

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I’m having a good time here at the DEMOfall conference in San Diego, but there’s stuff being announced at the TechCrunch50 back in San Francisco, too–and TechCrunch scored a coup this morning when Google’s Marissa Mayer used the conference to announce that the company is working with newspapers to make millions of pages of old [...]