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Mar. 27, 2008 at 10:13am by Barry Schwartz
Earth Hour: Google Shuts Out The Lights In Israel
Google Israel turned out the lights and flipped their white background color to black for שעת כדור הארץ (aka Earth Hour). What is ironic is that we reported in the past that Google argued that black uses more energy that white. (Although they participated in Lights Out San Francisco last...
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Jan. 17, 2008 at 8:58am by Barry Schwartz
Google.org To Announce Five Strategic Initiatives Today
Today, Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 9:00am PST (12:00pm EST), Google.org will be holding a conference call to discuss the launch of five strategic initiatives for the organization. The conference call participants include Sheryl Sandberg, Vice President, Global Online Sales and Operations, Google Inc. and Board Member, Google.org, and Larry...
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Jan. 4, 2008 at 8:38am by Greg Sterling
What Time Is It? Don't Check Google (At Least In Argentina)
This Flickr screen capture alerted us to the fact that Google hasn't yet accounted for daylight savings time in Buenos Aires, which began at midnight on December 30. Denizens of the capital of Argentina set their clocks forward but Google neglected to. Apparently the time is still off by an...
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Sep. 21, 2007 at 2:38pm by Barry Schwartz
Google Unity Project To Build Submarine Cables Across Pacific Ocean
Remember that Submarine Cable Negotiator job we mentioned being available at Google last month? Turn out Google's not just negotiating for undersea cable use. It has its own "Unity" project underway to run communication cable of its own under the Pacific. Spotted via John Paczkowski, Google plans new undersea "Unity"...
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Sep. 20, 2007 at 9:04am by Greg Sterling
Google Hires In-House Lobbyist To Address A Range Of Issues Before Congress
Anyone who believes that the United States is a truly free market should think again. The US government is in so many instances the gatekeeper or arbiter for the spoils of public assets, such as wireless spectrum. And Google has discovered how central political favor in Washington to its fortunes....
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Sep. 20, 2007 at 8:43am by Barry Schwartz
Google Launches Google Shared Stuff
Google Blogoscoped reports that Google has launched Google Shared Stuff. This is a bookmarklet that you add to your browser, which enables you email or share web pages with your friends. In addition to adding web pages to your Google Shared Stuff page, or emailing those web pages, you can...
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Sep. 4, 2007 at 2:19pm by Danny Sullivan
Larryos, Raisin Brin, Porn Flakes & Other Google Cereals
I was at Google last month and did a double-take at the wall art up near one of the mini-kitchens. It featured familiar cereal brands morphed with Google personalities like Larry Page (Larryos) and Sergey Brin (Raisin Brin). I shot a few pictures, below, plus here's some of the...
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Aug. 14, 2007 at 8:16am by Greg Sterling
Ask Jumps, Google Slips and Yahoo Leads American Customer Satisfaction Index for Search
For the first time, Yahoo has beaten Google in the annual University of Michigan American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The survey measures U.S. consumer satisfaction across a broad range of business and product categories including "e-business," which covers search. The survey asks a statistically representative sample of consumers to rate...
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Jul. 19, 2007 at 9:14am by Barry Schwartz
Google Shuts Down Related Links Product
Google Stops "Related Links" Service from Google Blogoscoped reports that Google has stopped their Related Links product without telling anyone. Google told Philipp Lenssen that they shut down Related Links on April 30th. They said they decided to pull out the most "compelling functionalities of Related Links and integrated them...
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Jun. 12, 2007 at 3:10pm by Greg Sterling
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Intel & Others Join Greener Computing Effort
Google announced that it and many other computer and Internet heavyweights have joined together in the global Climate Savers computing initiative launched by the World Wildlife Federation. The idea is to improve the efficiency of computer hardware and data centers so that they require less power and give off less...
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May. 25, 2007 at 11:28am by Barry Schwartz
Google Registers ClimateSaverPC.com: Signs Of New Google PC Coming?
Gary Price notes, as does Garett Rogers at Googling Google, that Google now owns the domain climatesaverpc.com. Garett speculates that Google may be thinking about building and selling personal computers that are green friendly, i.e. are climate and earth savers. We know Google has been active in environmental issues, though...
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May. 24, 2007 at 9:01am by Greg Sterling
A Product Plan For 'Google Health'?
From time to time in the past, Google's Adam Bosworth has posted on health-related questions. Many people have speculated that health would be a vertical to get special attention from Google. And there have thus been "Google Health" rumors for a long time. Yesterday Bosworth posted again and linked to...
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May. 24, 2007 at 8:23am by Greg Sterling
Google Launches 'Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR)'
As promised at its "Searchology" event last week, Google has launched cross-language information retrieval (CLIR). It's now been added as a new feature to Google Translate and went live yesterday. As Chris Sherman previously wrote, Google is playing a bit of catch-up with this initiative; Yahoo has been doing this...
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May. 23, 2007 at 10:34am by Greg Sterling
Google's Biotech Investment In Brin's Wife's Company, 23andMe
Raising some eyebrows this morning is Google's investment in a biotech firm called 23andMe, which states as its mission to: "help you make sense of your own genetic information . . . [and] put your genome into the larger context of human commonality and diversity." Anne Wojcicki, Google cofounder Sergey...
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May. 7, 2007 at 9:24am by Barry Schwartz
Google's Schmidt Interviews Senator John McCain
Google interviews McCain about presidential run from Reuters reports that Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt interviewed Senator John McCain in front of "several hundred employees." In this interview, McCain admit that he was not the best student, saying "my GPA earned me 5th from the bottom of my class." McCain also...
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May. 3, 2007 at 1:15pm by Christine Churchill
Free Web Design Tools From The Big Three: SEO Friendly Or Not?
Today's article is a follow-up on our earlier review in which I looked at the capabilities and usability of the big three search engines' free site creation tools. The focus was on how easy each software product was for a non-technical person to master. The three tools reviewed were...
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Apr. 6, 2007 at 8:52am by Barry Schwartz
Google China Releases Labs Product Very Similar To Sohu.com's Sogou
Google evades question about software similarities from InfoWorld reports that Google is under scrutiny on their release of a Pinyin Input Method Editor (IME). The IME is a Google China labs product that enables "users to enter Chinese characters by typing their Pinyin equivalents on a standard QWERTY keyboard." The...
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Apr. 3, 2007 at 12:16pm by Danny Sullivan
Snakes On A Google
We noted the great Google python rampage in headlines yesterday, but the story continues. Since it's a slow news day, so why not. On April 1, the python pet of a Google employee in New York got loose. No joke. The python was found yesterday, and no one was harmed....
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Mar. 5, 2007 at 8:49am by Barry Schwartz
The Google X Prize Gala: What You Missed
Out of this world gala at Google by SFGate.com reports on the X Prize Foundation fundraiser that Google host this past Saturday. Who was there? Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin with respective girlfriends. The Getty family. Richard Branson of Virgin; Robin Williams; NFL legend Ronnie Lott; Tipper Gore;...
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Feb. 28, 2007 at 8:56am by Barry Schwartz
Google Stepping Up Governmental Sales
Google Searches For Government Work by the Washington Post has details on Google's current and future government sales operations. Yesterday, Google started a two-day sales event aimed at the U.S. government. The event reportedly brought in "200 federal contractors, engineers and uniformed military members." Rob Painter, director of the Google...
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Feb. 27, 2007 at 8:37am by Barry Schwartz
Google Ink Sends Ask.com New Google Pen
First Ask.com had some fun with Google earlier this month, joking about how their Google pen "flatlined" and ran out of ink during a crucial meeting. Now Google gets in on the joke in good spirit, sending Ask a new pen along with a letter discussing the Google Pen's "redundant"...
