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Microsoft One-Ups Google With Launch Of Bing Maps Version 1
Last year, Microsoft announced that they were getting serious about their map business and launched a Beta release of Bing Maps Windows Presentation Foundation Control. Nearly four...
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Google Maps Reflections Of 2011
I'm starting to believe that the people who work for Google's Maps division are the busiest people at the Googleplex. Today's evidence is in a...
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Foursquare Explore No Longer Mobile-Only
Foursquare announced that it is expanding the “explore” feature that has been available for mobile, to include a web version at foursquare.com/explore. Essentially it’s a way to ut...
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Google Vs. Twitter: Is “Search Plus Your World” Bad For The Internet?
This week, Google launched Search Plus Your World (SPYW), a set of features to personalize search r...
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[Exclusive] Google: Our position on China remains unchanged
A Google spokesperson tells WebProNews, "Our position on China remains unchanged." That’s just in case there was any confusion from the Wall Street Journal report “...
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Google Talks About Why It Changes Your TItles In Search Results
Google changes the titles of search results sometimes. This is nothing new, but the company is shedding a bit of light on the process, saying their alternative titles usually impro...
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Google Search For Android Gets Updated
Google just announced a new version of Google Search for Android 2.2 and higher. Google touts it as faster and easier to use. Go figure. Specifically,...
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Twitter: Google Should Be Ranking Us Better For @username
Twitter made it clear that it was not thrilled with Google’s new “Search Plus You...
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Microsoft’s Bing Now #2 Most-Used Search Engine
According to an early report from Search Engine Land via comScore, the lates...
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College Campuses Get The Google Street View Treatment
Google's been stirring the Maps pot with two busy hands lately. First they gave us indoor maps of airports a...
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Nicolas Steno Celebrated With Google Doodle
Google has a doodle up today, celebrating the 374th birthday of geologist Nicolas Steno. Though he is known as one of the founders of both modern stratigraphy and modern geolog...
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Google’s Matt Cutts: “Search, Plus Your World” Returns More Than Just Google Content
On Tuesday, Google announced the launch of “Search, Plus Your World,” which is a set of new personalized search features. For a longer explanation, you can read...
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Google “Search, Plus Your World”: Twitter Not Happy [Updated]
Update: Google has responded to Twitter's comments via G...
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Google Flu Trends Helps Hospitals Accurately Predict Influenza Cases
A new study from John Hopkins University shows that Google's influenza oracle, Flu Trends, turns out to be a reliable way for hospita...
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Google “Search, Plus Your World” Makes Google More Personal Than Ever
Google just announced some new elements it is bringing to Google Search: personal results, profiles in search, and people and pages. They’re billing the changes collectively as “Se...
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