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Google Again Linked To Australian Data Center Plans
The rumor that Google might build a data center in Australia has been circulating for some time; our first report on the subject was written in October of 2008.  Now, altho...
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Facebook And Google Get Most Visits During Super Bowl
The number of people who went online while watching the Super Bowl increased 2 percent this year to 14 percent, according to Nielsen. Time spent online for those...
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Google Apps Maybe Going To Yale
One of America's oldest universities is going to turn to Google for a lot of new software, according to a new report.  Indeed, Yale is supposed to get the whole Google Apps...
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Carl Icahn Cuts Yahoo Stake By 80 Percent
For better or for worse, it looks like Carl Icahn has cut some ties to Yahoo.  The activist investor, who once bought a great many shares as part of an effort to force out...
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Google Continues to Adjust Buzz to Ease Concerns
Google has been rigorously responding to user feedback about its recently launched...
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Nielsen Grants Bing Small Win Against Google
We heard earlier this week from comScore and Hitwise, and today, still more evidence that Bing performed well in January arrived.  Nielsen has released its monthly report r...
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Gmail-Free Version of Buzz Being Considered
Update: In case there is any confusion, Google will not be taking Buzz out of Gmail. The company issued this statement after some confusion in the blogosph...
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Aardvark Already Part of Google, Answers will Show Up in Search
Yesterday, news broke that Google was acquiring social Q&A site Aardvark...
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Google: “Buzz Will Be Just Another Node”
When Google announced Google Buzz earlier this...
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Bing, Google, and Yahoo All Making Maps More Interesting
At TED, Microsoft unveiled some new features for Bing Maps. "This work builds on the idea of spatial search that Microsoft discussed in December when the company launched i...
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New Chrome For Mac Beta Boasts Extensions
It doesn't really help anyone that Chrome for Mac isn't on a level with the regular version of Chrome; Mac fans must feel neglected, and Google's missing out on a lot of potenti...
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Ask Says it Has a Head Start as Google Acquires Q&A Site
Update: Ask.com-U.S. President Doug Leeds offered the following additional statement: "Google's purchase of Aardvark is simply an acknowledg...
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Google Reconnects With/Acquires Aardvark
Aardvark has, in a sense, returned to its roots.  Or in other words: Two of the four men who created the social search engine are former Googlers, and now, it's been confir...
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Real-Time Search Engine Adds New Features
Real-time search engine Wowd, has introduced a real-time tag cloud and a real-time streaming feature to its search service. The real-time tag cloud is based on ho...
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Google Uses Hours of Search History to Serve Ads
Google has made some adjustments to how it uses referral URLs for contextual matching of AdSense ads. Google has started expanding the use of query words in referral URLs to a f...
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