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Google Blogoscoped: Google to Test New, More Colorful (and Permanent) Sidebar
Google is rolling out a design prototype to some users which will have a permanent new pane to the left hand side. Within that pane, as the screenshot by Search Engine Land (with more coverage) shows, there will be sections such as “Everything&rdquo...
Dateline: 2009-11-20 3:31am -08:00T (428 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: A Preview of Google Chrome OS
Google has released Chromium OS*, the open source precursor to their Chrome OS (which Google says will be “ready for users” in a year). Google in a blog post explains that the Chrome operating system will be all about web apps, not traditional...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 6:46pm -08:00T (158 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: On the Fight Over Control of the Web
Tim O’Reilly argues that we’re heading for a web war – an ugly fighting over the control of the web, which goes against the web as an interoperable platform:[W]e’ve grown used to a world with one dominant search engine, one dominan...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 7:31am -08:00T (657 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Google Results Show a Page's Place Within the Site Hierarchy
Some websites have a hierarchical navigation path; for instance, the eBay URL collectibles.shop.ebay.com/Comics-/63/i.html?_pcats=1 is put in Home > Buy > Collectibles > Comics > Search results. Now, Google sometimes helps searchers by displaying such nav...
Dateline: 2009-11-18 8:16pm -08:00T (156 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Explore Similar Images with Google Image Swirl
Google has released an interactive similar images explorer. The app is called Google Image Swirl, and it’s using the wonder wheel Flash visualization you might know from web search results.Here’s how it works: you enter a query, like “li...
Dateline: 2009-11-17 9:46pm -08:00T (359 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Google SPDY Protocol Aims to Make Web Pages Load Faster
Google has released experimental work of a protocol that tries to speed up the web. It’s called SPDY, prononunced “speedy”. They write:[SPDY is] an application-layer protocol for transporting content over the web, designed specifically f...
Dateline: 2009-11-12 5:45pm -08:00T (144 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Following Google Wave Docs
“Too much noise” was one of the complaints held against Google Wave. Now Google is starting to introduce concepts of following and unfollowing Wave documents. Now, you need to click Follow to make a public wave remain in your inbox with its up...
Dateline: 2009-11-12 5:45pm -08:00T (148 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Google's Gizmo5 Acquisition Official Now
TechCrunch had reported it recently and now it’s made official: Google has acquired Skype competitor Gizmo5. “[W]e’ve acquired Gizmo5, a company that provides Internet-based calling software for mobile phones and computers,” the Go...
Dateline: 2009-11-12 5:45pm -08:00T (162 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Consumer Watchdog Criticizes Today's Conference at Google HQ
Consumer Watchdog writes:Warning that a Democratic Senate Campaign Committee Fundraiser scheduled to be held at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, CA, on Friday created an appearance of a conflict of interest, Consumer Watchdog called on the seven...
Dateline: 2009-11-12 4:30pm -08:00T (291 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Google Movies Update
Google Movies has received an update and now shows more information in regards to movies, theater locations, and movie showtimes, Google at their blog announced. How well does it work for your city? [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Movies Update | Com...
Dateline: 2009-11-11 7:15pm -08:00T (56 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Google China Music Player Gets Makeover
Google launched a redesign of their Chinese music player (partnered with Top100.cn), which pops up in a new window when you perform a search at the Music base site. The new player puts more focus on search (results will be loaded in the old window), reloc...
Dateline: 2009-11-11 6:00pm -08:00T (91 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Google Public Data Onebox Expands
Google has added a new data source to their Public Data onebox: World Bank data. One data point you can query now is the relative number of internet users for a given country. Try searches like the following to see it in action:
internet users in china
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Dateline: 2009-11-11 6:00pm -08:00T (124 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Locking SafeSearch
Google has added a “Lock SafeSearch” feature, available via their search preferences page. It’s meant for concerned adults who don’t want kids to toggle the SafeSearch filtering (SafeSearch prevents certain adult content from enter...
Dateline: 2009-11-11 9:31am -08:00T (199 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Go! vs Go
Francis McCabe writes:I have been working on a programming language, also called Go, for the last 10 years. There have
been papers published on this and I have a book.I would appreciate it if google changed the name of this language; as I do not want to...
Dateline: 2009-11-11 7:01am -08:00T (118 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Google Latitude History and Alerts
Google’s human location tracking service Latitude has received two new features: a history (i.e. a route of where you’ve been), and a “friend is nearby" type of alert functionality. The second feature depends on the first to work, becaus...
Dateline: 2009-11-11 3:16am -08:00T (125 words)
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