Google nearly sneaked this one by us. Probably for the best. They wouldn’t want word to get out their actually listening to people—the comments would never cease. In mid-December Google launched the Google Product Ideas blog, focusing initially on ideas for Google Mobile. The initial blog post reads: read more
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Google Subnet’s Top 5 predictions for the coming year.
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One of the reasons Google gets so much press coverage is, frankly, that its representatives are so good about discussing corporate developments. And now things have been taken an informative/slightly ridiculous step further with a blog post summing up Google’s blogging habits this year. read more
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Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) — Executives at Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. are the largest contributors among technology companies to Barack Obama ’s presidential inauguration festivities.
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Some webmasters are celebrating, others not so much, as Google closes out 2008 with another toolbar PageRank update — the first one since September. Google’s Matt Cutts confirmed the update via Twitter late last night.
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Google confirms a Reader API is perhaps only a month away from a public release. Web technologist and blogger Niall Kennedy , recently posted on his site several details surrounding the previously undocumented Google Reader API. Although not official at this point, Kennedy has received confirmation from Google that his documentation about Google’s online feed aggregator is, in fact, …
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Technology stocks edged up Wednesday morning amid gains in the broader market as investors wrapped up 2008. Google Inc. (GOOG) and Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) led the tech advance in early trading. Shares of Google were up 2%, while Yahoo was ahead 1.8%.
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Google has new ads for Chrome targeting a small market share, but will they work?…
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This is strictly rumor, but Valleywag is reporting the gossip that one of Google’s more “famous” employees may be on the way out. That would be Vice President of Search Products & User Experience, Marissa Mayer. Owen Thomas at VW writes : Top Googlers, overheard at a holiday party, chattered about Mayer’s departure as a matter of if, not when. And in some ways, it’s surprising she’s stayed …
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Chrome or Firefox if you want speed says company. Google currently lists IE7, Firefox 2.0 and later releases, Chrome and Safari as the only supported browsers for Gmail . Others, including Opera and older editions of IE, Firefox and Safari, can be used to access the e-mail service but aren’t able to handle some of its features.