Feb 28

Google Maps is great for finding local restaurants and stores, but sometimes the information is out of date. If you own a business, you can make sure the listing about your business is accurate.

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Feb 28

Google has introduced advertisements to the results of search queries on Google News in a move aimed at turning the news aggregation site into a money-making venture.

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Feb 28

Malware distributors are taking advantage of Google Trends to earn top billing for their pages, according to security experts.

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Feb 28

VANCOUVER — Web surfers checking the snow report for Cypress Mountain are the latest target of Google poisoning in which fraud artists get their malicious website close to the top of search engine rankings.

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Feb 28

Google integrated its Blogger Following feature with Google Friend Connect this week, but the search giant put a damper on its own launch by signing up for a Twitter account. Google began Tweeting Wednesday evening. Its first post was strings of 0’s and 1’s, binary code for “I feel good.”

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Feb 28

Google News has apparently grown from using 4,500 sources to 25,000 sources over the course of a year. Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable noticed that the number below the search box on the Google News homepage has grown pretty significantly. “I do not know when Google changed that number, but I believe it was some time in the recent past,” he admits , but nobody else seems …

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Feb 27

Google has added support for OpenSocial APIs in Gmail, the company announced Thursday.

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Feb 27

Google’s Vint Cerf, chief information evangelist, talks to Wired.com on the company’s role in the recovery. He comments on the best use of stimulus dollars and why we can’t count on private capital or VCs to float the innovation boat.

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Feb 27

Will the recent introduction of paid ads on Google News lead to legal issues for Google? That question is discussed today on ClickZ, where Sandra Baron of the Media Law Resource Center says publishers will be looking at what Google is doing:

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Feb 27

It’s a significant turning point for Google News, which has been ad-free since its beta launch in April 2002.

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