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Will Google Announce Its Own Facebook Clone?
AllFacebook
Two months after Google reshuffled its top three managers for swifter product launches, chatter has resumed over whether the search giant will unveil a direct competitor to Facebook, possibly during South By Southwest. SXSW attendees have gossipped ...
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Facebook Poaches Google's Number Two M&A Guy
The Business Insider
Facebook has hired Amir Zoufonoun, the number two Google corporate development executive, several sources tell TechCrunch's Michael Arrington. He'll apparently have a similar role at Facebook. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the news to Reuters. ...
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The Business Insider
Bing's search engine share continues to rise
CNET (blog)
In comparison, Google lost two-tenths of a percentage point but still dominated the market with 65.4 percent of all searches in February, while Yahoo's share stayed flat at 16.1 percent. Though Microsoft may have picked up more share, the number of ...
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Disable third-party cookies in IE, Firefox, and Google Chrome
CNET (blog)
Last December, I described how to delete tracking cookies automatically from Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome. A post from last July reviewed five privacy add-ons for Firefox, one of which is the Better Privacy program that lets you remove ...
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Google vs. Apple: Beyond the iPhone and Android
Yahoo! News
Apple and Google both create more than just the iPhone and Android, and they do their best to tie their mobile offerings into those other products. Here's what you get when you choose each "ecosystem" ... and what you give up, as well. ...
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Google's 15 Biggest Acquisitions And What Happened To Them (GOOG)
San Francisco Chronicle
Google has a reputation as an innovative company, but in fact it owes a lot of its success to acquisitions. Google basically bought AdSense, the paid search platform that made it a financial powerhouse, from Applied Semantics in 2003. ...
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Is Britain's Government Too Close to Google?
GigaOm
So is Britain's government too close to Google? And what's the evidence? In most cases, the connection largely rests on the relationship between two senior figures in both camps. Rachel Whetstone, Google's global director of PR, is married to Steve ...
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Google Doodle Celebrates India's First Talkie
Hollywood Reporter
NEW DELHI -- Google users in India were given a surprise cinema lesson Monday with a "Google Doodle" on the search engine's India homepage, celebrating the March 14, 1931 release of Alam Ara, India's first talking picture. Based on a play, ...
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Google VP: 150 million mobile users on Google Maps
Digitaltrends.com
Google took sometime during SXSW to highlight some of the accomplishments of its mobile mapping service. SXSW is primetime for startups trying to make some waves in the tech industry. But it's also as good a place as any for big companies to push a new ...
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Crisis Leadership? Google It.
Forbes (blog)
Crisis response isn't new to Google, which has been creating similar sites since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It's a great example of a company doing what they do best and applying it for the greater good. This is in contrast to Microsoft's social media ...
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Forbes (blog)
Google introduces click-to-call features
Washington Post (blog)
Google announced that it would be implementing a click- to-call feature in all e-mails starting today. Any phone numbers appearing in an e-mail in the standard 555-555-5555 format will be hyperlinked. Clicking on a number will bring up Google's number ...
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Half A Billion Blog Posts Later, Google To Give Blogger A Revamp
TechCrunch
Google's blogging service Blogger has been used for over half a billion blog posts (with over half a trillion words in total) to date, writes product manager Chang Kim on the Blogger Buzz blog. Those blog posts have been read by 400 million readers ...
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Google Maps adds locations of EV charge stations
SlashGear
Google has a new Google Maps service that will help find those charge stations. Google Maps now has the location of public charging stations in your area. To find the closest charge stations to where you will be you just need to search Google maps for ...
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10 Tips and Tricks For Getting The Most Out Of Google Voice
The Business Insider
Google Voice can be an incredibly powerful service with the right tools at your disposal, and with the advent of Number Porting and clicking to call from Gmail, it's obvious that Google has made a real investment in the service. ...
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The Business Insider
Make Google Calendar more useful than ever
Computerworld (blog)
By JR Raphael If you use Android, there's a good chance you use Google Calendar. Google Calendar is the default calendar system for Android phones -- but its usefulness isn't limited to your mobile device. Your Android phone's calendar, as you may know ...
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Google launches app to help find relatives in Japan
Vancouver Sun
Also, Google is applying its expertise to helping to people locate information on loved ones in the aftermath of a major earthquake and tsunami near the city of Sendai, Japan. As it did for recent devastating natural disasters in Haiti, Chile and New ...
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Republican Senator Calls for Antitrust Hearings on Google
Publishers Weekly
Does Google's dominant position in Internet search pose an antitrust threat? That's a question for Congress, says Senator Michael Lee (R-UT) who last week called for the Senate Judiciary Committee's Antitrust Subcommittee to conduct an oversight ...
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How to bear with Google's Panda update
ITBusiness.ca
Hot on the heels of an update to combat duplicate content last month, Google has unleashed Panda – an algorithmic change aimed at purveyors of low quality Web content. Here's how you business can survive the onslaught. Have you suddenly realized that ...
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ITBusiness.ca
Google's Top Paid Bonuses For Executives Of 2011
Search Engine Land
Business Insider reports on a recent Google SEC filing showing the top bonuses paid to Google executives in early 2011. The top bonuses do not list Google's co-founders or current CEO, but here is what they do list. Nikesh Arora, chief business ...
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Google to invest in Kings Cross office?
IT PRO
Reports claim Google is looking at a new 700000 sq ft office space in the heart of London. By Jennifer Scott, 14 Mar 2011 at 15:15 Google is set to expand its presence in the UK's capital city, according to reports. The internet giant is looking at ...
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Google Might Value Brand Over Keyword-Rich Domain Names
ReelSEO Online Video News
Google is always changing the various signals they look at to determine a site's relevance. This is typically done in reaction to the world of SEO (particularly the black-hat variety) attempting to game one or more signals. ...
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Privacy issues tarnish Google's Washington image
Nextgov
But after Google was caught last month collecting Social Security information from children who took part in its annual doodling contest, the lawmakers set aside their differences. In a scathing joint statement, they called the action "unacceptable. ...
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Woman Loses Case vs. Google Over Levitra Search Suggestion
Search Engine Watch (blog)
Last week her case against Google for the search suggestion [bev stayart levitra] was dismissed in US District Court - Eastern District of Wisconsin. The court rejects Stayart's publicity rights claim because she didn't show her name has any commercial ...
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Easily share your favorite Google Chrome extensions on Twitter, Buzz, and more
Switched
by Lee Mathews on March 14, 2011 at 01:00 PM Hundreds of millions of people are now using Google Chrome as their primary Web browser, and a good chunk of those users have probably checked out extensions or Chrome Web apps by now. ...
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Google buys beatthatquote.com
The Economic Voice
Google last week purchased one of the smaller players in the UK web based price comparison field, beatthatquote.com. This is an unusual buy for Google, which cost them £37.7 million. Beatthatquote.com's British founder, John Paleomylites who owned 90% ...
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The Economic Voice
Where is Google Headed? (GOOG)
Benzinga
By Michael J. Zerinskas Shares of Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) have been on the defensive for the past month; after testing and failing at the 50-day moving average, shares have slipped precipitously lower. With shares now flirting with the 200-day ...
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