Short urls are in and while bit.ly has more or less become the defacto standard, both Google and Facebook have now announced their short url mission. Google has launched Goo.gl, in order to offer benefits like stability/security (to ensure that you aren’t spoofed by malicious sites) and speed. Currently, Google URL Shortener is only available...
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The Battle begins: Rupert Murdoch interviews at Sky News, Australia that his media house of the Sun, the Times and the Wall Street Journal will de-index itself from Google Search. Reason: Because Google takes away their readers parasitically. The media swords are drawn against Google and the clank (sound of emptiness, is it?) spreads like...
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Once again Google is in news. Looks like this Internet giant company is obsessed with featuring new services and products. As you may have read by now, Google has come up with real time search. Not many know, in fact the feature of real time search overshadowed the release of Google Goggles: the latest...
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Google has launched it’s new homepage that has an interesting ‘fade-in’ experience that loads additional links when user moves the mouse. When the site loads, you only see Google logo and the big search box, i.e. the minimalistic page. Once you move your mouse, you will see the additional links on the homepage. Why is this...
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A major flaw has been found in Bing. Thanks to Nicholas D. Kristof, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and columnist for the New York Times. Kristof accused Bing for censoring results in simplified Chinese language searches and asked to Boycott Bing in his column to web users. This is not the first time Bing is...
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It all started in August, Google invited search enthusiasts and webmasters to test the performance of improved version of Google search. In what is believed to be a secret project, today, Google closed the developer preview of Caffeine. For those who may not be aware of it, Caffeine is a project which aims to enhance...
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Google has announced acquisition of AdMob, mobile ad network for $750mn. Interesting Vicious circle, since AdMob’s popularity comes from it’s iPhone partnership and Google’s Android is ofcourse an iPhone rival.
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Hot News from Technology World - Flickr Adds Face Tagging, Bing Adds Twitter Search.
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Google's ASCII logo
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Few justifications if any, need to be given for choosing “Google Search” as the product of the year from 1998. It has been a winner in terms of...
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Google.org has announced it’s list of PowerMeter partners and Reliance energy is the only partner from India. Google PowerMeter, currently in beta, allows you to see your own electricity usage information (on iGoogle widget) and helps you to improve your efficiency in a
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Forbes has released a list of world’s most reputable companies (based on Reputation Institute’s annual survey) and India’s top entry, Tata Group stand at #10 position. Italy’s Ferrero wins the race, followed by Ikea (Sweden) and Johnson & Johnson (US). Google stands at #23, Microsoft at 30, Nokia at 45, Apple at
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Today is Samuel Morse’s birthday! How do I know? Google tells me
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Indian Railways takes the cake, followed by Deepika Padukone, Sixth Pay Commission and Shilpa Shetty. Here is the top 10 list of Yahoo searches in 2008: Indian Railways Deepika Padukone Sixth Pay Commission Shilpa Shetty Games Aishwarya Rai Kareena Kapoor Cricket Sachin Tendulkar Tata Nano – source Under different categories, Deepike Padukone tops Entertainment, Cricket scores over Olympics in Sports, and interestingly, sixth pay commission tops...
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Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google has launched a program to reward the best innovation in local governance by Gram Panchayats in Karnataka and  Andhra Pradesh The Google.org Gram Panchayat Puraskar recognizes that innovations in governance are happening every day in villages across India. We want to publicly recognize good ideas and create incentives for...
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Google has released the most popular search terms from India: orkut gmail yahoo google youtube yahoomail indian railways rediff cricket katrina kaif Top ‘how to’ searches how to reduce weight how to kiss how to earn money how to get pregnant how to learn english how to gain weight how to play guitar how to create a website how to impress a girl how to tie a tie Top searches on mobile are: orkut yahoo waptrick gmail games katrina kaif rediffmail yahoomail namitha google Top...
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Mumbai attack terrorists used Google Earth to memorize digital satellite images of the city in order to find their targets and coordinate their attacks. A PIL has been filed against Google asking them to remove India from Google Earth, as their product helped terrorist in planning the attack. The petition filed by Mumbai-based lawyer Amit Karkhanis...
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Google Android’s unlocked version is available for developers for $399 (+one time $25 registration fee). The Android Dev Phone can be used in any of the compatible networks (unlike G1) The device ships with a system image that is fully compatible with Android 1.0, so you can rely on it when developing your applications. You...
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Well, Google FriendConnect is live and we have enabled the same for pluGGd.in as well. So, if we are friends, please
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Interesting presentation on Google’s business strategy, how they buy traffic,business levers, how do they plan to take on Facebook, why do they not monetize all their services etc. All about Google View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: google seo) Take it with a pinch of salt (as with any ‘pitchy’ presentation). via TC
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