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Jeffrey Peng, Software Engineer, Google Books, a software engineer on Google Books: “One of my main projects is adding magazine content and features to the site. In September we were excited to announce the availability of over 1,860 issues of the iconic LIFE magazine on Google Books. One of the feature requests that I got …
Official Google Blog: “In an effort to provide you with greater transparency and control over their own data, we’ve built the Google Dashboard. Designed to be simple and useful, the Dashboard summarizes data for each product that you use (when signed in to your account) and provides you direct links to control your personal settings. …
Follow up to October 29, 2009 posting, Google Launches New Music Search Feature, today see Google Discover Music: “Find music faster and easier using Google”
Official Google Blog: “…we’re rolling out a search feature that…enabl[es] you to search and more easily discover millions of songs, all via a simple Google web search…Now, when you enter a music-related query like the name of a song, artist or album your search results will include links to an audio preview of …
InformationWeek: “Social Search will be launched in a few weeks as a Google Labs experiment. As its name suggest, it integrates information created by people in a searcher’s Google network — defined by one’s list of Google Contacts — into Google search results.”
Search User Interfaces by Marti A. Hearst [the author, with permission of Cambridge University Press, has placed the full text online free of charge. See the terms of service]: “This book focuses on the human users of search engines and the tool they use to interact with them: the search user interface. The truly worldwide …
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Follow up to previous postings on the Google Book Settlement, this New York Times Op-Ed today: A Library to Last Forever, by Sergey Brin/Google: “Because books are such an important part of the worlds collective knowledge and cultural heritage, Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, first proposed that we digitize all books a decade ago, …
Official Google Blog: “If you’re like us, you’re probably thinking a lot about how this year’s flu season might affect you and your community. To help you out, we at Google.org are excited to announce the expansion of Google Flu Trends to 16 additional countries, including much of Europe. We’ve also made the site available …
“Since launching Bing, Microsoft sites have seen a significant increase in search queries, but Google still controls nearly two-thirds of the U.S. search query market, according to a new report released last week. In August, Google sites, including Google, YouTube, and other Google-owned websites, handled 64.6 percent of all searches originating in the United States, …
Deloitte: Cloud computing – A collection of working papers, released September 17, 2009 and published on July 31, 2009. “Cloud Computing frequently is taken to be a term that simply renames common technologies and techniques that we have come to know in IT. It may be interpreted to mean data center hosting and then subsequently …
Follow up to previous postings on what is becoming the saga of the Google Book Settlement, the following articles, legal documents and commentary today: New York Times: Google Working to Revise Digital Books Settlement Author’s Guild: “Beating their midnight deadline by about 90 minutes, the Justice Department on Friday filed a brief calling for modifications …
