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Official Google Blog: “Today we are pleased to announce the launch of a 5-year quotes index. This expanded coverage lets you explore what Governor Palin said before she was a VP nominee, or Senator Obama before he was a presidential candidate. The InQuotes lab page is also much improved and now provides comparisons over time …
Official Google Blog: “We’ve created a handy energy saving calculator to help you see how simple steps can help you save money for treats — and ward off scary carbon emissions. We’ve also put together a webpage full of tricks to help you save energy — and money.”
Official Google Blog: “Today, we’re pleased to launch a new homepage for Google Blog Search so that you too can browse and discover the most interesting stories in the blogosphere. Adapting some of the technology pioneered by Google News, we’re now showing categories on the left side of the website and organizing the blog posts …
From Google Labs, “the In Quotes feature allows you to find quotes from stories linked to from Google News. These quotations are a valuable resource for understanding where people in the news stand on various issues. Much of the published reporting about people is based on the interpretation of a journalist. Direct quotes, on the …
Find your voting location, registration information and more. Just enter your home address… Google Public Policy Blog: “Our guide already includes voting locations for a number of states and the District of Columbia, and we are aiming to have voting information for all 50 states added by mid-October. We hope that this tool will equip …
Chris Harrelson, Tech Lead & Creator of Google Transit: “We’ve just added comprehensive transit info for the entire New York metro region, encompassing subway, commuter rail, bus and ferry services from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New Jersey Transit and the City of New York. That …
Researching Medical Literature on the Internet – 2008: Medical journals, dictionaries, textbooks, indexes, rankings, images all can be found on the Net, and much of it is available free. Sources include publishers, government agencies, professional organizations, health libraries and commercial entities. Gloria Miccioli’s completely updated and revised topical guide expertly focuses on what she …
“Google Audio Indexing is a new technology from Google that allows users to better search and watch videos from various YouTube channels. It uses speech technology to find spoken words inside videos and lets the user jump to the right portion of the video where these words are spoken…The aim of Google Audio Indexing on …
Official Google Blog: “we’re announcing a new logs retention policy: we’ll anonymize IP addresses on our server logs after 9 months. We’re significantly shortening our previous 18-month retention policy to address regulatory concerns and to take another step to improve privacy for our users.” Related: Google Response to the [EU] Article 29 Working Party Opinion …
Official Google Blog: “Today, we’re launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives…Not only will you be able to search these newspapers, you’ll also be able to browse through them exactly as they were printed — photographs, headlines, …
Fortune – Google turns 10: A look back – “As the search giant celebrates its birthday, we highlight some of its biggest moments.” Google starts showing its age: “The Internet search giant was unstoppable in its first decade. The next 10 years may not be so easy.”
Follow up to September 1, 2008 posting, Google Launches New Beta Browser for Windows, Google Redefines Web Browser – Chrome Offers New Way To Surf Net, as Microsoft Beefs Up Internet Explorer, by Walter S. Mossberg, WSJ: “Chrome is a smart, innovative browser that, in many common scenarios, will make using the Web faster, easier …
