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From the Official Google Blog, May 7, 2007: “There’s barely enough time to join an earnings call if you are combing through all the latest news and quarterly statements. Today, we’re adding content on these events content so you never have to miss an earnings call again. You can view earnings calls, analyst meetings, and …
Book Searching Update, Computers in Libraries 2007 presentation by Greg R. Notess.
Press release: “Wikipedia has become a popular Web destination for a wide range of information. Now users of Exalead’s Web search engine can search, browse and navigate the Wikipedia database with greater ease and satisfaction than ever before by making use of the company’s new vertical search capability that has been added to the exalead …
From Greg R. Notess, State Libraries: Custom Search Options Compared – “For the six search builders listed on the Customize Your Own Search Engine page, here are the search engines built using the state library sites from all 50 U.S. states, or at least as many as they can manage.”
Text of Wired’s Interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, April 9, 2007.
Press release: “The Holocaust took place across the entire European continent, and for all of Europe’s Jews, as well as other victims of Nazism, geography played a major role in determining their fate. The Museum is using Google Earth to map key Holocaust sites with historic content from its collections, powerfully illustrating the enormous scope …
Press release: “The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has joined with Google in an unprecedented online mapping initiative. Crisis in Darfur enables more than 200 million Google Earth users worldwide to visualize and better understand the genocide currently unfolding in Darfur, Sudan. The Museum has assembled contentphotographs, data, and eyewitness testimonyfrom a number of sources …
Google Voice Local Search FAQ: “With Google Voice Local Search, you get fully-automated, fast access to same local-business information you would find on Google.com. But you can access it from any phone, anywhere, at anytime…Google doesn’t charge you for the information or for connecting you to the business. Keep in mind, though, that your telephone …
Agence France-Presse CEO Pierre Louette commenting in a press release today: “The agreement will allow uses of AFP’s content in ways that go beyond its typical use of content in Google’s services, which features just headlines and snippets of text to provide just a taste of what an article offers…”
Official Google Blog: “Searching on Google for Seattle real estate or homes for sale in San Diego prompts you to enter a location and choose whether you want to buy or rent.* After clicking “Go,” you can see the individual homes that Google has indexed, provided by our partners and culled from the web. When …
Press release: “Today, Google is launching My Maps, a new feature of Google Maps that enables users to quickly and easily create custom maps for personal use or sharing through search. With this release, creating maps mashups is now as simple as pointing and clicking. From chronicling trips, to sharing tips and documenting academic endeavors, …
Press release: “Rep. Brad Miller, Chairman of the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee of the House Science & Technology Committee…asked Google Chairman Eric Schmidt to explain why Google had changed its satellite maps of the New Orleans region to pre-Hurricane Katrina images.” Google Blog: “in September 2006, the storm imagery was replaced with pre-Katrina aerial photography …
