Topic: GOOGLE - on May 31, 2007 at 10:33:00 AM CEST
Google gives you the Street View?
Google has unveiled a new “Street View” level for their popular mapping service, allowing you to walk the streets of Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York, and San Francisco from a first person perspective. Though minimally informative, it is fun to play around with, and lets you take the world’s cheapest vacation, so travel lightly.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 22, 2007 at 5:25:00 PM CEST
What's hot? Google offers daily updates on trends
The art of trend-spotting is set to take a more scientific turn as Google Inc., the world's top Web search company, on Tuesday unveils a service to track the fastest-rising search queries.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 18, 2007 at 12:16:00 PM CEST
Google overhauls main search page
Google is overhauling its search system so it returns "universal" results not just those from webpages.
The change means users will also get results from news sites, blogs, video services and other relevant places.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 12, 2007 at 4:37:00 PM CEST
Google searches web's dark side
One in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user's PC.
Researchers from the firm surveyed billions of sites, subjecting 4.5 million pages to "in-depth analysis".
About 450,000 were capable of launching so-called "drive-by downloads", sites that install malicious code, such as spyware, without a user's knowledge.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 10, 2007 at 12:48:00 PM CEST
Sounds bring Google Earth to life
As well as homing in on visual feasts around the globe, users of Google Earth may soon be able to listen to the sounds that accompany them.
A Californian company has created software that can layer relevant recorded sounds over locations in Google Earth, New Scientist reports.
Wild Sanctuary has over 3,500 hours of soundscapes from all over the world.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 5, 2007 at 12:02:00 PM CEST
Google's country-fried data center
Google confirmed the deaths of more penguins this week by admitting to a mega data center in Oklahoma.
The ad broker will build a $600m server plant at MidAmerica Industrial Park in Pryor, Oklahoma. A grand total of 200 workers will enjoy the Okie version of the Google lifestyle and earn $48,000 on average. So, when Google comes to town, you don't get a lot of jobs, but you do earn a huge energy drain and boost server component deliveries.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 2, 2007 at 11:27:00 AM CEST
YouTube fights Viacom legal bid
Google has asked a US court to dismiss a $1bn (£500m) copyright action from entertainment giant Viacom Media, saying it is a threat to the internet.
Viacom, owner of MTV and Nickelodeon, claims Google's video-sharing website YouTube uses its shows illegally.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 26, 2007 at 11:37:00 AM CEST
Virus Writers Taint Google Ad Links
Virus writers have been gaming Google's "sponsored links" -- the paid ads shown alongside search engine results. They are aiming to get their malicious software installed on computers whose users click onto ad links after searching for legitimate sites such as BBBonline.org, the official Web site of the Better Business Bureau.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 20, 2007 at 11:45:00 AM CEST
Google Integrates News With Web Search Results
Today, Google will quietly begin changing the way it blends news results and standard web search results, co-mingling links to news sources and web pages if your search terms are relevant to current news events.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 18, 2007 at 11:19:00 AM CEST
Google News Report
This report fetches the headlines from Google news on a schedule. Only headlines on the home page are fetched.
These results are then ranked by score. The score is determined by a combination of factors: appearance day and time, prominence on the google news page, number of appearances, and others, all weighted using a custom algorithm. The algorithm is designed to estimate referer traffic to the source.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 16, 2007 at 11:06:00 AM CEST
Microsoft Urges Review of Google-DoubleClick Deal
Microsoft, a veteran defendant of epic antitrust battles in the United States and Europe, is urging regulators to consider scuttling Google’s plan to buy DoubleClick, an online advertising company.
Microsoft contends that the $3.1 billion deal, announced on Friday, would hurt competition in the fast-growing market for advertising on the Web and raises questions about how much personal information would be collected by Google, already a dominant player in online advertising.
nytimes.com Companies want scrutiny of Google-DoubleClick deal
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 14, 2007 at 10:25:00 AM CEST
Google buys DoubleClick for $3.1bn cash
Internet text-ad broker Google has purchased leading computer-tracking cookie provider DoubleClick for $3.1bn cash, the two companies announced today.
The acquisition is Google's largest to date, just six months after purchasing YouTube for $1.65bn in stock.
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