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Google does a Digg

The founder of Wikipedia talked about doing something similar a while back but the latest addition to Google Labs is a Digg-style rating system for search results. Think the 4th result down is actually the most relevant? Click on the little up arrow next Read More...
Posted 04 December 2007 02:11 by Alex Horner | 0 Comments
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Google knows where you are without GPS

Genius. Watch the video above for an explanation. We've just tried it and it's scarily accurate. Now all we need to do is have a function to keep tabs on other people's locations too. Those 'i'm stuck at the station darling' excuses will soon be a thing Read More...
Posted 04 December 2007 00:23 by Alex Horner | 1 Comments
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Google's OpenSocial makes a lot of sense

Google's soon to launch OpenSocial is a set of APIs designed to let developers easily create applications that will work across any participating social networks. So instead of creating one for MySpace, one for Facebook and so on, a developer will create..well Read More...
Posted 01 November 2007 19:00 by Alex Horner | 0 Comments

Google Earth adds a flight simulator

It's pretty basic at this stage but once we start seeing more people render the world's architecture in 3d it's going to get a lot more interesting. That's the power of the global brain, people! * Rants accepts no responsibility for the appalling song Read More...
Posted 03 September 2007 17:32 by Alex Horner | 1 Comments
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Google's innovation plans

A couple of videos from the Googleplex. The first one is a presentation by Google CIO Douglas Merrill on Innovation at Google. The second one is a lecture from Vint Cerf , Google's Chief Internet Evangelist, about "Tracking the Internet into the 21st Read More...
Posted 17 August 2007 17:17 by David Brown | 0 Comments
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Let Google give you the 411

Currently only available in the States, Google recently launched a free directory service , catchingly titled Google Voice Local Search (we prefer Goog411). The whole system is based on voice recognition and completely automated, meaning costs can be Read More...
Posted 29 May 2007 18:24 by Alex Horner | 0 Comments

The big players' search sandboxes

Alpha and searchmash have recently been launched by Yahoo and Google respectively. Both engines share a similar premise: draw in a variety of different search results ranging from images to Wikipedia entries but all on a single, unrefreshed page. It's Read More...
Posted 11 April 2007 00:52 by Alex Horner | 0 Comments
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Google's personalised homepages up the ante

I've been using my Google personalised homepage as my RSS aggregator for a while now, not neccessarily because it was particularly functional or attractive but because it was the first of its kind I discovered. Some nice recent improvements though have Read More...
Posted 20 March 2007 23:29 by Alex Horner | 0 Comments
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Google adds YouTube videos to adsense units

About time, non? So does this mean we'll head to the ad supplier's page when we click the ad or head over to YouTube as we have become accustomed to with the embedded ads thus far? Via Adverlab Read More...
Posted 05 March 2007 20:20 by Alex Horner | 0 Comments
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