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"To accelerate your learning, we've come up with a list of a few light-hearted recommendations around building good social applications."
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Why Google Turned Into a Social Butterfly
"So far, every time the Web has matched up against a proprietary alternative, the Web has prevailed."
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Google OpenSocial will (hopefully) make social apps more relevant
Charline Li from Forrester offers her take.
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Google and Friends to Gang Up on Facebook
"An alliance of companies led by Google plans to roll out a common set of standards to allow developers to write programs for Google’s Orkut and other social networking Web sites."
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"Google begins the day with the assumption that people come to the Web, because they're looking for something. We begin the day with the assumption that people are looking for us."
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Inside AdSense: Introducing video units
"Simply embed a snippet of code and have relevant YouTube partner content streamed to your site. You can choose categories of video to target to your site, select content from individual YouTube partners, or have video automatically targeted to your site
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Here Comes the Money: YouTube Videos Coming to AdSense
"Google is set to make a major announcement tomorrow concerning YouTube integration with AdSense. Selected YouTube videos will be available to AdSense publishers and will appear wrapped in banner ads."
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"Google's plan for world domination. Also why the iPod Classic sucks."
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Adblock Plus: the nuclear plug-in
"Adblock Plus, the Firefox browser plug-in that erases advertisements from web pages, is a killer of a killer app - or at least it could be if it ever becomes widely popular."
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Google Keywords as the new battleground
Nokia takes on Apple in AdWords.
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"In the past 12 months, Google doubled its staff, tinkered with its search engine to speed up results, and now answers more queries than Microsoft and Yahoo combined. But there’s one query we had to answer ourselves: How does Google work?"
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"We applaud the spirit of the idea, but our own analysis as well as that of others shows that making the Google homepage black will not reduce energy consumption."
Google Maps + Google Video + Mashup - Claude Lelouch's Rendezvous
Google Maps mashup that follows Claude Lelouch's Ferrari around Paris.
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Google's Video PlusBox May Be Its Most Disruptive Feature Ever
"There are no ads currently on the YouTube video, but you can bet that will change. What’s clear is that on this particular search the Times, the Post, and MSBNC are likely to lose a lot of the traffic that they otherwise would have gotten."
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From Vertical To Universal To Holistic
"To tackle this challenge, marketers need to pursue a holistic approach that involves optimizing for all of Google's vertical services."
Google is now showing the hottest trends for the day . . . interesting way to see what's going on at the moment.
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Court decision strengthens aggregators
"This is yet another court decision in favor of the disruptive innovations of Media 2.0, and it strengthens the business model of all aggregators that provide a significant public service by placing snippets of copyrighted material in one place to enable
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How To Make $10 Billion In Ad Revenue Without Measuring Unique Vistors Or Page Views
"Google never had to worry about old fashioned audience metrics because Google figure out how to optimize the delivery of ads based on what people DO, and more importantly, based on what’s on their minds  their intentions. . . "
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"April state of the media industry. Includes Viacom vs. Google, Digg, Joost, Ford's success on iTunes and marketing via social networks."
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"You put all that together and you think, what would the advertising customer like? And what they would like is they'd like a single way in which they can see ads and then have the computer do the allocation for them."
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Viacom's Dirty Hands? Google Responds To Big-Bucks Suit
"For now, no one knows how courts will determine whether YouTube has directly profited from pirated clips. But if the company steps up efforts to monetize itself with ads, it’s plausible that the courts will conclude that YouTube is profiting from pirat
"It struck me that this control very much reminded me of another company: Wal-Mart. Here's a summary of the critical points that define the similarities between the two"
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"YouTube was the beginning of the end of old Google and the beginning of new Google."
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me + alex quit google. (dodgeball forever!!!!) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
"It's no real secret that Google wasn't supporting dodgeball the way we expected. The whole experience was incredibly frustrating for us - especially as we couldn't convince them that dodgeball was worth engineering resources"
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"Tonight Google launched MyMaps. It adds the ability to create and share maps directly from Google's site."
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Digesting Google's New PPA Advertising Product
Wow. Google has finally added a pay-per-action product. The marketing world is going to change very soon.
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Unsafe Harbors for Viacom and Google
"As content proliferates, the ability to help audiences connect with content that matters the most to them will become the real sweet spot of the media industry."
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"Google marshalled all its assets -- YouTube, authenticity, actual product features -- to tell a compelling story."
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Will Online Video Remain A Monopoly?
"It would, however, be deeply ironic if “community� becomes the mechanism of monopoly for New Media, replacing the limited access to production and distribution that defined Old Media monopolies."
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"Recommendations are based on your search history, ratings and viewing patterns. We filter out the videos you mark as "not interested" as well as videos you have recently watched."
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Google Answer to Filling Jobs Is an Algorithm
"Google, in typical eccentric fashion, has created an automated way to search for well-rounded candidates."
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All about Google's new New York City office.
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A look at the differences between the top searches of the year on Yahoo!, AOL and Google.
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"How do you do it? By honoring your community, making reasonable and transparent rules, getting experts to help you, and encouraging positive, thoughtful behavior from your site's members."
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Satellite images + words = Hours of fun
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"The right thing is to build not a bubble, with it's binary in-or-out choice, but to build a gradient, with shades of resources you make available as people achieve success."
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Some intimate details on the Google YouTube Deal
Mark Cuban shares 'details' on the YouTube deal from an anonymous industry insider.
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What portion of Google's revenue is Search versus Contextual?
"Google derives about 78% of its advertising revenue from Search, and the remaining 22% comes from other sources, primarily Contextual."
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"Now the challenge becomes matching the panoply of innovations to the business goals, otherwise you run the risk, as Google is doing, of losing focus and confusing customers."
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How to Run a Meeting Like Google
"No one wastes time searching for a purpose at Marissa Mayer's meetingsâ€â€even five-minute gatherings must have a clear agenda"
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Colbert Demands Royalties From YouTube/Google Merger
"Colbert demands royalities from Googles recent acquisition of YouTube and runs throught all the great entries in the Colbert GreenScreen Challenge."
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How YouTube Kicked Google's Ass (and everyone else's too)
"If you go back and look at YouTube's traffic, the day they let people embed their videos in MySpace pages is the day they took off and never looked back."
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Paradigm shift: What Google didn't buy
"They could have considered buying The New York Times. But no--they didn't, did they--and the decision to spend all this money on YouTube shows that the coffin nails of mainstream media are already strewn across the open grave"
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Book Sales Get a Lift from Google Scan Plan
"Publishers are starting to report an uptick in sales from Google Inc.'s online program that lets readers peek inside books, two years after the launch of its controversial plan to digitally scan everything in print."
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"Revolutionizing branding is the real play at the heart of all this. Google thinks they are closer now, with YouTube in their back pocket - because they have a platform for experimenting with branded ads."
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Google + YouTube: What it means
"YouTube is winning the hearts of the audience because video search simply doesn’t work. You have to instead rely on the opinions, ratings, and playlist compilations of others to discover good video."
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"Welcome to Google Image Labeler, a new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of Google's image search results."
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"Why wouldn’t Google (or Yahoo, or any other company with a large enough stream of user intentions - toolbar and spyware companies, even) open a side business as a hedge fund or just use the information to secure a superior return on investment?"
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"My son (a second grader) chimed in that Google was good for finding stuff you needed to know about, while Yahoo! was the place you go to find pictures, play games, and check your email."
"Dashalytics is a free Dashboard Widget for your Apple Mac that offers quick access to Google Analytics statistics."
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Google CEO wants $74 billion TV ad market
"Google is preparing to deliver 'targeted measurable television ads' and Schmidt says Google has 'a good shot at it.'"
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"The idea that authority is best transmitted by a coarse-grained gesture like linking is bankrupted by the sheer volume of gaming that is emerging."
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"I think it would be most excellent if everyone would link to this page, and drive this post up Google's results for the word "Dean." I think it would help him get a head start in the world to have a lot of pagerank right out of the gate."
Google Checkout Supports Its Core Search Business
"I believe that it’s [Checkout} actually positioned to solve a perplexing and core problem at Google – how to drive more search ad revenues, especially in the retail sector where search spending is plateauing for top keywords."
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Google Launches ValueClick Killer
"In other words, Google is launching a fully-fledged cost-per-action  otherwise known as affiliate marketing  network."
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Google's tv eavesdropping plan
"By using its microphone to listen in and then connecting to an online database it could identify the show, and how far through you are."
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Marissa Mayer's 9 Notions of Innovation
9 things Google does to incubate innovation.
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"From what I have found, below are the current top 400 higest paying Internet search keywords as of May 23, 2006 that I could find using Google’s AdWords tool."
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25 Things I Learned on Google Trends
"To give you a sense of its tremendous power for tapping into the world psyche, here are 25 things I learned on Google Trends. Someone should start a blog on this kind of stuff."
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Look at historical data of how much people have searched for specific terms over time. Graphs the whole deal out. Pretty sweet.
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"The new browser includes a search box in the upper-right corner that is typically set up to send users to Microsoft's MSN search service. Google contends that this puts Microsoft in a position to unfairly grab Web traffic and advertising dollars . . . "
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Understanding Google: Exclusive look at a JupiterResearch report
"Jupiter warns that Google's insularity and intense focus on organizing consumers' information may not scale."
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"It's turning into what Julian Bleecker calls a 'Theory Object,' which is an idea which is not just a mental idea or a word, but a cloud of associated commentary and data, that can be passed around from mouse to mouse, and linked-to."
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Google and the Tyranny of Good Design
"You don’t see the work of sign writers any more; it’s hard to find handmade signs and ramshackle window displays. The urban environment is now over-designed. It's all too branded, too inhuman."
Google's 7 Marketing Principles
"Some very interesting insights into a company that has withheld the storms and stood up against the busts, to move along and create a magical world of search."
Andy Rutledge redesigns Google's homepage.
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"What Google wants to do with these trailers is SERVE EVERY TV COMMERCIAL ON THE PLANET because only they will be able to do it efficiently."
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How Old Media could take back its share of search's ad bounty
Google launched their personalized search trends page that even lists what other people who share your search interests searched for themselves. Number one thing people like me searched for: "blowfly alarm clock."
Google's Shopping Service to List User's Local Stores
Merchants will be able to feed Google Base their inventory, which will be integrated with Froogle to give local results.
"Googling here of course returns an ordered list. A list of the most popular web plugins it turns out. Adobe Acrobat comes in first."
Exclusive: Full text of Gates email, Ozzie memo
Leaked copies of both emails detailing the changes Microsoft must make to keep up with the "OO"ses
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Google Base goes live - it's more than just about classifieds
Forrester analyst Charlene Li discusses her thoughts on Google Base.
Google launches a free analytics program with lots of goodies.
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Google refused to let TextDrive renew their Urchin license, so a bunch of passionate, smart, geeks are gonna go ahead and build their own stats program.
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"MyGoogle PageRank was created to enable webmasters to easily know and post PageRank on their pages without any Toolbar."
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Look what I clicked on ... Snoop on the world's top secret sites from your desktop
"Google Earth, irritatingly, won't allow you to type in "top secret military installation" and then provide a handy list of sites to look at."
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With RSS
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Why Google's Print Ad Experiment is a Really Big Freakin' Deal
"Google gets to know response rate, all in one place; they can even (ready for this?) charge based on it."
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"Looking at the Google logo, it says to me, "Hi! I'm not very bright and I love looking directly at the sun!""
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"Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free–anytime, anywhere in the world."
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Free Wi-Fi? Get Ready for GoogleNet.
" What if Google (GOOG) wanted to give Wi-Fi access to everyone in America? And what if it had technology capable of targeting advertising to a user’s precise location?"
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See what happens when you zoom all the way in.
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Google Information for Webmasters
Google explains how to get yourself listed and ranked on their search engine.
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Calculate the distance of your walk (or run) using this cool Google Maps remix
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Supreme Court's unsound decision
Monday's ruling against Grokster will do nothing to stop peer-to-peer file sharing -- but it may well stifle technology innovation.
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Why adsense for feeds is a bad idea (at least for now)
"don't clobber your biggest fans with pitches to ads and instead relegate ads to areas where it might help people find more information or related products."
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Google vs. Yahoo: Clash of cultures
On the walls of Yahoo's modest Silicon Valley offices there are posters with sketches of oddball inventions that have landed patents, such as a portable bird cage. The point: If a bird cage can get a patent, Yahoo's employees can come up with something bi
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"Google is the new Internet behemoth, snatching up small companies left and right. So, in this article, I ask: what tech gems are in the running for Google's growing subsidiary menagerie?"
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Google's War on Hierarchy, and the Death of Hierarchical Folders
"Hierarchical Folders have dominated info organization since they first appeared over 40 years ago. But in industry after industry, a strange thing is happening: hierarchy is under severe attack, and even dying out."
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Loosing Google's Lock on the Past
"But if misery loves company, then there is solace in knowing that many people bristle at the mere thought of being Googled because of the photographs, news clippings or blog entries that they feel do not reflect who they really are."
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90% Crud: "If I can find out something as arbitrary as Ron Howard's birth date from somewhere as disconnected as a movie theater seat, our entire relationship to information is changing."
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Personalize your Google hompage with news, Gmail, etc. Where's the RSS?
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A VC: On Google, "But I don't understand how all of these new web services have anything to do with their core business of targeting advertising via search and contextual advertising."
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Online advertising is becoming a serious rival to the traditional sort. Google’s new advertising service could make the internet an even more valuable marketing medium
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How "search" is redefining the Web  and our lives
Seattle Times: "When search engines can change the lives of pastry chefs, a technology transformation clearly is under way. These online guides were once merely the means to a destination, the robots that could quickly fetch a site from the Web haystack."
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A great way to find housing listed on Craig's List using the Google Maps interface
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Check the rankings of any webpage in Google
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Adding Persistent Searches to Gmail
Greasemonkey script that adds persisten search folders to Gmail
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Washington Post: "Old advertising was predatory, militaristic almost: There were "campaigns" to "target" passive consumers; the objective was to score "hits" on them. Googletising is an altogether gentler art. Ads aren't directed at consumers. They are di
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Mining the Web is only part of it. The search giant faces growing pains and fierce competition.
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Guardian: "Yahoo isn't just back in the game - it's winning. How weird is that? "
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Quench your thirst for knowledge
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Search everything related to April Fool's Day
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Enhances Searching with Firefox
"Now Google's faster than ever on Firefox and Mozilla browsers. When you do a search on these browsers, we instruct them to download your top search result in advance, so if you click on it, you'll get to that page even more quickly."
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Google Desktop Search: Download Plug-ins
Welcome to the Google Desktop Search Plug-in Download page. Google has not tested or verified the features or security of the third party software listed on this site.
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Ummm . . . yeah
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A handful of blog-evangelists, a couple of key buys and some libertarian friendly moves have turned Yahoo from a dot.has.been to the new darling of the chattering classes.
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Good-bye, computer; hello, world!
CNET: "Now think about what would happen if you had a word processor . . . a music jukebox, and any other "software application" running inside a Web framework that's as fast and responsive as any desktop you've ever used."
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My new stance on linking technologies, six guidelines to judge
Scoble steps back from his anti-AutoLink stance and gives some guidelines to tell whether an automatic linking technology is really pro-user
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Some interesting quotes from Google CEO Eric Schmidt
Google's AutoLink: getting to the real issue
Recently there's been something of an explosion in the weblogging world over the "AutoLink" feature in Google's new toolbar. If the hype is to be believed, AutoLink is pure evil. Except you shouldn't believe the hype, and it's not AutoLink that people are
Google AutoLink Pits Convenience, Ownership Issues
A thoughtful Washington Post article on Google AutoLink
Kottke's take on the Google AutoLink question
At last, I understand the dangers of Google AutoLink!
A satirical look at Google AutoLink
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A helpful guide for finding MP3s using Google
GQ article about Google
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On the potential for browsers to replace all local advertising...
Why this whole Google AutoLink thing might be dangerous
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Half of Gmail Switchers from Hotmail
Between 52 and 56 percent of people coming to GMail switched from Hotmail
Best Web 2.0 Companies of 2004
Three Web 2.0 companies that came out of 2004 on top
The search engine that searches for all things Doogie Howser
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Jeremy Zawodny talks about blogging at Google and Yahoo
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The Google blogger that caused the big stir at the end of January no longer works at Google
Students shun search for information offline
Go to Google, search and scroll results, click and copy.
As you type, Google will offer suggestions.
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Froogle has added a wish list
Check how your blog ranks on specific Google search terms
Google sees benefits in corporate blogging
Industry Standard: "The mandate of IT organizations today is to do more with less, so the better they can communicate and share things, the more efficient their operations will be,"
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Highflier Google on right track for growth
The relationship between Google and "The Long Tail"
Gmail is a third generation web app and could make the desktop meaningless
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Google your desktop and the rest of your file system, mailbox, and instant messenger conversations--even your browser cache.
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Google looks to further solidify their dominance
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PubSub finds new content as it appears on the internet
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Finds information about famous people's families using Google
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Google adds SMS search
They're scanning books so they're searchable
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Try CantFindOnGoogle.com
They've added Atom functionality . . . I can't wait to try it
Take the GLAT (Google Labs Aptitude Test)
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Google Fight : Make a fight with Googlefight
Pit two keywords against each other and see who wins
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This is the thing that's causing all the commotion
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Why Googleworld will beat Murdoch
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Vote on what should be added
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We all knew it, it was written about lots and now they have admitted it
TouchGraph GoogleBrowser V1.01
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Google recruits eggheads with mystery billboard | CNET News.com
Really interesting article on Gmail as software and the privacy concerns
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Wired News: Single Post Wins Google Contest
Anil Dash wins SEO contest
Invite Only Advertising » Business Logs
I don't agree with most of this, but to each their own
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Sign up for the Google Newsletter
Kind of ironic that the Google Newsletter is handled by Yahoo: Groups
CyberJournalist.net: CMP blocks Google News
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Justin Blanton | Getting More Out Of Gmail
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The name says it all . . . everyone's doing it!