May 18, 2012

Eric Schmidt on Google’s Global Growth� � 7 hrs ago

Eric Schmidt, Google executive chairman, explains that the world economies feel sluggish due to a lack of demand, with CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo.

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Eric Schmidt on Google’s Global Growth� � 7 hrs ago

Google Updates the Way Top Search Queries Ranking Is Calculated

Google has made a change to the way Webmaster Tools reports search engine rankings. Specifically, Google will now take into account the highest ranking link to your site rather than the average position of all your links. What this means is that, for

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Google Updates the Way Top Search Queries Ranking Is Calculated

Google Adds Public Alerts To Maps, Angry Birds Joins Facebook On Valentines Day, Wii Successor Expected Late This Year

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Google Adds Public Alerts To Maps . When natural disasters strike, the Google Crisis Response team is usually prompt with a response

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Google Adds Public Alerts To Maps, Angry Birds Joins Facebook On Valentines Day, Wii Successor Expected Late This Year

Firefox for Android with Native UI to Hit Beta Soon

Mozilla is working on the delivery of a new flavor of their Firefox for Android mobile browser, one that would bring along a very important feature, namely a Native UI. The company has been working on this release for the past several months, and is

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Firefox for Android with Native UI to Hit Beta Soon

Chrome Gets Smarter Auto Form Filling, Google Pushes to Make It HTML5 Standard

Google is working on making it easier to auto-complete forms found online. Like several other major browsers, Chrome comes with a rather thorough autofill feature. It remembers data you provide to one website, when signing up for example, so it can

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27,000 Google Chromebooks Sent to US Schools

If anyone was wondering what had come of Chromebooks now that everyone seems to be all about tablets, the answer, or part of it, is that they are about to start being used in US education. Right to the point, Google has revealed that 27,000 of these

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27,000 Google Chromebooks Sent to US Schools

Google Launches a Public Alerts Platform

Today Google announced a new service, Google Public Alerts, which has been integrated into the existing Google Maps. The new platform will provide users with up-to-date information on emergency messages, such as hurricane and storm warnings.

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Google Launches a Public Alerts Platform

Stop What You’re Doing, And Go See What Google Thinks It Knows About You (GOOG)

Want to know what Google thinks of you? Log in to your Google account and click on this link see all the demographic information Google has inferred about you based on your web-surfing habits

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DBJ Tech Watch for Wednesday 1/25: News of Apple, Yahoo, Facebook, Google and more

Welcome to the Denver Business Journal’s Tech Watch, our roundup of today’s tech news from around the nation, featuring reports on Apple, Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Nvidia, Amazon.com, Samsung, Guidewire, Advanced Micro Devices, McDonald’s and

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DBJ Tech Watch for Wednesday 1/25: News of Apple, Yahoo, Facebook, Google and more

Backlash over Google privacy move:

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