May 18, 2012

Google offering new tools for aspiring Android developers

Google is now offering a new set of tools to aspiring Android developers. (Credit: Google) Google has long offered Android developers a number of resources for creating quality applications and games. Indeed, whether it’s the oft-updated platform version

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Google has updated its search results to include more recent web entries higher up. Photo: Getty Images

Google has announced that its search results will now give greater priority to recent events and hot topics.

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Australia Regulator To Appeal Federal Court Decision On Google Ads

MELBOURNE -(Dow Jones)- Australia’s competition watchdog said Thursday it will appeal a federal court ruling that cleared Google Inc. (GOOG) of misleading or deceptive conduct in advertisements on its online search results pages. The Australian

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Google to test +1 data for search result ranking

CNN reports Google is researching if it can use the data collected by its +1 button to rerank search results and combat spam. Seems like a nice idea, although it’s only a matter of time until spammers will find a way to use this to their advantage.

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Google tells you when your PC is infected by malware

By John Nieves View Comments Proving once again why they’re a spectacularly awesome company, Google now tells its users if their PCs are currently hosting malware.

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Bing will power Baidu’s Chinese search site

Deal for English-language results follows Google pull out Internet | 05 Jul 2011 : Microsoft’s Bing search engine will provide English-language search results for Baidu, China’s largest search engine, the companies announced Monday. Further details of

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Google Makes Search More Social

Google is making Web search more social, weaving posts from the Twitter, Flickr, Blogger and other accounts of a user’s friends into search results. Social search results will now be mixed throughout users’ results based on their relevance (in the past

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