Not content with creating their first video, The Gmail Man, Microsoft have taken another aggressive swipe at Google with their newest video Googlighting. This time, their target is Google Docs where they spend two minutes attacking…
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While it’s obvious why Google purchased Youtube in the first place, the latest survey from comScore may surprise you about how dominant the site is when it comes to the number of online videos viewed in a month…
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Combining sharing and searching is something Google+ is clearly aiming to perfect, with ‘Google Plus Your World’ returning social results when signed into Google+, and the recent feature of starting conversations from search results on Google+. There was a largely negative response to their social search product…
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Given the amount of fuss that Google has been making over its updated privacy policy recently – with endless reminders and notifications across their suite of products – you would expect them to have their house in order and operate above board. After all, it is the Google way to ‘do no evil’. But thanks [...]
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A new report by Bright Edge SocialShare has revealed that there has been a 1,400 per cent growth of Google+ fans since December 2011. Brands pages were only introduced on Google+ a few months ago, and we reported back in November on how some of the brands did not seem to be faring too well on the site…
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Many people treat the web as a health encyclopedia and diagnosis tool when they begin to feel some kind of symptom, so much so that Google Search has recognised this and has a new feature, whereby when you type in your symptoms, a list of illnesses that are possibly related to your symptoms pops up…
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When Google launched its Public DNS service back in December 2009, it aimed to be an alternative to the other Domain Name System (DNS) resolution services. Now fast forward two years later and it is now the largest DNS service in the world handling an average of 70 billion requests a day…
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Wikipedia often pops up in search results, but a new study shows just how highly Wikipedia ranks in Google search results, and prompts some interesting questions as to why this is. Intelligent Positioning Blog has released the results of research they did into the relationship between Google and Wikipedia…
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The web was abuzz with speculation over the weekend as to what Google TV’s big Monday announcement could be, with PCMag speculating that it could be a new device. But no such luck – Google TV announced on their blog yesterday an update to the Google TV Youtube app…
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It’s seems that Google is being very busy with the number of projects they’re working on. The first to be revealed was a home entertainment device earlier this week (later revealed to be a music streaming service) and also their attempts to introduce a ‘fibre residential gateway…
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Google’s search results have been through the mill a bit recently – largely due to the fact that they decided to prioritise their own social network over others, in their new search ‘Google Plus Your World’. But for all the talk about improved personalised results, it seems that people might not actually want them after all…
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Google is testing over 252 experimental devices in its employees’ homes in Seattle, and it is suspected that the devices in question are linked to Google’s venture into broadcasting. The company recently applied for an experimental license with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for an unnamed entertainment device…
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