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YouTube brings Leanback forward
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John Moe
Jul 8, 2010
Google introduced a new option on YouTube that's kind of a mashup of YouTube, Facebook, and Pandora. It's called Leanback and it provides a full...
China threatens to shut down Google, Google caves
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John Moe
Jun 29, 2010
Google says it's committed to not censoring its search results. China is very much committed to censorship. So it's a stalemate that affects the...
Facebook takes on search. A way bigger story than you might realize.
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John Moe
Jun 25, 2010
The seemingly innocuous Like button recently spread from Facebook to sites all over the web as part of Facebook's Open Graph program. You read...
Google introduces new feature: editorial judgment
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John Moe
Jun 11, 2010
This is one of those stories that might be a little more surprising than it first appears. Google is running an experiment on its Google News site,...
Search engine popularity metrics range from opaque to meaningless
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John Moe
Jun 11, 2010
I've been trying to make sense of a couple recent articles about the latest information on the popularity of the major search engines. It seems...
Google's home page is all funny looking.
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John Moe
Jun 10, 2010
As promised, Google.com, the big page, the heart of the whole operation, looks different today. The company announced this a while ago. Instead of...
Google gets Caffeine
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John Moe
Jun 9, 2010
It's not being rolled out with the same fanfare as the notorious Wave or Buzz, but Google's new Caffeine indexing technology, which is live right...
For public good, not for profit.
Eyebrow raisers from the iPhone announcement
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John Moe
Jun 8, 2010
You may have heard a bit about the new iPhone yesterday, considering the news replaced oxygen as the most common thing in the air. Ars Technica has...
Tech News In Brief - 6/4/10
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John Moe
Jun 4, 2010
Google data collection mess gets messier China blocking FoursquareU.S. Cyber Command wants to ‘operate freely' to protect and defend computer...
Is YouTube about to offer live streaming?
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John Moe
Jun 4, 2010
TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld stumbled across a YouTube help page that offers buttons for things like "moderator" and "live stream". The online...