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Google Docs soon to be publicly searchable

According to a Google blog post last week, the company will soon enable public search access to 'public' Google Docs.   Good idea, right?...

3 Questions to Ponder on Google Chrome OS

Last week's Google Chrome OS announcement solicited a lot of virtual ink and had many in the blogosphere wondering aloud if Microsoft (or any other OS like Apple) should begin evacuating their headquarters for higher ground. Hey, we're the first to...

Google Apps and Virgin America Team Up for Cloud-Computing Scavenger Hunt

On June 14th, you can compete in an online scavenger hunt which boasts some pretty cool prizes -- among them, 1 terabyte of Google storage, an HP netbook or fly free on Virgin America for a year with complimentary wifi--...

Google Web Elements Make Popular Google Apps Available by Copy and Paste

Google has just released Google Web Elements, a collection of popular Google Apps including Maps, Conversation, Custom Search, Calendar and YouTube News, among others....

Yahoo Promises to Revolutionize Search

Modern search has evolved greatly since those early days with long lists of links offering little to go on to determine quality or popularity. As search users have -- by and large -- become more sophisticated, we're seeing more sophisticated...

Google Uses Custom Tricycle for Street Views

To help get the Street View images in those locations hard to reach by car, the Google Maps team now has a kicked-up tricycle -- loaded with 7 or 8 cameras and all the gear needed to manage all the...

Search space heats up; Wolfram Alpha & Twitter Search (Video)

In this video, ZDNet's search engine guru Sam Diaz discusses growth in the search space; specifically the development of Wolfram Alpha and Twitter Search....

Twitter Growth Compared to Facebook, Google

From John Battelle's rather resourceful Searchblog comes a post today comparing the first three years of growth for newcomer Twitter with Facebook and Google....

Google's Error Classifies Entire Web as Malware

For approximately 40 minutes Saturday morning, all Google search results bore the now-familiar warning "This site may harm your computer" an indication the site may contain harmful malware....

GMail Says Hello with Voice & Video Chat

Google has now added video chat to its GMail product, inching ever closer to a more enterprise-like platform. The initial response from the blogosphere has been largely positive and most reviewers indicate it is a nice addition to the popular...

Android Goes Open Source and Releases Source Code as G1 Hits the Market

On the advent of the Android G1 phone tomorrow, Google has made source code available to the world for its Android mobile platform....

Top 20 Percent Projects at Google

eWeek profiles "20%" projects -- a reference to the one day each week that Google developers can spend creating the next big thing. Obviously, not all make the cut but a few famous examples (think GMail) and a few not-so...

Google Android Dream Phone Faces Low Expectations from Readers (eWeek)

Interesting piece from eWeek on Google Android release in October: eWEEK readers refuse to believe that Google and T-Mobile's Android-based Dream smart phone will sell the 600,000 to 700,000 units HTC has said it expects to move when the device...

Google Android: Is the T-Mobile G1 an iPhone Killer?

After many false starts and carrier setbacks, the first phone supporting the Google Android platform -- the T-Mobile G1 -- has been unveiled. Sporting a touch screen (or slide out keyboard), push Gmail and an applications store, the G1 sounds...

Google Takes AdWords to Television

Google now offers an all-digital television advertising platform using an interface very similar to its popular AdWords offering....

Google Android Launch Held Back by Carriers

Wall Street Journal reports today that Google's Android mobile platform won't launch until Q4 and not Q3 as originally hoped. Hardly a surprise but it goes to show how difficult it can be to pull all of the pieces together...

Google Gears Will Power MySpace E-Mail (VIDEO)

According to an announcement made at Google Developers Conference in San Francisco, MySpace e-mail is getting a shot in the arm from Google Gears. Read our piece on Google Gears: Google Gears: The future of application development?...

Google Offers Hosted AJAX Solution

The gang at Google Labs have announced a new hosted AJAX library solution intended to provide a globally-available, load-balanced sets of common used toolsets which are often used in the development of web-based applications....

Doodle 4 Google: Vote for your favorite doodle

Google solicited thousands of entries from K-12 students around the country and selected the top forty (ten doodles for each of the four grade groups). Winners of the contest will be featured on Google's homepage....

Yahoo Unlocks Search, Mail Platforms with Yahoo Open Strategy

With its Yahoo Open Strategy, Yahoo drops its bid toward an open platform for custom application built on core elements of the web services site. As with other platform plays from Facebook and Google, Yahoo is trying to entice the...

Google Launches AdSense for Mobile Content

With the launch of AdSense for Mobile Content last Thursday, Google -- along with its AdSense partner brethren -- has now stepped into what some experts say will be a mobile advertising market worth $10 billion by 2010 (EJL Wireless...

AT&T Pursues Google Android Mobile Platform

Judging from a variety of reports from the blogosphere and news outlets, wireless giant AT&T is rethinking its adoption of Google's Android. AT&T Wireless' Ralph de la Vega is 'very interested' in integrating Android into the carrier's phones after looking...

Google Launches Google App Engine Web Services Infrastructure

Today, Google unveiled its Google App Engine for building web applications and services limited to the first 10,000 developers....

Google, Wine, & Codeweavers make Photoshop Run on Linux

Stephen Shankland's Underexposed blog on CNet is reporting today that Google is funding development for Photoshop-on-Linux. But is porting of individual applications the right approach?...

Google Android Releases New SDK for Mobile Development Platform

Last week, an update to Google's much-anticipated Android mobile development platform's SDK was released....