By Damon Brown,
Web-page addresses can be notoriously long, but even the normal ones seem absolutely huge in our age of Twitter and text messaging. Every letter counts when you have only 140 characters.
Now Google hopes to revolutionize the Web address shortening arena with Goo.gl, now available to the public through its website at http://goo.gl.
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Google opens URL-shortener Goo.gl to public
Posted by New Technology 2012 Researcher on October 11th, 2011
By Damon Brown,
Web-page addresses can be notoriously long, but even the normal ones seem absolutely huge in our age of Twitter and text messaging. Every letter counts when you have only 140 characters.
Now Google hopes to revolutionize the Web address shortening arena with Goo.gl, now available to the public through its website at http://goo.gl.
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Google talks TV deals with HBO, NBA, others
Posted by New Technology 2012 Researcher on October 7th, 2011
By Doug Gross,
HBO, Netflix, Pandora and the NBA are just a few of the big-name brands teaming up with Google for the rollout of Google TV.
The web giant's "multimillion-channel TV" system is expected to launch some time this season. Run by Google's Android operating system, it will alow users to view all kinds of Web stuff on their televisions.
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Tags: Which words does Google Instant blacklist?
Posted by New Technology 2012 Researcher on October 3rd, 2011
By Samuel Axon,
Some folks at the Hacker publication 2600 decided to compile a list of words that are restricted by Google Instant.
Except in extreme and special cases, Google is known for anything but censorship, but as we've said before, there are some terms the web giant's new instant search feature won't work with. We understand Google's intentions; the Full StoryGoogle releases latest censorship tracking tools
Posted by New Technology 2012 Researcher on September 22nd, 2011
By Adam Hartley,
Google has released a new Transparency Report outlining censorship levels around the world.
The report details how the US government asked Google for user information 4,287 times in the first six months of this year, while the UK government issued 1,000 similar requests to the search giant over the same period.
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Posted by New Technology 2012 Researcher on September 19th, 2011
By Parija Kavilanz,
Want to get an extra early jump on this year's holiday must-haves? Take an exclusive look at what products Google says are already burning up the Internet 14 weeks before Christmas.
Google was among the earliest to predict last year's Zhu Zhu Pets toy craze after spotting an explosion of searches for "Zhu Zhu Pets" on its search Full StoryGmail looks to clear clutter with Priority Inbox
Posted by New Technology 2012 Researcher on September 13th, 2011
By Doug Gross,
Gmail users who feel swamped by a virtual flood of messages will get some help sorting them out.
Priority Inbox, a feature designed to push a user's most important e-mails to the top of the inbox and leave them there, was scheduled to be rolled out at midnight ET Monday.
"We've been hearing from a lot of our most active users, people Full StoryGoogle launches real-time search engine
Posted by New Technology 2012 Researcher on September 11th, 2011
By Emma Barnett,
Google has created a separate search engine dedicated to producing real-time results only.
The search company has been integrating real-time information into the body of its main search results since last December, after signing deals with Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. This has meant that when somebody searches for a particular topic Full StoryGoogle Gmail adds phone calls
Posted by New Technology 2012 Researcher on September 4th, 2011
by Telegraph,
Google has confirmed that Gmail users in the USA and Canada will be allowed to make phone calls direct from their email accounts. The “Calls from Gmail†service will begin to roll out this week, and will allow free calls to American and Canadian numbers “for at least the rest of the yearâ€.
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