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Viacom Wanted the Source Code for Google's Search Engine, But Obtained YouTube's Server Logs (Google Operating System)

Ionut Alex Chitu (noreply@blogger.com) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:40:28 GMT

In the ongoing trial between Viacom and Google , regarding the videos uploaded to YouTube that infringe Viacom's copyright, Viacom really wants to prove that the most popular videos watched at YouTube were from its programs. Viacom even claimed that Google's search results are biased to give better ranking to the infringing YouTube videos, so it asked for... Google's source code (and YouTube's source...

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Google Results in Firefox's Address Bar (Google Operating System)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:52:00 GMT

Ryan Wagner from CyberNet News developed CyberSearch , a Firefox extension that lets you see Google results in the address bar. The extension adds new functionality to Firefox 3's address bar, which already shows bookmarks and other pages from your web history. By default, CyberSearch is a little inefficient: it performs web searches as you type in the address bar and it shows Google's search results...

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Second-Class Google Citizens (Google Operating System)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:32:00 GMT

Every time Google releases a new feature for Gmail, Calendar, Google Docs etc. people who use Google Apps are left wondering whether they'll get the new feature. Sometimes they have to guess addresses, like for the new mobile Google Talk . They are supposed to figure out that the Google Apps version of: http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/m is http://hostedtalkgadget.google.com/a/YOURDOMAIN.COM/talkgadget/m....

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Google Talk for iPhone (Google Operating System)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:41:00 GMT

Google has finally launched a mobile version of Google Talk, but it's optimized for iPhone's browser. You can access if you go to google.com/talk on an iPhone/iPod Touch or using this permalink: http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/m (shorter URL: http://tinyurl.com/4vnfcd). This Ajax version is based on Google Talk's Flash gadget, but it doesn't include tabs, group chat, options to add contacts...

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Google Street View in France (Google Operating System)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:30:00 GMT

As a special present for the upcoming Tour de France , Google added Street View imagery for Tour de France's routes. The coverage is really limited, but Google will extend it in the next months, when Street View will be available in many European countries (UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and others). Wikipedia has some details about this year's edition of the largest cycling race in the world. "The...

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Mobile Google Maps with Voice Search (Google Operating System)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:18:00 GMT

An obvious use of the GOOG-411 service is to add speech recognition to Google's mobile mapping application. Microsoft already has voice support in Live Search for Windows Mobile and that's an important differentiating factor when you are on the go and you need a quick answer. Google started to test Google Maps with voice search for three Blackberry Pearl models: 8110, 8120, 8130 and only for the US....

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Taking Features Away From Users (Google Operating System)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:35:00 GMT

Ryan Singer wrote an interesting post titled " Features are a one-way street ". The main idea was that "once your user base has grown beyond a certain point, you cannot take features away from them. They will freak out. Whether the feature is good or bad, once you launch it you've married it." Google is a company that launches many features and services "in beta", tests them for a while and then decides...

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Google Docs Stats (Google Operating System)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:25:00 GMT

If you publish documents at Google Docs and link them from web pages, you may wonder how many people actually view them. Google helps you find this information by placing a Google Analytics tracking code that can be connected to your account. Just go to Google Analytics , create a new profile for docs.google.com, get your profile number and paste it in Google Docs Settings , after enabling "Track visits...

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The Best Firefox Extension for Google Bookmarks (Google Operating System)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:12:00 GMT

If you use Google Toolbar for Firefox only because you like the bookmarking feature , there's a much better option: GMarks . While there are other extensions that provide an interface for Google Bookmarks, John Marshall's GMarks adds a lot of value to Google's basic bookmarking service. GMarks can display the bookmarks almost the same as Firefox's native bookmarks: in a separate menu and in the sidebar....

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Mozilla's Weave Prototype Updated (Google Operating System)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:11:00 GMT

After Google announced that Browser Sync will no longer be updated and will stop working at the end of the year, many people looked for an alternative. The closest project to Browser Sync is Mozilla Weave , a Firefox extension that synchronizes local data from your browser with a server so you can access your data from multiple computers. Unfortunately, Weave is still an experimental prototype, so...

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Adobe Helps Search Engines Find Flash Files (Google Operating System)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:20:00 GMT

Adobe announced that it provided some its Flash technology to Google and Yahoo in order to improve the indexing of SWF files . "Although search engines already index static text and links within SWF files, RIAs and dynamic web content have been generally difficult to fully expose to search engines because of their changing states." To solve this problem, Adobe decided to share Flash Player technology...

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Google Photos? (Google Operating System)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:13:00 GMT

Launched in 2006 as an online extension of the Picasa photo management application, Picasa Web Albums didn't become very popular, as Flickr continued to grow . Besides lacking a community of photography enthusiasts and leaving out a lot of basic features like stats or adding a photo to favorites, Picasa Web Albums is not a great name and many might not even know that Google has a photo sharing service....

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YouTube's Search Module (Google Operating System)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:38:00 GMT

Probably as an alternative to the list of related videos displayed in a sidebar, YouTube experiments with a search box placed below the video's description. The search box doesn't load a new page to show the results, as you can see in the screenshot. You can search for things mentioned in the video or create a small playlist of related videos by adding some of the results to YouTube's Quicklist . Maybe...

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Export Data from Google's Services (Google Operating System)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:02:00 GMT

Google mentioned in many occasions that it doesn't want to trap users' data and some of its services have started to provide import/export options. Here are some of the ways to export your data from Google's services: * iGoogle lets you download the list of gadgets, feeds, themes and their corresponding options if you go to the settings page and scroll down to the "Export / Import" section. The resulting...

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Google Testing a Social iGoogle (WebPro News)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:19:26 GMT

If you haven’t tried iGoogle, Google’s personalized homepage, you’re not alone. But Google’s looking to spiff up their customizable homepages and testing has already begun , as Google Operating System reports—and it looks like they’re trying to make our foretelling of iGoogle as social network come true. read more

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Google Talk Is a Social Network (Google Operating System)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:05:00 GMT

I know it seems hard to believe, but your Google Talk contacts will become... your Google Friends. Everything started last year with an innocent addition to Google Reader: automatically broadcasting your shared items to your friends . If you use Google Reader, you probably noticed that you're subscribed to the shared items from your Google Talk contacts. Many complained that their Google Talk contact...

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Google Testing New iGoogle, No OpenSocial Support (Yet) (SEOCentro - SEO News)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:23:52 GMT

If you haven't tried iGoogle, Google's personalized homepage, you're not alone. But Google's looking to spiff up their customizable homepages and testing has already begun , as Google Operating System reportsand it looks like they're trying to make our foretelling of iGoogle as social network come true. The old iGoogle featured tabbed navigation across...

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Google Testing New iGoogle, No OpenSocial Support (Yet) (Marketing Pilgrim)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:14:42 GMT

If you haven’t tried iGoogle, Google’s personalized homepage, you’re not alone. But Google’s looking to spiff up their customizable homepages and testing has already begun, as Google Operating System reports—and it looks like they’re trying to make our foretelling of iGoogle as social network come true. The old iGoogle featured tabbed navigation across...

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Google starts move to ad-friendly iGoogle (Webware.com)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:49:00 GMT

Google users are starting to see an updated interface to the iGoogle home page, according to the Google Operating System blog. iGoogle lets users select various modules such as mail, photos, games, or a to-do list; it competes chiefly with My Yahoo but also with sites from rivals including Netvibes and PageFlakes . As expected, the revamped iGoogle provides...

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Google starts move to ad-friendly iGoogle (CNET News.com)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:49:00 GMT

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