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February 9, 2010 by Kaila Krayewski
Many are scratching their heads at why Google felt the need to air an advertisement in one of the most prized spots on television – during the Superbowl.
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February 7, 2010 by Tariq Ali
If you watched the Super Bowl, or just like most of us watched the Super Bowl for the commercials, then you’ve probably seen this Google ad. This is the first ever Super Bowl ad by search engine giant.
The ad is one of Google’s short stories series about its search product. The video called “Parisian Love” have [...]
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February 5, 2010 by Kaila Krayewski
A recent Reuters article reports that thorny legal issues have created high stakes in the recent announcement by Google that it may pull out of China.
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February 5, 2010 by Kaila Krayewski
Don’t think for a second that Google is going to forget about those corporate espionage attacks that it may have incurred from within China. The search engine giant has teamed up with the US National Security Agency to further investigate the crime.
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February 4, 2010 by Tariq Ali
A recent post by Moustafa Hammad and Mohamed Elhawary, two engineers at Google search quality group, captured my attention. The post discusses recent improvements to Google Arabic search engine.
The improvements involve searches where users repeat the same letter or forget to add spaces between words.
“Our algorithm employs rules of Arabic spelling and grammar along with [...]
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February 4, 2010 by Tariq Ali
Yahoo has been trying to unload its jobs search portal for a while now and it finally came to a deal with Monster for $225 million in cash. As part of the deal, Monster will operate the Yahoo job search site for three years in the U.S. and Canada and Yahoo will receive annual payments [...]
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