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January 2, 2009

Friday, January 02, 2009 11:08 AM/EST

Starting with Mobile, Google Invites Users to Crowdsource Product Ideas

Google's mobile product ideas page allows users to submit ideas that others can view and vote to give a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. I like the idea that Google is reaching out to its Web services users in a bear economy to get input about how to shape its products. While Google is starting with mobile technologies for Google Product Ideas, I think Google Apps would be another logical innovation discussion thread, along with App Engine and search.

September 15, 2008

Monday, September 15, 2008 4:52 PM/EST

Google Launches Gears for Apple Safari Browser

I'm willing to wager we'll be seeing Gears support extended to Apple's iPhone next.

July 19, 2007

Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:58 AM/EST

Congress to Investigate Google/DoubleClick Deal

Congress is expected to ask Google, Microsoft and Yahoo executives to testify before House and Senate subcommittees about Google's planned $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick.The news comes during a week in which a Precursor Group analyst released a 36-page white...

May 29, 2007

Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:56 AM/EST

All Your Face Are Belong to Us

That headline joke never gets old. Via Google Blogoscoped forums via Google Operating System, the news that Google image search now lets you restrict searches to faces. The implementation is still being tested, apparently, hence the awkward controls: You have...

May 15, 2007

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 11:12 AM/EST

Google Launches Developer Podcast

Google announced yesterday the launch of the Google developer podcast, a series of interviews with Google engineers and discussions about application building. The podcast will cover:Interviews with Google engineers, discussing areas of their expertiseNew features, applications and APIs that matter...

May 10, 2007

Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:06 PM/EST

Animal Planet: Google Earth to Get Creature Sounds

A California company has created a map overlay for Google Earth that embeds animal sounds into the relevant locations in Google Earth.Bernie Krause has spent 40 years collecting over 3500 hours of sound recordings from all over the world, including...

Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:00 AM/EST

New Google Blog for Maps, Earth

Google has launched a new blog, this time for Google Maps and Google Earth. The blog's name: LatLong. Sounds Cambodian. Or an obscure exercise, also possibly Cambodian.The latest entry is pretty devastating: Satellite imagery from the Greenburg, Kan. tornado, which...

April 20, 2007

Friday, April 20, 2007 10:15 AM/EST

Google Continues to Target Office Market

In the same week that Google pre-announced a new slideshow application, the company acquired Sweden-based Marratech, a maker of e-meeting software.Marratech's software is for download instead of browser-based, and users can use text chat, VOIP and video and share applications....

April 11, 2007

Wednesday, April 11, 2007 1:29 PM/EST

Google Trends' Obama-meter

This recent post from Jeff Jarvis--about whether Obama or Clinton is mentioned more often in the media--got me wondering what Google Trends has to say about the matter. As Jarvis notes, the latest Gallup poll shows Hillary ahead, while Google...

April 4, 2007

Wednesday, April 04, 2007 1:51 PM/EST

Google Releases Desktop for Mac

Google released a version of Desktop for Macs today.Some Mac users (not including this one), despite already having the use of the excellent Spotlight app, asked for a Mac version of the popular PC app.Google Desktop for Mac is only...

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