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Google to Add Social-Network Elements

Google plans to infuse its core products with social-networking elements, its chief executive said, ratcheting up the Internet giant's rivalry with Facebook.

 

YouTube Sets Live-Streaming Trial

YouTube Sets Live-Streaming Trial

Google Inc.'s YouTube has launched a public test of a new live-streaming video service, the site's most ambitious foray into live programming.

 

Yahoo Revamps Mail Service

Yahoo Revamps Mail Service

Yahoo is redesigning its email service to help stem a user decline and counter offerings from longtime rivals Microsoft and Google as well as social-networking services such as Facebook and Twitter.

Senh: The major thing they have to improve is email search. That's one of the main reasons why I use GMail. It's so easy to search for email. The email search in Yahoo Mail is really slow and not particularly accurate.

 

Google's Android to zoom past Blackberry, iPhone

Tech research company Gartner reports that Google's Android will be in striking distance of Nokia's Symbian system for world champion in mobile operating systems, leaping past Research in Motion's Blackberry and Apple's iPhone iOS.

 

New Google Instant shows search results as you type

Tired of waiting the tenths of a second it takes to get Google search results? Google promises it'll get faster. The search giant on Wednesday introduced Google Instant, which will give users suggested results before they're even done typing.

 

Google logo amuses, bemuses

Google logo amuses, bemuses

This morning's Internet mystery resides on Google's home page -- an animated version of its logo that consists of a swarm of bouncing balls that coalesce to form the company's logo. But once you steer the cursor towards them, they fly apart and flee around the window.

 

Google faces Texas AG inquiry, settles privacy suit

Google faces Texas AG inquiry, settles privacy suit

Google Inc said on Friday it was the target of an investigation by the Texas Attorney General's office into the fairness of its search engine rankings.

Senh: This is a dumb and stupid lawsuit. A couple of small websites aren't getting much traffic from Google, so they're suing them for not ranking the content from their crappy sites higher. What a waste of time. I won't even mention their sites here so they can die peacefully.

 

AOL, Google Search Deal Renewed

Google Inc. will continue to provide the search results on AOL Inc.'s websites under a new, five-year deal the companies signed this week. The agreement largely reinforces an arrangement that has been in place between the two companies since 2005. But the new contract, announced Thursday, also expands their cooperation onto AOL sites for cell phones and other gadgets. And it will put AOL video content on Google Inc.'s YouTube site for the first time.

 

Arcade Fire, Google Create First HTML5-Powered Music Video

Alternative band Arcade Fire has collaborated with Google to make an interactive music video using HTML5 through Google Chrome.

 

Google eyeing Facebook's turf

Google eyeing Facebook's turf

The search giant's rumored foray into social networking has analysts and bloggers atwitter.

 

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