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Chinese People Dread Losing Google

Activists at once support search giant and feel betrayed

(Newser) - Google’s seemingly inevitable exit from China will have a profound effect on its people, with many saying they support the search giant’s stand yet feel abandoned. One human rights activist brought flowers to Google headquarters, as both a sign of support and a kind of funeral bouquet. “...

Google: Viacom Uploaded Own Clips to YouTube, Then Sued

Accusations fly in YouTube copyright-infringement showdown

(Newser) - Viacom secretly uploaded video clips of its shows to YouTube and then launched a $1 billion copyright-infringement suit over those same clips, according to Google's lawyers. Google claims the company, seeking to promote shows like South Park, hired over a dozen marketing agencies to upload the clips, making sure they...

Google TV Wants to Take Over Your Living Room

Search king teams up with Intel, Sony for TV project

(Newser) - Google is scrambling for a piece of the action as more and more people use their TVs to access web content. The search giant has teamed up with Intel and Sony to build a new generation of TVs and set-top boxes using its Chrome browser and Android cell phone system,...

Why Facebook Isn't the No. 1 Website&mdash;Yet
Why Facebook Isn't the
No. 1 Website—Yet
ANALYSIS
Mar 17, 2010 3:20 PM CDT

Why Facebook Isn't the No. 1 Website—Yet

Google still gets more visitors overall

(Newser) - The fact that Facebook received more traffic than Google last week has been taken as a sign that the mantle of the top website has been passed to Zuckerberg and Co. Facebook, however, "has yet to pull ahead in any real sense," writes Jessi Hempel. In fact, it...

Google Appears to Defy Chinese Censorship Laws

Sites about Tiananmen Square are now accessible

(Newser) - Google appears to have quietly stopped filtering from its Chinese search engine, a staggering defiance of the powers that be in Beijing. Though the search giant denies changing its policy, NBC reporters in China have been able to access previously verboten sites relating to Tibet, the Xinjiang independence movement, and...

Facebook's Traffic Tops Google's for Week
 Facebook's Traffic 
 Tops Google's for Week 
NEW MILESTONE FOR NO. 1
Mar 15, 2010 7:00 PM CDT

Facebook's Traffic Tops Google's for Week

Social network site had done it for a day, but this is new

(Newser) - Facebook’s traffic from US visitors hit a new milestone for the week ending Saturday: It took the top spot from Google. The social-networking site had beaten the search giant on single days before, notably Christmas. Facebook’s traffic is up 185% over the same week in 2009, Hitwise reports,...

New Google Hire Attacks Apple, the iPhone

Tim Bray 'hates' Apple gadget because freedom isn't 'optional'

(Newser) - XML co-inventor Tim Bray has signed on with Google to be a “Developer Advocate” focusing on its Android mobile OS, and used the announcement to fire a broadside at Apple on his blog. While Google is all about freedom, he writes, Apple is about control. “The iPhone vision...

Google All But Certain to Close China Site

Beijing won't bend censorship requirements

(Newser) - Having lost its showdown with the Chinese government, Google is poised to close its Chinese search site, rather than continue to censor results. The company will likely take action within weeks, a source familiar with the situation tells the Wall Street Journal . When it does, China will prevent local news...

Greenville, SC, Joins Cities Sucking Up to Google
Greenville, SC, Joins Cities Sucking Up to Google
Topeka, watch your back
Mar 10, 2010 1:40 PM CST

Greenville, SC, Joins Cities Sucking Up to Google

Town hopes to win fiber optics experiment with 'Lucky' campaign

(Newser) - Topeka, Kansas, isn’t the only midsize city sucking up to Google in hopes of hosting its high-speed fiber optic broadband experiment. Greenville, South Carolina, is giving Topeka a run for its money with its “We’re Feeling Lucky” campaign, a play on Google’s “I’m Feeling...

Google, DirecTV Team on TV Search Option

Viewers can look for shows on satellite service, web videos

(Newser) - Google and DirecTV are testing a service in which viewers can search for programs from the satellite provider or Internet videos, using a keyboard and a set-top box that runs Google software. Only company employees are using the equipment, sources tell the Wall Street Journal —which points out that...

Desktops 'Irrelevant' in 3 Years: Google Exec
 Desktops 'Irrelevant' in 
 3 Years: Google Exec 
all hail the cloud
Mar 4, 2010 11:25 AM CST

Desktops 'Irrelevant' in 3 Years: Google Exec

John Gerlihy says company to focus on mobile computing and the cloud

(Newser) - In three years, the desktop computer will be a relic of a bygone era and cloud computing will be the standard. At least that’s Google’s bet, as expounded by Europe exec John Herlihy. Down the road, he told a conference, “desktops will be irrelevant.” Just look...

Google Rolls Out 'Starred' Search Results

New tool will prioritize users' favorite sites

(Newser) - Over the next few days, Google will be rolling out a feature that will allow you to tell it what sites you like. Just star a result, and in the future, when you’re searching for something relevant to that site, it’ll pop up at the top in a...

Topeka Changes Name to Google

For a month, anyway; city wants to be test site for speedy Internet

(Newser) - There’s no such place as Topeka, Kansas—at least, not this month. Mayor Bill Bunten issued a proclamation temporarily changing the town’s name to “Google, Kansas—the capital city of fiber optics.” The town’s been trying to convince Google (the company) to make it a...

Microsoft Behind Court War on Us: Google

Google antitrust complaints linked to rival

(Newser) - As Google faces a slew of antitrust suits from US and European companies with connections to rival Microsoft, the search engine giant believes Microsoft is "scouring court dockets around the world looking for complaints against Google into which they can inject themselves," a Google spokesman tells the Wall ...

Google Launches Chile Quake 'Person Finder'

Database allows people to seek or provide information

(Newser) - Google has launched a Person Finder for people seeking information about Chileans in the wake of today's earthquake. The tool allows people to choose between two options—"I'm looking for someone" or "I have information about someone," notes Mashable . The database is growing by the minute. Mashable...

Twitter Apes Google's Ad Model
 Twitter Apes Google's Ad Model 
Feb 26, 2010 3:35 PM CST

Twitter Apes Google's Ad Model

Ads will show up as 140-character blurbs in search results

(Newser) - Twitter’s finally ready to unveil its ad service, and it’s going to look a heck of a lot like Google’s. Sources tell Peter Kafka of All Things Digital that Twitter intends to allow companies to place ads using a self-serve program, and that they’ll show up...

Google Execs Convicted Over Abusive Video

Italian court wants content monitored

(Newser) - When a video of an autistic Italian teen being beaten turned up on a Google-owned video site, Italian authorities stepped in to prosecute and convict the bullies—and Google. In a verdict with far-ranging implications for Internet freedom, an Italian judge today found three Google executives guilty of privacy violations...

EU Launches Antitrust Probe of Google
EU Launches Antitrust
Probe of Google
BAD NEWS? WAS FOR MICROSOFT
Feb 23, 2010 9:34 PM CST

EU Launches Antitrust Probe of Google

Some observers see Microsoft-like trouble ahead

(Newser) - The European Union has begun an antitrust investigation into Google after a handful of sites that compete on some level with Google alleged that it was pushing them unfairly down its search rankings. One of the sites, Ciao.de , is a subsidiary of Microsoft, the Wall Street Journal reports. Another...

Google CEO Squelches Lover's Blog

Blogspot access ends for CEO's former mistress

(Newser) - Big Brother is watching and he doesn't like it when his mistress talks about him on the Internet. So Google CEO Eric Schmidt had a diary by his former lover yanked off Google's Blogspot , reports Gawker . The "Recovery Girl 007" blog by former CNBC correspondent Kate Bohner details shedding...

'Google Suggests' Feature Can Make You Blush
 'Google Suggests' Feature 
 Can Make You Blush 
hey, that's incest!
Feb 22, 2010 5:46 PM CST

'Google Suggests' Feature Can Make You Blush

'How Do I Get My Sister to Sleep With Me,' and other weird searches

(Newser) - Start typing a question into a Google search box, and the site tries to guess what you're going to ask by drawing on your history, its index and ads, and searches by other users—a fair number of whom apparently are thinking way, way outside the norm. Start with "...

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