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11 Jun 2010 01:29

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Tech: Google’s real problem with their background images: No balance

Why did everyone hate Google putting background images on their site yesterday? Because, unlike Bing, they grafted the idea onto the old design (poorly). source
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10 Jun 2010 10:18

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Biz: Between searches and Twitter, BP’s PR defense mechanism is in full force

BP’s spending a bunch of money to have the top Google result on “Oil Spill.” Also @BPGlobalPR changed its description to note it’s a parody. source
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09 Jun 2010 20:52

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Tech: The root of Google’s new Caffeine engine: 9/11. No, really

  • The onslaught of news readers that day made them emphasize immediacy. Remember September 11, 2001? We still had the Internet, yeah, but our search engines were super-primitive back then. So when people looked up news on Google, stories weren’t updated. Eventually, Google started caching sites like CNN to offset this, but it taught them a long-term lesson. “That was a real wake-up call, where we said we have to pay a lot of attention to freshness,” said Matt Cutts of Google’s spam team. “We knew that before, but we thought 30 days was pretty good.” Which led the the development of Google News, and later, Caffeine. Now, what was once updated monthly is now thrown up immediately. Neat, huh? source
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08 Jun 2010 10:42

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World: Joran van der Sloot’s reported victim, Stephany Flores, Googled him

  • I did not want to do it. The girl intruded into my private life. She had no right. … I confronted her. She was frightened, we argued and she wanted to get away. I grabbed her by the neck and I hit her.
  • Joran van deer Sloot (reportedly) • In the confession to the murder in Peru in which he is the main suspect. How did Flores intrude into his life? She looked up his name on the Internet. The guy has a pretty rough Google profile, doesn’t he? As a result of the confession, by the way, search teams have been organized in Aruba just in case this guy has any further things to say about the Natalee Holloway case. source
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08 Jun 2010 02:41

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World: Peruvian murder victim’s family Googled “Joran van der Sloot”

  • My wife typed ‘Joran van der Sloot’ into Google and started screaming for me to see. I couldn’t believe it. How could it be that guy?
  • Enrique Flores • On finding out that Joran van der Sloot, the now-confessed suspect in his daughter’s murder, was THAT guy. Van der Sloot, who was also the main suspect in the Natalee Holloway case, admitted to killing Stephany Flores tonight. Despite the nature of the crime, Peru’s criminal system isn’t nearly as harsh as the American system and the maximum sentence he can face is 35 years in prison. source
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03 Jun 2010 20:51

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Tech: That’ll teach ’em: Microsoft launches hypocritical criticism at Google

CEO Steve Ballmer and Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie asked aloud why Google has two OSes. They should really have twelve, like Microsoft. source
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31 May 2010 23:36

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Tech: Google on Windows: That’s nasty, use OSX or Linux instead

  • nope Reportedly, new Google employees won’t be able to use Windows as one of their OS options anymore; it’s just Mac and Linux.
  • why? Blame it on security concerns in the wake of Google’s whole hack thang with China that happened a few months ago. source
  • » The real question: How many of their employees are holdouts working on Amiga or BeOS? Really, we want to know. If this is a company of nerds, there has to be at least one.
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31 May 2010 10:21

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Offbeat: Protip: Google’s walking directions could get you hit by a car

  • Park City, Utah resident Lauren Rosenberg is an idiot. Rosenberg was trying to walk from one side of town to the other and ended up on a highway without a sidewalk. She kept following Google’s instructions on her BlackBerry and (surprise) got hit by a car. Now she’s suing for $100,000. OK, we understand that Google’s walking directions may perhaps be a little off sometimes, but when does common sense step in? (Groan.) source
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22 May 2010 15:49

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Tech: Daring Fireball: Microsoft the odd man out in smartphone market

  • Microsoft can’t undercut Android on price, and it seems increasingly unlikely that they can beat Android in terms of features or experience. They didn’t warrant even a passing reference from Google at I/O. No chance, indeed.
  • “Daring Fireball” blogger John Gruber • Regarding Microsoft’s also-ran status in the phone market. Gruber argues that MS’s entire model hinges on the idea that they’ll monopolize the smartphone market, and since they’re far behind Apple and Google already, they don’t have a chance of succeeding. Gruber does say, however, that Google and Apple’s competition in the space is healthy and Google has some definite advantages over Apple right now. Hilariously, he also compares the iPad to a teenager that shouldn’t need its parents, but does. source
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22 May 2010 15:30

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U.S.: The oil spill’s evolution: Right now, it’s freaking massive

  • Here’s a shot of the spill from April 17. Google’s been keeping an eye on this disaster using satellite shots like this one. And let’s put it this way: The evolution is scary. source
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