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Search is a lot about discovery—the basic human need to learn and broaden your horizons. But searching still requires a lot of hard work by you, the user. So today I’m really excited to launch the Knowledge Graph, which will help you discover new information quickly and easily.
things, not strings | Official Google Blog
Tonight I was talking with an exec at Google and I brought up the success of Instagr.am (they’ve gotten more than 500,000 downloads in just a few weeks) and asked him “why can’t Google do that?” I knew some of the answers. After all, I watched Microsoft get passed by by a whole group of startups (I was working at Microsoft as Flickr got bought by Yahoo, Skype got bought by eBay, etc etc).
Why Google can’t build Instagram — Scobleizer
Google Launches Blog Finder for Any Topic
Google has quietly launched a new feature: search for blogs on any topic.
Optical character recognition (OCR) in Google Docs - Official Go
One of the best things about working on web apps like Google Docs is that it gives us the flexibility to frequently bring you new features and improvements.He turned down all the inducements and joined Google’s newest rival. “Google’s gotten to be a lot bigger and slower-moving of a company,” said the former manager, who would speak only on the condition of anonymity to protect business relationships. “At Facebook, I could see how quickly I could get things done compared to Google.”
Now a Giant, Google Works to Retain Nimble Minds - NYTimes.com
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Google’s Need For Speed Is About Making You Search More
Chrome OS's Secret Influence - PCWorld
When Google gave the first demos of its ChromeOS-based PC this week, there were only a couple of mentions of the new feature that's going to have the greatest impact on Web-based apps, or Web access of any kind, really, during the next few years: offline storage. HTTP and HTML, the core protocols of the Web, were designed to not store information between browsing sessions unless the user specifically arranged to do it.
Will Google Goggles Get Lost In Translation?
Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily for the blog.But it also used the occasion to express its envy of television’s continuing hold on viewers: “Although the average user spends 15 minutes a day on YouTube, that’s tiny compared to the five hours a day people spend watching TV,” the company observed on its blog . “Clearly, we need to give you more reason to watch more videos!” YouTube, however, faces a huge obstacle: very short videos are unlikely to hold interest when watched in long sequences.
Digital Domain - YouTube Wants You to Sit and Stay Awhile - NYTi
Various Google watchers and conspiracy theorists spent some time last week trying to decode why YouTube wasn't front-and-center at the launch of Google TV . Well, the trick to understanding Google is that you have to be able to play three-dimensional chess. Because of the sheer size of the company, and the number of things being done under the massive Google umbrella, sometimes you have to step back to see the whole picture.
Google's Video Universe Is Massive
Since being wrestled back from Microsoft’s death grip, the web browser has thrived thanks to its openness. All of the popular browsers beyond IE — Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera — are either based on open-source or have a thriving community that helps develop and expand each of them.