Eric Schmidt: «Google n'est pas obligé de traiter tout le monde pareil» Eric Schmidt a une semaine européenne chargée. Il a inauguré avec Nicolas Sarkozy le nouveau quartier général de Google en France mardi 6 décembre et doit parler, toujours à Paris, lors de l’édition 2011 de la conférence Le Web. Ces deux derniers moments seront sans doute plus agréables que celui passé lundi 5 décembre avec Joaquín Almunia, le commissaire européen à la concurrence. Google est au centre de deux enquêtes pour abus de position dominante, à la fois en Europe et aux Etats-Unis. Entendu par le Sénat américain à la mi-septembre, le président de Google devait cette fois convaincre la Commission européenne que son entreprise ne favorise pas ses propres services et produits dans ses résultats de recherche. publicité En nous recevant mardi dans les anciens locaux de Google à Paris, à l’Opéra, Eric Schmidt s’est montré circonspect: «Ils ne nous ont pas dit ce qu’ils ont trouvé […] Ils ne nous ont pas dit quelles étaient leurs inquiétudes.
«Passer du lien à la réponse» Oui.
Google Books Deal Not Dead, Only Resting, Authors’ Lawyer Says | Epicenter U.S. Circuit Court Judge Denny Chin’s rejection of Google’s legal settlement with authors and publishers was not only a setback for the search giant’s plans to digitize and make available 10 million books, but also for the dream of a universal online library. So where do we go from here? Is this deal dead? “There’s nothing dead about the case or the settlement,” Michael J. Boni, lead attorney for the Authors Guild, told Wired.com in an interview. “We’re just considering what our next steps are. It’s gratifying that the publishers have said they’re still interested in working something out. In denying the motion to approve the Amended Settlement Agreement, or ASA, Judge Chin seemed sympathetic to a number of objections raised by critics of the class action settlement.
Here’s the problem: Almost by definition, a class action lawsuit is opt-out. ‘You’ll probably see Elizabeth Taylor remembrance day before you see meaningful reform on orphan works in Congress.’ Don’t hold your breath. GFail: Google ‘Very Sorry’ After the Cloud Eats 150,000 Gmail Accounts | Epicenter (Update 3/11 3:00 p.m. EST: A Google spokesperson emailed to say that no email was lost, and the company has restored 100% of the data, per the incident report (pdf).)
(Update 4:30 p.m. EST: Google spokesman Andrew Kovacs just tweeted that the company’s initial statement on the number of users affected was wrong. “Gmail issue: affected 0.02% of users not 0.08%, restored access for 1/3, remaining 0.013% being restored on ongoing basis,all w/in 12 hrs.” That means the number of affected accounts is probably closer to 40,000. Kovacs’s tweet makes no mention of data recovery.) For years now, Google has touted the reliability of its cloud-based products — web services like Gmail and Docs that live on remote Google servers, which users can access from anywhere. Of course, if you were one of the estimated 150,000 people whose Gmail accounts vanished into the ether Sunday night, you may be re-evaluating the efficacy of these cloud-based services. The worst part? “Dude!!!!!!!!!!!” See Also: Google Person Finder: 2011 Japan Earthquake. Google Recipe Search Cooks Up Next Gen of Search | Epicenter Stepping into the kitchen now, Google introduced a recipe search engine Thursday that serves up dishes based not only on the ingredients you may have on hand, but the calories you want to consume and even how much time you have to cook.
About one percent of the queries on Google are for recipes, the company said, and the new vertical intends to make it easier for people to find recipes across the web. Keeping with its search roots, Google isn’t showing the recipes in the results, and is linking to recipes on sites like Epicurious and the Food Network, which likely alleviates some worries about Google’s newest effort. The Recipe feature will show up in the left side bar, underneath other so-called vertical searches such as Shopping, News, Images and Videos, and gives searchers options to refine results: such as finding a red curry recipe, then specifying one that has less than 300 calories and includes red peppers. Faster than a speeding rabbit: speed, sync, and settings. Google Turns Dozens Of Its Consumer Products Into Enterprise Apps. Earlier this year, Google announced that it would be rolling out Apps interactivity with iGoogle, YouTube, Blogger, Picasa, and other products in the Google family.
Today the search giant is making over 60 of its homegrown products available for a deep integration for all types of Google Apps accounts. Services like Google Voice, Reader, Analytics and AdWords will now be available on Google Apps accounts. The apps can be accessed through a new interface in administrative control panel for new customers. Existing customers can transition to the new interface at their own pace but Google says it will automatically shift all App customers over to the new control panel early next year. Administrators can also regulate which tools certain users or groups have access to within their Apps group. Rajen Sheth, group product manager, Enterprise Apps, tells me that the motive behind the introduction of the products to apps relates to the consumerization of the enterprise.
Google "In Discussions" To Buy Groupon For Over $3 Billion. Google is "in discussions" to acquire Groupon for "well above" $3 billion, says Kara Swisher of All Things D. No deal is complete, and this thing could fizzle, but these talks seem much more serious than when Yahoo approached Groupon about an acquisition. We've heard from an industry source in the past that Google's Marissa Mayer, now in charge of local, is keen on Groupon. Swisher says the daily local deals site "appears to be engaged in a pattern of shopping itself around, via its bankers Allen & Co. " If Google doesn't bite on the acquisition, there's a chance Microsoft, Amazon, or eBay would. Groupon's revenue is pegged at $50 million per month. We ranked Groupon number 37 in our Digital 100 list. "Groupon is also take-out target. Looks like this could prove true ultimately.
Disclosure: Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider through his personal investment company Bezos Expeditions. Google rumored to have bought Groupon for $2.5 billion. It seems, if unnamed insider sources and some speculation from TechCrunch are to be believed, that Google has just bought Groupon, the deal-of-the-day website, for $2.5 billion. Yahoo tried, and failed, to buy Groupon for over $3 billion earlier this year, but little is known about why the deal fell apart.
That Google has now apparently bought them for 'only' $2.5 billion would suggest that Groupon's management team would prefer a future as part of Google instead of Yahoo. As far as what Google stands to gain from the deal, other than raw cash -- Groupon is rather profitable -- we will probably see extensive integration between Groupon and Google's Places and Shopping products.
When searching for Places, coupons for local businesses could be shown. When looking for the lowest prices with Shopping, coupons could be worked into the results. Ultimately, though, I just hope that this merger will result in a site called Goopon. Tags: coupon, coupons, google, groupon, merger, rumor, vouchers. It’s Over: Google Has Already Won April Fool’s Day 2011.
It’s not even April 1st in Mountain View, but the April Fools Day comedy game is already over and I’m declaring Google the winner. Hiring autocompleters? YouTube 1911? Gmail Motion? Chromercise? Ding, ding, ding and ding. Game over. Google Hiring Autocompleters If you search with Google Instant turned on, you’ll see a new link at the bottom of the search suggestions. That link leads to a job description with this video introducing “Michael Taylor,” who started out as a spellchecker who typed the “Did you mean?” Gmail Motion Even better is the video for Gmail Motion, a link that shows up on the Gmail login page. Chromercise Then there’s the Richard Simmons-esque video for Chromercise, an exercise program that helps your fingers keep up with Chrome’s speed. YouTube 1911 YouTube pretending to be 100 years old with a guest blog post from President Taft and a recap of the Top 5 Viral Videos of 1911. Google Goes Comic Sans “Old School” AdWords Formats Google UK’s “Translate For Animals” Chrome Lite.
Google to Launch Major New Social Network Called Circles, Possibly Today. Final update:Three months after ReadWriteWeb first described these plans in detail, Google announces Google Circles as part of a larger social initiative. It is as we reported it. We believe that Google will preview a major new social service called Google Circles at South by Southwest Interactive today.
Update:Google has now officially denied that Circles will launch here, but not that it exists. See final update below, as of afternoon Texas time Google does now deny that Circles exists. If what we've heard is correct, the service will offer photo, video and status message sharing. Everything users share on Circles will be shared only with the most appropriate circle of social contacts in their lives, not with all your contacts in bulk. The service has been developed with extensive participation by Chris Messina, the co-creator of numerous successful social and software phenomena online, from BarCamp to Hashtags and much more. Google's response. Gannes writes: A Matter of Personas from.
Google will launch iTunes music store competitor with upgrade to Android | Technology. Google is to launch a music service to compete with Apple's iTunes music store as part of a forthcoming upgrade to its Android mobile operating system, according to Sanjay Jha, chief executive of Motorola Mobility, which will soon launch one of the first machines able to run the software. Speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Jha said: "If you look at Google Mobile services [via Android] today, there's a video service, there's a music service – that is, there will be a music service.
" He added that the value of the upgrade to the Android system, known as "Honeycomb", which will power the forthcoming Motorola Xoom tablet is that "it adds video services and music services". Google has been expected to launch a "Google Music" service for some time, but it has been unclear how it would promote it. Now Jha has indicated that it will rely on Honeycomb, which is a version of Google's free mobile operating system that has been specifically written for tablet computers. Will Google Music launch at I/O this spring? According to a CNET report, Google is getting much closer to its anticipated music marketplace debut.
In September, we speculated that Google Music would launch by Christmas, yet it’s now March and we haven’t heard a note. Rumors swirled that Google was planning to preview its service at this month’s SXSWi in Austin, Texas, but nothing came of that either. CNET reports that Google employees have begun “dog fooding,” a Silicon Valley term to describe when employees try out a new service or product. Even more interesting: 2 weeks ago a member of the XDA Developers forum wrote that he accidentally discovered Google Music after installing the Honeycomb version of the Android operating system on a phone.
According to CNET sources, “negotiations with at least some of the top publishers and four largest record labels are ongoing…The delays are largely due to the complexity of the subject matter. Google is after cloud music rights and not just for songs acquired from Google Music.” Android Music 3.0 app with cloud streaming leaked. Google Launches Instant Previews. At last, Google has finally gained a page preview feature. Called “Instant Previews,” this is a way for you to see what’s on a page that’s listed in Google’s search results without having to leave Google. The new feature seems promising, another way to save time in the searching process, because there’s less need for people to “pogostick” with their search results.
Pogosticking is when someone clicks from a search listing to a page, then clicks back if unsatisfied to select another result and so on. With the new Instant Previews, they may be better able to immediately spot the most promising pages among those listed. Up Close With Instant Previews In the new feature, which was spotted being tested last month, a small magnifying glass appears next to each listing: Click on that magnifying glass, and a preview of the page that’s listed will appear to the right side of the search results: More Than Just A Thumbnail Previews that show a small “thumbnail” image of a page are nothing new. CloudMagic brings instant search to Gmail and Google Docs. 3 February '11, 12:02pm Follow Google’s instant search results are a great timesaver when you’re searching the Web, but wouldn’t it be useful if the feature was rolled out to other services like Gmail and Apps too?
CloudMagic is a handy little utility for Chrome and Firefox that, from today, does just that. Once installed, you just connect CloudMagic to your Google account and it’s ready to use. You’ll now find a new text entry box in the top right-hand corner of the screen whenever you’re in Gmail or Google Docs.
Simply start typing and, just like Google Instant, a menu of results will immediately start to appear, changing as you add or remove letters from your query. Click on a result and a pop-up preview appears, allowing you to see the email or document without having to actually open it up. In future, the India-based team plans to develop a mobile version of CloudMagic, along with support for Twitter and Facebook.
You can install CloudMagic for Chrome and Firefox here. Google Search Becomes More Social, Integrates Flickr, Twitter & Quora. Google has launched major updates to Social Search, integrating information from Twitter, Flickr and Quora throughout its search engine. The search giant launched Social Search in 2009; the feature integrates search results from your friends at the bottom of the search page. It utilizes social profiles connected to your Google Account to deliver items like photo or blog results that come from your friends. Google's now making some prominent changes to Google Social Search, and it is announcing three new websites that will appear prominently in social search results.
We had a chance to speak with Mike Cassidy, product management director for search, about the changes. The first major change is that Google Social Search results will no longer appear only at the bottom of the page, but will instead be "blended" throughout the page. This is done through an annotation system that lets you know when a friend has shared a specific link or search result. Angry Birds jouable en ligne gratuitement, merci Google ! Jeudi 12 mai Web - 12 mai 2011 :: 08:15 :: Par Jean-Baptiste Vous pensiez qu’Angry Birds le célèbre jeu développé par Rovio sur smartphones, vous occupait déjà énormément de temps ? Vous n’avez (mal)heureusement pas fini d’y goûter puisque à l’occasion de sa grande conférence annuelle, l’IO, Google nous propose de redécouvrir l’intégralité du jeu gratuitement, en plus grand, et depuis votre navigateur préféré !
Vous pensiez qu’Angry Birds le célèbre jeu développé par Rovio sur smartphones, vous occupait déjà énormément de temps ? Vous n’avez (mal)heureusement pas fini d’y goûter puisque à l’occasion de leur grande conférence annuelle, l’«IO », Google nous propose de redécouvrir l’intégralité du jeu gratuitement, en plus grand, et depuis votre navigateur préféré ! Vous trouverez le jeu depuis le Chrome Web Store mais bizarrement pour y jouer, il suffit de vous connecter sur chrome.angrybirds.com en HD si votre ordinateur est récent ou en LD si vous rencontrez des problèmes.
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