EU weighs Google rivals’ complaints (AP)
AP – The European Commission said it has asked Google Inc. to comment on allegations by rivals that it demotes their sites in its search rankings — but stressed it was not starting an antitrust case.
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Sexy New Zbox Could Be The HTPC For You
09/09/2010 - 01:00
Tags: apple tv, drive, google, home, set top boxes, sexy, usb, zbox
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With all this talk about Google TV, Apple TV, and other set-top boxes, it’s easy to forget about the venerable home theater PC. While the interface will be less intuitive than those other, flashier solutions (nobody likes navigating Windows or another desktop OS from the couch), the capabilities are endless and upgrading is straightforward. This new one is also as sleek and compact as a normal DVD player.
Google says search cut off from mainland China (AP)
30/07/2010 - 01:07
Tags: ap, china, cut, google, mainland, search
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AP – Google Inc. said Thursday that its search engine and other services were abruptly cut off from mainland China, raising more questions about the Internet company’s ability to operate in the country while trying to work around the government’s onlin…
Privacy-Conscious? Hear An Airhorn Every Time Google Detects You
28/07/2010 - 01:30
Tags: airhorn, detects, google, hear, privacyconscious, time
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I doubt anybody is going to keep this Firefox plugin installed for very long (the point is made after a few minutes), but big red boxes and airhorns blasting you in the face are a good way of saying “HEY. Your information is being transmitted to Google.” You can get the no-airhorn version, but it’s [...]
Google this: A right to privacy – OregonLive.com
27/06/2010 - 02:10
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OregonLive.comGoogle this: A right to privacyOregonLive.comIf you were e-mailing the ex when the Google car slid by and your wireless Internet transmission was unencrypted, part of it may well be on a Google hard …
Summary Box: Google beats Viacom in copyright case (AP)
24/06/2010 - 01:17
Tags: ap, beats, box, case, copyright, google, summary, viacom
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AP – THE RULING: U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton backs Google, saying the Internet search leader won’t have to pay the more than $1 billion in damages sought by Viacom Inc. for alleged copyright violations by YouTube. Google has owned YouTube, the We…
Yahoo paints brightening picture through 2013 (AP)
27/05/2010 - 01:16
Tags: 2013, ap, brightening, paints, picture, yahoo
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AP – Yahoo Inc. raised its financial target Wednesday, reflecting expectations that the Internet company will attract more online advertisers as it reaps savings from an upcoming search partnership with Microsoft Corp.
Editorial: Engadget on Google TV

Google made a big splash into the home entertainment world yesterday with the announcement of — particularly because it’s partnered up with some major names like Sony, Intel, Logitech, Best Buy and Dish Network. That’s a lot of industry momentum behind a platform that’s trying to achieve what many believe to be impossible: marry the television to the internet. Will Google finally be the one to pull it off? To be honest, the Engadget staff is nowhere near agreement on this, so we’re just going to let everyone speak for themselves — read on!
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Paper: Dapper, Google’s Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure
27/04/2010 - 15:25
Tags: dapper, distributed, google, infrastructure, largescale, paper, systems, tracing
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pimg src=”http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3635/4557352055_ebe25952e0_o.jpg” alt=”" align=”RIGHT” /Imagine a single search request coursing through Google’s massive infrastructure. A single request can run across thousands of machines and involve hundreds of different subsystems. And oh by the way, you are processing more requests per second than any other system in the world. How do you debug such a system? How do you figure out where the problems are? How do you determine if programmers are coding correctly? How do you keep sensitive data secret and safe? How do ensure products don’t use more resources than they are assigned? How do you store all the data? How do you make use of it?/p
pThat’s where Dapper comes in. Dapper is Google’s tracing system and it was originally created to understand the system behaviour from a search request. Now Google’s production clusters stronggenerate more than 1 terabyte of sampled trace data per day/strong. So how does Dapper do what Dapper does?/p
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Well, of course Google is working on a tablet
13/04/2010 - 01:00
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There is much excited talk right now about Eric Schmidt letting slip that Google is indeed working on a tablet. Yeah, I think we all knew that. The only real surprise is that it’s running Android, possibly with Chrome tacked on as the browser. Why not ChromeOS? I suppose Google thinks it would be pretty ridiculous to debut a new OS with a new device, with only web apps available, when the competition will have a million-seller with 180,000 apps already available. Android is the only arrow in their quiver that can strike at iPhone right now. In fact, Google Chrome OS as a separate entity might be a smokescreen.

