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Google Acquires reCAPTCHA to Fight Spam and Improve Google Books OCR
Written by Frederic Lardinois / September 16, 2009 9:58 AM / 10 Comments
Google just announced that it has acquired reCAPTCHA, one of the leading providers of CPATCHAs, the hard-to-read puzzles you often have to solve before you can sign up for a Continue reading »


Chrome Goes 3.0: Gets Themes, Improved Omnibox & Better New Tab Page
Written by Frederic Lardinois / September 15, 2009 10:52 AM / 6 Comments
Just about a year after Google launched the first version of Chrome, the company released the first stable version of Chrome 3.0 today. According to Google, this release comes after Continue reading »


Is Fast Flip Really the Best Google Can Do to Save the News?
Written by Frederic Lardinois / September 15, 2009 9:06 AM / 12 Comments
Yesterday, Google launched Fast Flip - a Google Labs product that wants to give users a new way to browse newspaper sites and blogs on their desktops and mobile devices. Continue reading »


Google Adds Semantic Web, Facebook Support for Video Search
Written by Jolie O'Dell / September 14, 2009 5:00 PM / 8 Comments
Google announced today support for enhanced markup for video search. This will allow webmasters to include important information, such as titles and descriptions, in machine-readable HTML along with the JavaScript Continue reading »


New Google Site Offers Instructions For Moving Data From Google Services
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / September 14, 2009 9:44 AM / 9 Comments
A two-year old project by Google engineers working across departments to enable users to remove their data from Google services has been opened to the public in the form of Continue reading »


Researchers Discover Botnet Commanded by Google Groups
Written by Sarah Perez / September 14, 2009 7:42 AM / 4 Comments
New Trend: Web 2.0-controlled malware? Security researchers at Symantec recently uncovered a backdoor trojan whose spread is being dictated by commands hosted in Google Groups, Google's online discussion forums. The Continue reading »


Google Launches Internet Stat Center
Written by Sarah Perez / September 10, 2009 6:03 AM / 12 Comments
Without any fanfare, Google has launched a new resource called "Google Internet Stats" which brings together industry facts and insights from across five different industries. Using a number of third Continue reading »


New in Google Voice: Receive and Reply to SMS by Email
Written by Frederic Lardinois / September 9, 2009 9:13 AM / 8 Comments
Starting today, Google Voice users can route around yet another feature their cell phone carriers would like them to pay for: text messages. Google Voice now allows users to receive Continue reading »


Will Privacy Concerns Kill Google Books Settlement?
Written by Dana Oshiro / September 8, 2009 11:03 AM / 4 Comments
Early this morning a coalition of authors, publishers and privacy advocates filed an objection to the Google search settlement case and surprisingly it had little to do with copyright or Continue reading »


Android Market Passes 10K Apps; Here's My Five Favorites (With QR Codes)
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / September 7, 2009 12:40 PM / 19 Comments
Google's Android mobile operating system isn't as popular as the iPhone, but its application marketplace is wide open and one service tracking Android apps reports that there are now more Continue reading »


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