CBS in talks with Google
US television network CBS is in discussions with internet company Google to use its video search and on-demand video, CBS chairman Leslie Moonves said overnight. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for November, 2005
Google to hold programming competition in China
Hoping to attract talented Chinese programmers to Google Inc.’s planned research and development center in Beijing, the company said Monday it will host a programming competition, called the Google China Code Jam. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Unveils Tool to Map Shopping Trips
Joining the herd of Web sites jostling to cash in on the holiday shopping season, online search engine leader Google Inc.em> is adding a tool designed to make it easier for consumers to map out their local trips to the mall. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Donates $3M to Help Scan Documents
Google Inc. is giving $3 million to the U.S. Library of Congress to help set up a system for creating digital copies of rare documents from around the world - the latest step in Google’s crusade to expand the amount of information that can be indexed by its Internet-leading search engine. Read the rest of this entry »
Matt Cutts’ Blog Gone from Google?
What’s This? Matt Cutts’ Blog Gone from Google? Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft takes lead in AOL bidding
According to the New York Times, Microsoft is currently in the top position in negotiations with Time over an ownership stake in Time`s Internet unit America Online. Read the rest of this entry »
Search engine preps porn for video iPod
It may not be quite what Steve Jobs had in mind, but an online search engine called Guba is set to offer vast amounts of pornography and other video files, specifically tailored for Apple’s new iPods. Read the rest of this entry »
Yahoo, Google to launch new wireless services-report
Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. are set to roll out new wireless services, taking advantage of advanced networks and cellphones to provide features similar to those available on computers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. Read the rest of this entry »
West Coasters Lose Their Google
An equipment failure knocked out access to the Google search engine for Internet users on the West Coast of the United States early Thursday, a company spokesperson confirmed.
Sporadic outages began around midnight Wednesday, Pacific time, and were the result of a piece of malfunctioning network hardware. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Makes Public Domain Books Accessible To The World
Google Print Unveils Collection of Public Domain Books from Libraries at University of Michigan, Harvard, Stanford, and the New York Public Library Read the rest of this entry »