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August 06, 2008
12:36
Google gives us the keys to insightful information
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If you are someone who can’t get enough data, Google’s new “Insights for Search” (which I’m sure will be renamed to simply “Google Insights” when they realize the current name is too long) is going to be a place that you want to visit. Google Insights for Search takes daily search data from the countries they [...]
August 05, 2008
13:21
Google has Olympic fever
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Since Google is spending a lot of time and money making sure they are the number one search engine in every country, or at least trying to, it’s no surprise that Google has been looking at the Olympics as a huge opportunity that can’t be missed. According to the IOC (Internation Olympic Committee), they will be [...]
August 04, 2008
2:05
Google about to launch new Translation service
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It appears that Google has been working hard on a new human translation service that will hopefully make it easy for people to request translations of a document from a human. The new service, called Google Translation Center (the link still doesn’t work), appears to be volunteer based, but it would make sense for [...]
August 01, 2008
1:39
Is Google changing how our brains physically work?
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It’s not hard to see that there are people addicted to Google — in fact, my first blog’s name was Google Addiction, and it didn’t take long for it to take off. In fact, only three months passed before ZDNet snapped it up and named it “Googling Google”. Since then, this blog has become a [...]
July 30, 2008
9:34
Omnisio snapped up by Google for YouTube
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Google today announced the acquisition of Omnisio, a video website that lets users publish their own compilations of videos, and then allow viewers to annotate them. Google says the Omnisio team will be joining YouTube, and they will be likely working on integrating the technology they have developed, and thinking about new ways to [...]
July 28, 2008
11:43
Ex-Googlers launch Cuil, but maybe too early?
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One thing I read about too often is the next “Google Killer“. When will people realize that this is almost an impossible thing to live up to — trying is almost always a death wish and a huge waste of money. The last “Google Killer” I even remember (I forget about most of [...]
July 26, 2008
2:33
Make your Gmail even more secure
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Last week Google launched a new feature that lets you keep track of computers that are logged into your Gmail account — a tool that will put the minds of people who are suspicious of unauthorized account access at ease. But what about people snooping your internet traffic? The session viewer they released [...]
July 23, 2008
23:01
Google creates a new market and wreaks havoc on another
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When they first announced it, I was certain Knol was simply a way for Google steal some of the attention away from Wikia search — and I’m still sure that’s what was actually happening. Google doesn’t normally pre-announce applications months in advance. After a long wait, Google finally released Knol, and the blogosphere [...]
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July 22, 2008
2:40
Google Maps now shows you walking directions
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Google Maps has had driving directions since launch — and it has quickly become an indispensable tool for people who need to know how to drive somewhere. Today, Google announced a new feature that is designed to help people plan their walk from source to destination. It’s different than driving in that Google doesn’t have [...]
July 18, 2008
23:31
Android losing its mojo fast
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Android started off being a great idea, from a great company, with lots of support from carriers and manufacturers, and an awesome $10million contest to get developers drooling. With some stiff competition from Apple, and loss of developer morale, I’m afraid of what the future might hold for this platform. The new Apple iPhone 3G [...]
July 16, 2008
3:41
New version of Gmail iGoogle gadget
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Google just released a new version of the Gmail iGoogle gadget that, for the most part, is a fully functioning interface for your Gmail. You can do everything from read, delete, mark as spam, and compose messages right from your homepage. It’s remarkably good, and a lot faster than opening Gmail itself. The new [...]
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July 15, 2008
8:35
Google to protect user identities, but not employees’
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Viacom and Google came to an agreement over what data Google will be handing over after a judge’s ruling last week. Orignally, it was believed that Google would be forced to hand over personally identifiable information about the viewing habits of all YouTube users. Thankfully, the two companies came to a partial agreement [...]
July 12, 2008
23:30
Gears for Google Calendar may be getting close, again
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It’s been reported that Google Gears for Calendar is “close to launching” before — in fact, several times before. This time may be another false alarm, but one of my readers sent me a screenshot that looks promising. I cannot confirm this screenshot is real, but to me it looks legit. You can see [...]
July 11, 2008
12:52
Google’s iPhone app is really good
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Google has created a brand new mobile app for the iPhone/iPod Touch that is currently available in the US App Store — apparently it will be available in other countries very soon. The app is more than a way to search the internet though, it lets a user search for everything a mobile user [...]
July 09, 2008
9:19
Google’s secret project turns out to be Second Life
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Niniane Wang, the person behind Google’s new service called Lively, has been working on this “confidential” project since November 2005 according to her resume. There have been hints throughout the years that this might be coming, but it turns out that the rumors were true — Google made Second Life. 11/2005 - present, Engineering Manager, [...]
July 07, 2008
11:10
Your Gmail is now a lot more secure
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A feature that I found out was in the making last September has finally come to fruition. You can now see information about recent and concurrent Gmail sessions for your Gmail account. What does that mean? It means now you have the power to see if anybody is currently using your Gmail, [...]
July 05, 2008
7:47
Google trying to take privacy seriously
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This week was a very interesting week as far as Google and privacy goes. First, a burglary (the same on that affected CNET earlier last month) was confirmed to have affected all Google employees hired before December 31, 2005. There’s nothing Google could have done about it, but it’s definitely a blow for those [...]
July 02, 2008
23:07
Use Google Talk on your iPhone/Touch
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Google just released a new version of Google Talk that works on the iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s pretty nice looking, and it works well to boot. To use the new application, point your Safari browser to www.google.com/talk. You might want to put a bookmark on your desktop for easy access in [...]
July 01, 2008
1:57
Google retires AdSense referral program
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Due to reasons unknown, the AdSense referral program is being retired at the end of August. It’s unclear how popular the referral program actually was, but it’s safe to assume it wasn’t a huge money-maker for Google. In their official announcement, they alluded to their reasoning behind retiring the program. We’re constantly looking for [...]
June 29, 2008
14:27
“Family Guy” creator and Google team up
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It’s unknown what kind of money was involved in the deal, but Google has teamed up with the creator of Family Guy to create two minute episodes of a new cartoon called “Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy”. MacFarlane will take a percentage of the profit made by advertising that accompanies the 50 two [...]
June 27, 2008
14:04
Google Media Server brings Google to your TV
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A new gadget for Google Desktop called Google Media Server allows you to take content found on your computer or online Google services like YouTube and Picasa Web Albums, and shares it with UPnP compatible devices like the PS3. Unfortunately, as explained in the discussion group, Google Media Server does not work with Xbox [...]
June 25, 2008
12:22
Google launches new iGoogle and artist themes
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It looks like Google just launched the new version of iGoogle that developers have had access to in the sandbox for a while now. The new version is great — and it gives developers a lot more flexibility when creating their gadgets because now it’s possible to make a full page view. Along with the [...]
June 24, 2008
4:29
Find your audience with AdPlanner
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Google launched a new service today called “AdPlanner” which gives advertisers a clearer picture of where they should be looking to place ads online. Taking user demographics into consideration, Google will suggest a list of websites that it recommends the advertiser should place ads. This type of information can sometimes be easy to [...]
June 21, 2008
3:49
Google releases Trends for Websites
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Google Trends was originally released as a tool that let you see visual comparisons between search volume of keywords. That hasn’t changed, but Google now also gives us the keys to more data about actual popularity of websites based on daily unique visitors. This data is similar to what companies like Alexa already provides, but [...]
June 19, 2008
8:37
Google needs to rethink its customer service strategy
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One beef I’ve had for quite a while now is Google’s noticeable lack of commitment to personal support for people using their products and services. A good example would be businesses that use the free version of Google Apps — good luck trying to get in touch with someone about your problem. Even [...]
June 17, 2008
8:13
Google colors their ads for Gay Pride week
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Google often dresses things up to celebrate events, and it turns out that’s no different for the upcoming gay pride week. Philipp Lenssen from Blogoscoped has the scoop on an easter egg found by one of his readers. If you search for “gay” on Google, you’ll see there is a rainbow that borders [...]
June 15, 2008
2:37
Is your ISP throttling your network connection?
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If you aren’t sure, you will soon be able to download a tool from Google that will tell you once and for all if they are. If ISP’s aren’t going to tell their users exactly what is happening with their network connections, Google wants to make sure that these people have the ability to [...]
June 13, 2008
13:59
Google Docs now has a PDF viewer
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As ubiquitous as Acrobat Reader is, it’s clunky, and I often wish there was a dedicated PDF viewer as part of Google Docs. Well, now there is! You can simply upload PDF files to your Google Docs to take advantage of this new feature. After opening one of your uploaded PDF files, you are [...]
June 12, 2008
7:39
Microsoft and Yahoo stop talking, and Google wins
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Today Microsoft and Yahoo officially stopped talking — the day, I’m sure, Yahoo investors were dreading. The hope that Microsoft and Yahoo might still work out a deal fizzled, and as result, Yahoo shares plummeted 10% before trading ended today. today announced that discussions with Microsoft regarding a potential transaction — whether for an acquisition [...]
June 10, 2008
12:06
Google intentionally blocking PayPal from App Engine?
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After anonymously bashing PayPal in Australia, it’s not a huge surprise that Google was caught intentionally blocking AppEngine users from using PayPal too. Could it have been a innocent mistake? Sure, but the circumstance and timing are extremely suspicious. First, Google was outed after sending an anonymous letter to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission [...]
June 08, 2008
11:39
Google wants your help with their icon
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Google recently changed their “favicon” — that small icon that usually appears to the left of the address bar in your browser. Most popular websites have them, and can actually be an important part of a company’s brand. In Google’s case, they are really looking for a symbol that means “Google”, since they [...]
June 06, 2008
3:39
Thirteen new Gmail features
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Introducing Gmail Labs — a giant list of mostly useless Gmail extensions. Even though I’m underwhelmed by the current offering, it’s encouraging to see that Google may make Gmail more of a platform than a simple one size fits all webmail application. It’s too bad they never added a task list feature — I wonder [...]
June 05, 2008
1:53
Disney World in 3D on Google Earth
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Check out Disney World in Google Earth — it’s in full 3D glory, including trees, benches lamp posts, buildings, etc. It’s also easy to get more information about landmarks in the form of audio clips, videos and write ups. Check out Google’s official announcement here. Included are complete 3D models and information of the [...]
June 03, 2008
8:21
Real-time stock quotes from Google Finance
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It’s been a long time in the making, but Google finally now offers real-time stock quote information for NASDAQ on Google Finance. This feature is important, and gives Google a bit of an advantage over Yahoo Finance — you have to pay $13.95 a month if you want real-time quotes there. Now Google [...]
May 31, 2008
13:16
Google caught “anonymously” bashing eBay
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If you thought the Google Checkout party last year caused some tension between them and eBay, listen to this. eBay Austrailia is toying with the idea of only accepting Paypal and Cash on Delivery for auction items. After their plans were announced, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission asked for public comments. Lots of [...]
May 29, 2008
12:56
Google App Engine pricing a disappointment
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At the same time they officially announced that Google App Engine is opening up to the public, Google has finally shared it’s pricing strategy for the service. Google hasn’t charged anybody anything to use the service while it’s in preview mode. Even if the number and popularity of real applications hosted on Google [...]
May 28, 2008
1:50
Google Earth: Now in your browser!
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Google just released a new browser plugin that lets users experience Google Earth from directly inside a webpage. The new plugin is accompanied by an API that web developers can use to easily incorporate Google Earth into their applications, just like what they did with Google Maps a long time ago. The downside is that [...]
May 26, 2008
22:57
Viacom is trying to break the Internet
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According to Google, Viacom’s rehashed $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube is a direct threat to the internet as we know it. If the courts ruled against Google in this case, it really would affect the way people communicate. Google’s response to the re-filed lawsuit says it best: Viacom’s complaint threatens the way hundreds of [...]
May 25, 2008
0:53
Peter Norvig on Google’s mistrust of machine learning
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Peter Norvig has been at Google for a long time now — he was, until recently, the Directory of Search Quality; the guy who made sure every time you submitted a query, you usually got what you wanted. He has since moved into the Director of Research role, but is taking time off right [...]
May 23, 2008
11:17
Google hosting malware? Google says they were!
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Google isn’t hosting malware anymore, but according to a tool they provide that lets you check up on any domain, their own google.com at one point was indeed hosting malware (software that is installed on a users machine without their consent). After doing some digging, Tony Ruscoe found that the problems didn’t stem from [...]
May 22, 2008
2:02
Google Sites opens up to everyone
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I guess it was technically available to everyone already, but you needed to have a Google Apps account to use it. Now, as of today, anyone can simply create a “site” on the relatively new Google service. A few months ago we launched Google Sites exclusively as part of Google Apps for companies and organizations [...]
May 20, 2008
11:12
Google releases Health API to developers
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Only a day after launching the actual Google Health service, they have now also released an API that health providers and developers who create health related applications can use to interact with Google’s data. This API supports a subset of the CCR (Continuity of Care Record) standard, as described here. Your client application can use [...]
May 19, 2008
10:43
Press Day: Google Heath is now public
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Today Google hosted their “factory tour” which was basically a chance for them to give the press a good idea of what they have been working on. It was heavy on the explanation of how Google’s search results are becoming smarter, and more able to predict what a person actually means, rather than always [...]
May 18, 2008
13:33
Tipster says Gmail to get themes
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Philipp has a source that is telling him Gmail will soon be getting themes — similar to how you can customize the look of your iGoogle homepage. According to his source, there will be initially 12 themes to choose from ranging from flowery to geeky. A source is telling me that Gmail will get themes [...]
May 16, 2008
12:07
Facebook bans Google’s Friend Connect
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A few days ago, Google launched a new service called Friend Connect to help website owners make their stuff social without needing to do much work. This basically involves being able to host certain gadgets that use OpenSocial on a webpage by simply copy and pasting some code from Google. One of the down-sides of [...]
May 13, 2008
23:36
Google about to launch Flash API for Maps
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Google just published a page detailing how Flash developers can now use the Google Maps ActionScript API. Unfortunately, as of right now all the samples still don’t work, but based on the documentation from a guy who has never made anything in Flash, it looks pretty easy to use. This API lets Flex developers embed [...]
21:49
Google accidentally enables ratings on some Blogger accounts
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Some blogger users may have noticed their blog suddenly started showing star ratings — a feature that appears to be in the works, and according to Blogger, was given by accident to some unsuspecting bloggers. The feature hasn’t been released yet, and they have “fixed” the problem. Some users may be seeing star ratings on [...]
May 12, 2008
22:24
Google launches Friend Connect with mixed reviews
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Google announced last night that it will be launching Friend Connect — a tool that website owners can use to give their site a more social feel. Don’t worry if you have a website but you are not comfortable integrating with advanced APIs, integrating couldn’t be easier. Visitors to any site using Google Friend Connect [...]
12:08
Google releases Reader BETA for iPhone
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Google Reader is one of the most active projects at Google as far as adding new features and creating interfaces that work well on other devices. They even have Google Reader designed specifically for the Wii. Now they have released a brand new interface for the iPhone for us to play with. Reader already [...]
May 11, 2008
0:14
Google accepting donations to aid Myanmar relief efforts
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After the devastating typhoon that struck Myanmar, their government is being extremely difficult by not letting the world help. This nightmare will hopefully end soon — but in the mean time, Google has started accepting donations for Unicef and Direct Relief International on this special page to help the victims. Google has said they will [...]
May 08, 2008
22:46
Gmail can be used as “Spam Bazooka”
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INSERT, the Information Security Research Team, has sucessfully created a proof of concept exploiting the “trust hierarchy” that exists between mail service providers. Taking advantage of the way Gmail forwards messages, the team was able to send 4000 messages in a short period of time from a single account without any countermeasures taken by [...]
0:53
Google offers enterprise web security
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Postini, a company acquired by Google, is now offering enterprise web security. All traffic is routed through Google, and they take care of making sure traffic meets your corporate policies. The interesting part of all this though is how it secures computers, even when they aren’t in the office. According to the Google Enterprise [...]
May 05, 2008
22:55
Google Reader lets users do micro-blogging
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Ok, Twitter and Google Reader aren’t exactly apples to apples, but the new “Notes” feature in Google Reader feels a lot like posting status updates in Twitter. When you type a note, it’s automatically shared with all your friends unless you unshare, and it appears almost as a real article in the reading list [...]
8:13
Has Google mastered time travel?
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It appears that Google has mastered time travel — either that, or the privacy policy for Google Desktop in the UK doesn’t take effect until later this year. Of course, it could just be a mistake, but i doubt it. [Thanks Denny]
May 03, 2008
23:13
Microsoft withdrawals bid for Yahoo, Google wins
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In a press release from Microsoft yesterday, Steve Ballmer said that it officially withdrawals it’s bid for the acquisition of Yahoo, and cites the deal with Google as the main contributing factor for his decision. “In our view, such an arrangement with [Google] would make an acquisition of Yahoo! undesirable to us for a number of [...]
May 02, 2008
23:51
Is Google reliable enough?
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Dan Farber wrote about some downtime he experienced at YouTube this morning — it lasted 20 minutes, and was then restored. The part that got me thinking about his post was his reference to why the internet isn’t like TV — TV is much more reliable, but content on the internet is usually more [...]
May 01, 2008
13:58
You can now use Google Apps on your iPhone
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Google just released a new interface for the iPhone/iPod Touch that lets Google Apps users easily access everything they need in an integrated environment. This new interface lets you use applications like Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and other services that aren’t associated with Google Apps like Google Reader, Google Notebook, Google News and [...]
April 30, 2008
12:52
Google looking to map the abyss
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Google has tackled visualization of Earth, and more recently the sky, by offering up free imagery to the public with Google Earth and Google Maps. The data Google is giving away for free is simply breathtaking — it’s hard to believe we never had access to it as recent as three years ago. Now, Google [...]
April 29, 2008
9:56
Is it Google or China censoring Carrefour?
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I guess either way, the answer is ultimately China, but this latest news on Google’s censorship in China is a bit strange. Chinese people are very upset with the French due to an attack on a wheelchair bound Olympic torch carrier. The act caused many Chinese people to call for a boycott on [...]
April 27, 2008
23:56
Google Product Search gets a bit smarter
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Google Product Search — the latest name for the Google service that was originally called “Froogle” — recently received another update that makes the service a lot more useful. Instead of simply indexing individual product listings from online stores, Google has now started grouping similar products together. When you search, Google tries to show group [...]
April 26, 2008
9:58
Google Docs gets some new features, templates will come soon
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If you have used Google Docs since the beginning, you will know that the service goes through changes quite often. This round of changes includes some great new features that I’m sure people will be happy about. First, when viewing the Docs list, the share button lets you do more than you previously could: Now when [...]
April 24, 2008
11:11
Google Finance gets update, and people hate it
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Last night Google rolled out a fresh new version of Google Finance, and instantly people went on the offensive by attacking everything from the organization of data to the font being too small. Some have even accused it of being too “Yahoo!”. But think about it — as far as financial websites go, Yahoo! Finance [...]
April 23, 2008

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