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What Google’s +1 Means for Facebook
At Wednesday’s announcement of Google’s +1, the company was coy about comparing its experimental product to the longstanding Facebook Like button. But in the two companies’ ongoing battle for ad dollars, +1 is a clear shot across Facebook’s bow.Let’s follow the money for a moment. Both companies get most of...
Read more »March 31, 2011, 2:13 pm| Read full article | More articles from mashable.com
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Google Inadvertently Classifies Google Places As A “Content Farm” And Removes From Search Index
Power struggles within Google’s executive team, which have been brewing since the announcement of long time CEO Eric Schmidt’s departure, are apparently bubbling up to the surface. Case in point: In an extraordinary move to illustrate its independence, say sources, the Google webspam team actually classified Google Places as spam...
Read more »March 31, 2011, 2:09 pm| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com
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PlayStation One games appear in Android Market, predictably restricted to Xperia Play
If there was one thing that bothered us most about the Xperia Play, it was the dearth of original PlayStation games we could, you know, play on it. That's getting a shot in the arm tonight with the introduction of five PS One titles to the Android Market: Syphon Filter,...
Read more »March 31, 2011, 1:07 pm| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com
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Google Developing App That Can Snap Your Face, Pull Up Your Profile
Google is working on a facial recognition mobile app that would allow users to snap a picture of a friend or new acquaintance — and then access his or her Google Profile contact information, according to multiple reports.The as-yet-unnamed app is capable of grabbing a Google Profile user’s name, email...
Read more »March 31, 2011, 11:52 am| Read full article | More articles from mashable.com
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OMG Someone Just Found An Embeddable Google +1 Button – And It Works!
A day after Google unveiled its “+1″ product, someone has already taken a close enough look at the code to track down an embeddable +1 Button. Said button wasn’t supposed to be public yet – they essentially let people recommend any online content on Google search. Indeed, for now the...
Read more »March 31, 2011, 11:45 am| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com
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Google working on a face recognition app that leads to your personal info? (update: Google says 'no')
Before we all get in a huff about this, Google has been very eager to point out that the facial recognition app it's developing will work on a strictly opt-in basis. That means if you don't want it to scan all of Facebook, Flickr and the rest of Google's vast...
Read more »March 31, 2011, 11:39 am| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com
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Happy 200th Birthday, Robert Bunsen, From Google Doodle
Anyone else getting high school chemistry flashbacks whilst looking at Google’s homepage? Well, that’s because today’s Google Doodle was created in celebration of what would have been Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen’s 200th birthday.Bunsen was a chemist who discovered the elements caesium and rubidium, and he invented the Bunsen cell battery,...
Read more »March 31, 2011, 11:14 am| Read full article | More articles from mashable.com
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Microsoft tries whacking Google with European antitrust stick
<!--body--> The legality of Google's business practices in Europe have drawn increased criticism over the last year or so, and now things are about to get really interesting. Microsoft—an antitrust veteran, if there ever was one—has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission against Google, accusing the search giant...
Read more »March 31, 2011, 10:58 am| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com
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HP enables Google Cloud Print on ePrint printers right out of the box
Man, remember when transferring data to your printer required a big fat cable and physical proximity to your ink spitter? Thankfully, we live in more refined times now and HP and Google have hooked up to deliver the first printers with driverless Cloud Print support, making the whole thing that...
Read more »March 31, 2011, 10:25 am| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com

