The search engine giant Google researchers have presented a technique for improving image search results to attendees of the International World Wide Web Conference in Beijing. Google calls the plan VisualRank, after the company's signature PageRank technology appeared. VisualRank, The New York Times reports, is an algorithm, which blends image-recognition software techniques with Google's own process for weighting and ranking images that become visible similar.
Google, debatably, has the world's main networked computer and thereby a capability to crunch a lot more data than most. Now, a piece of that horsepower is going to be applied to a more sophisticated image search algorithm. |
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"Websites should enlist the help of search engine optimization (SEO) companies in their spam drop strategies", a Google expert in the subject matter has claimed. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo in |
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Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) recently announced that additional proxy materials are now accessible for its stockholders in association with the 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held next Thursday that would be May 8, 2008. The additional proxy materials could be obtained at the following websites: www.sec.gov, http://investor.google.com/proxy.html, http://www.proxyvote.com/ (beneficial stockholders) and http://www.envisionreports.com/goog (only for registered stockholders). About Google Inc. Google's ground-breaking search technologies thrive hard to connect millions of people across the globe with information every day. Google's targeted advertising program offers businesses of all sizes with assessable results, while improving the on the whole web experience for users. |
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Yahoo failed to agree to an acquirement pact with Microsoft last Saturday, the deadline Microsoft had set for taking up such negotiations. Now Microsoft should decide whether to follow a hostile conquest via a proxy fight or to drop the bid and look for other acquirement alternatives. |
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Lawyers representing an American private detective now claim hundreds of thousands of companies, which registered to advertise on Google, may have been hoodwinked into paying for unwanted ads. The private detective has further opened a legal action against the search engine giant, and his attorneys desires the proceedings to become a class action that could price the company millions of dollars if he becomes successful. |
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Yahoo! yet has only six days left to determine whether it wants to stay independent or surrender to a spontaneous capture by Microsoft. The internet gigantic is racing to locate a probable substitute to the takeover by Microsoft or no less than force it to augment its offer from $31 a share, according to the Irish Independent. Yahoo! is soon going to disclose its first quarter profits that might show some financial constancy, which could advantage its situation, while Microsoft's results are due out on coming Thursday. Of late, Yahoo! has exposed that it is testing an advertising sales contract with Google in an offer to deter antagonistic takeover by Microsoft. It is running an experiment of Google's Adsense for search service that would deliver pertinent Google ads next to Yahoo!’s search results. |
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Google has preserved its mark as the world's most precious brand in a group table, which exposes the ever-developing power of technology companies and rising economies. The search engine's marque is merit more than $86.1 billion ($94 billion), up 30% on preceding year, according to the Brandz list from Millward Brown Optimor published yesterday that calculates the amount of sales determined by brand. Google, proprietor of the most well-liked search engine, topped the third annual ranking from Millward Brown that surveyed more than 1 million consumers about 50,000 brands. |
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It seem like google is having big plans for iGoogle. Google's personalized homepage, named iGoogle, took an important move forward today when Google stated a sandbox environment, which developers could use to start making social gadgets with. This new surroundings mashes up the finest of iGoogle and Facebook â€" this must be interesting.
The new iGoogle would yet let people add the same gadgets they used to earlier, but it's absolutely more geared toward ones, which use the fresh Open Social API. The sandbox border has two novel items â€" a sidebar, and an "update" list that lets you see what your friends are up to. Sound familiar? That's right; it's on the whole Google's completion of the popular News Feed on Facebook. |
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Google Inc. twisted its online advertising method and hastened its development outside the United States to generate a first-quarter profit, which exceeded analysts' forecasted, lightened some of the economic concerns mauling its stock in current year. This news was exposed after the stock market was closed on last evening. Lifted Google's current drooping shares by simply more than $76, or 17 percent on whole.
"This is mostly a relief rally," said Stanford Group analyst Clayton Moran. "People are relieved that things aren't as bad as they thought." Google's worldwide appeal pushed the Mountain View-based company for more than half of its revenue that came from outside the United States for the first time in its nine-and-a-half-year history. |
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 Google recently announced that the local business owners could now incorporate YouTube videos (ensuring embed option to be turned on) to their listings on Google Maps. Google stated that this move was just a natural extension to its last year's move to add geotagged YouTube on Google Earth. When video creator set up particular locations for their own videos, those videos would come in view as a unique YouTube layer of Google Maps. Further users could also launch videos on Google Maps from the Photos and Videos tab of the information bubble, which emerges when a user clicks on a particular listing. In addition they could link their video to their business throughout the Google Local Business Center.
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Yahoo may be trying hard to stay away from Microsoft in the US market; however their Japanese unit has publicized the decision to embrace Silverlight for improvising the search practice. The new efficient web interface is predicted to be exposed in the upcoming weeks. Yahoo Japan is further planning to use Silverlight in more of their services.
Microsoft Silverlight technology is a very new competitor to Adobe Flash which allows better interactivity on websites. Madison Square Garden Interactive, Tencent, Abertis Telecom, Terra Networks Operations, SBSi, and MNet are some of the other companies that are making use of Silverlight extensively. |
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The long-whispered partnership between Salesforce.com and Google is now probable to be made authorized through a statement this Monday. This Partnership is made to integrate Google Apps with Salesforce.com's CRM (customer relationship management) effective tools. To be more accurate, it would comprise Google's e-mail service, Gmail, chat service, Google Talk and also Calendar. Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO, said, as quoted by PC World: "The combination of our leading CRM applications and Google's business productivity applications pushes forward the transformation of the industry to cloud computing. The end of software is here." The choice was made at the people's request, Salesforce stated, and so far Salesforce.com customers have also had the opportunity to test the fresh incorporation through its beta version. Moreover, they would further pay no extra charge for the service, the company said. |
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Microsoft Corp.'s effort to take over Yahoo Inc. has actually become so tortured it might in turn help Internet search and advertising giant Google Inc. to grow stronger, dejection Microsoft's main reason for reward the deal in the first place.
"We find this to be a very advantageous situation for Google," Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Derek Brown said Thursday. "The longer this gets dragged out, the better for Google." Yahoo indicated it is stimulating for a long-drawn-out battle late Wednesday when a statement and a media leak offered a sight at its convoluted search for alternatives to Microsoft's bid of more than $40 billion. "The more complicated a deal gets, the more difficult it becomes to satisfy all parties," Brown said. "And the more complicated the (post-deal) integration gets, the more it favors Google." |
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Google has recently exposed its Google App Engine, a set of free services for tech developers that would compete squarely with offerings Amazon (AMZN) by now offers. On the gist we can put down this way: |
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 Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) recently announced that its photo-sharing site Flickr.com has introduced video sharing feature, through which expert members could now upload personal video clips and share them online. Flickr's new video uploading quality would sustain up to 90 seconds of personal video recording recorded with any digital video device comprising still cameras, camcorders and camera phones. The company noted that video on Flickr would further be obtainable in eight languages incorporating English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and traditional Chinese. |
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 Google had introduced the feature of "Save as PPT" on to its Google Docs. You are now free to save any of your Google Presentation to PowerPoint files. Andrew Chang, marketing manager with Google, Stated, "We believe you should be able to access your presentations however and whenever you want, in whatever format you need. In that vein, today we launched "Save as PPT" which allows you to save presentations as PowerPoint. We now support PDF, PPT, and basic text as export filetypes."On the other hand, you could as well share your presentations in many other ways: call collaborators and viewers within the Docs, publish your presentation (and share the exclusive URL to the presentation, or even drive in your presentation on a unique website or blog." |
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Yahoo has rejected a three-week deadline offered by Microsoft to agree to a 44.6 billion dollar capture, as the fight between the two giant technologies titans heated up. Yahoo anyhow stated on Monday it was open to a sweet bid from the software giant or another bidder also.
"We continue to believe that your proposal is not in the best interests of Yahoo and our stockholders," Yahoo's board chairman Roy Bostock and chief executive Jerry Yang said in a letter to CEO of Microsoft Corporation Steve Ballmer. "We are open to all alternatives that maximize stockholder value. To be clear, this includes a transaction with Microsoft if it represents a price that fully recognizes the value of Yahoo on a standalone basis," the Yahoo letter said. The letter came in reply to a challenge issued by Microsoft on Saturday for the Internet giant to agree to its 44.6 billion dollar capture offer in three weeks or face a shareholder proxy fight. Analysts said the conflict of the technology giants appeared to be escalating. |
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Google has recently launched its new voice search service in Hyderabad by means of a toll free number (1-800-41-999-999). This is in market after six months its text search for mobile users through 54664. Hyderabad people seem to be excited about the services and already started using it.
The service was exposed silently over last weekend and the news moved out in blogs. A Digital news site, contentsutra.com was successful in getting a spokesperson response from Google. "Google has introduced a pilot for voice search in Hyderabad. Voice enables us to reach non-web users in local languages, while still ever aging our core strength in search. We are focusing on our users and innovating for the needs of the local market. This pilot will enable us to get real user feedback to improve the service before a full launch," Google said. |
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Google may expose its new services called BigTable this week. BigTable is basically based on the Google File System (GFS) and intended for sharing across thousands of product servers, which collectively store petabytes of data. Services that depend on it comprise Google Search, Google Earth and Maps, Google Finance, Google Print, Orkut, YouTube, and Blogger.
Public stated that they expect BigTable to be straight competition for Amazon SimpleDB - and we need to agree. The only thing that comes under consideration is about the pricing strategy. What is your opinion? Would Google make BigTable for free, or would it be competitively priced with the Amazon equivalent? |
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Recently, a Pennsylvania married couple has filed a court case against the big G for displaying their house in Google Maps "Street View" feature. Aaron and Christie Boring, said that the service directed to their home being accessible for online viewing, thus frightening their own privacy - the very cause why they purchased their house.
BBC stated - Google had got in the driveway of the couple's private land, so as to take pictures to be put on the website. "Anyone can get Google to remove the images if they have a good reason to back up their request," said Larry Yu, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "We absolutely respect that people may not be comfortable with some of the imagery on the site. We actually make it pretty easy for people to submit a request to us to remove the imagery." |
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After yesterday's meet between senior Microsoft and Yahoo executives was ended without any further progress, Microsoft stays committed in its refusal to increase its bid for Yahoo, according to a person with directly associated with Microsoft's thinking.
Microsoft, however, is increasingly getting irritated with Yahoo's refusal to get in into negotiations, the person stated. But Microsoft is not taking into account to lower its offer or moving back it all together, the person added. Earlier media study suggesting that Microsoft is re-appraising its offer sent to Yahoo shares down about 5 percent in after-hours of trading. "Microsoft has tried again and again to engage in substantive negotiations, but the board has simply refused," the person said. "Since the offer was made, the market has deteriorated and there are numerous indications that Yahoo's business has declined." |
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 Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. senior authorities met this week to talk about Microsoft's offer to obtain the Internet giant Company yahoo but were unsuccessful to determine any of their differences, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Microsoft executives had no interest to increase their cash-and-stock offer, and the Yahoo camp went on to say no to enter formal negotiations without a sickly bid, people known with the matter say. Yahoo's board discarded Microsoft's original bid in February, and Yahoo's senior executive might see no point in investment talks on the basis of that offer. Microsoft's cash-and0stock offer was designated at $44.6 billion during Jan. 31, but a drop in the software maker's share price has decreased the value to about $42 billion, or $29.29 a share. On Thursday, Yahoo shares traded at $28.13 at 4 p.m. Nasdaq Stock Exchange composite trading. |
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 Microsoft is doubtful to augment its initial voluntary takeover offer for Yahoo, according to a review last week in the Wall Street Journal. Citing unidentified sources close to Microsoft, the WSJ reports that, with no feasible option offers for Yahoo's business, augmenting the original $44.6 billion offer will now be equal to bidding against itself. In its place, the software giant's plan is to remain tight and stay for Yahoo to end of practical options, after that it would agree to Microsoft's initial offer.
On January 31, Microsoft had offered Yahoo $31 a share for its industry, or about $44.6 billion at the time and that Yahoo stated "considerably undervalued" the company. However, as that preliminary offer was joined in part to Microsoft's stock price, and Microsoft's stock price had been refused over the last two months, the offer now is worth just about $29 per share, or a couple of billion dollars less, give or take. Lets wait and watch what yahoo decides! |
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Google yesterday announced that it is initiating a new email service, which let's you change/alter the time of any email that is marked as received by the future recipient. This new "Gmail Custom Time" could further be set as to the email appear either as read or unread in the apt chronological order. The mark comes also with some limitations. Emails could be retrograded prior to April 1, 2004, the date Google started Gmail. Said Google in the statement: "If we were to let you send an email from Gmail before Gmail existed, well, that would be like hanging out with your parents before you were born - crazy talk." Google is further limiting the use of this feature to only 10 times a year to avoid others from losing "faith in the accuracy of time." Or, for that matter, faith in announcements made on the first day of April. |
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