Traditional News to the Big Screen
Google’s hope to become the one-stop-shop for everything news and entertainment with Google TV, is slowly becoming a reality. Google recently announced that they are working with various news publications such as The Huffington Post, USA Today, and The New York Times, to bring “both traditional and innovcative news sources [to] Google TV.” Why is [...]
Fun with Doodle 4 Google
This morning, Google announced the fourth annual Doodle 4 Google contest. Open to K-12 students in the U.S., Doodle 4 Google is an opportunity of a lifetime: design the Google.com homepage doodle for millions to see, and while you’re at it, take home a $15,000 scholarship and a $25,000 technology grant for your school. This [...]
The State of Wikipedia
Frank Gruber has a good spin on The State of Wikipedia, which was put out by JESS3. How does Wikipedia impact search? In a huge way. You can see WIkipedia show up in any generic search on Google, such as “love” or “hate” or “war,” you will see Wikipedia.
The Chrome Video Codec Change
Last week, Google announced that their Chrome browser will no longer support the H.264 codec. The primary reason being that this codec is only freely available for next couple of years. After that, it will be a licensed codec — there’s no longetivity with that strategy. Google has taken the hard, but better route and [...]
New Features in the AdSense Interface
The AdSense team has released a number of new features in the AdSense dashboard. We’ve changed the default metrics shown on the Home and Performance reports pages based on strong feedback that most of you prefer to view your earnings at the page level rather than by ad unit. As a result, we’ve switched back [...]
Top 10 Google Searches in 2010 – Chatroulette, iPad, Justin Beiber and more…
Yesterday we posted about the Top 10 Posts by Google, but today we’re talking about the top 10 searches on Google. Some may surprise you, some may not. chatroulette ipad justin bieber nicki minaj friv myxer katy perry twitter gamezer facebook The ones that stick out to me as ones I don’t recognized as “nicki [...]
Google TV Partners with Vizio
Google TV, which partnered with a number of TV manufactuars – namely Sony, has now partnered with Vizio to distribute the Google TV platform. What does this mean for consumers? This means greater competition, smarter TVs, and mostly, more “aware” TVs. Each day, we become more and more connected to the Internet. Hulu, Netflix [streaming], [...]
Google’s Top 10 Posts of 2010
Google has had an amazing year in blogging and truly made themselves more transparent as a company. Here are the top 10 posts in Google blogging last year. A different kind of company name – 10,604,183 unique pageviews, more than 30 percent of the year’s total. Our April Fools’ Day post about changing our company [...]
Happy New Year! (2011)
A huge happy new year to all our Google Inside readers! To celebrate the new year, Google is gracing us some roman numerals to kick off the new year. I’m really looking forward to what Google has in store for us in the new year. New technology, new features, new products, and so much more.
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Google Chrome Webpage Auto-Translation
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How Google Search Works
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