Racks of networking equipment connect servers inside a Google data center
In a new research exercise known as the Daily Information Needs Study, Google wants to improve its mobile search services by automatically delivering information you wouldn’t think to search for online.
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Google glasses
Google has been working on computerized glasses. The computerized glasses are called Google Glass, and developers can already buy them.
Continue reading… “The smartphone era is coming to an end”
People are shifting from using websites, where search is a natural activity, to using mobile apps.
Last month something crucial happened that no one seems to be paying attention to. People searched less. That’s never happened before.
Continue reading… “The Google era may be over”
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Most popular music video on YouTube right now.
Forty-eight percent of consumers in the U.S. still see radio as the dominant way to discover new music, according to Nielsen’s latest “Music 360” report. For almost two-thirds of U.S. teenagers, however, Google’s YouTube is now a more important source of music than radio (54%), iTunes (53%) and CDs (50%).
Continue reading… “Teens listen to more music through YouTube than any other source”
Google’s self-driving car.
According to a plugged-in industry source Google is eyeing a new project: same-day delivery. At first, this seemed like a ridiculous idea. But after some thought the idea kind of makes sense.
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Self-driving cars have been a vision of the future for decades. However, they may finally be getting closer.
Google’s self-driving cars have now clocked up 300,000 miles without a single accident.
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Within months of launch, Orkut’s user community started to change.
Did you know Google had a social network that predated Google+? Google’s social network was called: Orkut and it launched a few months before Facebook launched as a Harvard-only site.
Continue reading… “Dalton Caldwell: Critical mass vs network effects”
Project Glass
Some could easily say that Google had lost its way over the last few years. But last year Google announced that it would focus on its core products. So now Project Glass is the future of Google. Not as a product that will make them billions of dollars but what it means for Google as a company and its future.
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The new startup, Planetary Resources will mine asteroids for precious metals.
Peter Diamandis, entrepreneur and X-Prize impresario, earlier in 2012 hinted he was about to unveil something amazing: a startup that will mine asteroids for precious metals.
Continue reading… “Google and tech ecexutives back Planetary Resources to mine asteroids”
Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, has urged internet users to demand their personal data from online giants such as Google and Facebook to usher in a new era of highly personalized computer services “with tremendous potential to help humanity”.
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Programming is about building a better mousetrap.
There are at least a dozen up-and-coming computer programming languages vying to become the next C++ or Java today.
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83% of people who use search engines in the U.S. prefer Google.
Despite privacy concerns, Google still reigns supreme as the go-to search engine, even if people are bit nervous about how it collects data and targets ads.
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