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Google Mentor Found Dead

Tributes pour in for Sergey Brin's mentor, who died tragically on Friday

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Microsoft Bing Takes Early Lead On Yahoo

But what happens when the novelty of the new search contender wears off?

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Why We Should Watch Out for Web Bugs

Analytics services and advertisters use Web bugs to track you, and there is very little you can do about it. Jim Rapoza is starting to feel concerned

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Google Thinks It’s Hip To Be Squared

Google finds itself adding more features to its lineup in the face of increased search competition from companies such as Microsoft, which recently released its own new search engine, Bing

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Microsoft Bing: At Last Google Has A Rival

After all the excitement, how does Bing measure up? Jim Rapoza has been using it non-stop since it launched, so he knows

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Yahoo Says Bing Will Quickly Lose Its Bang

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has knocked Bing while also suggesting that a search partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft could save her company around £366m

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Microsoft Bing Goes Live Early

Microsoft hopes that Bing will allow it to claim more market share in the competitive search-engine arena, which is dominated by Google

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Google Android On 20 Handsets This Year

Although Android is open-source, manufacturers will be able to sign distribution deals with Google in order to pre-install their phones with more options such as Google Apps

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Bing! – A New Microsoft Search Engine

Despite Google's lead in search-engine market share, Microsoft hopes that a new and improved search experience will translate into a greater piece of the online search pie

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Google Puts Wind Behind Wave

Created by the team that brought Google Maps to the world, the search engine giant hopes Wave will cause more than a few ripples on the Internet

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Yahoo Would Sell To Microsoft For “Big Money”

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has suggested that she would sell Yahoo's search apparatus to Microsoft in exchange for a massive amount of cold, hard cash

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Google Chrome 2.0: So What?

With small tweaks,and features that other browsers already have, this is more like Chrome version 1.2, than version 2.0

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Yahoo Launches Voice-Activated iPhone Search

Users can speak into their device in order to activate a oneSearch query, pulling in results for everything from restaurant addresses to movie times

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Google Polishes Chrome Browser

Google has high hopes that Chrome's unique features will make it a suitable competitor to Microsoft Internet Explorer and other browsers on the market

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Google Partners With US Utilities On PowerMeter

Google plans to expand the Google PowerMeter rollout later in 2009

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Microsoft Previewing Kumo Search Engine

Microsoft, along with Yahoo, is in fierce competition with Google for market share in the U.S. core search arena

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EC Quizzes Google Over Street View Privacy

The European Commission has been debating the effectiveness of the protection of personal data in services such as Google Street View

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Google Launches Gmail Translation Tool

Google has introduced several new features in 2009 to Google Apps and Gmail designed to make those services more robust for the enterprise, in addition to increasing their consumer user base

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Wolfram Alpha “Answer Engine” Challenges Google Search

New knowledge tool understands questions, instead of just searching, according to controversial inventor Stephen Wolfram

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Recession Creates Opportunities, Mandelson Tells Google Zeitgeist

The UK must invest in digital infrastructure, and governments must regulate global markets, the UK business secretary told the search giant's business talk-shop

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Google Blames Outage on Asian Web Traffic Jam

While the outages of services such as Gmail are usually only temporary, the popularity of these Google services often means that any problem instantly becomes news

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Google: Search Produces 0.2 Grams Of C02

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has placed his company at the forefront of the energy debate, arguing that green IT can contribute to lowering overall carbon footprints

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Google’s Android OS To Grow 900 Percent

The Apple iPhone OS will follow behind it, as the second fastest-growing smartphone OS

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Google Discusses Plan For Greater Openess

At least one consumer advocacy group has decided to refute the search engine giant's claims in a particularly high-profile way

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Google’s Brin Discusses Cloud’s Silver Lining

Despite the global economic recession, Brin is optimistic about Google's ability to innovate and exploit upcoming IT revolutions such as cloud computing

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BA: Too Much Vendor “Bollocks” In Green IT

The chief information officer of BA defended the airline's green efforts - while sniping at "greenwash" from IT vendors

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Deutsche Bank: Blades Key To Green Data Centres

The banking group believes that providing they are deployed in the right way, blade servers are most efficient way to turn energy into computing power