Posts Tagged ‘ Google ’

Google and BBC release New Beta Homepage Web Designs

Both Google and the BBC have recently released new beta web designs for their homepages. The BBC beta homepage is available for all to look at via http://beta.bbc.co.uk/ while the Google homepage has been released to a select number of Google users, as Google tend to stagger the release of their new designs and features. You can
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Google Chrome OS Raising Awareness of Open Source Software

I’m quite highly anticipating the release of Google Chrome OS – Google’s net book and appliance cloud operating system. There are a few main reasons behind this. Simplicity and Openness Note that I combine the two here. It is very important that both software user friendliness is combined with the nature of free and open source software to prevent device and
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Google making a bit of a Buzz on the Internet

Like my pun? I know, I know. It is ingenius. What is Google Buzz? Google Buzz is a new social networking venture from the almighty search engine. It is designed to integrate well with their webmail service Gmail. Google have dipped their toes in the social networking marketplace before with services like Orkut and Google Friend Connect. Orkut is
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Don’t be evil licensing

Google, who brought forward the specifics of the ‘do no evil’ ideology within consumer visible software, is refusing to host an open-source project due to slight, almost humorous, modifications to its license, denying ‘evil’ use of the licensed software. Douglas Crockford selected the MIT license for his JSMin program to reduce JavaScript code syntax in such a way to make it still
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Google Chrome OS – A Simple Explanation

Google have released a very simple explanatory video, aimed at new computer users, detailing their new operating system which is focused around the Google Chrome web browser. If you’ve ever needed to ask, what is the difference between Google Chrome OS and Google Chrome, this video explains the answer in the simplest manner possible. Google Chrome
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Tweets – Tweets from Twitter soon to be in the SERPs of Google and Bing

Twitter has signed deals with Microsoft and Google to put microblogging messages sent via the microblogging service (‘tweets’) into the Microsoft Bing and Google search engine indexes. This deal will mean tweets will appear from Twitter alongside normal Google and Bing search results. Without a doubt, this will make Twitter an even larger SEO tool than
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