Sunday, April 08, 2007

Google News

Yahoo takes on Google with new search interface

Yahoo! is currently beta testing a new search engine interface that it calls Alpha, which promises to bring advanced customization features to Internet searching. Version 1.0 of the product is scheduled for a public release soon, which will remove the amusing "Alpha (beta)" moniker from the site's main page.

Read the article HERE.

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Google Maps

In an effort to add more social sharing to Google Maps, Google announced today the availability of My Maps, an extension of its web-based mapping tool. My Maps allows any user to create a personalized map—tied to his or her Gmail login—that can contain a variety of information, such as a path mapped out of a walk around a city or a road trip across the country, a photo montage of a trip, text describing what happened at particular locations, or even embedded video of various landmarks.

Read the article HERE.

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MacGoogle

Google has released its
Google Desktop utility for Mac OS X users. The utility is easily reachable by a simple keyboard shortcut (press command and command), and it brings full integration with Google.com, indexing Gmail and web-history, finds content in past file revisions and deleted items, but also has some new features. The app will handle multiple users and is able to support FileVault.

Read the article HERE.


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