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Ex-engineer dubs Google software infrastructure 'obsolete'
Former Google ( NASDAQ: GOOG ) engineer Dhanji R. Prasanna, who wrote the entire front end for Realtime Search and helped design Google Wave, penned a goodbye blog earlier this week. In the lengthy
Chrome 12 goes into beta, sheds Google Gears
Google ( NASDAQ: GOOG ) bumped version 12 of its Chrome web browser into beta early this week, even as support for Google Gears was finally removed. The company announced its intention to remove Gears
Google goes social with +1; not everyone impressed
Google ( NASDAQ: GOOG ) is launching a new social search effort called "+1," which has generated discussion around its usefulness and privacy. Google says +1 is the digital shorthand for "this is
Users can now block unwanted domains from their Google search
In a continuation of its initiative to penalize content farms and weed out inferior sites, Google ( NASDAQ: GOOG ) has unveiled the ability for users to filter unwanted domains from their search
Bing imitates Google, ups search speed to 'instant'
Reports have come in that Microsoft ( NASDAQ: MSFT ) is preparing to upgrade its Bing search engine to incorporate the ability to display instant search results as pioneered by Google ( NASDAQ: GOOG ).
The day after a Google cloud crash
The Gmail outage that began over last weekend and took multiple days to resolve has understandably shaken the confidence of many users who might have lived under the mistaken assumption that
Google to take action against content farms
Acknowledging recent criticism that the perceived quality of its search has gone down, Google ( NASDAQ: GOOG ) Principal Engineer and lead voice on search-quality issues Matt Cutts wrote a post last
Chrome extension will enable secure Google searches
Worried about the information you are leaking via unencrypted web searches but too absent-minded to remember typing the correct link to invoke your SSL search engine of choice? Well, Google ( NASDAQ:
Google Chrome OS will arrive 'later this fall'
Google vice president of product management Sundar Pichai has officially announced that the company's free Chrome OS (operating system) will be released for free in the autumn. The search engine
Microsoft Bing adoption dips
Barely three months after its launch in May, the momentum behind Microsoft's new Bing search engine appears to be tapering off. According to NetApplications, Bing lost 0.2 percent points, dropping to
