Customize Your Search Results with SearchWiki

AnnouncementNovember 20, 2008Google users now have more control over their search experience, thanks to our newest addition to Google Web Search: SearchWiki. With this new set of features, users can add, delete, re-sort or comment on search results for any query, to create a set of search results that’s customized just for them.Just do a web search when logged in to your Google account, and check out all the new tools that are...

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Google SketchUp 7 – Work Smarter, Work Together

AnnouncementNovember 17, 2008 Today, Google is announcing the launch of SketchUp 7 and SketchUp Pro 7, the newest versions of our popular 3D modeling software. Whether a user is an architect drafting solar-powered buildings, a video-game designer imagining wild characters in new worlds, or is entirely new to 3D and discovering the basics,...

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New Version of Google Mobile App for iPhone, now with Voice Search

AnnouncementNovember 17, 2008Today Google released an update for its iPhone app that allows people to search on Google faster and easier than ever before. This launch builds on our previous version of the Google Mobile App for iPhone to offer two innovative new ways for users to search the web while they’re on the go: by voice and by location.With the new version of the app, people can conduct a Google search by simply speaking...

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Google to Present at the Eighth Annual Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecoms Conference

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (November 14, 2008) – Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced today that Nikesh Arora, Senior Vice President, Google and President EMEA Operations, will participate in a question-and-answer session at the Eighth Annual Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecoms Conference in Barcelona. The session is scheduled for 3:45 a.m. Eastern Time / 12:45 a.m. Pacific Time on Friday, November 21, 2008.To access the live...

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Google Site Search Gets More Demanding

AnnouncementNovember 13, 2008Google today launched On-Demand Indexing, a new feature for Google Site Search that allows businesses to quickly incorporate new pages and important site updates into search results on their websites. On-Demand Indexing ensures that site visitors have access to a site’s freshest content, and that businesses have the flexibility to share news, product releases and promotions as they happen.With On-Demand...

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Travel back to Ancient Rome with Google Earth

AnnouncementNovember 12, 2008Today Google launches Ancient Rome 3D on Google Earth, making it easy and fun to explore the historic city as it stood centuries ago.Through Google Earth, students, teachers, tourists and historians can:View a virtual representation of the city in 320 AD at the height of its development as the capital of the Roman...

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Flu Trends

AnnouncementNovember 11, 2008By tracking the popularity of certain Google search queries, our engineers have discovered that we can accurately estimate the level of flu in each state, in near real time. Today Google.org launched a tool, Flu Trends, that makes this information accessible to all.While traditional flu tracking systems take 1-2...

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Gmail launches voice and video chat

AnnouncementNovember 11, 2008Makes it easy to chat with video and voice right alongside your emailGoogle today launched Gmail voice and video chat, making it simple for people around the world to chat in high-quality video for free right within Gmail. All you need is a webcam and a small web browser plugin, and you can start video chatting with your friends, family, and coworkers on Gmail and Google Apps. Gmail voice and video...

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