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Google introduces Voice Actions for Android for the Brits

Friday, Sep 16, 2011 - by Lee J.

Google has now extended the full range of its groovy Voice Actions for Android to UK users – as well as introducing the service for  voice-activatin’ types in France, Italy, …

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Android / Google / mobiles / web

Google+ to challenge Facebook for the social networking crown

Tuesday, Jun 28, 2011Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Tasked with making “sharing on the web more like sharing in real life,” Google has unveiled its response to the social networking behemoth of Facebook. Called Google+, the service – …

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Google / web

Google’s new wdyl.com website asks “What Do You Love?”

Tuesday, Jun 28, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

Surreptitiously slipping out of dock like a ghost ship on a foggy night, Google have silently despatched a new web site onto the Internet seas, in the shape of wdyl.com (‘What …

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Google / web

Google hits a record-crushing one billion users in May 2011

Wednesday, Jun 22, 2011 - by Pete Railton

New research reveals that Google and its empire of related website were used by more than a billion people for the first time last month. The landmark figure was thrust …

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Google / web

Google releases voice and audio search. Barbara Windsor’s wotsits located

Wednesday, Jun 15, 2011 - by Lee J.

Google has unveiled a couple of neat updates to its search pages, and it’s now possible to search by getting chatty with your PC or by dragging images into Google’s search box.

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business / Google / photography

Google offering free photo shoots for businesses [video]

Monday, May 9, 2011Monday, May 9, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Google is offering to send a photographer along to snap the interiors of businesses like restaurants, hotels and beauty salons with its new free service called Business Photos.

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Google / web

Google baffles Brits with bizarre royal wedding graphic

Friday, Apr 29, 2011Friday, Apr 29, 2011 - by mike s

To celebrate the Royal Wedding, Google have unveiled a new graphic for their search home page and it’s a rather baffling looking creation.

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Google’s evil ‘Panda’ search engine update wreaks havoc on UK websites

Wednesday, Apr 13, 2011Wednesday, Apr 13, 2011 - by Lee J. - 2 Comments.

First implemented across the US, Google’s  ‘Panda’ search algorithm update has now hit the UK and, once again, webmasters are feeling the hurt.

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Android / Google / iPhone / mobiles / web

Google adds handy Instant Previews to mobile search

Wednesday, Mar 9, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Now available on Android (2.2+) and iOS (4.0+) devices and in 38 languages is Google’s new Instant Previews feature which offers a speedy and interactive way to evaluate search results.

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Google / web

Google cocks up catastrophically: claims BMJ and urban75.org are ‘content farms’

Tuesday, Mar 1, 2011Tuesday, Mar 1, 2011 - by mike s

Google recently announced a “pretty big” change in the way that its search engine would rank websites, promising to downgrade “low-quality” or “shallow” websites from online search engine results, in …

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Musikki music search engine looks worthy of your attention

Thursday, Jan 27, 2011Wednesday, Jan 26, 2011 - by mike s

We’re always on the look-out for new ways to discover great new artists, and we’ve just been spending some time on Musikki, a new search engine designed especially for seeking …

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Android / gaming / Google / mobiles

Google Goggles app crushes puny human in Sudoku challenge

Tuesday, Jan 11, 2011Tuesday, Jan 11, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Google Goggles is a fabulously neat app that lets smartphone owners search for things by taking pictures on their phones rather than typing in their queries.

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Android / Google / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

Google Instant offers speedier searches for iPhone and Android

Friday, Nov 5, 2010Thursday, Nov 4, 2010 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Promising to make mobile searching speedier by displaying both predictions and actual search results as you type, Google Instant is now being made available on most iPhone and Android 2.2 …

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Google video says “pizza, pizza, pizza…” for ten minutes

Friday, Sep 24, 2010Friday, Sep 24, 2010 - by mike s

We’d DEFINITELY like to smoke some of what the folks at Google were on the day they made this video.

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Google / stuff / web

Google Instant: search faster than you can type

Wednesday, Sep 8, 2010 - by Pete Railton

Google are rolling out what they believe is the future of looking for stuff on the web: Search before you type.

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