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Until now, Google has operated in China by not listing government-blacklisted sites in its search results (See google.cn search results for “Tiananmen”). This was controversial, but Google maintained that it was better to work within these restrictions than to have no presence in China.
After recent cyber attacks on Google, Google is changing its stance. This [...]

Good news for Microsoft. They reached a deal with Yahoo for Yahoo to use Microsoft’s new and rebranded search engine called Bing to power Yahoo searches. This, along with Bing’s big advertising push, should help Microsoft greatly against Google. It will also help that Bing is the default search engine in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Add [...]

The concept of augmented reality is one of those cool techie ideas that has been around for a while. We see it in science fiction (Terminator cam), military headsets, and virtual reality helmets and glasses for some software demos. A new augmented reality aimed at regular consumers is displayed in this video of an application [...]

Gmail is Offline
Google’s Mail, Gmail, is best free service, more reliable than Hotmail or Yahoo. But it can have outages. It was out for a few hours this morning starting at 4:30AM EST, causing some people to call it “Gfail”.
According to the Google blog:
If you’ve tried to access your Gmail account today, you are probably [...]

Poor Search Results
So you’ve made your shiny new website but you’re not getting any visitors. That’s probably because you haven’t worked on your search engine optimization (SEO). The primary way for most sites to get visitors is through coming up in the web search results when people are looking for whatever you offer.  [...]