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Most Google-related products, services, and announcements come out of Mountain View, but Googlers in Boston and Chicago are now grabbing some headlines…
So, what did Google just do with its introduction of “Gears?” Setup its suite of office applications to go offline. Oh, and everyone else’s too. Zojo? ConceptShare? Zimbra? All will be able to go offline soon if their developers adopt Google’s Gears.
All right. I know there are a lot of passionate LiveJournal users out there, and I know censorship is bad. But in this case, it was also somewhat funny. LiveJournal claimed it had blocked access to around 500 journals on the basis that they supported pedophilia - turns out, some of them were just discussing Lolita.
Jim Lanzone and company want to own the mindshare for the word 'algorithm' as their massive advertising campaign to promote that and Ask's brand continues.
I have been able to take some more time and mess around with Google’s Universal Search over the long holiday weekend, and I really like the direction.
