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Web 2.0 may sound like a utopia where faceless corporations morph into feeling, interacting entities composed of many humans who talk to…
It didn't look good - Google released a new tool in China last week, and the thing bore an uncanny resemblance to a competitor's product. Now it's definitely bad - Google has admitted that, because it used "some non-Google database resources," some of Sohu's technology may have been recycled.
Baidu is China’s top search engine - the king, or, because or its relative youth, the prince. But the search engine company is experiencing some difficulties in Japan, where another corporation has laid claim to the domain baidu.co.jp. This pauper calls itself the “CBC Company.”
Google has added a new feature to Google Maps called MyMaps, which makes it possible, with no programming experience, to create a map with detail. You can place pushpins by just right-clicking on the map, write descriptions on them, even add HTML to include pictures, and save the whole thing to send to a friend. It even had drawing tools for drawing lines or complex…
YouTube has created a channel for the politically minded and has launched CitizenTube. Their goal is to attract people to express themselves using video on political topics covering local, state, national and international politics. Steve Grove, YouTube's News and Political Editor will edit the channel. The channel will aggregate political videos that currently exist on the site as well as new user generated content. They…
Google has been caught copying some of its competitor’s data for the recent release of their Chinese Input Method Editor (a desktop tool to convert Pinyin characters into Chinese characters).
