Google University’s School of Personal Growth

The Googleplex already has a reputation as being a kind of Emerald City within Mountain View—pet friendly, masseurs on staff, Lego-topian mindsets—but the best company to work for has kept one perk relatively quiet: Google University’s School of Personal Growth.

Who’s Talkin’ About Social Search?

WhosTalkin.com has launched to the public after residing in private beta for 7 months. What's WhosTalkin.com you ask? It's a social media search engine that allows users to search across a number of social networking sites, blogs, news sites, forums, etc. And it's pretty cool.

Ask Shows Off Its Advanced Semantic Search

Remember Ask? You know, the search engine with the Butler. While the company doesn't get brought up in the discussion as much as it once did, it has not surrendered to Google and it's other competitors just yet. Ask has now announced some advances in its semantic search technology. If you're unfamiliar with the concept of Semantic Search, Wikipedia explains it:

LinkedIn Upgrades Search Interface

LinkedIn puts its current user base at about 33 million, and as such, it's easy to believe that the odds of finding professionals with even remotely common names are beyond slim.  The site's trying to keep this from happening, though, with some interesting new search upgrades.

A List of Google’s Money Making Products

Below overview checks which Google products directly make money for Google in terms of being paid for by the user, or having ads or affiliate links. Indirect effects on revenues (as well as some other things) are disregarded for this purpose, but not because the effects are necessarily neglible.* The table is just an estimate – if you see ommissions or misses please comment and…