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Normally, working at a computer isn't considered as harmful as working on a toxic plant, poisonous factory or somewhere similar, though some…
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Normally, working at a computer isn't considered as harmful as working on a toxic plant, poisonous factory or somewhere similar, though some…
Google appears to be on track to deliver on its promise to provide a PowerPoint alternative by the summer. The company has announced the acquisition of Zenter, a company offering online slide presentations.
Hitwise reports that Google’s market share for May is 65.13%. While fielding nearly two thirds of all US searches is definitely not a bad thing, Google’s market share didn’t grow over April 2007. In fact, it actually declined 0.13 percentage points. While the amount is minuscule (representing 0.2% of their market share), for the first time in recent months, some of the other major search…
Ok so dig. The mob-mentality of Digg.com users theme is growing thin, I admit. But, as mobs are wont to do, the situation has escalated beyond all reason, and the crowd isn't sorry, just more vicious.
In the first week of June Google launched a program called "Google Gears" that expands the already impressive capabilities of Google Reader (Google's free news reader) to allow offline viewing. Here is a quote from Google's related blog posting:
SupplyFrame doesn’t try to fight with Google, Yahoo, and the rest; instead, it provides “search and interactive quoting tools for electronic components.” Yet there’s apparently big money in that aspect of the search business - SupplyFrame just received a fresh $7 million in funding.