Dear old Mr. Rogers often talked about things in terms of neighborhoods, but the algorithms running Google Maps never considered that sort of division. Now they do.
Google Maps Enlists Robot Car
Those who worry about Google’s impending world domination are probably going to be terrified, but for the rest of us, this is just neat: the search engine giant has made a deal that involves Stanley, the robot car that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge.
Google, Salesforce.com May Partner
Google’s no wimp, but it never hurts to have help when doing battle with a company like Microsoft. A rumored partnership with Salesforce.com would provide just that, although the financial details (or even any information about the resulting products) are still unknown.
FeedBurner Deal Could Be Good For Google
The rumor that Google is eyeballing FeedBurner for a cool $100 million has folks talking about what that could mean for Google’s search result relevancy, and the company’s ability to identify splogs, differentiating them from legitimate blogs.
Google China Gives Birth To Life Search
Google may not always let Chinese citizens search for terms like “democracy,” but it’s apparently got no problems with things such as housing, work, and train tickets; a new Life Search engine available through Google China is tailored to deal with precisely these types of classifications.
Google Gives In To UK News Organizations
America, France, Belgium . . . these are the countries in which some news services have received payment in return for having their content carried by Google News, and now the UK has reportedly joined the gang. But don’t tell anyone – the arrangement is supposedly being kept quiet so that other organizations don’t request the same deal.
School Records Discovered Sitting On Google
It’s happened before, and now it’s happened again – the records of some schoolchildren became available to anyone and everyone using Google. The security lapse has now been resolved (sort of), but it’s possible that the records were sitting unprotected for as long as two years.
Google Video Borrowing From Metacafe
If Google Video doesn’t have the clip you’re looking for, you may be able to find it at Metacafe – through Google Video. Yes, Google’s (less popular) video-sharing site now appears to be offering search results from sources other than Google Video and YouTube.
Rumor Mill: Google To Acquire FeedBurner
It’s just an unconfirmed rumor at this point, but Sam Sethi has “just heard from a VERY trusted source that Google is buying Feedburner.” Considering that Microsoft just spent $6 billion on aQuantive, this purchase would certainly be a good way for Google to steal back some headlines.
Google Book Search Grows Some More
It once was the case that, if Google Book Search hadn’t yet made a book available in digital form, you were out of luck – that was the end of this particular resource’s line. But Google is now helping its users find those books out in the real world, and it’s also supplying more reviews and references (and books in French and Swiss) than ever before.