I’m at the Googleplex in Mountain View for a Google Factory Tour–which involves neither a factory nor a tour. But it is an update on Google search, and should therefore be worthwhile. I’ll update this post as the event proceeds……
Posted on May 19th, 2008 by harry_mccracken@pcworld.com
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I’m at the Googleplex in Mountain View for a Google Factory Tour–which involves neither a factory nor a tour. But it is an update on Google search, and should therefore be worthwhile. I’ll update this post as the event proceeds……
Posted on May 19th, 2008 by harry_mccracken@pcworld.com
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When I saw the headline, I smiled: “Microsoft Abandons Yahoo Acquisition.” Absent a surprise ending, the behemoth of Redmond’s attempt to go head-to-head with Google in Web advertising by paying billions to snap up Yahoo has failed. And I’m relieved–if…
Posted on May 4th, 2008 by harry_mccracken@pcworld.com
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Okay, so I’m trying to buy a house. As with anything I do, I naturally wanted to do as much of it as I could online. So when mortgage shopping, I signed up for Lending Tree–the guys with the TV…
Posted on April 20th, 2008 by harry_mccracken@pcworld.com
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Back on May 30th of last year, Google released Google Gears, a browser plug-in designed to help Web-based applications work even when they couldn’t connect to the Internet. I was pretty jazzed up about it, and so were my PCW…
Posted on April 7th, 2008 by harry_mccracken@pcworld.com
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In my Techlog column in the May issue of our magazine–which subscribers will get in a week or so–I grouse that Facebook doesn’t give me the ability to export my list of friends for use elsewhere. Damn you, print deadlines–there’s…
Posted on March 25th, 2008 by harry_mccracken@pcworld.com
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Twitter may have more good buzz than any other Web service right now, but there’s also no service that more people say they don’t get–including some very smart. hip friends of mine. Check out this Google search for a surging…
Posted on March 20th, 2008 by harry_mccracken@pcworld.com
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