Posts Tagged with ‘Google-News’

There’s an interesting Firefox addon I wanted to introduce to everyone today, it is called Feeds in a Box and is intended to help you easier consume all the content you happen to consume online - without interrupting your web browsing experience yet staying informed of everything that matters to you. The addon will bring all your favorite content into one convenient place, no matter what the content is - be it Twitter streams of your friends or your favorite [...]

A few hours ago Google updated Google Blog Search functionality with some very profound changes. When up until now the Blog Search represented mainly a usual search page dedicated to searching within a particular group of websites (blogs in this case), today the homepage of the blog search by Google is completely revamped to showcase the most popular topics right upon arrival.
The homepage now shows the most discussed stories in all topics (a total of 11 categories are present). Stories [...]

Every now and then Google comes up with an idea that is absolutely marvelous and can only be implemented with the kind of financial, human and hardware power only the search giant has. These are the situations when I tend to remember the “do no evil” mantra as I understand that the company still strives to develop something useful for the mankind even without prospects of significant financial rewards.
This time the initiative is to have archives of over 100 newspapers [...]

I can’t help but envy people who are lucky enough to get some new unannounced features from Google when browsing this or that service from the internet giant. Today the lucky one is Harry McCracken from Technologizer who has been served a totally new Google News and blogged about it to describe what we probably should expect to be rolled out in the near future. Actually the team of Google News promised that they would test the new interface by [...]

So Google is in negotiations with Digg to buy the social voting site for “around $200 million”. Now what? Of course, a valid question here would be why Google is still acquiring companies offering all kinds of services when it could have been much simpler to build a similar service of their own in a matter of weeks (and there are tons of scripts allowing to launch a Digg clone available already so this is hardly any problem at [...]

filtrbox is one of those sites that I think might be interesting, sign up for, see a screen after set-up that says "check back in a few hours" and forget about since I'm constantly being distracted by something else. Thank goodness I went back to check it out because I think filtrbox may be my latest addiction.
Odds are if you are a blogger, marketer, PR rep, or evangelist, you have several alerts already set up for information about yourself, your [...]

It seems every week there is a new country blocking YouTube. When Pakistan did, it took out most of the world's access to the site, but now it's China's turn.
In addition to YouTube, most news sites are being censored with a keyword block. Any page that contains words such as “Tibet” or “Dalai Lama” are being blocked, as well as Google News, most major world news outlets, Flickr, and Wikipedia.
With only 143 days left until the Beijing Olympics start, [...]