Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we’ve improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe’s Flash Player technology.
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Google has released a piece of software that runs on your PC and works with equipment supporting the Universal Plug and Play standard, such as the PS3, to enable you to display, on your TV media files stored on your home network or on Google-owned sites like Picasa and YouTube. But combine this with something Google was playing with two years ago and things get really interesting.
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Both Nokia and Google may be placing too much emphasis on mobile operating systems. It would make a lot more sense to focus on the development of Web standards that could unleash mobile applications.
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Find out why Google Apps is a powerful alternative to more established products such as Microsoft SharePoint and IBM Lotus Notes. And, if Google Apps doesn’t offer the applications you need, see why the Google App Engine might fit the bill.
Collaboration is a hot term these days. Years ago, collaboration was known as groupware with products such as IBM Lotus Notes and Novell GroupWise leading the way. While these products are still around, collaboration is now ubiquitous. You see it in everything from e-mail to sites such as Facebook and Blogger to packaged products such as Microsoft SharePoint and Lotus Notes.
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Google is expected to unveil a tool Tuesday that measures Internet use to help advertisers identify the best places to buy ads that will reach its target audience, according to a report Monday on the Wall Street Journal Web site.Google is expected to unveil a tool Tuesday that measures Internet use to help advertisers identify the best places to buy ads that will reach its target audience, according to a report Monday on the Wall Street Journal Web site.
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Written by Charles S. Knight, SEO, and edited by Richard MacManus. The Top 100 is listed at the end of the analysis.
Ask anyone which search engine they use to find information on the Internet and they will almost certainly reply: "Google." Look a little further, and market research shows that people actually use four main search engines for 99.99% of their searches: Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask.com (in that order). But in my travels as a Search Engine Optimizer (SEO), I have discovered that in that .01% lies a vast multitude of the most innovative and creative search engines you have never seen. So many, in fact, that I have had to limit my list of the very best ones to a mere 100.
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Google won the search engine war, says Juliette Garside, but the battle has been taken on by specialist engines with defined tasks and cutting-edge technology
AltaVista, Magellan, Infoseek…the web is littered with the corpses of search engines that were crushed during Google’s rise to the top. Some like AltaVista, which now belongs to Yahoo!, have been taken over by larger entities. Many were simply closed down.
The internet’s best brains are still trying to come up with alternatives.
Wikipedia lists over 200 engines that search the open web, and dozens of others that restrict themselves to combing through limited groups of sites.
Yahoo! tried to invent a Google-killer, but has now thrown in the towel, harnessing itself to Google’s more popular search business.
Microsoft is still trying, but for how much longer?
Beneath the headlines, the battle has shifted to a new terrain. The prize now is to devise engines that can handle clearly defined tasks -such as finding video, or MP3 music files, or the best blogs – more effectively.
Others use a different technology to Google, letting surfers navigate by clicking on pictures rather than typing in search words. Some are hoping to marshal armies of human volunteers to label information in ways that make the results more relevant.
One of the leading European media and technology venture capital investors, Balderton Capital, is looking to put money into some of these alternative search engines.
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