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You gotta love the folks over at Google. To me this is brilliant! How does it work, here is what Google says: “We’ve found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity. Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity in your state up to two weeks faster than [...]

Google had decided to put it’s hat in the ring to go up against browser giants such as Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Today they have released their browser which they are calling Google Chrome. You can download the browser right here from Google. If you are like me and aren’t ready to download [...]

Ok so I admit I point this out less because it’s importance to the economy, but instead how amusing it is (in some ways) that a 10% decline in stock value for Google actually equates to $52.12. You heard me…Google’s stock dropped by $52.12 and it was only a 10% decline. That’s because their stock [...]

Here’s a good posting on Lifehacker, giving there top ten obscure Google search tricks. Some aren’t so obscure in my opinion, but I thought #3 was a great trick I never knew. Here it is… 3. Find Music and Comic BooksUsing a combination of advanced search operators that specify music files available in an Apache [...]

Google finally added the capability for you to chat with your AIM buddies through Google Talk, a long overdue enhancement. Here is how you add your AIM buddies in to gtalk. Signing into AIM in Google Talk

I’m not sure if I’ll every personally use it, but it definitely rounds out the online office tools suite. With Gmail and Gdocs they now have an online equivalent to Microsoft’s Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. If you have a Google account you can access via http://docs.google.com And here is a quick note and screencast [...]

I’m actually shocked it took this long for such a high profile company to do this. Geico had a similar lawsuit against Google two years ago but lost. It all revolves around how companies can use trademarked words from rival companies to trigger sponsored links to their own website. Here is the story about the [...]

Wikipedia founder recently announced plans to go after the search engine market with a new way of managing search. The search engine would be community developed similar to how Wiki’s are run, which would give more power to publishers over the search results. It is an interesting concept, I’m not sure it would work but [...]