Google has a very solid and consistent mission statement: “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” We see that unfolding in virtually every aspect of where human eyeballs would look to view data. Here are the 2 most recent examples of Google’s stated mission unfolding in real time:
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During an onstage interview yesterday at the Gartner Symposium / ITxpo in Orlando, Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, confirmed that the Google Chrome OS (operating system) is coming within the next year. Here are some quotes from Eric Schmidt during the onstage interview yesterday that relate directly to the Google Chrome OS:
These are my thoughts about the algorithm Google will use to rank tweets in their real time search results. As you may know by now, Google announced a deal that was struck with Twitter to display tweets in the Google search results. Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Google Inc., was speaking today to about […]
If you’ve questioned whether real time search is relevant or not – or if you’ve questioned the importance of Twitter in our world of data access – then this should close the argument for you! Google just announced a search deal with Twitter to provide real time search data in their (Google’s) search results.
Google Music Service Coming Soon
Google is said to be putting final touches on a music and video service. There are very few details at the moment about the deal, but some sites are mentioning that Google is in final talks with record labels to work out the details of buying music and videos online.
CollegeHumor.com put together a funny video about a couple of Google street view guys who are driving around mapping the country. Have you tried to see if Google view is available in your neighborhood yet? If not, go to Google Maps (http://maps.google.com), search your address, and when the map comes up, look at the zoom […]
For those of you that utilize Google Apps, or even the standard Google Docs, you may have noticed about 3 weeks ago that Google Announced “multiple file uploading”. The ability to upload multiple files was the most requested upgrade feature in the Google Docs support forum. And finally Google took action and released a multiple […]