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YouTube is Dead – Maybe

Benjamin Wayne, CEO of Fliqz, a white label video streaming  service has lit up the blogosphere with his prognosis that YouTube is doomed and is currently on life support. His opinion was based on a recent Credit Suisse report shed some light on how much money Google is using on YouTube and he believes that [...]

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Google Toolbar: Take your tools with you

Posted by Aseem Sood, Product Manager, Google Toolbar TeamI’ve started to notice something peculiar about the Toolbar team, and that’s this: we literally can’t seem to stop carrying the Toolbar around with us. When we moved to a new space in our Mounta…

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Google’s (and parents’) role in keeping kids safe online

Posted by Vint Cerf, Chief Internet EvangelistWe know that technologies like the “v-chip” can be used to keep kids from seeing inappropriate content on TV. And while technology has an important role to play in protecting kids online, it’s as important …

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Tracking Santa, then and now

Posted by Carrie Farrell, Veteran Santa TrackerIt was more than half a century ago, on Christmas Eve in 1955, that a Sears Roebuck & Co. store in Colorado Springs advertised a special hotline number for kids to call Santa. What the company didn’t …

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The anatomy of a search result

Written by RĂ­ona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools teamWhen Matt Cutts, who heads up Google’s webspam team, dropped by our Kirkland offices a little while ago we found ourselves with a video camera and an hour to spare. The result? We quickly put together a …

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Google Tip – A dictionary as close as your browser search bar

While writing, I am often looking for the best word to use. Rather than checking dictionary websites or dare I say, break out a paper dictionary, I turn to Google. The define keyword allows you to check Google for the definition of a word. To use it, simply type define:wordname and click Google Search. You [...]

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Google Tip – Narrow search to a single site

I often am looking for particular information on a website. Rather than spend time navigating through the site. I let Google find what I need for me. This is easily accomplised with the Google site command. The site command let’s you limit your search to a particular URL. For example, recently I found my self [...]

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