Six years after Google Inc. launched Google News by applying its search technology to breaking news stories, the company has moved to apply its technology to a similar service to track new blog posts.
Google Blog Search tool was updated and will use the technology that powers Google News to track and organize the 900,000 new blog posts added to the Web every 24 hours. Previously, the tool only allowed users to simply type queries to search blogs.
Read MoreGoogle unveiled a cellphone tied globally to Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile network, a patent application suggests it is planning to rid users of the need to choose a single network at all.
The patent describes a system where instead of always connecting to one network, a phone, laptop or other wireless device invites all available networks to bid for your business. The US patent application was filed in March 2007 and published on 25th September.
Read MoreGoogle is offering $10 million as prize money in a competition aimed at transforming the world's best ideas into useful products. As part of the company's 10th anniversary celebrations, Project 10 to the 100th asks people to submit ideas in seven categories to the project.
Read MoreAround the globe, it is estimated that there are billions of news pages containing every story ever written. And Google's goal to help readers find all of them, from the smallest local weekly paper, up to the largest national daily.
The problem is that most of these newspapers are not available online. Google wants to change that.
Today, Google is launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives.
Just 10 years ago Google consisted of two college guys, Sergey Brin and Larry Page in a dorm room trying to download the whole world wide web. They didn't have more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world.
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An open source browser called Google Chrome will be making an appearance soon. Google Chrome is said to:
Read MoreGoogle is testing functionality that lets users tinker with query results by re-ranking them and commenting on them.
Read MoreNow Google Suggest will be available by default on the Google.com homepage! Over the next week more of you will start seeing a list of query suggestions when you start typing into the search box.
Read MoreGoogle is launching Google Insights for Search, a new product designed with the advertiser in mind. It provides more flexibility and functionality for advertisers and marketers to understand search behavior, and adds some cool new features like a world heat map to graphically display search volume and regional interest.
Read MoreGoogle looks set to launch a beta test of a document translation service, a new move in the company's efforts to break down language barriers.
Google Translation Center is the fast and easy way to get translations for your content. The site allows you to upload documents that are translated by (paid) human translators.
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