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Freed Google Exec: I'm Proud I Helped Spark Egypt Revolt

We are not traitors, sobs Wael Ghonim

(Newser) - A Google executive freed after 12 days in Egyptian detention admitted yesterday he was behind the Facebook page that helped spark the nation's uprising—and he sobbed as he spoke passionately about needed change in his homeland. He ripped authorities for calling him a traitor, reports AP . "Anyone with...

Google Exec a Key Player in Egypt Protests
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 Freed in Egypt 
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Feb 7, 2011 12:59 PM CST

Google Exec Freed in Egypt

Wael Ghonim emerging as key figure in movement

(Newser) - Egyptian authorities released Google's top executive in the Middle East today, after secretly detaining him for more than a week, the Wall Street Journal reports. The executive, Wael Ghonim, has emerged as a key opposition figure in the massive protests against the Mubarak administration, according to the Journal . Protest organizers...

Ex-Girlfriend Gets Revenge Via Google Search

She floods ex's image on web, with mocking messages

(Newser) - Unless this is an elaborate hoax, a tech-savvy girl has gotten a very new-fashioned sort of revenge on her old flame—via Google. She manipulated the search function so it coughs up repeated images of him when his name is typed in, each with a mocking (and sometimes pretty nasty)...

Microsoft to Google: We Don't Copy, You Copy

Bing execs angrily deny cheating charges

(Newser) - Call it Nerd Wars II: The Empire Strikes Back. Microsoft angrily denied Google's recent claims that Bing has been copying Google's search results , calling the accusation "insulting," in a ratcheting up of tensions between the two computer giants. "We do not copy results from any of our...

Google Way Outspends Rivals in Lobbying

Company spent $5.16 million, a 29% increase in 2010

(Newser) - Google spent more on lobbying last year than Apple, Facebook, and Yahoo combined, dropping a total of $5.16 million—or 29% more than the year before, according to its Lobbying Disclosure Act Database filing. The jump is pretty understandable, given that net neutrality and online privacy were major issues,...

Google Catches Bing Copying Its Results

It theorizes that it's spying on users with IE, Bing toolbar

(Newser) - Google is furious. The search giant says it’s caught Bing red-handed stealing its search results—or, at least, mining data from its results to use to adjust Bing's own ranking algorithm. It suspects Bing is using Internet Explorer and/or the Bing toolbar to monitor users’ Google queries and results....

Bing or Google? According to Jeopardy!, the Winner Is...

...Google, but not by all that much

(Newser) - Bing vs. Google: How will we ever really know which search engine is superior? Easy: Jeopardy! will tell us. A computer expert ran 200,000 of the game show’s clues into common search engines to see which came up with the correct answer—in the form of a question—...

Egypt Shutting Down Cell Phone Networks

But Google's helping people get around Internet blocks

(Newser) - Egypt is again targeting communication networks ahead of a million-man protest planned today. Mobile phone networks will be shut down over the next few hours, CNN reports. Google has announced on its official blog that it has set up a "speak-to-tweet" service to help Egyptians get around Internet blocks....

Google Exec Missing in Egypt
 Google Exec Missing in Egypt 
Jan 31, 2011 3:54 PM CST

Google Exec Missing in Egypt

Head of marketing expressed sympathy with protesters

(Newser) - A Google exec has gone missing amid the chaos reigning in Egypt, the Wall Street Journal reports. Family and friends have been unable to reach Wael Ghonim, head of Google's marketing for the Middle East and North Africa, since 6pm on Friday. While spotty Internet access is making routine communication...

Google Voice Launches Number Porting

Users now allowed to move cell numbers to service

(Newser) - Google's Voice calling application is adding a long-promised feature: the ability to move a phone number from a cell phone to Google's service. Previously, Google Voice assigned each user a new number,making it more difficult to take advantage of its features, which include cheaper international calls and the ability...

Google to Hire More Than 6,200 Workers This Year

Would be the biggest one-year growth in company history

(Newser) - Now here's a Google search that should make President Obama happy: "jobs." Google says it will hire more than 6,200 workers this year—25% of its work force—in the online giant's biggest hiring spree yet. Some Wall Street analysts complain that Google is quickly becoming too...

Google CEO Considering Talk Show Career

Sources say Eric Schmidt in talks with CNN

(Newser) - After a decade at the helm of one of the world's most powerful companies, departing Google CEO Eric Schmidt plans to seek new challenges on the talk show circuit, sources at CNN say. Schmidt—who will be replaced by Google co-founder Larry Page in Apri l—wants to host his...

Firefox to Offer Do-Not-Track Tool ... With One Catch

Companies will first have to agree not to track you

(Newser) - If you don’t like the idea of online companies tracking your every move , you may want to start using Firefox. Mozilla announced its Web browser will be the first to answer the FTC’s call for a do-not-track system , the Wall Street Journal reports. Just one problem: In order...

Spurned by Groupon, Google Creates Competitor

'Google Offers' has a familiar ring to it

(Newser) - If you can't buy 'em , run 'em out of town seems to be Google's motto. Mashable reports exclusively that Internet 800-pound gorilla Google is planning to launch "Google Offers," a service that offers a "pre-paid offers/vouchers program" to local merchants. While not announced, much less launched, it...

Eric Schmidt Out as Google CEO—With $334M Payday

Co-founder Larry Page will take over in April

(Newser) - Google made a surprise shuffle at the top today when announcing its quarterly results: Eric Schmidt is stepping down as CEO and will be replaced by co-founder Larry Page, reports MarketWatch . Schmidt will remain with the company as executive chairman, while Page's co-founder, Sergey Brin, will take a bigger role...

Google Takes Spain's Privacy Laws to Court

Case will be heard Wednesday

(Newser) - Google has never been a big fan of privacy , and now it’s going so far as to challenge Spain’s privacy laws in court. A government organization claims that Spanish law requires Google to remove links from its search engine if those links go to information that could compromise...

Google Computers Try to Tackle Poetry Analysis

Researchers say translating verse among the hardest challenges

(Newser) - "If music be the food of love, compute on." Yes, Google, has a new target in its sights—poetry. Google programmers are working on computers that can understand and translate poetry, NPR reports . "It's what we call AI complete," said a research scientist at Google. "...

Google App Solves Sudoku in Seconds
Google App Solves
Sudoku in Seconds
Jan 11, 2011 12:20 PM CST

Google App Solves Sudoku in Seconds

'Google Goggles' takes challenge out of puzzle

(Newser) - Sudoku fans might love or hate this: The updated Google Goggles phone app can solve even the most difficult of the numeric puzzles in seconds. The phone's camera takes an image of the puzzle and sends it to Google, whose central servers make quick work of it and send back...

Google to Bite at Apple With Digital Newsstand?

Google trying to drum up support among publishers, say insiders

(Newser) - Google is considering launching a digital newsstand that would cater to users of smartphones and tablets that run Android, setting the stage for a competition with Apple for publishers’ support. Apple’s iTunes already sells a number of popular periodicals; Google has reportedly held talks with Time Inc., Condé Nast,...

Sorry, Google: Facebook Most-Visited Site in US

Social network eats up 8.9% of US visits

(Newser) - Facebook knocked Google from its cushy No. 1 slot this year, becoming the most-visited website in the US, Reuters reports. Between January and November, Facebook saw 8.9% of all US visits; Google.com saw 7.2%. If you count all of Google’s properties, like YouTube and Gmail, however,...

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