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Google's Talent May Be Headed Out The Door

Google's famous for hiring the best and the brightest, but when they get bored, they're bound to create the son-of-Google, warns Fortune's Jeffrey O'Brien.

Seeing that I was unimpressed by the observation, Kraus grew more insistent. "Ten days in a new job and you don't meet anyone who's dumb? That's weird," he said.

Kraus meant it as a compliment for his new colleagues and to his new employer. Every company wants to hire the smartest people possible, and Google has clearly succeeded. But you know what you get when you get too many smart people in one room? You get the corporate equivalent of the U.S. Olympic basketball team.

And now with the up and down in the GOOG stocks, Google sure will have to ease the process of hiring cream. You cannot hire the best to hold the camera for a group photograph! And as the cream in Google keeps NO job up to there expectations they are surely gonnna create son-of-Google.

Armed with seven-figure bank accounts and professional networks of dozens of other equally brilliant and rich new friends, those frustrated Googlers are bound to set out on their own and ignite a son-of-Google wave of innovation. If a company the size of PayPal can kick off a second wave that includes LinkedIn, Slide, Yelp, YouTube, Clarium Capital, and Room 9 Entertainment, among others, the sons-of-Google wave should be a world-changer.

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Source: cnn money

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Where Does Google Get All The Gmail Hard Drive Space

Secret Solved! Above is shown a representation of where does Google get all the space it is providing to its users. The image shows a funny representation of the earth as the Hard Disk :)

Gmail At Amazon

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Source: geekculture
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India's Bharti to offer Google search on mobiles

As expected, Google is ready to capture everyone. Even the non Internet users, huh! After this announcement other rivals should be running there brains.

Bharti Airtel Ltd. (BRTI.BO: Quote, Profile, Research), India's top mobile services firm, said on Thursday it will offer Google Inc.'s (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) search facility for mobile phones.

Indian carriers are increasingly boosting their value-added services in a bid to offset a decline in voice tariffs due to intense competition in the world's fastest growing wireless services market.

Indian carriers added 6.7 million new users in October. At 136.22 million users, the mobile base is six times the number of people in India who have a desktop computer.

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Source: Reuters
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Want to be a Search Superstar.

Remember those days of yours when you used to dream of being like superman batman etc. Well, not those reel life heroes but google is ready to make you a search superstar. If you think you really have used google in a way others haven't then submit your story and you may be famous. Who knows!

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Google Shares Set to Fall

The paper added that the price that advertisers are willing to pay for search keywords has fallen.

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Holiday Shopping with Google

Google has released Google Checkout, a tool that will allow customers to buy products using this service.

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Yahoo into food business!

In the wake of Google’s recent purchase of Youtube, lauded by analysts as a brilliant move in furthering Google’s control over internet media, Yahoo has come up with its own idea: Yahoo! Food. What exactly are they thinking?

Yahoo has been under a lot of pressure from investors as its share of the search market slips more and more each quarter, contributing to a plummeting stock price that is already down 34% this year. How a food site will compensate for Yahoo’s deficit in its core function – search – is a mystery.

“People go to Yahoo for four things: search, news, e-mail, and finance” says search engine analyst Evan Bailyn. “Cooking recipes aren’t one of those things. And even if Yahoo has somehow hit upon something big with this food site, you know Google will just come out with a better version in six months."

Source: Irony

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Yahoo's Future

“Yahoo touches one out of every two people on the Internet every month, which is unparalleled reach. Despite the fact that Yahoo actually has more traffic than Google, Google has more revenue. So there definitely is a problem with Yahoo’s monetization."

“The main problem is that Yahoo has not been nearly as good as Google at reaping profits from the huge volume of search traffic it attracts. Yahoo’s search revenue in the third quarter was $191 million, versus $911 million for Google. The industry’s growth rate is catching up with Yahoo’s in this area. When someone’s growth rate is declining, it’s hard to know where the bottom is. Still, Wall Street’s worries about this seem overdone, creating a buying opportunity at the beginning of a traditionally strong holiday period for the Internet” Justin Post, a Merrill Lynch analyst in San Francisco, said.

Source: SoftPedia

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Google Invites Advertisers to Google Ad Placements

"Hello, we’re excited to let you know that your account is one of a select few for which we’ve enabled a new feature called ad placements. Ad placements are groups of ad units that you can define and highlight to advertisers. Creating an ad placement is as easy as creating a custom channel, and ad placements will help you generate more revenue by increasing the visibility of your ad spaces to advertisers."

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Huh, Use Google to Talk Over Your Phone!

Now there, these guys have gone mad. Can you believe it? They will let you talk to businesses you find on Google search results pages. When this feature is available for a business, you'll see a green phone icon in their advertisement or a call link next to their contact information.

Here's how it works: Click the phone icon or call link, and you'll be invited to enter your own phone number into a special field. When you do so and then click Connect for free, Google will call your number almost immediately. Pick up, and you'll hear ringing on the other end as Google connects you to the business you selected. When they answer, you simply talk normally as you would with any other call. And all this for free!

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Read here about Google's Click-to-Call debut.

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Indian Farmers use Google Earth to Fight for there Rights

[Source: CNBC TV18]

Earth is flattening. Another feather to Google Earth's Cap. Farmers hardly 140 Km from Mumbai (India) used Google Earth to prove to the authorities that there land wasn't infertile and demanded proper compensations in return to government taking there land for Special Economic Zone (SEZ).

Now, the government will think twice before acting smart against the poor (intelligent) farmers.

Not only India, but outer world villages are also using technology now.

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Orkut Word Generator

All those who have used orkut are familiar with the little "people alphabet" font which orkut uses to get the profile names printed. Now you can get your words generated as per your convenience here.

The images here are generated by Google's Orkut. You can even try the "honor" and "nature" fonts also.

Courtesy: Google

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Yahoo's Instant Messaging to merge with its mail box.

Yahoo Mail, which counts 250 million active monthly users, plans in coming months to incorporate the Yahoo Messenger instant-messaging program inside the e-mail service, Yahoo executive Brad Garlinghouse said.

Courtesy: ExpressIndia

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Can't find something in Google?

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