Archive for August, 2009

Another Google Summer Of Code Concludes

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Google’s fifth Summer of Code has ended, and by all accounts, it was quite a success.  Indeed, the students’ official success rate this year was judged to be the highest ever, and with 2,000 mentors and 1,000 students participating, that’s no statistical fluke.
The Summer of Code is, in case you didn’t know, a program Google [...]

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Google Brings Video/Voice Chat to Your Home Page

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iGoogle App Makes Users’ Home Pages More Social
Google now has a video chat application that can be used from your iGoogle home page. This is just the latest feature Google has added to its ever-growing list of products/features that make it more like a giant social network.
“We have had video chat in Gmail for a [...]

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Google’s Matt Cutts on .com Relevancy in UK

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Some UK Google users have noticed that search results pages are showing more results from .com sites these days, than in the past. They are used to .co.uk sites getting better rank, and assuming that they are more relevant to their geographic location.
Certainly in some cases the .co.uk site would be more relevant to a [...]

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