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Google Translate now helps with pronunciation
News It's one thing to translate a word, but it's another thing to know how to correctly pronounce a word written in an unfamiliar character set. Google Translate just added that feature.
Tags: Service level management, Google Inc., Language, English, Service level management
Google set to promote Chrome extensions
News One of the standout features of Chrome 4.0 is customization through extensions. Google appears on the brink of launching a gallery to showcase them.
Tags: Web browsers, Extension, Google Inc., Web Browser, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Google Chrome, Apple Mac OS, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox
Google, Bing continue gains at Yahoo's expense
News Over last several months fewer and fewer searches have been performed on Yahoo's sites, with market leader Google and upstart Microsoft seeing the benefits.
Tags: Search, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., U.S., Internet search, Asia-Pacific, ComScore Networks Inc., Yahoo Search, barrier
Another news tweak for Google
News Publishers who want their content to appear in Google search results but not its Google News aggregator (or vice versa) can now automate that process.
Tags: Search, Market research, Google Inc., search engine, Rupert Murdoch, Microsoft Corp., CEO, revenue, Internet search, Google News
New Google search UI brings color, search options
News Search results user interface being tested highlights different options in eye-catching color, a nod to rivals trying to dent its lead with presentation improvements.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web browsers, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., search engine, Microsoft Corp., Web sites, Web 2.0, Search Result
News Corp.'s challenge to Google
News Rupert Murdoch may make a deal with Microsoft to make Bing the only search engine to deliver News Corp. content--unless antitrust cops object.
Tags: Antitrust, Search, Google Inc., search engine, Rupert Murdoch, advertisement, Microsoft Corp., News Corp., Wall Street Journal, vice president
Offline Gmail no longer shuns attachments
News Google hasn't forgotten about improving offline use of its Web apps. Gmail now can handle attachments when a computer is off the network.
Tags: E-mail clients, E-mail servers, Google Inc., Web Browser, Google Calendar, Web Application, e-mail, Google Docs, Google Gmail, Microsoft Outlook
News Corp.'s talks with Microsoft: A flawed deal?
News Confining content from The Wall Street Journal and other News Corp. publications to Microsoft's Bing will do more to hurt Rupert Murdoch than Google.
Tags: Search, Web browsers, Social Networking, MySpace, Google Inc., Arianna Huffington, Rupert Murdoch, Microsoft Corp., News Corp., Wall Street Journal
Firefox hopes to one-up IE with fast graphics
News Windows 7 features called Direct2D and DirectWrite will speed up Internet Explorer 9 performance. But Firefox hopes it might retool for the same benefit first.
Tags: Web browsers, Service level management, Google Inc., Direct2D, DirectWrite, Bas Schouten, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Graphics, Mozilla Corp.
New standard lets browsers get a grip on files
News The Files interface, now a draft at the World Wide Web Consortium, could lead to better uploading and other chores. It's largely built into Firefox 3.6.
Tags: Web browsers, Service level management, Google Inc., File, Web Browser, Photo-sharing, Web-based Application, W3C, Mozilla Corp., Web Application
Google buys Teracent to boost display ad push
News Google's latest acquisition is a startup that helps advertisers format and target display ads to particular groups.
Tags: Internet advertising, Acquisitions, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Teracent, advertisement, Internet Search Advertising, Stock, DoubleClick Inc., leader
Report: Microsoft may help News Corp. delist sites
News The media empire is talking with tech giant about having its Web sites removed from Google search results, according to a Financial Times report.
Tags: Web sites, Search, Google Inc., search engine, Rupert Murdoch, advertisement, Microsoft Corp., Web sites, financial, News Corp.
Yahoo adds photos, tweets to news search
News Newsy searches won't just produce links to stories now on Yahoo. Searchers will be able to see photos, videos, and tweets from main search results page.
Tags: Search, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Yahoo Launch, Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Video, photograph, API, Search Result
Mozilla not interested in building Firefox OS
News Does Firefox backer want to turn its open-source browser into the basis for an operating system a la Google's Chrome OS? Not for now at least.
Tags: Browser, Web browsers, Google Inc., Mitchell Baker, Operating System, revenue, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Internal Revenue Service, Microsoft Internet Explorer
New Firefox 3.6 beta aims to cut crashes
News Third beta imposes new restriction on how third-party software can interact with it. And feature called Resource Package could speed up Firefox 3.7.
Tags: Web browsers, Google Inc., Web Page, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Mozilla Corp., Beta, release candidate, Mozilla Firefox, performance
