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Google In Global Push To Notify Copyright Holders For Book Search Program
Mountain View, California-based Internet search giant Google has been conducting one of the largest ever public notice campaigns in order to inform copyright holders worldwide of policies surrounding its ambitious book scanning program called Google Book Search.
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Google Moves Closer To User-Influenced Search With Preferred Sites
Mountain View, California-based Google is letting users of its leading search engine give preference to their favorite Web sites in a test of a new feature that displays a custom list of search results the Internet giant calls Preferred Sites.
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Google Webmaster Tool Automatically Determines Sitemap File Types
Google has updated the way its leading search engine finds Web site information with a new automatic and more forgiving method for using the sitemap files many webmasters have in place, Google announced Thursday.
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Google Abandons Proposed Yahoo Search Advertising Partnership
Six months after it was first proposed, Mountain View, California-based Google has abandoned a search advertising partnership with Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo, citing the risk of a lengthy legal battle with United States Justice Department antitrust regulators.
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Google Now Indexing Text Within Scanned Adobe PDF Files
Google has launched a system that will open up millions of additional pages of new information to its leading Internet search engine, by starting to index the writing contained within scanned documents placed on the Web in Adobe Systems' popular PDF file format.
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Google Turns Another Page In Book Scanning Program With $125 Million Settlement
Google turned another page in its ambitious book scanning program Tuesday when it announced a $125 million legal settlement with authors and major publishers that included the formation of a unique book rights holder registry in the U.S. and money to compensate some authors.
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Google Overhauls Web Blog Search Tool
Google has overhauled its tool for searching the Web's massive number of blogs, with a major update released Wednesday to its Blog Search service that added subject categories, graphs and other changes aimed at making the previously spartan tool a more interactive way to find writing on what it called a "massive mix" of blogs.
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Google In Unfamiliar Trailing Role In Some Large Markets
Google has grown to become the leading Internet search engine company in most global markets, yet it still lags far behind among the populations of a small group of key nations such as China and Russia, where local search firms such as Baidu and Yandex have flourished.
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Google Audio Indexing Searches Speech Within YouTube Videos
Google has expanded an internally developed method that lets users of its popular video sharing site YouTube search for words or phrases spoken within certain videos, with the Tuesday launch of Google Audio Indexing.
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Google Search For Windows Mobile Gets Virtual GPS Technology
Google has given its Windows Mobile device searchers the same free GPS-like cell tower identification technology it brought to mobile Google Maps users last year.
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