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Google has issued an apology after a “miscalculation” caused a blackout of its Gmail service, affecting the “majority” of its 150 million users. The firm described Tuesday’s two-hour outage as a “big deal” and said it was investigating ways to ensure... (Continue reading)
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The battle over Google’s effort to digitise the world’s books and create a vast online library has intensified. Authors have until Friday to opt out of the $125m settlement the search giant made with authors and publishers. The date for comments to... (Continue reading)
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Written on 4 Sep, 2009 at 0:43 in COMPANIES, FEATURED, TECHNOLOGY, WEB TECHNOLOGY | viewed 391 times | 0 Comments
The man who led Google’s expansion into China is leaving the company to start his own business. Lee Kai-Fu, who joined from Microsoft in 2004, will step down as president of Google in greater China in September, the company said. When he... (Continue reading)
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Three technology heavyweights are joining a coalition to fight Google’s attempt to create what could be the world’s largest virtual library. Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo will sign up to the Open Book Alliance being spearheaded by the Internet Archive. They oppose a... (Continue reading)
New Google ‘puts Bing in shade’
Google has lifted the lid on its updated search engine, which developers have nicknamed “Caffeine”. Although still in the testing phase, the firm says it is the “first step in improving the speed, accuracy and comprehensiveness of search results”. The new engine... (Continue reading)