Tuesday, February 09, 2010 11:47 AM/EST

Google Maps VP Explains New Nearby Places Feature

Mike Blumenthal did a nice Q&A with Carter Maslan, Google's vice president of product development for Google Maps, about Nearby Place You Might Like, a new feature that surfaces competing stores when you search for a business on Google Maps.

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Monday, February 08, 2010 9:30 AM/EST

Google Super Bowl Ad Spreads Parisian Love, Bing Misses Out

Google aired its Parisian Love ad, a 52-second YouTube clip with toward the end of the third quarter of the NFL Super Bowl Feb. 7 between the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts. Where was Microsoft Bing during the Superbowl? With 11 percent, that search engine is starving for more users. Once again, Microsoft is left out of another Web conversation, even if it's not scintillating.

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Sunday, February 07, 2010 4:39 AM/EST

Google CEO Eric Schmidt Tweets of Google Super Bowl Ad

Google CEO Eric Schmidt tweeted that the search engine will air an ad during the third quarter of today's NFL Super Bowl, which can cost $3 million for just 30 seconds of air time. Google has to do something with that $25 billion of cash in the bank. Why not call attention to itself during the biggest advertising blitz of the year in the U.S.?

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Sunday, February 07, 2010 12:01 AM/EST

Google Maps Nearby Places Are Too Similar to Be Truly Useful

The Google Maps team added a new feature that pits competing businesses against one another in a block of local links on Place Pages. Normally I praise the endless rollout of Maps features, but I'm torn about this feature, dubbed "Nearby Place You Might Like."

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Friday, February 05, 2010 12:22 PM/EST

Why Google and Apple Should Take a Look at Siri

Out of Stanford's research arm comes Siri, a company whose mobile application leverages artificial intelligence to conduct transactions for smartphone users looking to book a table at a restaurant or buy movie tickets while on the go. Whether they boosted or squashed the Siri app, Google and Apple would no doubt love to add the talent behind it.

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Thursday, February 04, 2010 11:38 AM/EST

Google, Microsoft Meet in the Lobby on Capitol Hill

Google spent $4 million on lobbying in 2009, up from $2.84 million in 2008 and almost three times the $1.52 million it spent in 2007. Microsoft's own lobbying spend plummeted from 2007 and 2008, where it was around $9 million, to $6.72 million. Microsoft must feel some cognitive dissonance here; while it's nice not to be the top target of governmental scrutiny, it's also a sign that it's not a threat to consumers, let alone competitors.

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Wednesday, February 03, 2010 10:48 AM/EST

Google Wave Gets Project Management Via Wrike.com

Wrike.com, which makes a well-regarded project management SAAS suite, Feb. 3 said it is now automatically syncing with Wave. No one will desert their IBM Lotus, Microsoft SharePoint or even Google Apps platforms yet, but Wave could be promising if Google and third-party collaborators such as Wrike.com continue to make Wave a valuable business tool.

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Tuesday, February 02, 2010 2:33 PM/EST

Google Chrome OS Team Answers Apple iPad with Tablet UI

Fresh pictures of Google's Chrome Operating System running on a tablet computer are dominating high-tech talk today, less than a week after Apple unveiled its iPad tablet.

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Monday, February 01, 2010 2:13 PM/EST

Google Chrome Cracks 5% Share as It Creeps Up on Firefox, IE

Google's Chrome Web browser continued to gain market share through the first month of 2010, garnering 5.2 percent of the worldwide browser market. Chrome's market share of 5.2 percent means it has gained two whole percentage points since September, when Net Applications pegged it at 3.17 percent.

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Sunday, January 31, 2010 9:18 AM/EST

Apple CEO Steve Jobs Says Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Pledge Is BS

Apple CEO Steve Jobs says Google's Don't Be Evil mantra rings false during a town hall meeting after the launch of Apple's iPad Jan. 27. Forget about Google versus Microsoft (and Yahoo). Google versus Apple is bound to be a title fight for the mobile Web over the next decade.

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