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Court : Google is the largest torrent search engine

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An update to Google Social Search

Today we’re doing a little bit more to bring you all the goodness of Google, plus the opinions of the people you care about. As always, we want to help you find the most relevant answers among the billions of interconnected pages on the web. But relevance isn’t just about pages—it’s also about relationships. That’s why we introduced Google Social Search in 2009, and why we’ve made a number of improvements since then. Today we’re taking another step forward—enabling you to get even more information from the people that matter to you, whether they’re publishing on YouTube, Flickr or their own blog or website.

First, social search results will now be mixed throughout your results based on their relevance (in the past they only appeared at the bottom). This means you’ll start seeing more from people like co-workers and friends, with annotations below the results they’ve shared or created. So if you’re thinking about climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro and your colleague Matt has written a blog post about his own experience, then we’ll bump up that post with a note and a picture.

Second, we’ve made Social Search more comprehensive by adding notes for links people have shared on Twitter and other sites. In the past, we’d show you results people created and linked through their Google profiles. Now, if someone you’re connected to has publicly shared a link, we may show that link in your results with a clear annotation (which is visible only to you, and only when you’re signed in). For example, if you’re looking for a video of President Obama on “The Daily Show” and your friend Nundu tweeted the video, that result might show up higher in your results and you’ll see a note with a picture of Nundu.

Third, we’ve given you more control over how you connect accounts, and made connecting accounts more convenient. You can still connect accounts publicly on your Google profile, but now we’ve added a new option to connect accounts privately in your Google Account. (After all, you may not want everyone to know you’re @spongebobsuperfan on Twitter.) In addition, if our algorithms find a public account that might be yours (for example, because the usernames are the same), we may invite you to connect your accounts right on the search results page and in your Google Account settings.

As always, you’ll only get social search results when you choose to log in to your Google Account. We’re starting to roll out the updates today on Google.com in English only and you’ll see them appear in the coming week. With these changes, we want to help you find the most relevant information possible, personalized to your interests and the people you care about. To learn more, check out our help center.Today we’re doing a little bit more to bring you all the goodness of Google,... more

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Man Finds he is Wanted for Murder by Googling Himself!

Seriously? A man who curiously Google'd his own name was shocked to discover that... more

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Report : Google Alters its Engine to Rank itself Higher

A report came out claiming Google ranked its own sites higher so they appear over... more

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The Butt Ox (PHOTO) - The Daily Blender

Today, I did a Google Image Search for "Bad Drawing" and found this. Looks... more

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Why Google guru quit to join Facebook

He has been hailed one of Google’s most influential product engineers designing everything from Google Maps to the now defunct Google Wave. But now Danish-born Rasmussen has become the third big name to leave Google in a week, joining Chad Hurley, the co-founder of YouTube, and Omar Hamoui, the co-founder of mobile advertising platform AdMob. Rasmussen has just spoken publicly for the first time about why he quit his job and joined the growing band of high profile Googlers who have switched allegiances to Facebook. And it all comes down to size, it seems that Google is now simply too big to get things done effectively.
The decision to move to Facebook comes less than two months after the Google said it would scrap Rasmussen's pet project, Google Wave, a venture that tried to redefine the tools for online communication and collaboration."We were not quite the success that Google was hoping for, and trying to persuade them not to pull the plug and ultimately failing was obviously a little stressful," Rassmusen said.Wave was unveiled in May last year but despite some impressive features, it failed to gain traction. Once the novelty wore off, it began losing momentum and users."It wasn't something that I would like to bet my life on, but all that excitement we created when we first unveiled the project was based on something real," Rasmussen said. "It takes a while for something new and different to find its footing and I think Google was just not patient."
Facebook fascination
"It feels to me that Facebook may be a sort of once-in-a-decade type of company," Rasmussen told The Sydney Morning Herald, explaining how he decided to end his six-year tenure at Google after a "compelling personal pitch" from Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg."Obviously they've already changed the world and yet there seems to be so much more to be done there. And I think that it's the right place for me to be."I think if you were to ask me two or three years ago if Facebook was going to be this big, I wouldn't have picked it. And I have a great deal to learn there from Mark and his team," he said.A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the appointment saying that the company was "thrilled [that Rasmussen will] be part of Facebook's world-class engineering team to help design transformative technologies". He has been hailed one of Google’s most influential product engineers... more

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Google Search gets updated, Motorola Droid X freezing issue remains?

Motorola Droid X owners have been complaining about freezing issues with the Google... more

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LO QUE NOS FALTABA! - Google TV

Primero fue Google, despues, Google Searches, Google Maps, Google Earth, Google... more

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Verizon Fascinate Android 2.2 update will bring Google Search

Verizon has confirmed that the Samsung Fascinate will get Google Search with its... more

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Verizon says Bing won't replace Google on all Android phones

Verizon and Microsoft have both dispelled yesterday’s rumor that Bing would... more

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Rumor: Verizon dropping Google Search from all future Android phones

While this isn’t official, several sources are indicating that Verizon may drop... more

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Why Aren't All Google Apps Made Equally Secure?

I think it’s a great idea, I wonder why all Google Apps are not made equal to... more

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Inside Google? Really? Seems More Like Outside

Consumer Watchdog, a non-profit organization whose mission is to fight on the behalf... more

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Google Flatlining in Search Just Means it Needs a New Platform

It would seem problematic to many that Google is unable to sustain growth in the... more

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Wireless Carriers Get Revenue Share From Google Search

Major mobile phone carriers with Android phones share revenue with Google - the kind... more

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Concerned About Privacy? Scroogle Scrapes Your Searches

Enter Scroogle. Its main purpose is to offer folks the ability to conduct searches... more

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Facebook May Have the Traffic, But Google Visitors Worth More

Although Facebook has surpassed Google Search, it isn't exactly a day of... more

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Google Offers “China Service Availability” Page

What’s interesting is that Google has even put up a page that lets users know... more

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Facebook Overtakes Google in Traffic

For as long as Google has been around, it has been a very popular site and as long as... more

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