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Google News launches Twitter feed

Google News, the news aggregation site run by the Internet search giant announced the launch of the @googlenews Twitter feed in a post on the Google News blog on Monday.

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Google refines searches for pictures and news

Google on Monday unveiled software tools that let people search the Internet using pictures or chronologically organize results of queries for news.

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created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

German Internet community cries foul over Google news law

Germany's Internet community, gathered at the world's biggest high-tech fair, was up in arms Thursday at a draft law forcing Google and other similar sites to pay media firms for content.

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created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Google gives Gmail a new look

Google on Tuesday unveiled a new look for its free email service, inviting users to switch if they like what they see.

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created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Google in talks to buy Hulu: report

Google is in preliminary talks to acquire the online video site Hulu, the Los Angeles Times reported on its website Friday, citing anonymous sources familiar with the discussions.

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created Jul 01, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Twitter tries to turn 140 characters into money

On "The Tonight Show," Conan O'Brien used to get big laughs for mocking Twitter as an egotistical stream of mundane updates from celebrities.

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created Feb 03, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fox joins broadcasters in blocking Google TV link

(AP) -- News Corp.'s Fox has joined broadcasters ABC, CBS and NBC in blocking access to full episodes of shows when searched from Google TV's Web browser, according to a person at Fox familiar with the matter.

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 11, 2010 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (7) | comments 7

Murdoch to limit Google, Microsoft access to News Corp. papers

News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday that Google and Microsoft's access to his newspapers could be limited to a "headline or a sentence or two" once he erects a pay wall around his titles' websites.

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created Apr 07, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 14

Google responds to newspaper critics

Faced with a steady drumbeat of criticism from a shrinking newspaper industry, Google is out to prove that it is friend not foe.

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created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 9

New study looks at unauthorized use of US newspaper stories

A study of the use of US newspaper stories on the Web has found that more than 75,000 websites reused content from newspapers without authorization during a 30-day period.

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created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Google to let publishers limit free website access (Update)

Google, under fire from Rupert Murdoch and some other newspaper owners, said it will let publishers set a limit on the number of articles people can read for free through its search engine.

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created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Media execs make case for online fees at FTC panel

(AP) -- Media companies need to deliver compelling information on a variety of electronic devices and overcome readers' resistance to paying for material online, news executives said Tuesday at a government-sponsored ...

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (6) | comments 11

Don't bet newspapers will get rich shunning Google

(AP) -- There's an intriguing idea floating around the media: Microsoft Corp. wants to undercut Google so badly in Internet search that it might pay newspapers to withhold their content from Google. Just don't count on that ...

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created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 5

News Corp, Microsoft hold talks on Google: report

Microsoft has held talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp over a possible plan for the software giant to pay the media company to remove its news websites from Google, a report said Monday.

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created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (7) | comments 5

Google says Murdoch stories can be taken off

Google said on Tuesday, in response to threats by Rupert Murdoch to ban the search engine from listing content from his news empire, that any company could ask to have stories taken off. ...

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created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Google News

Google News is an automated news aggregator provided by Google Inc. The initial idea, StoryRank—related to Google's PageRank formula—was developed by Krishna Bharat in 2001, the Principal Research Scientist of Google. No human is involved in the altering of the front page or story promotion, beyond tweaking the aggregation algorithm. Google News left beta in January 2006.

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