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Google releases Patent search beta

0 comments | Thursday, December 14, 2006

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New service from Google lets you search the entire text of the U.S. patent corpus (that's over 7 million patents), together with images.

Google Patent search lets you search by criteria - patent number, inventor, and filing date. It is similar to Google Book Search, which means that you can scroll through pages and zoom in on the text and images.

I've tried it out and got several server-not-responding errors, which were probably just coincidence. Other than that, it works fine, and will surely be an invaluable resource to all those folks who think that immeasurable wealth is just one patent away. I've immediately tried searching for a "Car seat with integrated side light", and - damn! - it already exists. So much for my dreams of wealth and glory.

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Google Toolbar 3 beta for Firefox released

0 comments | Wednesday, December 13, 2006

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Google has announced the release of the beta 3 version of Google Toolbar for Firefox, which sports some really interesting options.

Among other things, the new Google toolbar lets you share pages via Blogger, Gmail and SMS, and add custom buttons to your Toolbar, and share web pages via Blogger, Gmail, and SMS.

But the most important feature which might make me a user (I'm not a big fan of any extra toolbars in Firefox because they take away my precious screen space, so I don't use Google Toolbar) is this: it now lets you access your bookmarks from any computer. Finally, an end to the torments of having two different sets of bookmarks at work and at home.

Get Google Toolbar here.

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Google steals design from Yahoo; apologizes

0 comments | Tuesday, December 12, 2006

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Google blatantly stole a design template from Yahoo for their get IE7 campaign. It wouldn't be a big deal if they had just used Microsoft's template, but it's pretty obvious that they actually stole from Yahoo. Matt Cutts of Google apologizes to Yahoo's designer team, but doesn't forget to point out how Yahoo copied their AdSense template.

To be honest, the fact that big G stole a design for the promotion of a third party product would hardly be newsworthy, but the fact that their design actually has Yahoo's recognizable 'Y' all over it, and badly erased in Photoshop, makes it funny (and worth firing the guy/girl who did it).

What Matt points out about Yahoo stealing their AdSense template, is actually far more important, since this is their original product that makes money. But, it's a little too late to be digging through old design mistakes now; Google will have to take some public beating for their dumb move, and will probably make sure stuff like that doesn't happen again.

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Google kills Google Answers

0 comments | Wednesday, November 29, 2006

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Google is shutting down one of its services for a change, and - lo and behold - it's one of their rare services that's not free, Google Answers

At this time Google Answers is still operational, however according to the official Google blog, it's not receiving any new questions, and new answers will be accepted until the end of the year. The answers to old questions will stay online though.

Although it's weird to see Google shut down one of their services, it's not a big surprise - they've tried so many different things over the years that some of them were bound to ultimately fail.

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