One of our favorite things about Google? Is the amount of history you can learn from it. Take today for instance. Would you have ever known that it was the 115th anniversary of the x-ray? Wilhelm Roentgen discoverd it by accident by on this day in 1895. Perfect fact for any dinner parties you are attending tonight.
Introducing Google Instant: Search results appear instantly, as you type your query
“It’s Pakistan. This Muslim nation, notorious for conservatism, religious orthodoxy, and fanatical censorship seems to actually be the world’s forerunner in sex searches online according to data in Google Trends parsed by Fox News”
Where Google thinks the liberals are
Floating Sheep looks at Google Maps references to “conservative” and “liberal,” and finds Kansas is somehow very, very blue. Questions? - Maddowblog
Al Franken reprises a classic role in a bid to win a free fiber optic network from Google for a city he once mocked.
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Rupert Murdoch could ban Google access to his newspapers' content
Rupert Murdoch says he will remove stories from Google’s search index as a way to encourage people to pay for content online.
In an interview with Sky News Australia, the mogul said that newspapers in his media empire – including the Sun, the Times and the Wall Street Journal – would consider blocking Google entirely once they had enacted plans to charge people for reading their stories on the web.
In recent months, Murdoch his lieutenants have stepped up their war of words with Google, accusing it of “kleptomania” and acting as a “parasite” for including News Corp content in its Google News pages.
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