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The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions
Google uses a complicated structure to send most of its overseas profits to tax havens, keeping its corporate rate at a super-low 2.4 percent.
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Effective Search Terms Yield the Right Information
University of Gothenburg doctoral student Karin Friberg Heppin says that asking for information in the right way would help improve the performance of search engines...
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The Business Of Burying Internet Search Results
Unseen battles are waged every day on the Internet to protect and destroy brands and reputations. The Internet can be a hostile place, with powerful companies paying...
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How Google Tested Google Instant
In a world of data-obsessed number-crunching engineers, Google's John Boyd is the people person.
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For Baseball Archivists, a Tag Ends Every Play
Most baseball fans saw it as a dribbler in front of the plate, a throw to first and the completion of a no-hitter for Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay...
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Researchers Say Web Searches Are Good Predictors of Success
Web searches are an indicator of the success of movies, games, and songs, according to a Yahoo! research group. Although the study found that traditional predictors...
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Personal Fabrication
Open source 3D printers could herald the start of a new industrial revolution.
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Google Researching Real-Time Frustration Detection
Google researchers are studying how people behave when their search is unsuccessful. Frustrated searchers may frown, move closer to the computer monitor, sigh,...
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Why Google Went Instant
The service, an engineering marvel, could boost Google's bottom line.
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Google
Lately, stories about Google often seem to be stories about conflict—Google knocking heads with China or the Justice Department or Facebook. For Eric E. Schmidt...
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Tim Berners-Lee Calls For Free Internet Worldwide
Tim Berners-Lee said that he would like to see everybody given a low-bandwidth connection "by default."
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Religious Search Engines Yield Tailored Results
In a world where Google has put every bit of information at our fingertips, some people are now demanding less information when they surf the Internet.
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Google Speeds Queries With 'instant' Results
Those who find Google’s search engine to be impossibly slow will welcome Google Instant, an upgrade to the company’s search results that it unveiled Wednesday.
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The Human Process Behind Google's Algorithm
Google is famous for evangelizing the power of the algorithm. It spends less time talking about the several hundred human beings who influence its algorithm.
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Texas Ag Probing Google's Searches
The Texas attorney general's office is conducting an antitrust review of Google Inc.'s core search-engine business, a sign of widening government scrutiny of...
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Two Years On, Chrome Reshapes Browser Market
It's been two years since the first public version of Chrome appeared, but in some ways, Google's browser remains a novelty.
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Searching For Fun
Research suggests that search engines could tap into users' need to be entertained.
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Google Gives Real-Time Search Its Own Page
Google is digging deeper into real-time search, with a new search page that displays only results from timely sources, like updates from Twitter and other social...
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A Search Service that Can Peer Into the Future
Yahoo!'s Barcelona research lab has developed Time Explorer, a prototype news search engine that generates timelines that stretch into the future as well as the...
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