Archive for September, 2010

Add-ons: Detecting and Displaying Add-on Version Numbers

In the past months we worked with add-on developers to release new versions of their add-ons that follow IE’s guidelines and requirements for add-on development. We used the Upgrade Advisor to help update their users to the new versions. Some add-on …

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More Beautiful Photos

Photos are one of the things people love to share, and they are often the most meaningful. Sometimes it’s snapshots of the ordinary—your new haircut, a homemade cupcake. Sometimes it’s bigger, more profound—a high-school graduation, a first tooth, a newborn! Ph…

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Explore seven continents with Street View on your phone

Head over to the Official Google Blog to read more about Street View on seven continents.Two years ago, we added Street View to Google Maps for mobile so you could explore the world at street level right from your phone. Today, we’re happy to announc…

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The Searches of September: Beginnings and Endings

September brings the beginning of school, the beginning of autumn, and the beginning of the fall TV season. Here at Yahoo! Search we’ve spent the month serving up answers to questions about all of these …and more.
The opening of the school year brought students back to their computers with requests for guidance about everything from [...]

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More People Turning Online to Research

Today PewResearchCenter released a report that goes into depth on the rise in how we are researching products online.  One of largest increases Pew found was how people are using the web to make their shopping and services decisions by comparing p…

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A galaxy of your own

Last December, we wrote about our immersive Google Earth environment, Liquid Galaxy: eight 55-inch LCD screens showing Google Earth in a unified, surround view.Liquid Galaxy at TED 2010Since then, we’ve taken it to a lot of conferences, built Liquid …

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Use Chrome like a pro (Now for Mac!)

(Cross posted on Official Google Mac Blog.)Two months ago, Chrome team members shared a list of their favorite extensions on the Official Google Blog. This time around, we asked Mac aficionados on the Chrome team to share with us the extensions they li…

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Explore the world with Street View, now on all seven continents

(Cross-posted with the Google Lat Long Blog)We introduced Street View back in May 2007, enabling people to explore street-level imagery in five U.S. cities. We were excited to share a virtual reflection of the real world to enable armchair exploration….

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Veni, Vidi, Verba Verti

Ut munimenta linguarum convellamus et scientiam mundi patentem utilemque faciamus, instrumenta convertendi multarum nationum linguas creavimus. Hodie nuntiamus primum instrumentum convertendi linguam qua nulli nativi nunc utuntur: Latinam. Cum pauci co…

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Yabba Dabba doodle!

As a young kid, I drew a lot of dinosaurs. My dad would bring home reams of dot matrix printer paper from work, which I’d take, fold into stapled booklets, and then fill with dinosaurs doing what dinosaurs did—eating, leaping about, facing off in epi…

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