New Media + IT

Google Korea plans to introduce an age-verification system to its search engine later this year that will restrict adult-themed searches to those 19 years of age and older, it said Thursday.
More at Infoworld: "Google Korea to censor search results"

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[ categorized as: Censorship, Google, Search ]

Okay, yet another Google post :)
At LifeHacker I read a post on an experimental Google search that let's you navigate through the search results Gmail style.
Check it out :D

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[ categorized as: Google, Search ]

I read about it yesterday at the Google Blog, the universal search that is suppose to make it easier to search for the same query across the web, news, images, blogs, music and videos.
However you don't get the same options at every search, for instance a search for "Ungdomshuset" (the "Youth house" here in Denmark [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Search ]

According to CNet Google has 64 percent of all search queries in the US:

Web search leader Google's market share inched up to 64 percent of all queries among U.S. Internet searchers in March, gaining further ground against Yahoo and Microsoft, a survey released on Wednesday by Hitwise found.
The number of search queries on Google rose [...]

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I find this quite cool…
Found via Digg.

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[ categorized as: Google, Mac, Search ]

Vaibhav (who as posted some comments on this blog) has posted about Google Alerts at his own blog:
Go to http://www.google.com/alerts and login with your Google account credentials. Now let’s say you want to be notified whenever there is something new on the web (or at least the part that Google monitors); let’s say this something [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Search ]

I just saw this at the Google Blog: Google has now started to include YouTube videos in the video search results.
YouTube still remains independent, though:
YouTube, as we've stated previously, will remain an independent subsidiary of Google, and will continue to operate separately. Google will support YouTube by providing access to search and monetization platforms and, [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Search ]

Many of you have do doubt seen this before, but I think it deserves to be posted again.
A Google Image search for "tiananmen" clearly shows how the Chinese authorities are censoring the web.
Google.com image search
Google.cn image search

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