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Behold the surreal imagery of Google's 'dreams'

The search giant has trained neural networks to interpret photos, but they can also be coaxed to create monsters.



  • Research & Innovations

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Google will never be a substitute for your brain

Context is key, and it's something computers and search engines like Google just don't have yet.



  • Research & Innovations

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Google, Apple leaders team up to tackle aging

Google CEO Larry Page and Apple Chairman Arthur Levinson are joining forces on Calico, a healthcare project.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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Bill Gates chides Google for charity choices

With malaria and polio eradication at the top of Gates' to-do list, the Microsoft founder finds fault with Google's focus on tech projects.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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Google Street could help in the battle against invasive species

Google's online street views could help scientists track and fight invasive species over the Internet.




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Environmentalists are bringing solutions right to your desktop via Google Earth

Environmental activists are bringing problems (and solutions) right to your desktop via Google Earth.




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New Google Maps for mobile features Zagat reviews and new offers

Android and iOS users alike will benefit from a redesigned Google Maps app that will include ratings, deals and an incident reporting feature.



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Why the Google car could change everything

The self-driving car won't just change the way we get around; it could also change the way we live and design our cities.




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Kids create eco-themed Google Doodles to compete for college cash

One Doodle 4 Google contest winner will earn $30K in college scholarships plus $50K for their school.



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Google Doodle for Earth Day is an interactive delight

The search engine shows the globe some love in celebration of April 22.




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Irish teen wins Google Science Fair with project to remove microplastics from water

Irish teen Fionn Ferreira won the 2019 Google Science Fair for removing microplastics from water.



  • Research & Innovations

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Google's super solar mirrors

Google announces breakthrough in mirror technology that could cut the costs of solar thermal power in half.



  • Research & Innovations

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Why Google's flu tracker missed the mark

An attempt to identify flu outbreaks by tracking people's Google searches about the illness hasn't lived up to its initial promise.




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Philadelphia's parks are getting the Google Street View treatment

It will take two men six months to digitally document the largest urban park system in America.



  • Gadgets & Electronics

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Free Google app turns old photo prints into glare-free digital images

Google's free PhotoScan takes five separate digital images of a print and combines them to create an image that's better than one taken with your phone.



  • Gadgets & Electronics

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The Google spy who loved me

There are a few things to know about Google Home, the home automating wunderkind.



  • Gadgets & Electronics

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Grow your own Groceries: Live Google+ Event

Grow your own groceries with a food garden




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Ebook Review: AdSense Confessions, How to Earn Google AdSense Income

Have you joined the herds of people earning a passive income from Pay Per Click using Google AdSense? If not, you're missing a golden opportunity. This ebook review is about "AdSense Confessions" written by Codrut Turcanu who reveals how nine people make varying levels of income for very little work.




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Google Marches On!

This article discusses Google's latest quarter, the September 2006 search market share report from Nielsen, and the potential of Microsoft buying Yahoo.




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Google AdSense and AdWords - Like Yin and Yang

Explains what Google's AdSense and Adwords are, how they relate to one another and how they are used together to drive traffic and make money on line.




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How to Achieve Google Adwords Success - Part Two

Learn Google Adwords success steps four through seven. Learn the secrets of punctuation, keywords, and placement to sky rocket your Google Adwords success.




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Create a Google Sitemap

Learn how to create and submit a Google Sitemap for your website.




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New Google Blog Search is Great Marketing News for Business Podcasts, Blogs and RSS Feed Publishers

New Google Blog Search is Great Marketing News for Business Podcasts, Blogs and RSS Feed Publishers. See how your business website can get more traffic with a quality Blog or Podcast today.




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STL.News is Included in Google News in Addition to Bing News and Apple News

STL.News and STLRestaurant.News are St. Louis based online publications that are included in Google News, Bing News, Apple News, News360.com and shared to more than 50 social sites




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Stylish Tech Earrings that Bring Siri/Google to Your Ear Now on Indiegogo!

Voice-first bluetooth earrings with a swappable module bring day-to-evening glamor to earphones




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SMART Technologies Now a Google for Education Partner

SMART Learning Suite helps teachers and administrators save time and simplify lesson delivery with G Suite integration.




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Stackup Joins the Google for Education Partner Program

Stackup uses artificial intelligence to measure students' reading and learning across the entire web




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FreeCast Taps Dish and Google Executives Amidst IPO Announcement

Tracy West, former Dish Network VP of Programming and Larry Weeks, Google's Head of Performance Teams are the latest high-profile additions to FreeCast's leadership.




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Ex-Google Engineer Who Became Right-Wing Hero Quietly Ends Suit




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Google Authenticator Users Can Now Transfer 2SV Secrets Between Devices

Google this week announced that Google Authenticator users can now transfer 2-Step Verification (2SV) secrets between devices.

The new feature is meant to make it easier for users to manage their Google Authenticator 2SV codes across multiple devices.

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Peninsula General Insurance Uses Improved Google Images Algorithm to Revamp Website

Peninsula General's website continues to offer a fast, online auto insurance quote system that was released in early September 2018.




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Digitization And Transportation: Northwestern University's Google Books Project

Beginning today, Northwestern University's Transportation Library begins its Google Books Digitization Project.

The University Libraries and Google are partnering to digitize hundreds of thousands of print volumes from their collections, rendering the contents readily available to scholars and researchers worldwide.

This is no small undertaking. The Transportation Library alone is one of the most extensive in the United States, containing over 500,000 items.

The Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a consortium of the Midwest's Big Ten Schools' plus the University of Chicago, signed on to digitize their libraries in June, 2007 but the process is just getting underway this Fall.

The project is expected to take several years, but the Transportation Library is one of the first campus libraries to send library items to Google for digitization. Google covers the transportation and digitization costs and Northwestern has received a generous donation from the Office of the Provost to help cover other technical costs.

We are told that books sent to Google for digitization may be off the shelves for up to three months. Once everything eligible for converting into electronic format has been digitized, those searching the library catalog will have the choice of borrowing the original print item or accessing the full-text document online.

Results from Google Book Search show up in both general Google searches as well as through the dedicated Google Books site.

The entire Google Books project has been a source of controversy over the last decade. Some hail the initiative's capacity to provide "anytime, anywhere" access to all of human knowledge. Others question the application of copyright laws for works published in one place but accessed around the world.

The Google Books enterprise is a complicated endeavor. While access to the ever-increasing (and increasingly digitized) world of knowledge is great, how can Google maintain a high-level of retrievability from a growing pool of millions of items? A recent article in The Atlantic highlights this challenge, with a concise overview of "Rich Results," Google's latest search algorithm that helps users find what they're looking for...even when they don't specifically ask for it.

Last month, Google speculated that it had scanned more than 15 million books from more than 100 countries in over 400 languages since 2004. Google Books' Engineering Director James Crawford went on to state:

"Our shared vision of bringing all the incredible content stored in the world's books online depends on working with libraries, publishers, authors and book lovers.

The greater the diversity of content on the web, the more useful it becomes. And the more people who can access the information cataloged in books, the more enlightening those works become."

Our goals are the same. Here at Metro's Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library & Archive, we have embarked on a digitization project of our own (sans Google) as outlined here. We want to provide greater access to our rich collections, make items more easily findable and retrievable, and preserve information and knowledge for generations to come.




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Google Open Sources SimCLR, A Framework for Self-Supervised and Semi-Supervised Image Training

The new framework uses contrastive learning to improve image analysis in unlabeled datasets.




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Google removed 2.7 billion bad ads, nearly 1 million ad accounts in 2019

This year,the company says it has removed “tens of millions” of COVID-19 related ads.

Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.




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Google’s new Podcasts Manager tool offers deeper data on listener behavior

It’s one step closer to the podcast analytics advertisers have been waiting for.

Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.




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New Google ‘Rising Retail Categories’ tool exposes fast-growing product searches

This is the first time Google says it has provided this kind of data to the public.

Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.




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Reverse Engineering Google’s Innovation Machine

Tom Davenport, Babson College professor and coauthor of the HBR article "Reverse Engineering Google's Innovation Machine."




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Improving Management at Google

Eric Clayberg, Google software-engineering manager, talks with Harvard Business School professor David Garvin about the feedback and training that he and others at the company receive through Project Oxygen.




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How Google Manages Talent

Eric Schmidt, executive chairman, and Jonathan Rosenberg, former SVP of products, explain how the company manages their smart, creative team.




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How One Google Engineer Turned Tragedy into a Moonshot

Mo Gawdat, founder of One Billion Happy and former Chief Business Officer at Google's X, spent years working in technological innovation. At Google's so-called "dream factory," he learned how to operationalize moonshot ventures aiming to solve some of the world's hardest problems. But then a personal tragedy — the loss of his son — set him on a new path. Gawdat launched a startup with the moonshot goal of helping one billion people find happiness. Gawdat is also the author of "Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy."




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How Companies Like Google and Alibaba Respond to Fast-Moving Markets

Dave Ulrich, professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, argues today's companies need to replace old hierarchical models with he calls a “market-oriented ecosystem.” From research at Alibaba, Google, Huawei, Supercell, and others, he shows the impressive results of orienting teams and processes toward market opportunities. Ulrich is the coauthor, along with Tencent senior advisor Arthur Yeung, of “Reinventing the Organization: How Companies Can Deliver Radically Greater Value in Fast-Changing Markets.”




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Google Adds Undo Send Feature to Gmail

Google has added an Undo Send feature to Gmail. Now you can finally unsend an email, although you have just a short time to unsend it.

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Google Unveils New Logo and Four Color G Icon

Google has unveiled a new logo and a four color G icon.

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Google Unveils Gboard iPhone App

Google has unveiled its new iPhone app called Gboard. The app makes it easy to use mobile search from within any app.

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Google Maps Adds Sharing Feature With Lists

Google Maps has added a sharing feature. You can track your favorite places and share them with your friends.

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3 Simple Steps to Get Your First 10,000 Visitors from Google

Today’s going to be fun. I’m going to make a bet with you that if you follow the 3 steps below, and you really follow them, you can get 10,000 visitors from Google. I promise it won’t be hard, but it will take time. And if you follow my steps and don’t get the results, […]

The post 3 Simple Steps to Get Your First 10,000 Visitors from Google appeared first on Neil Patel.




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Digital tax: Why India's approach to taxing Google, Facebook needs to align with international approach

As more and more people participate in the digital economy, there is a need for countries to develop a framework to regulate and to get a 'fair' share of taxes from the revenues generated by such businesses.




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How to use ICICI Bank's voice banking services on Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant

To get the benefit of the voice banking offering, customers need to download the Alexa / Google Assistant and link their ICICI Bank account through a secure two-factor authentication process.




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Former Uber Self-Driving Car Executive Signs Agreement To Plead Guilty To Theft Of Trade Secrets From Google

SAN JOSE - Anthony Scott Levandowski submitted documents today requesting that the court accept his plea of guilty to theft of trade secrets charges, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The documents include a request to William H. Alsup, United States District Judge, to accept a proposed plea agreement and a request to schedule a date for a sentencing hearing.




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Bayesian analysis of Santa Clara study: Run it yourself in Google Collab, play around with the model, etc!

The other day we posted some Stan models of coronavirus infection rate from the Stanford study in Santa Clara county. The Bayesian setup worked well because it allowed us to directly incorporate uncertainty in the specificity, sensitivity, and underlying infection rate. Mitzi Morris put all this in a Google Collab notebook so you can run […]