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Note to Rupert Murdoch: You Can’t Sell Stuff If We Can’t Find It

March 27, 2023 By Mike Abundo 1 Comment

Rupert MurdochThe future of media driven by search. Unfortunately, old folks grew up in a time when “search” meant walking down to the local newsstand and browsing for dead trees to buy. To them, finding stuff on Google is “stealing“. That’s why News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch plans to block Google from indexing his media conglomerate’s newspaper content, in an effort to put it all behind a paywall. [Read more…]

Originally posted on November 10, 2009 @ 3:17 am

Filed Under: Google, Media, News Corp, Search Tagged With: Google, Media, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, Search

Google Music Search Consolidates Cloud Music

March 27, 2023 By Mike Abundo 2 Comments

As early as nineties, people were already playing music from their browsers instead of traditional media players. Despite its eventual fall from popularity, I brought a client to the top of her local pop charts on MP3.com. Despite its current stagnation as Yahoo Music, I have fond memories of listening to Launch.com at work.

Between services like Imeem and Pandora and Last.fm, music has been going the way of almost every other computing application: to the cloud. Google, of course, wants to be your gateway to the everything in the cloud. That’s why they’ve introduced Google Music Search.

Google’s approach to music stands in stark contrast to their approach to video. With video, they bought the world’s number one video destination site, then used it as a testbed for video search, recommendation, and monetization across the Web. With music, they’re skipping the testbed phase entirely. Given the litigious nature of the RIAA, the relative simplicity of music compared to video, and the preponderance of major music destination sites, perhaps that’s the best approach: let partner sites worry about rights clearing. That way, Google can focus on what it does best: search.

In the meantime, let’s hope Google works its algorithmic magic to take this feature to awesome extremes. Right now, I’m imagining song recommendations, genre searches, and predictive playlists. Now that would rock.

Originally posted on October 29, 2009 @ 12:12 pm

Filed Under: Google, Music, Search Tagged With: Google, Music, Search

Samuel L. Jackson Demonstrates Google Wave

March 27, 2023 By Mike Abundo 1 Comment

When Google introduced Google Wave in an eighty-minute presentation, many people were confused. When Google tried to explain Google Wave in eight minutes, many people were still confused. In fact, there’s a whole Web site listing things easier to understand than Wave.

If you’re one of those confused people, this fanmade Google Wave video will make the wonders of the service crystal clear. From chat to media to polls to games to playback, let Samuel L. Jackson show you how it’s done. Google Wave Cinema presents: Pulp Fiction.

Originally posted on October 31, 2009 @ 12:34 pm

Filed Under: Google Tagged With: Google, Google Wave

Google bringing free advanced sat-nav to Android-powered cellphones

March 27, 2023 By Andy Merrett 1 Comment

Google wants to be your satellite navigation partner, as it announces the power of Google Maps together with some nifty features are coming soon to Android 2.0-powered cellphones.

It believes the feature set it has built in to the turn-by-turn system beat other sat-navs hands down.

These include voice recognition, the ability to enter a whole range of voice or text destinations — including street names, places of interest, and even queries such as “the museum that houses this particular exhibition” — and satellite and street and traffic view while navigating. [Read more…]

Originally posted on October 28, 2009 @ 11:20 am

Filed Under: Google, Mobile Tagged With: Android, Google, Google Maps, sat nav

The Google Story in Two Minutes

March 27, 2023 By Mike Abundo Leave a Comment

Want to learn the fascinating origins of the most powerful company in online media today, but don’t have time to read The Google Story? Fear not: here’s the Google story in two minutes, as colorfully recounted by Mountain View powerhouse itself.

(Hat tip to Cliff Sawit.)

Originally posted on October 29, 2009 @ 11:27 am

Filed Under: Google Tagged With: Google

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