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An online ad offering everything in the house for free left one landlord with quite a shock. By the time she realized what was going on, the house had been stripped of its light fixtures, hot water heater _ even the kitchen sink.
Laurie Raye said she traced the damage to a fake ad on […]

A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead. I was talking to a young startup founder about how Google was different from Yahoo. I said that Yahoo had been warped from the start by their fear of Microsoft. That was why they’d positioned themselves as a “media company” instead of […]

Yep, for all those that care, Google Desktop is now available for the Mac OS.
So if you’re a Mac user and a Google lover … get it here: http://desktop.google.com/mac

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Google just released a free 411 service in Google Labs on Friday. It’s a (free) telephone based information service that could replace toll 411 calls. About 2.6 billion 411 calls are made in the U.S. each year, and it is a $7 billion/year market.
“Google Voice Local Search is Google’s experimental service to make local-business search […]

 
Google announced last week that their Google Notebook product “has now graduated from Google Labs and is officially out of beta”. Besides launching in 17 new languages, we’ve added a slew of improvements to the user interface and new features too. You can add your own comments to individual notes, view your notebook content on […]