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Google annouced they can now deliver real time status and info on your flights directly on the search results page (Google.com). Just type the name of the airline and flight number (e.g. American 123, ua226) into the search box, and they’ll return the most up to date information from FlightStats.com. Pretty cool and a HUGE […]

Thought you might find this interesting … how Google got it’s name:
Stanford student Sean Anderson was the guy who gave Larry Page the name of his search engine and company:
Sean and Larry were in their office, trying to think up a good name — something that related to the indexing of an immense amount of […]

For a number of years, a large group of Google engineers have been working in secret on a mobile phone project. The unknown project name has sperd curiousity and names like Google Phone and GPhone have been spreading around the Net like Apples iPhone hype prior to hitting the streets. But the GPhone is not […]

Google has announced its upcoming plans to partner with Sprint Nextel for a WiMax offering that could largely affect the top mobile network carriers.
With the partnership, Google would provide web-search and mobile applications (i.e. GMail) to Sprint Nextel’s WiMax service. WiMix is a high-speed, wireless Internet access technology that may become a more viable alternative […]

 
Google has announced a $625 million acquisition of Postini, a major provider of corporate communications security and spam filtering services. Postini will become a wholly-owned Google subsidiary when the deal closes at the end of the third quarter.  Read more on the deal here and here.
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The Internet search giant announced plans to invest $11 million in cleaner transportation technologies. Todd Woody has the details on his Green Wombat blog.
Talk about a clean commute: As part of an $11 million green cars initiative, Google is creating a plug-in hybrid car-sharing fleet. Employees will be able to book a super fuel-efficient plug-in […]

Yesterday Google held an invite only Seachology with many announcments.
Universal Search - details - focuses on video, news, local and books. Now you’ll be able to get more information Google knows about directly from within the search results. You won’t have to know about specialized areas of content.
Video Search - details - Google has expanded […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google responded to Viacom’s $1 billion copyright lawsuit on Monday, arguing that it has not infringed on the rights of the media company and that the lawsuit threatens the viability of its popular YouTube video-sharing Web site as well as others like it. More …

This story on Gigaom.com will clear up all the details surrounding the $3.1 billion DoubleClick purchase by Google as well as the partnership they’ve just setup with Clear Channel to sell radio ads.
“If there was any need for proof that Google considers advertising its core competency, then last few days provide ample testimony to that […]

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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