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Google Doodle Celebrates Sesame Streets 40th Birthday

This morning when I logged on to my computer and went to google.com I learned that Sesame Street is 40 years old. The Google Doodles help to celebrate the occasion with featuring different Sesame Street characters Below you can find the Sesame Street Google Doodles for several different countries Google home page. Note that for [...]

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Blackle Search Engine

Have you used Blackle? The Blackle search engine is nearly all black with the exception of text. Blackle is powered by Google search and has advertising from Google Adwords. The idea of this search engine alternative is to save energy. At the time of the writing of this post, Blackle claims to have saved 1,483,358,797 [...]

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Google Never Sleeps With Caffeine

One thing about the search engines that seems certain is that things are always changing.  You just had to know that after the partnership between Yahoo and Bing, Google would be making a change soon too.  That change will be Google Caffeine. Google Caffeine will be used as Google’s newly revamped search engine that promises [...]

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Yahoo and Bing Gain Market Share

The rumors of the Microsoft/Yahoo partnership have finally realized into a partnership which looks to try and take a bigger piece of the pie that Google dominates. Last year, Yahoo! turned down a $44.6 billion takeover bid from Microsoft.  After the deal fell apart, there was still much talk over whether the two companies would [...]

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Google Wave Makes A Splash

Google created quite a stir in the tech circles with its announcement of the Google Wave this spring.  It really has the potential to change the way we communicate online. It is a real time communication platform that combines aspects of texting, email, instant messaging, blogging and social networks like Facebook.

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