Свежие новости и отзывы о Google

Using your hand to grasp a pen that’s lying on your desk right doesn’t exactly feel like a chore, but for robots, that’s still a really hard thing to do. How do teach robots how hard to grasp that pen, for example, and what happens when that pen is just one out of ten similar pens that are lying on your cluttered desk? So to teach robots how to better grasp random… Read More... →

Google today announced that it is renaming Skybox Imaging, the satellite startup it acquired in 2014, to Terra Bella. More than just a name change, though, the company says this switch is also about showing that Skybox Imaging Terra Bella is not only about putting small imaging satellites into orbit, but now also about analyzing these images. “As proud as we are to have played a leading… Read More... →

Google today announced it is rebranding satellite startup Skybox Imaging as Terra Bella. The name comes with a new vision: “As Google revolutionized search for the online world, we have set our eyes on pioneering the search for patterns of change in the physical world.” Google acquired Skybox in June 2014 for $500 million. More […]... →

Microsoft today announced that it is joining the Eclipse Foundation — the open source group that’s probably best known for its Eclipse IDE, but which also offers a number of other developer tools. With this, Microsoft is joining other Eclipse sponsors like Google, Novell, IBM, Debeka, and Oracle. Given that Microsoft offers its own IDE in the form of Visual Studio, today’s… Read More... →

The first generation of Google Glass may have fizzled out, but the idea of a headset that connects you to the online world is still kind of sexy (and maybe a little unsettling), as shown by this new clip from the upcoming film Creative Control. Directed by Benjamin Dickinson, Creative Control depicts the lives of New Yorkers “5 minutes in the future” and centers on a high-tech… Read More... →

Spot instances on AWS can help you save quite a bit of money over paying for a regular virtual machine on EC2. In return, though, these machines may shut down at any time when demand for regular machines increases. Spotinst helps business manage both the cost and management of these spot instances, with support for Google Cloud Platform’s preemptible machines and Azure, which… Read More... →

Today on Google's home page worldwide is a special video doodle, logo, for International Women's Day 2016. The video uses the hashtah #OneDayIWill...... →

Google announced on Google+ a new automated feature to let you automatically set scheduled uploads for your AdWords ads. Google AdWords can now automatically update your business data daily, weekly...... →

At SMX West last week, Google's Paul Haahr, a top engineer involved in core ranking, had a keynote Q&A with Danny Sullivan. He said many interesting things including that Google doesn't fully quiet understand RankBrain...... →

Again, at SMX West last week, Paul Haahr from Google said that when Google launched their knowledge graph in 2012, they decided to put entities at the forefront of their query analysis...... →

Seoul-based Polaris Office is launching its cloud-based software suite in the United States with the very ambitious goal (some might say quixotic) of challenging Microsoft Office and Google for Work’s dominance. The company makes desktop and mobile apps that let users create new documents and edit existing ones stored on services including Dropbox, OneDrive, and Google Drive. Read More... →

Another tidbit that came out of Google Paul Haahr's SMX West talk was an experiment Google ran before he even joined the company 14 years ago. He said they ran this long term experiment from 2001 or so through 2005 where they would swap positions 2 and 4 to 0.02% of the searchers...... →

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Основатель имиджборда 4chan Кристофер Пул рассказал в своем блоге на Tumblr, что стал одним из сотрудников Google. Чем именно он будет заниматься в компании, Пул уточнять не стал, но издание Mashable со ссылкой на вице-президента фирмы Брэдли Горовица сообщило о присоединении Пула к команде стриминговых и фотосервисов в рамках работы над соцсетью Google+.... →

Posted by MrADThomsonWhile the digital marketing agency I work for, Three Deep, doesn’t get a lot of business through local searches, people do have to find their way to our office from time to time. After recently moving our office across downtown St. Paul, we took the opportunity to clean up our messy local SEO footprint. Having an up-to-date local footprint may help us rank for general terms. Most importantly, it will provide accurate results and directions to those searching for us by name.In this artic... →

If you’re on the hunt for an easy way to convert your online documents to an ebook-friendly format, Google has quietly announced that it will now let you save your documents directly to the .epub (EPUB) format. First released in 2007, EPUB has emerged as the most broadly supported file format for ebooks, and as […]... →

Google is currently talking with several Indian telecoms to help launch Project Loon, which uses balloons instead of cellular towers to provide affordable Internet access in remote areas. According to an article in the Economic Times, the company is in discussions with BSNL and other companies to pilot Project Loon in India. Read More... →

Posted by SamuelScott[Estimated read time: 55 minutes] No one cares about your company or product. Unless your CEO is Steve Jobs or your product is Google Glass, very few journalists and bloggers are going to write about you directly, because they're reluctant to give free press to for-profit businesses. Few people are going to share something on social media that will only help a corporation to make more money. To gain significant media coverage and launch creative campaigns that spread through the Interne... →

Google never “got” social. For all the resources thrown at it, Google+ just never quite felt human. But luckily Google just hired the guy behind 4Chan — a site that epitomized the good, the bad, and the ugly of humanity on the Internet. Chris Poole (screen name: MOOT) started 4Chan in his bedroom at age 15. In the 12 years since, he built it into a 20 million active user… Read More... →

Google Photos, the service that allows you to back up, organize and search across all your photos and videos, has just rolled out a notable update on iOS. The iPhone and iPad application now supports Live Photos, the animated photo format introduced with iOS 9 and the newer iPhone 6s and 6s Plus devices. That means you’ll now be able to store, view, and organize your Live Photos in the… Read More... →