Google deploys People Finder for Japan

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Google deploys People Finder to help Japanese quake victims

The tool is an easy registry creator to help victims and loved ones communicate during emergencies.

Natural disasters such as the EarthQuake/Tsunami in Japan last night disrupt traditional channels of communication.  When homes are destroyed, cell communications towers toppled, and people taken to emergency rooms or worse, there is very little in the way of a full organized registry of people who may be missing.

For this, Google (GOOG) deploys its People Finder tool.  People Finder is a simple tool to allow people affected by the quake and those who are trying to communicate with them to register their status.  It is built with open standards so other registries can plug into it.

It was recently deployed for the victims of the Christchurch, New Zealand Quake last month which kept a registry of 11,500 people.  Haiti too.

Google Ideas is a think/do tank that studies where technology can help solve the world's problems.  This is a good example of such an endeavor. Read more at tech.fortune.cnn.com

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Sneaks for Geeks, you know you want #Firefox, #Twitter or #Google Sneakers

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Nike sneakers featuring Firefox, Twitter and Google. You want one, you know you do.

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#Google MASS HIRING, up to 6,000 people. That will put a dent in the unemployment rate..

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Google plans biggest hiring year in its history

Worrying about the economy is so 2008, said Alan Eustace, senior vice president of engineering and research, in a blog post today outlining plans for "our biggest hiring year in company history." Like most companies, Google scaled back its hiring after hitting a high-water mark in 2007 with slightly more than 6,000 new employees, but after adding 4,500 people in 2010 it vowed to get back to those pre-bust levels this year.

Hiring will be "across the board and around the globe," Eustace said. Google's career Web pages list openings in seemingly every discipline; focused heavily on engineering and its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, as one might expect, but with plenty of openings in other careers and geographies.

It was impossible to miss the undercurrent to Eustace's post: Google now faces much more competition for employees in both its home region and around the world as other Internet companies--places like Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, and Groupon--build mega-businesses of their own. While working at Google certainly has its perks, those companies offer something Google simply can't: the prospect of a major stock payday through an IPO or private sale. Read more at news.cnet.com

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What's better, faster , stronger (opps got carried away) : Google vs Google Instant?

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Google vs. Google Instant - Which is Faster?

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Facebook Dominates the Internet as the Most Visited site of 2010 & Google takes a back seat

If you are still Old-schooling your business present by sticking exclusively with Google, it may be time to reconsider and expand your options. In 2009 Google was the MOST VISITED Website and just one year late Facebook snatched Googles Crown away. If you have not developed a strategy that includes a Facebook page for your business, I think that it's time to do so.
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Facebook Snatched “Most Visited Website in 2010″ Crown From Google

According to data collected by information gathering service Hitwise, Facebook was the most visited website for 2010 snatching the crown from Google which it hold last year. Of course, that is only if you count each Google property separately.

Facebook was the top-visited Website for the first time and accounted for 8.93 percent of all U.S. visits between January and November 2010. Google.com ranked second with 7.19 percent of visits, followed by Yahoo! Mail (3.52 percent), Yahoo! (3.30 percent) and YouTube (2.65 percent). Read more at www.technobolt.com

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Google getting into the eBook Game

Google is a PLAYER in every Game. They are looking to quickly tap up to 20% of the very lucrative eBook Marketing.

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Google Set to Launch E-Book Venture

Google Inc. is in the final stages of launching its long-awaited e-book retailing venture, Google Editions, a move that could shake up the way digital books are sold.

Google Editions hopes to upend the existing e-book market by offering an open, "read anywhere" model that is different from many competitors. Users will be able to buy books directly from Google or from multiple online retailers—including independent bookstores—and add them to an online library tied to a Google account. They will be able to access their Google accounts on most devices with a Web browser, including personal computers, smartphones and tablets.

Because of Google's reach—its search engine attracts 190 million U.S. Internet users per month, according to comScore Inc.— many believe Google Editions has the potential to transform the burgeoning e-book market. Digital book sales are expected to more than triple to $966 million this year, according to Forrester Research, from $301 million in 2009.

"Google is going to turn every Internet space that talks about a book into a place where you can buy that book," says Dominique Raccah, publisher and owner of Sourcebooks Inc., an independent publisher based in Naperville, Ill. "The Google model is going to drive a lot of sales. We think they could get 20% of the e-book market very fast." Read more at itsjustweb.posterous.com

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