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Baidu Hires Andrew Ng, Google’s Lead “Brain”

Published on 2014/05/16 By admin

Chinese search giant Baidu has stolen away the head of Google’s “deep learning” project, dubbed “Google Brain.” Andrew Ng is an artificial intelligence expert, Stanford professor and founder of online learning company Coursera. Google Brain is a machine learning..

Google’s Matt Cutts On Spamming Cuil, Helping Masses, Debunking Evil Google & More

Published on 2013/05/13 By admin

Google’s head of search spam, has decided to publish a bunch of blog posts that were sitting in draft mode on his personal blog. He said his blog needs to cough up a hairball – hence the animated GIF used here. But we can learn a few things when Matt Cutts coughs up hairballs.

The Google Movie — “The Internship” — Debuts Its Trailer

Published on 2013/02/14 By admin

There is a new movie coming to theaters on June 7th named The Internship. It is a comedy movie about what it is like to work at Google as an intern played by Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson. The movie is about two older men who know nothing about computers who recently lose their jobs.

Google’s Updates Ngram Viewer, Showing How Words Have Evolved Over time

Published on 2012/10/18 By admin

Google announced earlier today that version 2.0 of the popular Google Books Ngram Viewer is now available online. What’s an Ngram Viewer? In a nutshell, Ngram Viewer lets you find and visualize how words and phrases have developed and been used over time using the 30 million print books…

The Google Dance: Google’s Eric Schmidt and PSY Dance “Gangnam Style”

Published on 2012/09/27 By admin

Technology news site The Verge shared a photo and video of Google chairman Eric Schmidt doing the “Gangnam Style” dance while visiting Korea this week. He took a break from his tour of East Asia where he is launching the Nexus 7 to meet the PSY – the rapper behind the…

Chicago Police Use Google To Arrest Fugitive

Published on 2012/07/09 By admin

Police credit Google, intuition in fugitive arrest via the AP reports the Chicago police used Google to help arrest Ronnell Jones. The AP reports Ronnell Jones didn’t initially give his real name to the police but when he was going through the booking procedure he gave the police his real… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Video: Google Speaks About Search Quality Raters

Published on 2012/05/01 By admin

Google’s head of web spam, Matt Cutts, has published a video talking about a topic that Google has never really talked about publicly before – Google Quality Raters. The video goes through the process used by Google with these Quality Raters. Matt Cutts specifically says these quality..

Google’s Gags Go Worldwide For April Fool’s Day 2012

Published on 2012/04/01 By admin

It was right about this time last year when we gave Google the winner’s trophy for a series of gags that put all others to shame. We could do the same again right now, because Google has tried to top itself with another round of April Fool’s Day jokes that pretty well span the globe…

Microsoft Security Patch Marked Google.com As Malware

Published on 2012/02/16 By admin

Some of those who use Microsoft security software received a security patch a couple days ago that lead to malware warnings for users trying to visit Google.com. Softpedia posted a picture of the warning. Microsoft quickly learned about the issue on their support forums and issued a patch yesterday..

Google Launches US Election Hub Website

Published on 2012/01/02 By admin

You have one less excuse for being an uninformed voter this election year in the U.S. Google has launched a new U.S