A blog post from a Google executive on Saturday morning dropped hints that the company would release a Google Android phone of its own.

In the post, Mario Queiroz, a Google vice president of product management, said the company had developed a “mobile lab” device that “combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android.” According to Queiroz, Google has distributed the device to Google employees worldwide so that they could test the new technology and help improve it. Read the full story

Google hopes to turn the river into a canal

Before too long, expect to find anything that anyone puts on the Internet on Google within seconds: with luck, it might even be useful.

Real-time search has come to Google. The company has been hinting at this day for several months, most recently when it announced a deal to access Twitter’s “firehose” of data. But it presented its vision for real-time search before the media Monday at the Computer History Museum, claiming to have made a little history on its own.

Over the next few days, Google users will start to notice a box called “Latest results” on the main search results page for a topic that’s guaranteed to produce results. Google used “Obama” as its example, and searches for that query place a new box that automatically scrolls through recent “real-time” results associated with that topic from sources like Twitter, FriendFeed, and Google News, as well as new Web pages–such as this story–as they are created.

The concept is hot in the search world: Microsoft’s Bing also displays updates from Twitter and various blogs, although those results are not integrated with the main page. And Yahoo has also signed up with a company called OneRiot to throw its hat into the real-time search wars.

What’s less clear, however, is how useful this technology will be unless Google and others working on the problem can bring the same degree of relevance and trust to real-time results that it brings to regular search results. Google News can already confuse the casual user who wonders how and why those particular headlines were singled out, so how will relevancy work when a stream of news can knock a particularly authoritative result off your screen in seconds?

“It’s a very hard problem. Language understanding is still an unsolved problem,” said Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow and one of the key players in developing this product. “Not only do we have to understand what someone is saying, but we have to get to the deeper semantics of what is indeed true. We have to work through many issues. Truth ends up being a rather vague notion.”

In a way, this challenge is right up Google’s alley. The company is obsessed with speed when it comes to presenting results, agonizing over whether design changes that add tenths of seconds to page-loading times are worth the effort.

And now that seemingly everyone has a blog, a microblog, a social-networking profile, and commenting identity (or 29), new content on the Internet is being generated at an astounding pace. Google used to think it would be able to index all the world’s information in about 300 years, but CEO Eric Schmidt told CNET in November that one of Google’s greatest challenges in the decades ahead will be staying abreast of the explosion in content enabled by social media.

That’s why it’s a bit surprising that Google, the world’s leading search engine by a wide margin, hasn’t necessarily been a leader in this area. Marissa Mayer, vice president of search and user experience at Google, admitted Monday the company could have moved more quickly to organize the vast amount of data produced by services such as Twitter. Anyone who has tried to use Twitter Search knows that real-time search at the moment is like the regular Internet was 10 years ago: a blast of information that’s impressive in its scope but overwhelming in its usefulness.

But what Google is trying to do is leapfrog the notion of Twitter as the vanguard of the real-time content explosion. Twitter is undeniably hot at the moment, but new Web pages are generated constantly, especially as traditional media companies move online. One need only to think back to this summer when news reports of Michael Jackson’s death sent millions online looking for confirmation, staggering services such as Google and Twitter under that load.

Google said it plans to display all kinds of Internet content in its “Latest news” box. Google didn’t pay Twitter an undisclosed amount of money for access to its feed for no reason, however; the speed at which real-time content is generated can be harnessed much easier if search providers such as Google have that information pushed to them, rather than having to pull it out of the Web itself.

That raises the question of just how Google will index and rank real-time results. The company needs to develop the real-time equivalent of PageRank, which evaluates Web pages by the number of other pages that are linking to that page. That’s something Google “is beginning to experiment with,” Mayer said in a question-and-answer session following Google’s presentation.

There’s definitely some way to do that, but it certainly is not a simple problem. Someone with 15,000 Twitter followers is not necessarily as authoritative in one area as they are in another, and Google will have to figure out some way to evaluate this information to make it truly useful.

Until then, however, news junkies can entertain themselves watching the Latest results section spin with updates on Tiger Woods’ latest paramour or the glacial progress of Congress’ attempt to pass health-care reform legislation.

In a roughly 10-second period Monday afternoon on Google’s Trends page, where it is testing out the real-time service, the feed for “Pearl Harbor Day”–the second most popular trend on the Internet Monday behind the aforementioned Tiger Woods–produced a tweet about a Pearl Harbor Day poem, a news story on people who were in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and a gentleman celebrating Ruby Diner’s 27th anniversary with a $2.70 Rubyburger. (He also happened to note in his tweet that it was Pearl Harbor Day.)

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Undoubtedly by now you’ve heard about Tiger Woods’ car crash. Early reports had him in serious condition (which remember, is better than critical condition) after he apparently hit a fire hydrant and a tree while leaving his home in his SUV. The latest reports say he has been released from the hospital and is “fine.” But I’m not going to speak to any of that because that’s not what we do (you can find out more here). Read the full story

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Google isn’t content with providing us with fast search and a fast browser: we need a faster protocol between servers and browsers. The search giant would like us to start forgetting about HTTP:// and learn to love SPDY://. Ars takes a look at the proposal as well as its strengths and weaknesses.

On the Chromium blog, Mike Belshe and Roberto Peon write about an early-stage research project called SPDY (“speedy”). Unhappy with the performance of the venerable hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), researchers at Google think they can do better. Read the full story

(Wired) — Google is set to become your new phone company, perhaps reducing your phone bill to zilch in the process.

Seriously.

Google has bought Gizmo5, an online phone company that is akin to Skype but based on open protocols and with a lot fewer users. TechCrunch, which broke the news on Monday, reported that Google spent $30 million on the company.

Google announced the Gizmo acquisition on Thursday afternoon Pacific Time. Gizmo5’s founder Michael Robertson, a brash serial entrepreneur, will become an Adviser to Google Voice. Read the full story

by  Chloe Albanesius

News Corp. will likely pull all of its newspaper content from Google News once its switches from an ad-supported to a subscription-based model, according to Chairman Rupert Murdoch.

Murdoch on Friday sat down with Sky News, of which News Corp. is a partial owner, to discuss the impact of the Internet on news, among other things.

The Australian media tycoon has been critical of the Google News aggregation model, as well as similar offerings from Microsoft and Ask.com, which he says is tantamount to stealing. When asked why he has not pulled News Corp.-owned material from Google News, Murdoch said that it will likely happen down the road.

“I think we will,” Murdoch said. “But that’s going to be when we start charging. We do it already with the Wall Street Journal.”

Google has argued that its news aggregator simply points users to content online and actually helps drive traffic to news sites. Murdoch was not impressed by Internet traffic and said he was more interested in finding loyal readers.

“What’s the point of having someone … who likes a headline they see in Google, come to us?” he asked. “The fact is, there’s not enough advertising in the world to go around to make all the Web sites profitable. We’d rather have fewer people coming to our Web site but paying.”

At this point, users can see the first paragraph of most articles in the Wall Street Journal, but to read the rest of the story online, they must sign up for a subscription. Murdoch was not sure that that is the approach he’ll take with all his publications.

“There’s a doctrine called fair use, which we believe could be challenged in the courts and barred altogether, but you know, it’s OK,” he said. “We’re getting a lot of advertising revenue, so we’ll take that slowly.”

In addition to the Journal, News Corp. owns Dow Jones, the New York Post, six newspapers in the U.K., including The Sunday Times and The Sun, and 25 publications in Australia. The company also owns Fox News and social networking site MySpace.

Murdoch brushed off the suggestion that people will not be able to afford subscriptions.

“Everyone can afford a newspaper; they’re the cheapest things in the world,” he said. “Think what you get out of it. It’s fabulous. And it’ll be even cheaper when you get it electronically.”

He was also not concerned about competing with publications that stick with the free, ad-supported model. “We’re better and if you look at most of [the competitors'] stuff, it’s stolen from the newspapers now and we’ll be suing them for copyright,” Murdoch said. “They’ll have to spend a lot more money on a lot more reporters to cover the world when they can’t steal from newspapers.”

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Google has clarified that it will not index publishers against their wishes, in response to Rupert Murdoch’s threat to block the search engine from his newspapers’ websites.

A spokesman for the search giant said: “Google News and web search are a tremendous source of promotion for news organisations, sending them about 100,000 clicks every minute.

“Publishers put their content on the web because they want it to be found, so very few choose not to include their material in Google News and web search. But if they tell us not to include it, we don’t.” Read the full story

Vint Cerf, Google’s internet evangelist, has unveiled a new protocol intended to power an interplanetary internet.

The Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) protocol emerged from work first started in 1998 in partnership with Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The initial goal was to modify the ubiquitous Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) to facilitate robust communications between celestial bodies and satellites.

Cerf and his team were eventually forced to acknowledge (ACK?) that TCP simply couldn’t cut the mustard, with massive delay and data loss caused by celestial motion rendering TCP useless. Read the full story

Are you looking for some quick cash? If so you can get paid online fast 6 different ways. The first way is to read paid emails. The second is to use paid search engines. The third method is to take cash surveys. The fourth way is to join a forum that pays members for posting. The fifth is to click on ads for a website that pays for that. The sixth way is to write articles for websites. The great thing about these opportunities to make some quick online is you probably already do them for free.
1. Paid Emails. You can earn some nice cash reading emails. The first step is to find a legitimate website that sends out emails and pays members for reading them. Most emails pay around a nickel. It does not sound like much but it adds up quick. You can expect to receive about five emails per day from whatever email program you decide to sign up with. Signing up is always free and you are allowed to sign up with as many companies as you want. The more you join the more money you will be able to make. The best program to join is inbox dollars.

2. Paid Search Engines. This is one of the best ways to get paid online. There are several search engines out there that use google, yahoo, and live search results. They will actually pay you to use their search engine to get those same results or a mix of those results. They are referred to as paid search engines. The way you can get paid with those is to win prizes, cash, and sweepstakes. Also with these you can earn money by referring your friends which is easy since they will be able make money doing something they already do while not seeing a decrease in the quality of their search results .

3. Cash Surveys. Surveys have long been a popular way to make money. There is a lot of controversy surrounding this topic. A lot of people think it is a scam. Although there are a lot of survey scams out there, there are still lots of legitimate companies pay members good money for participating in surveys. Every once in a while you will get to partake in a phone survey or focus group. Phone surveys pay much more that surveys taken online. Focus groups are where the money is at. They almost always pay over one hundred dollars. Survey scout is the best paid survey program

4. Paid forums. If you are already a member of a couple forums you will love this opportunity. After you join a paid forum you earn money every time you post a new message. Basically, you are allowed to post as much as you want. Be careful not to become a spammer. If they think you are spamming they will kick you off the website forever. The best forum to post on is FTP.

5. Paid Per Click. Anyone can make money with this method. All you do is join a website that pays members to click on advertisements. Once you view the advertisement for 30 seconds you are credited. Do not expect to get rich with this method. There is serious cash in referrals, but you only earn a penny each time you click on a ad. The best paid to click program is bux.to.

6. Write Articles. There are so many places that you can get paid for writing articles on the internet. Here is how it works. You start off by writing an article. Once you publish it google ads are placed next to your article. Whenever someone clicks on a ad next to your article you earn money. How much you earn depends on a lot of things. Google is very secretive about the payment procedures. Some clicks will pay as much as 20 dollars while others pay only a penny. Hubpages is the most profitable website to write articles on.
These five methods of making money on the internet are great if you need cash quick. However, they cannot create a substantial long term income. If you are looking for something like that you should try something else. The top 5 online businesses are website building, affiliate programs, blogging for money, eBay business, and data entry positions.

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There has been a lot of talk about a deal between Twitter and Microsoft. This morning it was reported that Microsoft would in fact announce to the world that a deal to integrate real-time status updates into bing has been reached not only with Twitter, but Facebook as well.

Qi Lu, President of Microsoft’s Online Services Group, has made official the integration of Twitter and Facebook into Bing. However, the Twitter integration has gone live first today, you can access it at Bing.com/Twitter, Facebook will follow later. Read the full story

Twitter in Google, Microsoft licensing talks-blog

* Twitter, Microsoft, Google said in advanced talks

* Licensing deal could involve “several million dollars”

* Deals could also include revenue-sharing agreements Read the full story

Now used to track just about anything bought and sold in many countries, the standard bar code system was patented in the United States on October 7, 1952, but took about 20 years to go mainstream.

U.S. inventors Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver had devised a way to encode data in a bull’s-eye pattern. Read the full story

Flash Player Inches Closer to Smartphones

James Niccolai, IDG News Service

Sunday, October 04, 2009 9:20 PM PDT

Adobe Systems’ Flash Player is getting closer to appearing on smartphones, with Research in Motion adding its BlackBerry to the list of devices that will run the software. Apple’s elusive iPhone remains out of reach, however. Read the full story

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Google Wave to be released to 100,000 testers Wednesday

(CNN) — Google Wave, a product that promises to revolutionize online communication, will go out to about 100,000 beta testers Wednesday.

The Web application from Google Inc. combines elements of e-mail, chat, Wiki documents, blogs and photo-sharing sites to create a form of Internet communication called a “hosted conversation,” or a “wave.” Read the full story

Google lets you custom-print millions of books

• Story Highlights
• Google Book Search is letting readers turn digitized texts back into paper copies
• Google scans millions of books and turns them into searchable documents
• Books can be printed on demand by a special machine in about 4 minutes
• The machine is only in a few dozen bookstores so far Read the full story

It only took 40 years, but it seems that John Lennon’s 1966 comment that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus has actually been statistically validated. According to the Telegraph, data from Google trends, a site which determines Google’s most popular search terms, indicated that in early September the number of ‘Beatles’ queries rocketed past those for ‘Jesus.’

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The Future of the Internet

This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation—and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. Read the full story