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Google's answer to Wolfram Alpha? Tomáš J. Fülöpp

Apparently, many people don't know what's a browser and they think it's the same thing as a search engine.

Google reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in their search results. "We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months. That way, the next time you search for something that can be aided by a real-time observation, say, snow...

Twitter has signed deals to put messages sent via the microblogging service into the Microsoft and Google search indexes.

Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And, it is currently broken. Why is it broken? It is broken for the same reason that proprietary software is always broken: lack of freedom, lack of community, lack of accountability, lack of transparency. Here, we will start to change all that. Grub started back in 2000 with a simple concept of distributing part of the search process pipeline: crawling. In a way, we were a...

The new service will allow both estate agents and private sellers to put their property as an overlay on Google Maps.

More and more public agencies, non-profits and other organizations are looking for ways to open up their data and expand global access to this kind of information.