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Surfing With Cerf At Google. surfing with cerf at google. Internet impresario Vint Cerf has a new job next month at Google. Q: What makes Google so unique that you chose this company? Q: Is Google the last company you want to work for? Q: When was the first time you heard about Google and what was your thought about Google then?...

Cerf Joins Google, Part 2. cerf joins google. In last week's column , we began our interview with Vint Cerf and spoke to him about working at Google and his expectations and challenges....

Google announces free presentation software. google announces free presentation software. GoogleGoogle has formally announced a free presentation application that will supplement its web-based Docs and Spreadsheet programs. Mountain View (CA) - Google has formally announced a free presentation application that will supplement its web-based Docs and Spreadsheet programs. Google is partnering up with recently acquired Tonic Systems to develop the software. Schmidt wasn't specific about the release date, but Sam Schillace, engineering director for Google, says the program will be available in the summer. ...

Google is dropping its Froogle name for its shopping comparison engine and have renamed it to Google Product Search. Mountain View (CA) - Google is dropping its Froogle name for its shopping comparison engine and have renamed it to Google Product Search. Google officials like Marissa Mayer, VP of Search and User Experience, believe the new name will cause less confusion. In her official Google blog posting, Mayer said the old name caused "confusion for some" because it didn't describe what the product does. You can access Google Product Search from the Google home page or by clicking here . ...

Privacy groups urge government to halt Google DoubleClick deal. privacy groups object to google doubleclick deal. The Electronic Privacy Information Center, Center for Digital Democracy and US Public Interest Research Groups say user-identified cookies from both Google and DoubleClick are dangerous and they want all such cookies to be erased unless the user explicitly agrees to tracking. The groups also want Google to destroy all tracking cookies after a search session ends. DoubleClick has tried to assure the public that proprietary information will not pass over to Google. Google's deputy genera counsel Nicole Wong says the charges are unfounded and added that Google complies with accepted privacy standards. ...

Google scrambles to restore deleted homepages. google restoring deleted homepages. Google is scrambling to restore deleted homepages after a maintenance plan went awry. Mountain View (CA) - Google is scrambling to restore deleted homepages after a maintenance plan went awry. The top of the custom page is your plain vanilla Google search box, but users can add various gadgets like the Date and Time along the bottom. We made a brand spanking new Google page in about 3 minutes, complete with Tom's Hardware Guide, Engadget and Digg feeds....

Google partners with four state governments. google parnters with governments. Google announced yesterday that it is working on a new search tool that will allow users to search through databases of public information from the government. Mountain View (CA) - Google announced yesterday that it is working on a new search tool that will allow users to search through databases of public information from the government. Google's plan is to help index the state sites to make information easier to find, as well as making that same info appear on Google when users run a normal web search. The partnership involved no financial transactions between Google and the states, according to Reuters. ...

Google takes its calendar on the go. google mobile calendar. Google Calendar is making a move to cell phones with the addition of SMS alerts. Mountain View (CA) - Google Calendar is making a move to cell phones with the addition of SMS alerts. For example, sending the word "next" to the short code 48368 will result in a reply with the next scheduled event on the user's Google Calendar....

Google integrates search engines. google integrates search engines. Google today announced maybe the most significant enhancement to the company's core search engine in several years: Google is integrating search engines.... Mountain View (CA) - Google today announced may be the most significant enhancement to the company's core search engine in several years: Google is integrating search engines that so far have operated as separate entities into the main Google search. Google videos and YouTube videos will play right out of the search results page; videos found on other websites will not play in Google and Google will drive traffic to those sites instead. According to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the integration of YouTube into Google will not only show the entertainment value of the video site, but highlight the research value, which he described as "underappreciated" today....