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Google on Thursday launched a new search engine service specifically designed for large e-commerce sites. The product, dubbed Google Commerce Search, will bring some of Google’s best search innovations to sites like Birkenstock USA. These features include Google’s spell checker, query stemming and synonym recognition. Google Commerce Search will be priced starting at $50,000 per year and will be aimed at the top 1,000 online retailers in each country where Google operates.

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  • Your definitive guide to today's Android smartphone Submitted by Google Subnet on Thu, 11/05/2009

    Although phones featuring Google's open-source Android operating system have been out for more than a year, it's only been in recent months that the platform has really caught on. In fact, this fall alone has seen the debut of several new high-profile Android devices from such esteemed manufacturers as HTC, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Samsung.

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  • Mark Murphy

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    Version, Out of Control? by Mark Murphy

    In late April 2009, Google released Android 1.5.In mid-September 2009, Google released Android 1.6.In late October 2009, Google released Android 2.0.That is three version releases in a span of six months. Progress is great. Progress is necessary. But there is going to be some fallout for this flood of Android versions, both with consumers and developers.On the consumer side, from what I can see, there is little effort to truly differentiate these Android versions. Yet, we have brand-new devices... 7

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    Dramatic license in the Bing/Google race by Kaila Colbin

    Media coverage of the search industry often reminds me of the editing on The Amazing Race. Even if the first-place team is miles and hours ahead of the second-place team, the producers have to make things seem close and exciting. Otherwise, why would you watch? Come to think of it, this past U.S. election was a bit like that as well. And so it passes that Bing's every move gets covered in relation to Google. Is this the upgrade that will finally allow Microsoft to breathe Google's rarefied... 2

  • Colt Mercer

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    Facebook Aids in Open Cloud by Colt Mercer

    After countless hours of lost productivity to Facebook at work, the developers made up for it by offering the Cloud computing community something to build upon. Facebook created a software framework called Thrift, now a project of the Apache Incubator, which allows cross language service deployment. Referred to by Apache as “A software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Erlang, Perl, Haskell, C#,...

  • Head in the Cloud

    Google sticks it to Microsoft with Los Angeles cloud contract by Jon Brodkin

    The City of Los Angeles is giving the Google cloud a major endorsement with a $7.25 million, five-year deal in which the city will use Google’s Gmail and other office applications.Google is claiming this as a major win for its enterprise cloud division. Perhaps best of all for Sergey and Larry, however, is that more than $1.5 million of the payments come indirectly from archrival Microsoft.“According to Los Angeles City Council minutes, just over $1.5 million for the project will come from the...

  • Danny Riley's Google Apps: Under the Hood

    Baking an Add-On App: Google Web Toolkit, Data APIs and App Engine

    This blog comes on the heels of a recent NetworkWorld Google Subnet blog titled "10 App Add-ons for the Enterprise" which details ten popular third party Google Apps add-on applications. These ten applications only scratch the surface of a niche market helping to propel the momentum of Google Apps for the enterprise. Companies and individual developers alike are flocking to the Google developer community with grand ideas for the next must-have add-on application. So how are they building...

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    Six Hot Android Topics at DroidCamp by Conder and Darcey

    Lauren and I presented two--one on tips and tricks for Android projects (which are up 94% this month, according to http://bit.ly/1TxPAw) and another for Android beginners. We listened to the developer buzz and went to a bunch of sessions. Here is our take on the hot topics simmering within the Android community here: Augmented Reality: This came up many times in discussions. New Handsets: To date, there aren't many shipping Android handsets. Many, however, have been announced. These new...

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