13 Mar 2010

Google Search Needs You Too | Motherboard

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One unsuccessful search became a legend: Sometime in 2001, Singhal learned of poor results when people typed the name “audrey fino” into the search box. Google kept returning Italian sites praising Audrey Hepburn. (Fino means fine in Italian.) “We realized that this is actually a person’s name,” Singhal says. “But we didn’t have the smarts in the system.”

10 Mar 2010

Google Buys Picnik

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Google announced last week that they had aquired the web-based photo-editing app Picnik. Picnik started in 2005 and was one of first online photo-editing sites.

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