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/ 15 November 2007
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told Google employees on Wednesday his meteoric rise in politics mirrored the company’s emergence as the lifeblood of the internet and he surprised his hosts by answering a geeky engineering question.
In Google’s vision of the future, people will be able to translate documents instantly into the world’s main languages, with machine logic, not expert linguists, leading the way. Google’s approach, called statistical machine translation, differs from past efforts in that it forgoes language experts who program grammatical rules and dictionaries into computers.
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/ 15 December 2006
Google on Friday will join the crowded field of services registering website addresses in a move aimed at encouraging more usage of the online search leader’s free software products. Google’s service will charge a annual fee and only handle addresses ending in four suffixes — ”.com,” ”.net,” ”.biz” and ”.info”.
Google said on Wednesday that it has ironed out the final details of its expanded alliance with America Online (AOL), clearing the way for the online search-engine leader to invest -billion in its biggest advertising partner. The two companies signed a March 24 definitive agreement to seal a deal originally announced in December.
Google said on Thursday it has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed public offering of 14,2-million class-A common shares. Google shares, which have tripled in value since going public one year ago, closed on Wednesday at ,10 on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
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/ 18 November 2004
Online search engine leader Google is setting out make better sense of all the scholarly work stored on the intenet. The company’s new service, unveiled late on Wednesday at scholar.google.com, draws upon newly developed algorithms to list the academic research that appears to be most relevant to a search request.