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/ 28 March 2007

Google seeks world of instant translations

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

Now Google also registers website addresses

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”.

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/ 30 March 2006

Google seals $1bn AOL deal

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.

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/ 18 November 2004

Google launches new reasearch tool

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.