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Microsoft Beats Google in Schools, Is Now the Most Popular Cloud Productivity Service for Education
When it comes to cloud productivity services and education, it’s easy to think that Google is the only game in town. Google, after all, seems to make [...]
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Google’s Gmail App Returns to the iOS App Store – This Time it Works
Google’s most high-profile failure of the last few weeks was definitely its Gmail app for iOS. The first version was such a bug-ridden mess that Google decided [...]
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Digg Reminds People It’s Not Dead Yet and Still Gets 17 Million Uniques (Reddit: 28 Million)
After repeated rumors, based on notoriously unreliable data from online traffic analytics companies, Digg had to actually post its Google Analytics numbers on its blog yesterday. These numbers show that the site still gets about 17 million unique visitors a month. While Digg has to be defensive about these numbers, though, its competitors at Reddit – which used to be much smaller before Digg’s missteps last year – now celebrate 28 million uniques in October. Digg argues that because close to 50% of its visitors come to the site directly, monitoring firms like Quantcast and Compete can’t accurately measure its traffic.
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Google+ Gets an API for Photos and Videos (Updated: Not Quite Ready Yet)
Google just announced that Google+ now offers developers a way to get photos and videos out of Google+ and into their apps. As Google is slowly opening up the APIs for its new social network, it makes sense for the company to tackle photos and videos first. These, after all, are one of the backbones of Google+ (though I could do without the support for animated GIFs). Not only do its users get virtually unlimited space for their photos, but a number of professional photographers like Trey Radcliff and Thomas Hawk are using the new network to their fullest advantage.
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Don’t Want Google to “Correct” Your Searches? You Can Now Search Verbatim
Until earlier this year, you could do a Google search and use the ‘+’ operator in front of any word to make sure that Google would search for this specific term. Now that Google is moving towards using ‘+’ as a way to find Google+ profiles, though, this option is gone. Instead, Google asked users to use double quotes to ensure that none of Google’s usual corrections, personalizations or other changes are applied to this term. Now, however, after some vocal opposition against the disappearance of the ‘+’ search operator, Google is introducing a new tool that brings some of this functionality back: verbatim search.
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