Google Unveils Search for Small Screens, from BetaNews.

“Your phone can now be that much more useful,” said Google software engineer Steven Schirripa.

Google 推出 Google Mobile, 用來作手持式產品 (像是 PDA, MobilePhone, and so on.) 上的 Search. 不過看起來只會 crawl 用 XHTML 寫的 Webpages.

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Google Plans Online-Payment Service, from Wall Street Journal, Google Said to Plan Rival to PayPal, from New York Times.

“Google Inc. this year plans to offer an electronic-payment service that could help the Internet-search company diversify its revenue and may heighten competition with eBay Inc.‘s PayPal unit(What’s paypal? (CHT)) , according to people familiar with the matter.”

Google 槓上 PayPal, 應該蠻好玩的 :p

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Google Now Worth $80 Billion, from InsideGoogle.

google 現在值 814 億美金. God!, 不過 Microsoft 現在是 $275.62 Billion, 二兆美金!

• Google (GOOG, $293.12), 81.42 Billion
• Yahoo (YHOO, $52.28), 52.28 Billion
• Microsoft (MSFT, $25.51), 275.62 Billion

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Slashdot 的 Google’s Secret Lab, a Flash movie is here. InsideGoogle 的 Google Running Secret Quality Labs?

大意是說 google 請了一堆 Quality Rater 作 ”help with work on a search quality evaluation” 和 “Candidates will evaluate search results and rate their relevance”. Comment 中也有人提到過去 Yahoo! 也有花錢請 “Surfers” (the actual job title) 作差不多一樣的事情.

好像請 rater 已經是常態了? 還是目前的技術還沒有辦法用 machine-learning 或 system analysis 的方法來解決這樣的問題?

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