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It’s an inside job for Google maps

Google has announced the final frontier for Google maps – mapping the indoors. Not satisfied with surveying and mapping almost every inch of outdoor space on earth, the search seraph has turned its attentions to the indoor nooks and crannies of airport, shopping malls and other indoor public spaces. Google Maps 6.0 for Android enables users to find their way around with their handsets. Users can explore the entire building floor plan or locate points of interest such as specific shops, public toilets and ATMs. “When you’re inside an airport, shopping mall or retail store, a common way to figure out where you are is to look for a freestanding map directory or ask an employee for help,” vice president of engineering for Google Earth and Maps Brian McClendon explained . “Starting today, with the release of Google Maps 6.0 for Android, that directory is brought to the palm of your hands, helping you determine where you are, what floor you’re on, and where to go indoors.” Using the familiar Google Maps ‘blue dot’ icon, the new app can find a user’s location within several metres and also indicate which floor of a building they are on – a useful tool for those of us who are prone getting lost

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Peer-to-peer search engine to take on Google

Free software activists are set to take on the search heavyweights with their own peer-to-peer search engine . YaCy, – a free search engine – are hoping to usurp the likes of Bing, Google and Yahoo with a ‘new approach’ to search. Instead of using a central server like conventional search engines , YaCy gets results from a network of independent ‘peers’ – users who have downloaded YaCy software. The decentralisation idea behind the new search engine is that no single entity decides on the search results or the order in which results appear, but rather, results are generated from a network of private companies and contributing peer operators. “Most of what we do on the Internet involves search.

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Google Supports Other Search Engines

While Google is undoubtedly the top search engine dominating over all others and fighting against the likes of Yahoo and Bing, it does have a bit of a softer side for the underdog search engines that are not that well known. This was demonstrated by Matt Cutts, current CEO of Google, who encouraged users from Google to check out not just one but two competing search engines known as Blekko and DuckDuckGo.

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Google’s Panda Update May Lead You to the Wrong Doctor’s Office!

Google’s Panda update has been in the news a lot lately as the ranking of certain websites have decreased hurting their revenue, but worse yet it has now been discovered that the Panda update makes no distinction between professional advice and amateur freelance writers. In a recent study done by Webpronews.com. They found that when looking up medical advice on Google. Users are much more likely to run across sites like ehow.com and suite101.com, which hire freelance writers, rather than actual professional medical websites. Worse yet these same sites often appear near the top of the search results.

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Google plans UI changes for 2010

While Google has been criticized recently for being slow to update their UI, Search Engine Land reports that there are some changes planned for 2010. Google vice president of search product and user experience Marissa Mayer outlined several changes that are being planned to the UI, including adding a permanent left-hand column for search options, allowing the user to switch between All Results, Images, News and more.

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Factery Labs gives Web surfers "just the facts"

A new search engine has emerged as a challenger to Google’s throne, but this one is taking a radically different approach to Internet searches. ReadWriteWeb reports that a new API service called Factery Labs is launching today, and as its name indicates, what it cares most about is “just the facts.”

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Nielsen numbers released for U.S. searches in October

According to data from The Nielsen Company, Americans conducted more than 10.2 billion searches on the top search engines in October 2009 with the majority (66.1 percent) of them taking place on Google.

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