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Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine
Summary from multiple countries, from articles in English
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Potentially embarrassing or compromising scenes like these are raising questions about whether the Internet's leading search engine has gone too far in its latest attempt to make the world a more accessible - and transparent - place. (article 2)
The Mountain View-based company already is planning to expand the service to other U.S. cities and other countries. (article 2)
It takes pictures of your house from outer space, copies rare Sanskrit books in India, charms its way onto Madison Avenue, picks fights with Hollywood and tries to undercut Microsoft s software dominance. (article 1)
Its search pages, blue hyperlinks set against a bland, white background, have made it the most visited, most profitable and arguably the most powerful company on the Internet. (article 1)
Google is the homework helper, navigator and yellow pages for half a billion users, able to find the most improbable needles in the world's largest haystack of information in just the blink of an eye. (article 1)
That's why Amit Singhal and hundreds of other Google engineers are constantly tweaking the company's search engine in an elusive quest to close the gap between often and always. (article 1)
This week, the operators of the two best mapping sites Google and Microsoft upgraded their mapping sites in flashy, useful ways. (article 3)
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Story keywords
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Google, search, Maps, Street, View |
Source articles
- Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine (nytimes.com, 06/03/2007, 775 words)
- Alarm At Google's "Street View", Newest Mapping Program Includes Photos Of Unwitting Subjects (CBS News, 06/04/2007, 1038 words)
- Mapping That Puts You There (Washington Post, 06/02/2007, 517 words)
- or Google will take a peep (observer.guardian.co.uk, 06/03/2007, 324 words)
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