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Google Launches SMS Channels In India

Google SMS Channels is a free service that enables channels/groups on SMS and to get premium content published by Google publishing partners, Google popular products (Google News, Blogger and Google Groups) and websites with RSS/Atom support. SMS Channels allows you to create your own channel(s) to publish content that other users can subscribe to. You [...]

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How To Get a Split View in Google Chrome

Split view (seeing two browser tabs side-by-side at the same time) is in-built into some browsers like Opera and Maxthon.
ChromePlugins.org has released a bookmarklet which will bring the dual split view to Google Chrome.
this will enable you to create 2 side by side “panels” in Chrome in the same tab so you can browse two [...]

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Google Moderator – Google’s answer to Yahoo! Answers?

Google launched a new service titled Google Moderator which seems to be aimed to compete the super popular Yahoo! Answers
Collect questions in one place Everyone has a chance to propose a question to the group.
Vote for the questions you care about [...]

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Display Google search results from within Firefox address bar

Ryan of CyberNet enhanced Searchery Firefox add-on so that one can instantly see the results of Google web searches using the keyword system. 
The way it works is: Say you want to search in Google for “free data recovery software”, you type the keyword associated with Google search followed by your search term and then [...]

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Working at Microsoft vs Google

Sergey Solyanik, left Google to re-join Microsoft as Dev Manager.
I think I am the first person in the Seattle/Kirkland area to do so, so this merits an explanation.

writes Sergey in his blog post. He explains why he chose to move back to MS and below are some notable points from it:
Plusses for Google:

Peer-based [...]

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