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US: Ghostbusters grabs Google search gong

Search engine leader Google has published its Zeitgeist 2009 report – which lists the Top Ten searches in North America across a number of popular entertainment sectors over the last year – and Atari’s Ghostbusters has emerged as the winner. Google’s report is compiled from the billions of queries people …

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Google unveils Chrome OS

Having taken a stab at both the web browsing and mobile phone markets, internet colossus Google has lifted the lid on its next big computing adventure – the Chrome operating system. Whilst the likes of Apple’s OS X and the open-source Linux engine enjoy a slim but stable share of …

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Google takes on MS with open-source OS

First of all it took control of the browser market. Then Google attempted to become a software provider with apps like Gmail, Google Docs and Google Maps. Next came its bold new mobile OS but nothing to date compares to Google’s recently unveiled next move – the Windows-rivalling Google Chrome …

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Google announces further job cuts

Global internet giant Google has announced a further 200 job losses, with the cuts to be focused on its sales and marketing operations and half coming from its North American operations. Google has already announced 140 job losses so far this year in addition to the 300 jobs lost a …

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Google to unveil gaming push?

Leading internet search form Google is to host a games-centric press gathering at GDC next week, though the details of what will or will not be on show remain deliberately vague. Invites for the event seem to focus on games-related themes for iGoogle. More interestingly, however, it also states: We …

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