Connecting more people to the Web world-wide creates more potential users of its Web-search engine and other services such as YouTube and its Google Play media and app store.
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Eventually, we will make our web browser a launch pad for our personalized recommendation engine and cloud-based services.
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Expect more deals in the coming months like the one Infoseek recently signed with Microsoft making it the search engine on WebTV's services.
One of the more interesting is an application suite created entirely on Google App Engine, Android, and Cloud Services.
This month's report from purchasing managers, for example, revealed a sharp deceleration in services, for so long the engine of the economy.
The Item Club highlights the importance of the large and diverse business services sector in being the main engine of growth, while manufacturing has stagnated and construction remains about 10% below its pre-downturn output.
The phones there don't come with official Google services like the company's search engine or the Android Market app store.
The organisation recommended that companies stop advertising on illegal music sites and urged search engine providers to prioritise search results relating to legal services.
Jeff Catlin, CEO at Lexalytics, the analytical engine used by Reuters, said that in financial services the company uses a training based classification model.
Last June, Google began ramping up its pursuit of Amazon by unveiling Google Compute Engine, a cloud-computing competitor to Amazon Web Services.
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Google's effort to build a new browser, which started in 2006, was partly born out of concerns existing browsers would fail to support its Web services or steer users away from its search engine.
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At Citi, IBM System z plays a major role as a core processing engine of virtually every line of business at the global financial services company.
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Inside Google, Compute Engine was considered a "defensive" move against Amazon Web Services, according to a person familiar with the deliberations that led to the introduction of Google's service.
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Google, the developer of the world's most popular Internet search engine, generates billions of dollars in revenues annually from selling online advertising services, including the delivery of targeted ads online.
One of them argues that the search engine is anti-competition in the way that it favors its own offerings for various services, while another argues that the very format is pro-competition and pro-consumer.
Any European limits on Google could hamper the sweeping ambition that chief executive Larry Page has set for the company to turn itself from a search engine that primarily displays links to other sites into a "knowledge engine" that answers users' questions directly with information plucked from Google's own services.
Common to all such services is a need for some form of speech recognition, as well as an engine that can generate speech from digitised text.
Greg Sterling, an analyst with Opus Research, said new services like Quora are more likely to help than hurt Google, giving its search engine more information to crawl.
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To address EU concerns over Google's "scraping" of user reviews and other content from rival sites, the company pledged to give content providers the right to opt out of its specialist search services -- such as Google News -- without disappearing from its general search engine.
The stealthy, single-engine fighter is being developed in multiple variants to meet the needs of three U.S. military services and nine overseas allies, but this is the first time it has beaten foreign and domestic competitors in a head-to-head competition.
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