Other closures include Fast Flip, Google Desktop, Sidewiki, Google Pack, Google Image Labeler and Google Web Security.
Also, this week Google announced Google Desktop, a free downloadable application that combines desktop search with a sidebar that links to Web searches and personal files.
The Google Desktop search tool is as speedy and accurate as its far-famed online search engine, though some people are alarmed by a persistent (and reeking of hogwash) rumor that it potentially compromises user privacy.
In my case, I've installed a search engine called Google Desktop that lets me quickly scour my hard drive for files, and a product by Xobni Corp. that does something similar for Outlook email, even though neither is approved by my IT department.
As a connected economy, it took years to figure out how to monetize desktop and Google, nor many others like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and name-your-social-media-flavor-of-the-day, are right on track with mobile.
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Google regularly makes user-friendly decisions like allowing people to check GMail using desktop email clients, an option which deprives Google of advertising revenue.
Users will now be able to drag-and-drop images from the desktop into the Google doc browser page directly.
This new platform delivers premium video and ad content consistently across all major platforms, including Apple iOS, Google Android, desktop operating systems and connected TVs.
Their slice of the event centered around the desktop refresh of Google Maps, but there's actually a lot more to be excited about than what was announced today.
Microsoft is being closely monitored by regulators, and if there were any way for it to use its desktop monopoly against Google it would surely have done so by now.
The danger remains that Microsoft will somehow exploit its desktop monopoly to push Google aside.
These personazlied searches are available on Google.com on the desktop as well as on iOS and Android devices.
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Jumping between pages as quickly as you can type, this mobile browser "talks" with your desktop's version of Google Chrome, letting you sync-up bookmarks and even view the same tabs you have open on your computer.
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Chrome OS, and its open-source sibling, Chromium OS, are Google's answer to the desktop computer.
And yet, this doesn't feel quite like a desktop: for every feature that Google has added, there are two more that remain unavailable.
Funnily enough, even, we felt more comfortable using Android in a desktop setting than we did with Google Chrome OS, which was actually designed with PC form factors in mind.
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And their share of the desktop market has eroded as Apple and Google have grown.
And mobile ad prices generally continue to come in about half the level of desktop ad prices, hurting not only Google but Facebook and other companies.
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Capability to read, listen and watch content not just on the Nextbook but on any device including a desktop, laptop or mobile phone with Google Play's cloud feature.
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Says there are now more users using Google Plus from mobile devices than from their desktop computers.
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The numbers show how serious Ballmer is: Microsoft's Office desktop franchise piles up profits faster than even Google 's online advertising money machine.
Out of frustration, many of the farmers would abandon the desktop software and cram farm management details into their Google Calendar accounts.
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This means enterprise users now have a three-way choice for office productivity: remote delivery of desktop applications, browser-based cloud solutions like Google Docs or the native, Microsoft-compatible LibreOffice suite that comes pre-installed.
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The company has included a variety of attractive widgets for the desktop, which exist alongside the stock Android options from Google.
According to CNET, 10 different businesses from desktop software to web security will be closed to allow Google to focus more on the markets with higher margins.
Because of the severely clogged WiFi network at the venue, the Chrome browser (now a standard app) took just about 15-plus seconds to load a simple Google search and even more to render the full Engadget desktop site.
Both Baidu and Google are clashing in a market of 450 million Chinese Internet desktop search users.
The lower cost of Google's mobile ads compared with those viewed on a desktop have contributed to an overall downturn in the average amount paid by advertisers every time someone clicks on an ad, the company has said.
In fact, argues Nicholas Carr, the former editor of the Harvard Business Review and author of the new book The Big Switch, those Web applications are signs of a fundamental change, a shift from the desktop to the Web that could redefine computing--and Google's business model.
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