The company regularly tests its search system, what the home page looks like, overall site design as well as product pricing.
Two major new Jelly Bean features, the Google Now info cards and a voice-activated search system, work expertly on the Nexus 7.
And for Google, the most data-driven company in the world, having newspapers articles in its search system is no more than small cool stuff.
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He also reassured television bosses over copyright violations, saying Google could take down sites from its search system within four hours if there were problems.
Among them are an updated version of the Sherlock search system introduced last year, which allows users to search the Web using multiple search engines simultaneously.
In separate online advertising development Wednesday, Google announced that users of its search-advertising system will soon have to start paying for marketing messages sent to some mobile devices, even if they only are interested in reaching people on desktop and laptop computers.
To provide answers that aren't already in Google's ever-expanding database, the company will blend new semantic-search technology with its current system to better recognize the value of information on websites and figure out which ones to show in search results.
The project is part of a European-funded initiative, known as Smart ("search engine for multimedia environment-generated content"), which aims to create a system for internet users to search and analyse data from sensors.
Leveraging WebGL and Javascript, the system samples the search giant's images and generates text art using the appropriate characters and hues.
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The message posted to Hacker News used a search syntax that exposed a system used by Facebook that lets users quickly log back in to their account.
"People can go online and register their journeys - the system will then search for a matching partner to help them on their journey to work, " he said.
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To do that, Rothman and his team had to build a search engine, a payment system, a pricing engine, a feedback system, and even fussed around with the envelopes customers received.
The vast majority of it, though, is worthless to us and a pretty good exchange for frequent-flier miles, better search results, a fast system to qualify for credit, finding out if our babysitter has a criminal record and ads we find more useful than annoying.
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So, Autodesk opted for a customised Systran system which translates search results into French, Spanish, German or Italian. (Support for Japanese is in the works.) By analysing the documents in Autodesk's database, and exploiting the fact that they are written in a consistent style, it was possible to tune the translation system to produce far more accurate results.
Yet, instead of delving into how the Bretton Woods system did so well, the authors search instead for how those in power can better manage the current non-system.
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The application, run by Google's Android operating system, lets users search for content from their television, DVR and the web.
Through the Nokia partnership, Microsoft not only stands to gain licensing revenues for its operating system, but also search advertising market share.
There's a fine line between search engine optimization and cheating the system.
And soon we'll have the Google phone, which will be manufactured by others but will include a Google operating system, browser, search, e-mail and video.
I'm a science journalist and author of "Distant Wanderers: the Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System" who writes about over-the-horizon technology, primarily astronomy and space science.
I'm a science journalist and author of "Distant Wanderers: the Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System" who writes about over-the-horizon technology, primarily in the realms of astronomy and space science.
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It's driven some to search Google through a Bulletin Board System-like interface or, in the case of programmer Peter Nitsch, it's compelled him to graft ASCII art onto the physical world.
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It's taken more than six years of development, but a new imaging system for the Palomar Observatory's 200-inch Hale Telescope finally started capturing images last month, and promises to aid significantly in the search for planets outside our solar system (otherwise known as exoplanets).
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The beauty of the system is that you can search a range of different financial institutions at one go.
Or, rather, his company reorganized the internet according to his PageRank system, allowing those in search of knowledge find what they were looking for more easily and efficiently.
Mechanisms in place in Facebook's system and in Google's search engine can look for suicidal messages and direct people to help.
Google ranks its search results using a proprietary page-ranking system that's partly based on how often a site is linked to from other sites.
While Google provides their system software for free, the search giant keeps a cut of app and digital media sales made via its Google Play marketplace.
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