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    Add a Background Image to Google Search Page

    Today, June 10th, Google are highlighting a new feature whereby you can upload your own image to serve as the backdrop for your Google search page. If you want to change the image to one of your own choosing, you can click on the link...

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    Google’s Had It With China

    A very recent announcement on the official Google blog entitled ‘A New Approach to China’ seems to suggest that Google have now lost their patience with the Chinese government’s human rights abuses. Of course the post does not say this directly but, if one reads...

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    Video Interview with Google’s “Cupcake Princess”

    Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP Search Products & User Experience, recently took questions in the most recent edition of Digg Dialogg. Topics covered by Mayer include the upcoming launch of Google Wave (Google Wave), how Google feels about Microsoft Bing and Wolfram Alpha, and the biggest...

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    Google Wave Preview

    Google Wave is a new project by Google, still in development, yet set for release later this year. It will be an integrated communications and collaboration platform. This means that the one web-based application will be able to handle email, chat, photo-sharing and collaborative editing...

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  • We Now Offer Google Apps Setup and Support

    We Now Offer Google Apps Setup and Support

    LS Digital Media is proud to announce a new service that we feel will be of great benefit to many of our small and medium sized clients both new and existing. Google Apps is an extremely user-friendly suite of productivity tools available for your business,...

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  • Google Chrome Market Share Growing

    Google Chrome Market Share Growing

    This article over at Digital Inspiration has a graph showing Chrome’s market share which has just hit 1% for the first time…

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  • Get The Most Out of Google Search

    Get The Most Out of Google Search

    Right… chances are you lot aren’t really making the most of Google’s core product – search! Surely you just put in what you want and Google does the rest, right? Yup, and (of course) nope! The answer is that by learning a few simple techniques...

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  • Google’s Share of Search Grows Slightly in Q3 2008

    Google’s Share of Search Grows Slightly in Q3 2008

    A report recently released by Efficient Frontier analyses the performance of Google, Yahoo and MSN. Their Q3 2008 U.S. Search Engine Performance Report focuses on search engine spending, CTR, CPC and ROI from advertisers in the Efficient Frontier Client Index. The publishers of the report...

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  • The Queen Graces Google

    The Queen Graces Google

    The Queen is apparently a closet technophile who emails her grandchildren William and Harry regularly. This is the message coming from her visit to Google’s London HQ today. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh both smiled when shown the video of a laughing baby...

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  • Why is Paddington Bear on my Google Homepage?

    Why is Paddington Bear on my Google Homepage?

    The answer, to put you all out of your misery, is simple. Paddington is 50 today! So… congratulations to the bear from ‘Darkest Peru’, Michael Bond’s creation who has warmed the hearts of children for the last half century. That’s a long time in bear...

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