Google is trying to rid the world of dull tech demo videos by encouraging a bit of healthy competition. The company is asking users to submit video demonstrations of Google products and letting the world vote on the best ones… (Read more…).
After once managing to somehow wind up at an outdoor concert instead of a restaurant despite following Google Maps, I almost feel guilty for laughing at these lost and confused members of the Google Street View team.
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BEIJING — Google vice president John Liu on Tuesday reaffirmed the firm’s commitment to China, the world’s largest web community, after its harsh battle this year with Beijing over censorship and cyberattacks.
Liu described China as a “very important market for Google” at a technology conference in Beijing, adding that the company would “continue to provide the best products and services for users in China as in other markets”. (Read more…).
Google has added a new item to the sidebar it shows to the left of your search results: your location information. You will now be able to see where Google thinks you are — and easily change your location if Google somehow got it wrong… (Read more…)
Google is quickly becoming known for its cloud-based apps and services among enterprise users. Before Google Apps, however, there was Google Search Appliance (GSA), a search product that allows companies to pull in results from databases or network shares on their intranets. With more and more companies using both products, Google is now trying to merge the two with its latest update to GSA, version 6.8… (Read more)
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Shares of Google rose 11% Friday, reaching $600 for the first time in more than nine months, after the company posted solid quarterly earnings that impressed investors.
Google’s (GOOG, Fortune 500) stock rose as much as $59.07 to $600 a share in midday trading, before sliding back a bit. It was the stock’s highest level since January…(Read more…).
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Google’s profit soared in the third quarter, defying skeptical investors and analysts who feared that the search giant would never find a a significant new revenue stream besides search advertisements.
The company shed rare light on its non-core businesses like YouTube, display advertising and mobile, demonstrating how it is building new, multi-billion dollar businesses…. (Read more…).
Answer
by Fredric Brown
Dwar Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore through the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing.
He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe–ninety-six billion planets–into the supercircuit that would connect them all into the one supercalculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies.
Dwar Reyn spoke briefly to the watching and listening trillions. Then, after a moment’s silence, he said, “Now, Dwar Ev.”
Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel.
Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. “The honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn.”
“Thank you,” said Dwar Reyn. “It shall be a question that no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer.”
He turned to face the machine. “Is there a God?”
The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of single relay.
“Yes, now there is a God.”
Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch.
A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down and fused the switch shut.*
