Google wants to patent mobile commerce
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Psychiatric help and vegetables included Google owes its success to putting advertising into parts of our lives where no one has ever put adverts before. Now a new patent illustrates the extent of its ambitions.â¦
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK  - Google Inc  said on  Friday it would take part in a major auction of wireless  spectrum airwaves, meeting a minimum required bid of $4.6  billion, if U.S. regulators added a sale condition that Google  said would promote an open wireless market.
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(InfoWorld) - Google Inc. plans to extend the product search capabilities on its main Google.com Web search engine in the fourth quarter, in time for the holiday shopping season. A Google official shared the news with attendees of the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance (PESA) Summit in San Francisco this week, according to people at the conference. When people search for products on Google.com, the system will present them with another search box so that they can refine their query, wrote Bear Stearns & Co. Inc. analysts in a note published Friday. After people refine their query, Google takes them to a second page populated with product results from the Google Base listings service, wrote the analysts, who attended Google official's presentation. "Ranking will be determined by the attributes that the sellers listed for the product as well as by relevancy," the analysts wrote. Currently, Google has no plans to monetize this product-search capability with display ads or listing fees, but that could change, they wrote. The plan also involves de-emphasizing Froogle as a destination Web site and moving its comparison-shopping capabilities to Google.com, because, as the Google official explained, most product searches happen on Google.com, according to the note. Google.com can already detect if someone is looking for real estate to buy, and asks users to refine their queries before delivering listings from Google Base. Thus, the plan outlined at the PESA conference would apparently be a significant extension of this existing feature toward multiple product categories. Jonathan Garriss, PESA's executive director, got very excited after learning at the conference of Google's plans. "Anything that improves product search and helps shoppers find what they want is always positive for a merchant like me," said Garriss, chief executive officer of Gotham City Online, an apparel store on eBay that also has its own site. Garriss already feeds product information from his store to Google Base. But after talking to Google officials at the conference, he plans to improve it. "It will make it a it smarter search. Google is giving us an opportunity to do that," Garriss said. PESA groups about 600 large eBay sellers that collectively generate over 70 million eBay transactions and US$1 billion in eBay gross merchandise volume annually. Google Base was introduced last November as a service for individuals and organizations to post content to the Google search index, including products for sale. From the beginning, Google said that Base isn't meant as a destination Web site, but more like a database to feed information to Google search sites, like Google.com. To stress this point, Google recently removed the search box from the Google Base site. Neither Google or the Bear Stearns analysts immediately replied to requests for comment. Â
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Perhaps it's not a handset but a slice of the wireless spectrum that Google is eyeing.
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In a move sure to irritate some mobile users, Google said it is moving into mobile advertising, joining several others who see rich market.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Drawing upon its clout as the Internet's most powerful company, Google Inc. is calling on businesses and regulators throughout the world to adopt international standards for protecting consumer privacy online and offline.
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Google was live with a service enabling Internet users to search through the more than seven million patents granted in the United States.
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Google is expanding the usage of its enterprise search solutions by teaming  up with Ingram Micro, one of the world&#8217;s largest technology products distributors. Google and Ingram Micro had sealed an international IT Distribution Agreement that would grant Ingram Micro the right to distribute Goolge Mini and Google Search Appliance. Google Mini is a search [...]
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Google may have plans to expand its search engine beyond static text.
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The Federal Trade Commission has asked Google for more details about its proposed $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising company DoubleClick as part of an investigation into whether the deal raises antitrust concerns, a Google executive said yesterday.
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A new patent could quadruple Google's searching capability.
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Sci/Tech News, SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc. announced a new test service that allows people to use mobile phones or handheld devices to tap Google&#39;s Web search via text messages, or short message service.
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INTERNET search firm Google is testing a new service in the US which allows people to use mobile phones to tap into its web search engine via text messages.
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Blog: With full leasing ownership of the 700MHz spectrum, Google will try to effectively cripple the cell phone industry.  Before you scoff and say this is a bunch of garbage, consider this: Google will only offer the $4.6 billion if the government agrees to th
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Google is experimenting with a new search service for mobile devices based on text messaging, also known as "short messaging service" (SMS), as the company reaches out to the wireless world.
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Google has an idea so novel that it should patent it.
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Verizon Wireless is appealing new rules requiring some soon-to-be auctioned wireless spectrum to be open to any devices mobile customers please. Google says the move is anti-consumer.