Posted by Arnaud Sahuguet, Product Manager, and Mike LeBeau, Software Engineer

In case you hadn’t heard, a few months back we launched 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) in the U.S. It’s a free telephone service that lets you search for businesses by voice and get connected to those businesses for free.

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1-800-GOOG-411: now with maps

Posted by Mendel Chuang, Product Marketing Manager

Just a few months after Google Desktop became available for the Mac, I’m happy to tell you it’s now available for Linux users too. Google Desktop for Linux makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google. Not only can you rediscover important documents that have been idling on your hard drive for years, but you can also search through emails saved in Gmail or other applications. All office files, including documents and slides created with OpenOffice.org can be easily found. Since some Linux users are program developers, Google Desktop was designed with the ability to search source code and information contained in .pdf, .ps, .man and .info documents. It also features the Quick Search Box ,which you can call up by pressing the Ctrl key twice. Type a few letters or words into the search box and your top results pop up instantly. Keeping with a global focus, you can use it in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean –and it works with many versions of Linux too.

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Google Desktop now available for Linux

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Posted by Sep Kamvar, Engineering Lead for Personalization

Sometimes I think I know a lot. I can code like a champ and also know the difference between a Monet and a Manet. But on closer inspection, maybe I don’t know very much at all. When it comes to fine wines, for instance, I can’t tell the difference between Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Chateau-de-Cardboard, and if you asked me who played in the Super Bowl last year, I’d probably say the Dolphins. And lots of people at Google are like me: we know some things, and have some good ideas, but we certainly don’t know everything or have all the good ideas.

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Ga-Ga for Gadgets

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Posted by Missy Krasner, Product Marketing Manager

Every day, people use Google to learn more about an illness, drug, or treatment, or simply to research a condition or diagnosis. We want to help users make more empowered and informed healthcare decisions, and have been steadily developing our ability to make our search results more medically relevant and more helpful to users.

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New advisory group on health

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Posted by Rodrigo Vaca, Channel Marketing Manager, Google Enterprise

This month, we passed the 9,000 mark for enterprise buyers of the Google Search Appliance and the Google Mini. That’s a great beginning, but we want to reach out even farther, which is why we’re embarking on a partnership with Ingram Micro, one of the largest global distributors of technology products in the world. Ingram has extensive reseller relationships that can help us deliver the power of search behind the firewall to businesses of all sizes, more efficiently and at a larger scale than we could on our own. Continue Reading »
9,000 and counting

Iomega rolled out their latest network storage solutions on Tuesday for small business users and home users. The StorCenter line targets home users and small businesses that have the need for networked storage needs but don’t have an IT department to handle the complexities of a traditional file server.
The three new models in the StorCenter line come in 500GB, 750GB and 1TB capacities. The two smaller models

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Iomega Adds Three New StorCenter Models

Want to have music on your cell, but hate the mainstream chart sounds? There might be something to tickle your fancy. Emusic has announced a new service with AT&T to let people buy music via their cell phones.
 
The difference is that emusic only deals with independent labels, not the majors who have deals with other cell phone companies. This means they can reach people on the musical fringes.
 
The tracks will work on Samsung and Nokia handsets used by AT&T, and gives users access to most of the 2.7 million tacks sold by emusi

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Emusic Signs AT&T Download Deal

Posted by Dan Crow, Product Manager

This is the third and last in my series of blog posts about the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP). In the first post, I introduced robots.txt and the robots META tags, giving an overview of when to use them. In the second post, I shared some examples of what you can do with the REP. Today, I’ll introduce two new features that we have recently added to the protocol.

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Robots Exclusion Protocol: now with even more flexibility

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Posted by Dan Peterson, Product Manager

Google has a long history of involvement with universities, and we’re excited to share some recent news on that front with you. At the main Google campus this week we’re hosting the Google Faculty Summit, which involves universities all over participating in discussions about what we’re up to in research-land as well as computer science education - something very near and dear to us.

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Computer science resources for academics

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Posted by Karen Wickre, Google Blog Team

In case you’re thinking summer is the time to slow down, that’s not always true around here. Our CEO has been on the go on behalf of a number of our public policy initiatives. And our Public Policy blog has been keeping up with him.