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More On Google Alerts Quality Control - A couple months ago, we wrote on how Google Alerts tweaked their algorithm to be more more quality focused and send out less alerts. A recent Google Web Search Help thread has more on how Google Alerts works from Google Product Manager, Marcel. Marcel responded to a quality complaint saying: You're right, both of those are matches for your query, but neither of them are interesting documents. To ...

Google Alarm Tells You If Google Is Watching You - What's Your Reaction? Another rad browser plugin called Google Alarm hit the Internets this week, which alerts you every time your personal info is sent to Google's servers. How? Via notifications, a running tally of dangerous sites and, naturally, a super annoying, vuvuzela-like alarm.

Is Google Watching You? New Plugin Will Let You Know [APPS - Another rad browser plugin called Google Alarm hit the Internets this week, which alerts you every time your personal info is sent to Google's servers. How? Via notifications, a running tally of dangerous sites and, naturally, a super annoying, vuvuzela-like alarm.

Google Maps adds "Places" and other top Android Apps of the Week - It was a pretty good week for the Android Market, with several big brands unveiling their shiny new Android apps. Even Google got in on the fun, updating its Maps app with a dedicated Places icon.

Google Inc. Has Risen Above Today's Range - Google Inc. (GOOG) gapped up slightly Tuesday, but has since traded in a range. The stock has climbed in the last 10 minutes and is now higher by 7.83 at $496.80.

Google Webmaster Tools SiteNotices For Site Error Notifications - The Google Webmaster Central Blog announced they are stepping up their notifications within Webmaster Tools. They will now send SiteNotices for a significant increase in unreachable content, that is when GoogleBot cannot reach a number of pages on your web site.

3 Stocks I Saw On TV - SAN DIEGO (TheStreet) -- Dan Fitzpatrick examines three stocks viewed on Fast Money. Today's stocks include Ethan Allen, Xilinx Inc., and Google.

Google Alarm plug-in notifies you when info is sent to Google - Big Brother is watching you and one developer wants you to know about it. Big Brother in this case is Google who has a number of ways of tracking the browsing habits of users. Googles reach extends outside their directly owned propertiessuch as Gmail, YouTube and Bloggerto third-party websites through the sites use Google Analytics, [...

Facebook takes on Google with Q&A service - Facebook has introduced Facebook Questions, a beta product that lets users pose questions to the social network's community.

Report: Google is planning social networking rival to Facebook - RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. Social networking giant Facebook could soon face another giant in a different realm as a rival search engine kingpin Google.