Cody Taylor

An anonymous reader sends along a sharp and snarky article that takes Google to task for taking longer than expected to award M in its competition to find and fund world-bettering ideas. The submitter comments, “After using its tenth birthday as occasion to solicit philanthropic ideas from Web users through its Project 10^100, Google appears to have backed off from its commitment to provide million in funding to the winner. While the company was supposed to reveal the Project 10^100 winner in February, Google has since delayed the vote once and now suspended it indefinitely, due to the overwhelming response — Google says it received 150,000 entries. A Google spokeswoman wouldn’t commit to a new date, saying only it would be delayed ‘for a while longer.’ She further apologized for the company’s ‘over optimistic assumptions about how quickly we could analyze all the ideas that we’ve received.'”

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A developer has filed a lawsuit for trademark infringement against Google and 47 other companies over their involvement in the Android OS. It turns out that Specht has owned the trademark to “Android” since 2002 because of his company, Android Data, though there are some holes in his company history that could help Google

wjousts writes “Technology Review has an article comparing various search results from Wolfram Alpha and Google. Results vary. For example, searching ‘Microsoft Apple’ in Alpha returns data comparing both companies stock prices, whereas Google top results are news stories mentioning both companies. However, when searching for ’10 pounds kilograms,’ Alpha rather unhelpfully assumes you want to multiply 10 pounds by 1 kilogram, whereas Google directs you to sites for metric conversions. Change the query to ’10 pounds in kilograms’ and both give you the result you’d expect (i.e. 4.536 kg).”

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