Google, owner of the world’s most popular Internet search engine, has helped publish online the Dead Sea Scrolls.
In a post on The Official Google Blog, the company said that it now offers the ancient texts in an easier, searchable format for scholars and academic institutions.
It took around 2,400 years for the intensive “work of archaeologists, scholars and historians” to be published during the Internet era for the Dead Sea Scrolls to reach all corners of the world, Google added.
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Google announced Thursday the addition of a new weather layer and cloud coverage to its popular Web mapping service Google Maps.
In a post on The Official Google Blog, Google user experience designer Jonah Jones said that users who want to organize excursions or business trips would now receive weather forecasts for necessary preparations.
The search giant has added a weather layer on Google Maps for the Web, which shows current temperatures and conditions worldwide, Jones added.
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Google on Thursday unveiled Magnifier, a new music discovery site for users to find great music, with support for Google Music Beta.
In a post on The Official Google Blog, Google Music Beta product manager Paul Joyce said that Magnifier would help discover new songs, live videos, and interviews from various artists in multiple genres to a user’s ever-growing music collection.
Google Music Beta is a cloud-based service for uploading and listening to personal music collections on the …

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Google today replaced its official homepage logo with a new interactive Google Doodle in the form of an old TV set to honor the 100th birthday of elite comedienne Lucille Ball.
In a post on The Official Google Blog, Jennifer Hom, an illustrator and designer of the Google Doodle team, said with fervor that the company celebrates and pays homage to comedy actor Lucille Désirée Ball, one of the most successful, longest and …

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Google Wednesday decided to shut down its testing ground Google Labs in an effort to provide simpler but more streamlined products.
In a post on The Official Google Blog, SVP for Research and Systems Infrastructure Bill Coughran wrote that closing Google Labs, after retiring Google Health and PowerMeter, follows the company’s initiative to focus on its core products and services.
The Google Labs currently operates and revolves around a team that has served as …

Over the last couple of months, bloggers, critics and users made complaints on Google for bringing search results of poor quality, which the Internet giant takes as Web spam, defined as junk search results popping up when sites deceive Google Search to reach top ranking through ominous search engine optimization (SEO) methods.
In a post on The Official Google Blog, Principal Engineer Matt Cutts wrote, “A decade ago, the spam situation was so bad that search engines would regularly return …

On Wednesday, Google officially announced the launch of the Internet giant’s fourth annual Doodle 4 Google contest, a big window for US students in K-12 to create a homepage doodle for one of the world’s most visited webpage, Google.com, and grab a $15,000 scholarship with $25,000 technology grant for the winner’s current academic institution.
According to a post on The Official Google Blog, the theme for this year is “What I’d like to do someday…,” allowing gifted and …

On October 27, Google modified their search engine for Place Search, a new form of local search built on geographic locations with relevant info, allowing users to google small business establishments, compare them with each other, and settle for best place to visit.
The U.S. Internet giant gathers all search results and places red pins on new results with each located business establishments containing unique info and web links, including different reviews from local search sites like …

Google has launched a new website called TeachParentsTech.org, allowing younger generations to help demonstrate basic computer operations and skills to their parents or older relatives.
According to The Official Google Blog post, the website enables users to choose from over 50 instructional videos which can be sent to parents or anyone they think requires some help accomplishing simple tasks, including copying, pasting and sharing or sending large files.
Additionally, Google has promised free …