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Google Acquires Picasa, Improves Blogging Tools

Posted by michael on from the google-does-something-news-at-ten dept.

clandestine writes "It appears that our lovable search engine has again expanded its horizons - the internet wasn't enough; now you can search and organize your own pictures. I don't know about you, but I use Google for nearly everything; heck, I found links about their acquisition of Picasa through Google News! Any slashdotters going to benefit from this tech, or already do? And yes, the addition of Picasa to their arsenal is a couple of days old, but they just started linking them on the homepage today."

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  1. Awesome! by nubbie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yet a faster way to find pr0n... thanks google!

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  2. Re:Funny thing.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    When microsoft "expands" we all bitch and whine, but then google goes out and devours companies and services, and its suddenly "cute".

    It is because:

    1. Google services just works and are not famous for their bugs and instability

    Yep, and *they* know how to close italic tags too...

  3. Re:Nice Editorial Work, Michael.... by na2rboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shouldn't call someone lame and lazy for overlooking something if you spell Picasa "Picaso".

  4. Re:So let's see... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can you post the pix of your secretary? Thanks.

  5. Re:Funny thing.. by Senjutsu · · Score: 4, Funny

    My God, do you mean to say that people apply different standards for behavior to convicted monopolists than they do to, say, law-abiding corporations?!

    How strange.

  6. Re:Google by tehcyder · · Score: 5, Funny
    yse

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  7. Re:Nice Editorial Work, Michael.... by na2rboy · · Score: 1, Funny

    I don't get paid for accuracy, timeliness, and relevancy on Slashdot. I do it gratis.

    Aye, and you get what you pay for.

  8. Re:Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    certainly not Harvey. And you can use it to find humerous misspellings too, my favourite being:
    a list of people who can't spell dyslexia.

    Shamelessly stolen from NTK.

  9. Re:Google by HarveyBirdman · · Score: 4, Funny
    yse

    Whta?

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  10. Just in case google.com gets slashdotted... by stienman · · Score: 5, Funny
    Just in case it gets slashdotted, here's the homepage:
    ---------------

    Google

    Web Images Groups News Froogle more »

    Advanced Search
    Preferences
    Language Tools

    Have a digital camera? Try Google's Picasa software. Free Download.

    Advertising Programs - Business Solutions - About Google

    ©2004 Google - Searching 4,285,199,774 web pages


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    -Adam
  11. Re:Monopoly by hunterx11 · · Score: 3, Funny

    While you're at it, could you send me an ICQ invite? I've been dying to message my friends.

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  12. Re:Monopoly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sure! Say goodbye to that lame "hunterx11" nickname -- your friends will envy you as 301879928!

  13. Re:Picasa doesn't work on my Mac :P by 1000101 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Man, I really hate to break this to you, but.... thousands of software titles won't work on your Mac (or mine for that matter).