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Gmail In Search Results? That’s The Latest Idea From Google

Gmail In Search Results? That’s The Latest Idea From Google

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is creating an information bridge between its influential Internet search engine and its widely used Gmail service in its latest attempt to deliver more personal responses more quickly. The experimental feature unveiled Wednesday will enable Google’s search engine to mine the correspondence stored within a user’s Gmail account for any [...]

August 9, 2012 More
Google Street View Takes You To National Parks With The Click Of A Mouse

Google Street View Takes You To National Parks With The Click Of A Mouse

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Imagine being the only driver on a two-lane asphalt highway as the stark desolation of Death Valley National park passes on each side and the crystal blue sky stretches up from the horizon. Or picture a tight left turn on Yosemite’s Glacier Point Road where in the east iconic Half Dome [...]

July 30, 2012 More
Google: We Didn’t Delete Street View Data Like We’d Promised

Google: We Didn’t Delete Street View Data Like We’d Promised

LONDON (Reuters) – Google Inc said on Friday it had not kept its promise to delete all the personal data, such as emails, its Street View cars collected in Britain and other countries in 2010. The U.S. company admitted in May 2010 that its vehicles, which photograph neighborhoods to create street level images, had accidentally [...]

July 28, 2012 More
Google To Build Taiwan Data Center

Google To Build Taiwan Data Center

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Google Inc. is building a data center in Taiwan – its third in Asia after Hong Kong and Singapore – to meet the rapidly growing online demand across the region, the company said Tuesday. The three data centers – with investment totaling $700 million – will provide users with faster, more reliable [...]

April 5, 2012 | 0 Comments More
Larry Page: Google CEO Faces ‘Paranoia’ Over Facebook One Year Into His New Role

Larry Page: Google CEO Faces ‘Paranoia’ Over Facebook One Year Into His New Role

SAN FRANCISCO — Google co-founder Larry Page has a Facebook fixation. When he replaced his mentor Eric Schmidt as Google’s CEO last April, Page insisted that the company had to be more aggressive about countering the threat posed by Facebook’s ever-growing popularity. Page responded with a social networking crusade that is still reshaping Google Inc. [...]

April 4, 2012 | 0 Comments More
Al Franken Warns Facebook, Google Users: ‘You Are Their Product’

Al Franken Warns Facebook, Google Users: ‘You Are Their Product’

Web giants are becoming too big to care, Senator Al Franken warned Thursday. Franken argued that the growing dominance of companies such as Facebook and Google risks making them immune to market pressure and more likely to violate users’ privacy in the quest for profits. In a speech delivered Thursday to the American Bar Association, [...]

March 31, 2012 | 0 Comments More
Google patent app details method for generating a ‘ghost profile,’ a world of anonymous G+ users

Google patent app details method for generating a ‘ghost profile,’ a world of anonymous G+ users

Google hasn’t exactly had the easiest time keeping the privacy hawks off of its back, but if a recently published patent application is any indication of its future intentions, well… let’s just say we could see a lot more people hiding behind an online veil. Made public today, Google’s most recent patent app details a “system [...]

March 30, 2012 | 0 Comments More
NVIDIA’s CEO hints at $199 Tegra 3 Android tablets for the summer

NVIDIA’s CEO hints at $199 Tegra 3 Android tablets for the summer

Always talkative NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is in the news yet again, this time telling the New York Times that his company’s Tegra 3 hardware is incorporating enough cost saving that it could be in $199 Android tablets by this summer. Beyond the tantalizing thought of value-priced tablets with the horsepower of the Transformer Prime (perfect for that rumored [...]

March 30, 2012 | 0 Comments More
Google Autocomplete Blamed For Hurting Japanese Man’s Job Hunt

Google Autocomplete Blamed For Hurting Japanese Man’s Job Hunt

Google’s unofficial motto is reportedly “Don’t be evil,” but a Japanese man believes otherwise and has convinced a judge to order the search engine to turn off its autocomplete feature for his name. A Japanese court ordered the search engine switch-off after hearing that, when the man’s name was typed in, the results automatically connected [...]

March 28, 2012 | 0 Comments More
Google Design: Why Google.com Homepage Looks So Simple

Google Design: Why Google.com Homepage Looks So Simple

Google executive Marissa Mayer, the web giant’s twentieth employee and first female engineer, pulled back the curtain Tuesday evening to reveal why Google’s stark white homepage looks the way it does. Mayer, Google’s vice president of local, maps and location services, was the gatekeeper of Google.com for more than a decade and helped shape what Google’s [...]

March 28, 2012 | 0 Comments More
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