Google Sends Private Emails to Wrong Recipients
	The Mountain View-based company has once again sent private emails to the wrong people, all of them registered users of AdSense, Google's advertising platform. According to a thread on the WebmasterWorld forum, a few AdSense users have received an email message titled "Important Account Information ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 09:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Denies the Recently Reported Gmail Security Glitch
	Yesterday, news about a potential Gmail security flaw that could let attackers turn Google's service into a spamming machine could be spotted everywhere around the web, but all users were still expecting an official statement from the Mountai ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 05:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Rumors of Google and News Corp Bid for blinkx
	The self-claimed world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, blinkx, has recorded a serious increase of traffic over the last period. The increasing number of visitors is mainly due to the rumors about a possible Google or News Corp bid for the video search engine website. It appears that the company currently owning the blinkx site has seen its shares up to 36.75 pence, the highest recorded level since September. b ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 05:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Learning History with Google Earth
	After last week’s update with satellite imagery from the affected areas in Myanmar (Burma), Google Earth has just received a new update. This time, it is something that deals more with the past, but is of equal significance. The new layer has increased the number of available maps in Rumsey Historical Maps to a total of 120. For those among you that are continuously interested in history and historical events, the new layer i ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 04:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Enables Social Networking
	Yesterday, Google has announced the launch of a new service that is said to increase the traffic level of any website using it. It appears that site owners will have the most advantages, as they will be able to provide their visitors with social features, even if the site isn't part of a social network. According to the press release, a preview of Google Friend Connect has been displayed at Campfire One at the Googleplex. ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 03:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Street View Launches Face-Blurring Technology, European Expansion Now Imminent
	Since Google rolled out Street View, there has been a lot of controversy around it as people appearing in those high-resolution photos captured by Google pointed to their privacy rights and requested the removal of the pictures. The Mountain View-based company has always been opened to talks and accepted to delete the photos as long as the user who requested it could prove he was the one appearing in them. However, since Street View grew u ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 02:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Reader Receives New Feature
	One of Google's best products, the Google Reader, has recently received a new feature, meant to enhance the users' experience. The Google Reader was released back in 2005, as a means of providing Google users with a better tool for an RSS feed Reader. The web-based application can be accessed through any Google account and offers a number of customization tools, enabling the user with an easy-to-use news Reader. Thro ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 09:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Updates Google Video
	The Mountain View-based company Google has rolled out an update for Google Video, its second video sharing technology which allows users to upload and share clips on the web. Google Video now provides a new Grid View that helps you find a certain clip easier than anytime before. From now on, when searching for a clip and viewing the results in grid view, you can move the mouse cursor over a video thumbnail and see more details ab ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 08:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Street View Cars Spotted in Paris
	Rumors concerning a potential expansion of Google Street View in Europe have been circulating on the web for some time now, but the Mountain View-based company hasn’t made it clear yet if it considers such an expansion or not. However, Google Street View cars are occasionally spotted in Europe, which obviously supports the idea that Google may be interested in bringing the continent into high-resolution. According to Network Worl ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 08:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google to Adopt Solid-State Drives Across Its Server Line-Up
	Google is allegedly planning to make the transition from conventional hard-disk drives to the more reliable and energy-efficient solid-state drives. The change will affect most of the search engine's servers located at Google's US headquarters sometime during the second quarter of the year. According to a news report issued by Chinese tech website Digitimes, Google will purchase solid-state drives from Intel. The dr ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 07:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Google-Yahoo Deal Would Destroy the Market
	Just like in the past, Google encounters difficulties when trying to make a major move on the market because 16 organizations based in the United States asked regulators to analyze the Google-Yahoo deal, on the grounds that it could destroy the competition. A mon ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 05:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Security Flaw Can Easily Turn Gmail into Your Worst Nightmare
	Gmail, Google's very popular email technology, which is for many users their main email service, can easily turn into your worst nightmare as a security glitch could allow an attacker to use the service as the perfect spamming bot. According to security research team INSERT, the security glitch "is related to the risk of abusing the email forwarding option in Gmail accounts." In case an attacker manages to take adv ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 04:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Calls for Donations Boost the Number of Google Visitors
	This is another update regarding the news on the victims of Cyclone Nargis in the state of Burma. By know, most of you probably know about Google's ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 08:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Cannes Film Festival on a YouTube Channel Near You
	YouTube is definitely the most popular website, where a user can find all sorts of short videos, posted by users worldwide looking for fame. But now you can even see ten short movies which are featured at the Cannes Short Film Corner. According to YouTube's "Broadcasting Ourselves" blog, users can tune into NFB's YouTube Channel and view the selected movies. For those among you who aren't aware, the Ca ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 06:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Earth – Updated Images of Myanmar
	By now, most of you have noticed the "Support victims" link featured on the Google home page. As we also informed you, Google and other organizations have put a considerable effort in trying to help the victims of Cyclone Nargis. The devastating cy ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 05:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Admits Yahoo's Dominance, Prepares New YouTube Ads
	The Mountain View-based company Google is looking to get more money from YouTube, the online video sharing service they bought in October 2006 for $1.65 billion. After a series of tests, Google is now working on a new type of advertisements to be displayed on YouTube, other than the ones before and after the clips, News.com ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 04:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Says Goodbye to “Hello”
	This might come as sad news for some of you: Google will be shutting down Hello, Picasa's application used for sharing photos over the web. The Hello webpage will not be accessible starting with May15, this year. Hello has been part of the Picasa application ever since Google acquired the latter, back in 2004. clearly, Picasa users who are using the Hello service might have not expected this. For those among you how don&# ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 03:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo to Change Its Search Engine
	As all of us know, the Google search engine is one of the most used search engines on the web. There are a number of websites that come integrated with the powerful Google search engine. This is just to show how popular Google really is. It seems that none of its competitors can provide users with a real alternative for a search engine. Nevertheless, this might change soon, as Yahoo rolled out, in India, a new search option. I ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 03:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Translate Brings New Languages, Romanian Among the Newly Added
	Google Translate has always been a useful web tool because it allowed users to translate texts and websites with a single click. Moreover, just like most other Google services, it was available for free. However, Google Translate only provided a number of 26 language pairs because it only allowed users to translate texts to ... [read more >>]
	08 May 2008, 06:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google to Run Illustrated Advertisements on Image Search
	Most web surfers are familiar with Google's way of advertising on various web pages. The Google AdWords is a way in which both Google and the sites that subscribe to this service can make money. The AdWords service, which is part of Google's advertisement program, makes use of the content found on a specific webpage to render content related text advertisements, on that same page. The links can provide webmasters with c ... [read more >>]
	08 May 2008, 05:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Says: Don't Trust Verizon
	Verizon, the American broadband and telecommunications company, has recently won the C block in the 700MHz spectrum auction. For those who aren't aware, the 700MHz auction was initiated by the Federal Communications Commission back in January 2008, for the rights to operate the 700MHz frequency band in the United States. Following this win, Google has warned the FCC that Verizon might be up to no good. Contrary to Google’ ... [read more >>]
	08 May 2008, 03:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Maps and YouTube on Your Sprint Handset
	The American company Sprint has announced today that it would expand its collaboration with the Mountain View giant, Google. Sprint is a wireless and wireline communications service provider that offers its products to both mainstream and business users. Google and Sprint have joined forces for the development of another project that was also announced today. The new agreement will allow Sprint users to access some of Google&# ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 10:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google to Invest in a New Company Named Clearwire
	The American wireless communication company Sprint has announced today, through a press release, that it will join forces with Clearwire for a new US company. The new firm is going to be named Cleawire and is meant to combine Sprint and Clearwire 4G Assets in order to form a new wireless communications company. WiMAX is an overgrowing standard, which the two companies are intending to extend to a larger US coverage. As part of ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 09:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google AdSense for Search Now Features Custom Search
	One of Google's products, Custom Search Engine (or short CSE), has recently received an important upgrade. According to a Tuesday post on Google's Custom Search Blog, web developers can create CSEs using their own AdSense accounts. The new upgrade comes to increase the quality of Google services, as more users are continuously using Google's CSE. The CSE is one of Google's products, that has been released b ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 08:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Search Is as Well as Inexistent in Europe
	Microsoft's search properties, with Live Search at the forefront, are as well as inexistent in Europe. The Redmond company has a share of just 1.9% of all the volume of searches in Europe, which makes Microsoft an insignificant player. In March 2008, according to statistics released by comScore, Microsoft managed to attract only 469 million searches in Europe. This is nothing compared with the 19,434 billion queries that wer ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 07:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google's orkut Gets a Major Storage Upgrade
	Google's orkut has recently received a new upgrade, which comes in the form of a larger storage space for the users' photos. This new upgrade is released eight months after October's latest increase of photo storage space. Back then, Google orkut proudly announced its users that they could upload up to 100 Photos in their orkut photo album. Many of the orkut users thought the new upgrade was not that much of a d ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 04:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Earth Helping the Victims of Cyclone Nargis
	The news about last weekend's devastation Cyclone Nargis brought upon the state of Myanmar has rapidly spread all over the world. As it usually happens in such cases, an important number of charity actions are taking place worldwide in order to come to the aid of the victims of the devastating Nargis. Among them, Google has come out with a way to help us better digest the entire picture of the disaster. With the help of & ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 03:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Analytics: 0 (Zero) Direct Visitors!
	An uncanny Google Analytics glitch drives users mad and at the time this article was written, no Google official came out to explain what happened. Here's the problem in a few words: webmasters who logged into their Google Analytics in the last few days spotted a shocking report: 0 (zero) direct visitors, which, for most of them, is impossible. Moreover, other users recorded huge direct traffic losses, somewhere near 80 percent, which ... [read more >>]
	06 May 2008, 11:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Earth Working on a 3D Ocean?
	It was only a matter of time until the Mountain View-based company started looking for new worlds to explore so, after reaching the earth and the sky, Google gets ready for the ocean. Elinor Mills of CNET reports that Google may be interested in developing a 3D version of the ocean which would be integrated into Google's downloadable tool, Google Earth. A few weeks ago, Google rolled out Google Earth 4.3 beta, a brand ne ... [read more >>]
	06 May 2008, 05:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

FA Premier League Matches Brought to You by Google
	Google's OneBox has become one of the most useful additions to the best search engine on the web because it provides quite relevant information depending on the keyword the user types. From now on, the OneBox also displays information about the FA Premier League matches, including here results and the next league fixture for the team you enter. Type, for instance, Chelsea and you'll find out that The Blues won the last ... [read more >>]
	06 May 2008, 04:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google News Adopts Related Searches
	Google News has just adopted Related Searches, an old function which was integrated into Google Search a long time ago and which may represent quite a useful addition for those who read news on Google's website. Just like on the main search engine powered by Google, the Related Searches provide alternative queries related to the query entered by the user. "We think that this feature can be useful not just for adjust ... [read more >>]
	06 May 2008, 03:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google's RSS Client Gets More Social
	Google Reader, Google's web aggregator, which lets users read RSS feeds for free, received another social function that allows consumers to share posts easier than anytime before. The share function has already been available for some time now but, using the new "Share with notes" feature, you can even attach a comment that could help you and your contacts manage the feeds. Besides this, Google Reader has also intr ... [read more >>]
	06 May 2008, 03:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Reportedly AFK, Dancing In the Next Room
	What was supposed to represent just another Google dance, a new update in Google’s ranking algorithms, causes serious headaches for lots of users who are still waiting for the Googlebot to come visit their website. The trouble started almost one month or so when webmasters spotted a new Google update and experts predicted a major in Google’s search results. Just like usual, users expected different rankings in the datacenter but ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2008, 14:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Steve Ballmer: 5 Reasons Why a Yahoo and Google Marriage Is Bad
	Yahoo never said no to an unsolicited marriage proposal from Microsoft dating back to February 1, 2008, instead it just wanted a bigger dowry. After initially asking for over $40 per share, namely in excess of $60 billion, Yahoo would have joined up with Microsoft for as "little" as $37 per share or "just" $55 billion. Microsoft agreed to pay just $34 per share, and not a dime over $50 billion according to Chi ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2008, 10:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

One More Google Earth Release Available for Download
	The Mountain View-based company released an updated version of Google Earth a few days ago, a new edition of the downloadable mapping tool which is supposed to correct several glitches spotted in the 4.3 beta version rolled out some weeks ago. As you probably remember, Google has recently released Google Earth 4.3 beta version of the downloadable tool which includes many improvements from the previous release. Here are the rel ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2008, 10:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo Maps Debuts Imagery Update
	When talking about web-based mapping technologies, users usually think of Google Maps because Google's solution is said to be one of the most powerful tools in this category. However, there are some other similar technologies on the market and, even if their performance is quite remarkable, they were all defeated by Google's popularity. Yahoo Maps is just one of them and, although it is owned by Yahoo, the Sunnyvale-bas ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2008, 09:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google AdWords Scam Phishers Tracked Down
	We reported about this Google AdWords phishing scam a long time ago, but it seems like the attackers are still struggling to find new victims since the message still reaches users' inboxes. However, new information was revealed yesterday as Loucif Kharouni of Trend Micro got one of these emails asking for the AdWords login credentials. What's interesting is that according to the threat analyst, the ones behind the attac ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2008, 05:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Employees Keep Leaving Google
	Google is said to be a paradise, especially due to its amazing Googlecampus and to its employees. Let's not forget the great conditions and the satisfaction you get when working for such a popular company. However, employees are continuously leaving Google although they all admit that working for the Mountain View-based search company was a dream which came true. Jeffrey Veen, who worked for Google as Design Manager, was ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2008, 04:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Shuts Down Open-Source Project Due to Copyright Complaint
	CoreAVC-for-Linux, a project addressed to Linux users who want to play videos encoded with the H.264 standard through other open-source players, was removed from the Google Code website due to what seems to be a copyright infringement complaint. What's interesting is that nobody knows for sure who made the complaint but, due to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Google was forced to take down the project. CoreAV ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2008, 04:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube out of the Web
	Even if YouTube is a very popular service and it's owned by the Mountain View super search giant Google, this doesn't necessarily mean that it has no problems with its servers like many other services on the web. Such a problem occurred yesterday when users from all over the world got in panic after the YouTube page became unbrowseable due to what seems to be an unexpected outage. According to Allen Stern of ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2008, 03:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Talks about Phishing
	Phishing attacks are extremely dangerous because they usually target financial details or other private information belonging to ordinary users. Unfortunately, the last few months came with a huge amount of phishing scams and the avalanche of attacks doesn't seem to look for an end anytime soon. Because of that, security companies around the world assault users with all kinds of advice, all of them with the same purpose: hel ... [read more >>]
	30 April 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

FeedBurner to Adopt Google Account
	As expected by everyone, FeedBurner finally announced the migration to Google Account as part of the integration of its services into Google's product line. The Mountain View-based company Google acquired FeedBurner on June 3, 2007 and, even if the financial terms were not disclosed, people were talking about an acquisition price of about $100 million. Since FeedBurner has became a Google product, it was only a matter of tim ... [read more >>]
	30 April 2008, 04:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Mixes Street View and Driving Directions
	Until now, the Google Maps driving directions has proved to be quite a useful function because users could get the simplest route between two defined points without too much effort. On the other hand, Google Maps Street View is probably the most popular feature of the web-based mapping service because it allows consumers to view street-level 360 degree panoramas from multiple locations in the world. Since these two functions are ... [read more >>]
	30 April 2008, 03:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Carrefour Censored by Google
	If China decides to censor a local website, nobody gets too amazed because such cases occur every once in a while and people have started getting used to it. However, a similar matter was spotted a few days ago and, at this time, nobody can say for sure if the one that imposed the censorship is actually Google or the Chinese government. Following the recent call for boycott on Carrefour of the Chinese residents, the French superm ... [read more >>]
	30 April 2008, 02:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

TV View - The New Google Video Default Interface
	Google has recently rolled out a brand new interface supposed to provide better functionality than anytime before. And it really does that especially because it allows visitors to view clips, browse among the search results or click on the related videos on the same page. A few days ago, the Mountain View-based company decided to set this new interface as default, so all the users who search for a certain clip will get to see and ... [read more >>]
	29 April 2008, 04:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google's Special Logos around the World
	The super search giant Google replaces its well known logo with all kinds of funny pictures in order to celebrate holidays or events around the world. Since the company has regional versions of the search engine in lots of different countries, celebrating a local holiday is quite easy. Last week, the Google special logos, codenamed doodles, appeared in several countries around the world including UK, Germany, Australia and Turkey ... [read more >>]
	29 April 2008, 04:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Now You Can: Insert YouTube Clips in Google Docs Presentations
	Even if the Google Docs presentation feature isn't quite an old function on the web, users adopted the function pretty well and this only encouraged the Mountain View company focus more on its development. A few days ago, Google rolled out what seems to be the first important update for presentations as it released two new features which would obviously provide better functionality to Google Docs users: speaker notes and You ... [read more >>]
	29 April 2008, 03:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Redesigns Product Search
	Google Product Search, previously known as Froogle, received a new update allowing users to conduct a simple price comparison process with a single click. From now on, Google Product Search users who are trying to find certain products can compare prices, read reviews and technical specifications on a single page, blogger ... [read more >>]
	29 April 2008, 02:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hackers Cracked Google's Blogger CAPTCHA
	Following the recent reports that hackers managed to break into the Windows Live Hotmail CAPTCHA and to create email accounts for spamming purposes, another web-service gets compromised with the same goal. Google's Blogger, the free blogging platform which lets users create blogs and post messages from a web-based administration panel, is now being used by spammers to build page redirectors and websites hosting malicious fil ... [read more >>]
	25 April 2008, 08:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia